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- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Discovery | 5x08 "Labyrinths" 2 days ago:
They faked the ship's destruction, letting the Primarch think he could pursue the objective at his leisure. He could take his time being petty and destroying the Archive. Discovery visibly escaping would put him under time pressure. If he delays to indulge his pettiness, Discovery could get the technology. They'd be using themselves as bait to lure the Breen away from the civilians.
Also, the Primarch only made his threat against the Archive later. If they'd jumped immediately after the away team was aboard, it would have been before the threat was made. It also would have been before the Breen's weapon demonstration, so the Archive would have been 100% intact when they left. At that moment, they had every reason to believe that the Archive was only in danger due to their presence. The logical, civilian-saving response would be to remove their presence.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Discovery | 5x08 "Labyrinths" 2 days ago:
Sometimes, it seems like they forget about the spore drive. They could have leapt to the other side of the galaxy the instant the away team beamed back from the Archive. The Breen might have the ability to destroy the Archive, but with Discovery gone, it wouldn't gain them anything and how ever long it took them would be time lost for chasing Discovery. When the Breen catch up, Discovery could just jump to the other other side of the galaxy.
Also, why didn't Discovery prepare a fake clue? With 31st century replication, it couldn't have taken more than seconds to prepare a reasonable facsimile of the original. Moll did no more than a visual inspection of the artifact to affirm its authenticity and she had never seen the completed object, only some of the pieces. The real artifact is a small obelisk with a button on top. So, make a small obelisk with a button on top that projects coordinates to a random star system. There would be no way for the Breen to discover the deception except to go there and find nothing.
- Comment on Canon Connections: DIS 5x07 - Erigah 4 days ago:
"Who said the Minbari don't lie?"
- Comment on Will Billionaires Destroy Worker Rights? | Robert Reich 4 days ago:
Also look back on the history of the French Revolution and how many aristocrats literally lost their heads.
- Comment on Poll: 61% of young adults confess they are not saving for retirement 2 weeks ago:
The danger is that places that don't get cold often get hot. And don't forget about climate change with regard to heat. Some homeless around Houston die every summer when they don't have access to air conditioning.
- Comment on Rewatching TNG: classic Riker boning his way out of the problem 1 month ago:
Lilith!
- Comment on Dell tells remote workers that they won’t be eligible for promotion unless they go hybrid 1 month ago:
Won't someone please think of the corporate real estate market!?
- Comment on Lyft and Uber say they will leave Minneapolis after city council forces them to pay drivers more 2 months ago:
Don't let the door hit you on the way out
- Comment on Job Websites Need a "Report for incorrect information" Option 2 months ago:
That would require the job websites to 1. care and 2. have staff to handle the reports
- Comment on Rich Countries Are Becoming Addicted to Cheap Labor 2 months ago:
The Atlantic slave trade says what?
- Comment on ‘Zombie Offices’ Spell Trouble for Some Banks - The New York Times 3 months ago:
The banks should pull themselves up by the bootstraps and cut down on the avocado toast. That's the path to financial solvency, right?
- Comment on Not only is mutual aid human nature, it fucking rules 3 months ago:
It can be exhausting for the one giving aid, though. I have been supporting a friend by drawing down some savings and foregoing some luxuries. I judge keeping food on his table more valuable than those luxuries. But I don't want to keep it up forever.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
It sounds like you're male and so your sexist patient is nicer to you than to your female colleagues. The tone of this post strikes me as dismissive of their experience, like because he's not so bad to you, they must be exaggerating. You're not obligated to hate this patient on your coworkers' behalf, but maybe express some empathy for them?
- Comment on Trader Joe’s Follows SpaceX in Arguing US Labor Board Is Unconstitutional 3 months ago:
These companies trying to do away with civilized negotiations, you'd think they want to go back to the bad old days when Labor got the bosses to come to the bargaining table by blowing shit up.
- Comment on Star Trek Online Will Now Let You Throw Asteroids at Other Ships, Picard-Style 3 months ago:
Can you throw asteroids at other ships at warp, Holdo-style?
- Comment on A spicy excerpt from an interview with Penny Johnson Jerald (Kassidy Yates) about her chemistry with Avery Brooks 3 months ago:
Huge respect for feeling mutual chemistry and choosing not to act on it.
- Comment on Let's remember some Star Trek games 4 months ago:
I got a copy of Star Trek: Rebel Universe many years ago at a thrift shop. It came on both 3.5" and 5.25" floppy disks.
- Comment on Possible headcanon reason why consoles always explode on the bridge 5 months ago:
You should really only need inertial dampeners when changing velocity. You only go splat when the ship's velocity is significantly different from yours. If it slows down before you do, you splat on the forward bulkhead. If it speeds up faster than you, you splat on the aft bulkhead.
- Comment on Possible headcanon reason why consoles always explode on the bridge 5 months ago:
And they even work even when a dampening field has shut down all power systems on the ship.
- Comment on The hardest workers get the smallest pay. 6 months ago:
I often think of it like blood. Blood has to be continually flowing for a body to live. It's right and natural that there should be more of it in some places than others. The parts of the body that work the hardest usually need a lot of blood. But if blood starts pooling anywhere, you've got a problem. Or really, you've got two problems: there's not enough blood everywhere else and the blood in the pool turns sour.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Lower Decks | 4x10 TBA 6 months ago:
Is this the first time we've seen Starfleet deploy a kinetic missile?
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Lower Decks | 4x10 TBA 6 months ago:
If I had a nickel for every time a Genesis device was used to reconstruct a nebula into a planet (instead of its intended purpose of terraforming an existing planet), I'd have two nickels-- which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice.
- Comment on 'Wildly more expensive': Workers with in-office jobs spend about $31/day that they wouldn't working from home — here's what employers need to do 6 months ago:
Just a fast food hamburger and fries is $9-something where I live. The yellow curry at my favorite Thai restaurant is $12-something, plus a tip. Add a soda to either one and it's another $2-3.
- Comment on Amid financial stress, workers are asking for emergency savings accounts as a job benefit, survey finds 6 months ago:
Job loss is one of the most common reasons for needing an emergency fund. Any kind of tie between emergency savings and employment is a terrible idea.
- Comment on How the Government Can Help Build Industrial Unions 7 months ago:
Congress not breaking strikes would be a good start.
- Comment on Jim Cramer Says OEMs Should Move American Auto Manufacturing To Mexico For $5/hour In Response To UAW Demands 8 months ago:
I thought I remembered hearing something about an "inverse Cramer" ETF being created, which invest opposite to whatever he recommends.
- Comment on Frontier Airlines CEO says the pandemic made workers 'lazy' and less productive: 'People are still allowing people to work from home, all this silliness, right?' 8 months ago:
By some writers this office is called a sinecure. But not so. Because the
Lord WardenCEO is busily employed at times in fobbing his perquisites; which are his chiefly by virtue of that same fobbing of them. - Comment on Automaker CEO Elon Musk Strips UAW Twitter Verification as Union Strikes Against Big Three 8 months ago:
Tom Nicholas referred to Musk as the "World's Oldest Teenager" and he's not wrong.
- Comment on UAW strike would show Biden, other leaders that it's time to 'pick a side,' union boss says 8 months ago:
Doesn't the broken-by-Congress railroad strike demonstrate that Biden, et al. have already chosen their side, and that it isn't labor?
- Comment on 207 Hours Overtime: Japanese Man in Kobe Worked to Death 8 months ago:
I haven't been able to find much information (in English,anyway) on the labor movement in Japan. The pervasiveness of unpaid overtime and stagnant wages leads me to wonder if it's moribund?