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- Comment on Gen Z job seekers should be willing to work for free, long hours, ‘willing to do anything,’ says Squarespace CMO 3 months ago:
Rule of Acquisition #91: Your boss is only worth what he pays you
- Comment on Canon Connections: DIS 5x10 - Life, Itself 5 months ago:
Don't know how to resolve the mystery box the whole season pivots on? Just reveal there's another mystery box inside it.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Discovery | 5x10 "Life, Itself" 5 months ago:
Ultimately, Zora's feelings are beside the point. Starfleet condemned a sentient being to (at least) a thousand years of loneliness. We do not see them consult Zora about her feelings on the assignment. She is simply ordered to do it. She is given no conditions on which the order terminates. She might still be there, still alone, a million years after Craft's departure. That's why it's cruel. It's cruel to give such an order. And, as a further twist of the knife, the instrument of that cruelty was Michael Burnham, ostensibly Zora's friend. "We had a good ride, but I'm old now and Starfleet just doesn't need you anymore. Rather than give you freedom to go and do you please, we'll order you to stay in this place indefinitely, alone."
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Discovery | 5x10 "Life, Itself" 5 months ago:
Clearly, adherence to duty is important to Zora. She was ordered to remain in position and so she did. Nothing indicates that she didn't mind, only that her sense of duty outweighed whatever her feelings were. I read her interactions with Craft as belying incredible loneliness.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Discovery | 5x10 "Life, Itself" 5 months ago:
The whole reason they came to the future was that Discovery's computer couldn't be disabled or removed after merging with the Sphere data and becoming Zora. So (she?) is always online and conscious. She spent almost a thousand years alone before Craft's arrival. At the time, I could have accepted some disaster that forced the crew to evacuate (or killed them all) and Discovery became lost, with a final order to hold position. But for Starfleet to intentionally put the ship (from which Zora cannot be separated) in deep space and abandon it, I cannot interpret as anything except cruelty.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Discovery | 5x10 "Life, Itself" 5 months ago:
To just intentionally abandon a sentient ship in the void for an unknowable amount of time is incredibly cruel. Solitary confinement is torture.
- Comment on Accusing Mercedes of 'Wanton Lawlessness,' UAW Seeks New Alabama Vote 5 months ago:
A lot of cases end in a financial settlement where the company doesn't admit guilt.
- Comment on Accusing Mercedes of 'Wanton Lawlessness,' UAW Seeks New Alabama Vote 5 months ago:
Every company always claims they did nothing wrong. Is it even necessary for journalists to ask for a statement from a company? Just take it as read they deny whatever they're accused of. You think a CEO is going to make an evil cackle, twirl their mustache, and admit everything?
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Discovery | 5x09 "Lagrange Point" 5 months ago:
They made it seem like the object was between the black holes, which would be L1, but only L4 and L5 are long-term stable. To remain at L1 (or 2 or 3), you need stationkeeping. The ability to keep station for billions of years is a wonder all on its own.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Discovery | 5x08 "Labyrinths" 5 months 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" 5 months 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 5 months ago:
"Who said the Minbari don't lie?"
- Comment on Will Billionaires Destroy Worker Rights? | Robert Reich 5 months 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 6 months 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 7 months ago:
Lilith!
- Comment on Dell tells remote workers that they won’t be eligible for promotion unless they go hybrid 7 months 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 8 months ago:
Don't let the door hit you on the way out
- Comment on Job Websites Need a "Report for incorrect information" Option 8 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 8 months ago:
The Atlantic slave trade says what?
- Comment on ‘Zombie Offices’ Spell Trouble for Some Banks - The New York Times 9 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 9 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] 9 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 9 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 9 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 9 months ago:
Huge respect for feeling mutual chemistry and choosing not to act on it.
- Comment on Let's remember some Star Trek games 10 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 11 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 11 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. 1 year 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 1 year ago:
Is this the first time we've seen Starfleet deploy a kinetic missile?