thebardingreen

@thebardingreen@lemmy.starlightkel.xyz

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jupiter⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  And I went to Venus, to get more…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pick up artist 101⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Too many ads lying to me about hot single chromosomes seeking casual syngamy in my area.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨BREAKING NEWS⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Tekeli-li

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ Showrunners Talk Season 3 Premiere And “Retconning” The Gorn⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree with basically everything you said, although I’ve found more things than just the Gorn in SNW to be cranky about. While TNG era never TRIED to get science and engineering right… they tried WAY harder than SNW, which is saying something and NOT a good something. It’s like TNG’s attitude was “We know we’re goofy, but we DO have techno bable consultants, and we try to link some of what we’re doing to real physics and engineering” while SNW is like “We don’t even care, rule of cool in a hollywood hipstery writer way, we don’t really know what we’re talking about, nor do we care.” Major pet peeve of mine.

  Also, I love Carol Kane as an actress, but she’s just Lillian in space, and honestly, I really didn’t ever need that.

  Certainly, some of my joy in the show also just has to do with it just being better than Discovery (for which I’m like…oh thank god).

  Lower Decks was a better show.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dear Kevin⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Having worked with a bunch of Boomer and older Gen X EEs, it is a fucking misogynistic boys club of white ass old men with undiagnosed autism. I have never heard so many racist and sexist jokes in the workplace.

  So this surprises me not at all (in fact, I think I’ve heard it before, but as “Black Boys * * *”).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ach aye, Scottish words for plants⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I always thought it was a “Dandy Lion,” like a fancy Victorian gentleman lion.

  Also

  “Uhuhuh… you thaid blow balls.”

  “Yeah! Heheh! Yeah!”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You yiffing people are everywhere, I stg.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not futa enough.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Star Trek’ series beams into Hamilton⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yay, a time travel episode.

  Also, thespec.com has some very obnoxious javascript going on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sea snail teeth top Kevlar, titanium as world’s strongest material⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Know people that worked with him, can confirm.

  “Move fast and break things” Startup mindset is dangerous when taking your customers end up potentially hostile environments. If only Michael Crichton had warned us about that decades ago.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨he big, he attac⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I knew that.

  They also thrive on incest, and love to breed with their own parents and siblings.

  Bedbugs are already just super gross, but the more you learn about their biology the more gross they become.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Robert Picardo On How The Doctor Is “Deeper” In ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And honestly, my sourness with the 32nd century is sourness with Disco. It remains the only Trek series I haven’t seen every single episode of.

  So I’ll give Academy a chance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Covergent Evolution⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s what you get for going Warp 10.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Robert Picardo On How The Doctor Is “Deeper” In ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ll watch it, but I’m already skeptical because it’s set in the 32nd century. That’s like setting Star Wars stuff in the Sequels Era (don’t do it).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bluesky’s Quest to Build Nontoxic Social Media⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Enshitification commencing in 10… 9…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨broscience go brrrrrrrrr⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Life… Uh…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Give us your craziest ocean facts. 🦑⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Weird mathematical fact about that,

  That works out to almost exactly every person on Earth killing exactly one animal every day.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LEAVE SQUIDNEY ALONE⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Iä! Hail to the Star Spawn!

  Iä! Hail to the children of the slumbering great one!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨that'll teach him⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I hear you can pay for this kind of thing in Thailand.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Photodegradation Ball⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Trump claiming this was paid for with Biden era grants in 3… 2…

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mother⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  TIL how to catch a Pikachu.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Caption this.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  See kids? Monsters not bad! Monsters just… different! And different not bad!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google researchers uncover critical security flaw in all AMD Zen processors⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The researchers discovered that AMD had been using a publicly available example key from NIST documentation since Zen 1,

  lol… sigh…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨All hail Magnetoad⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You see Charles, they will always hate and fear amphibians. There can never be peace and understanding between us and them.

  *Croak

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨fuck this asshole⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not voting for them has never once, in the history of history, gotten them to change. It actually causes them to pull further right.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a way to watch DS9 whole skipping the prophet & pah wraith plotline⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What the other poster said. Is it possible to skip all those episodes? Probably, if you’re okay with getting dropped into an episode like

  “Wait, weren’t they under attack by a huge battlefleet? What happened? How did they survive?”

  “Wait, this character is dead? How did that happen??”

  You’ll also have to skip the season finale of season 6, the first few episodes of season 7, and most of the last episodes of the series, including the series finale.

  tl:dr; power through, don’t do it, it gets better.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨While Democracy Burns, Democrats Prioritize… Demolishing Section 230?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is something I wrote on a recent post. I think it’s something that we should help as many people as possible understand:

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  This really tracks for me. I grew up around wealthy liberals and am intimately familiar with how these motherfuckers think. I have been telling my friends for months that we cannot expect the Democratic establishment or our current batch of elected Democratic representatives to address the problem.

  People are like “Don’t they understand that it’s a war?” Most of these people think we’re idiots for thinking of it as war. Their high spending donors think we’re idiots for thinking of it as a war. They think Republicans are angry idiots who have to be negotiated with so we can “get on with business.” They see Republican voters MAGAing and rioting on Jan 6th and they think “What a bunch of yahoos!” (my multimillionaire boomer dad’s literal words). They see Leftist protests turning out en-masse and they think “What a bunch of yahoos!” (again, my multimillionaire boomer dad’s literal words). My father has literally said about the second Trump presidency.

  “This will all blow over.” “You just watch, the system will slow all of this down.” See, it’s not just our “elected dems in office,” who don’t seem to get it, it’s the entire leftish / center leaning, privileged ass, rich ass, mostly white, mostly older demographic, all comfy with their owning of multiple homes and their inflated stock portfolios and their rubbing shoulders with billionaires. We complain about the “elected dems in office,” because we see them out there being like this in public, in the news in front of everybody. But this whole demographic is like this and that’s why we keep seeing it.

  EDIT:

  The only way we’ll change this is to STOP ELECTING DEMS FROM THAT DEMOGRAPHIC. They’re not “spineless cowards,” they just DON’T ACTUALLY REPRESENT YOU. They represent other neolibral rich people (people just like them, in other words). Those people’s highest values are

  Stability. Business Economics (the price of gas and eggs doesn’t really effect them that much). Maintaining their comfy “compassionate upper class” culture. They DO genuinely care about

  Philanthropy (usually of a sort of egocentric variety). Social safety nets (most of them genuinely value compassion especially when it doesn’t really cost them anything). Sound fiscal policy. Science (they believe in climate change and worry about their children and grandchildren). They LOVE to reassure and prop themselves up by talking about all the good they’re able to do because they’re rich / influential. On that note, they tend to embrace a kind of leftist, New Agey take on Prosperity Gospel and see wealth as something that enables them to do good in the world and help people (See? Greed is GOOD!). Some of that has merit, but it is NOT nearly as true as they tell themselves and others it is. Faced with chaos and instability they will

  Try to negotiate with the people causing it, to get things “back to normal.” Compromise with those people to keep things as stable as possible Every. Fucking. Time. Run off to meditation retreats and vacation homes and time shares in Hawaii or ritzy parts of Mexico to “find their center.” Abandon their higher values to circle the wagons around the first, basic three (Stability, Business, Culture). Importantly,

  They DO NOT see you as being “like them,” “their people,” or “part of their culture.” They’re actually VERY aware that you are NOT part of their culture. They usually honestly think that that’s because they made better choices than you. They ARE able to acknowledge that there are people less fortunate then them, and even that they may have an obligation to these people. But they don’t think they OWE you anything. When I say culture, I’m not talking about your Italian heritage, your black southern cuisine or how you abuela only speaks Spanish. I’m talking about private school / charter jets / fundraiser dinners / owning a mint condition classic car / keeping your boat in the garage of the OTHER house you own on the same street as your primary home. They do not feel obligated to go out of their way to defend your culture. Although if your culture is artistic, entrepreneurial, agitates for social justice, or is tangential to their own religious beliefs (looking at you Buddhism), they might be willing to fund it. They DEFINITELY feel entitled to exploit or profit off your culture, if they see an opportunity to do so, and will pat themselves on the back for “the good they’re doing in the world” and “how they were able to help people” the WHOLE WAY TO THE BANK. This doesn’t mean they’re bad people or lack compassion for you. When we’re asking our congressmonsters to fight, we’re asking them to take up our values in ways that many of them (rightly or wrongly) see as abandoning their own core values. THAT’S why they’re angry.

  They’re NOT cowards. They just don’t actually value the same things you do and their core priorities aren’t in the same place yours are. They never have been. And as long as we primarily elect Dems from this demographic, they NEVER will be.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨THE EARTH IS SPHERICAL, DIPSHITS⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  100%. I watched a video on TFE where there was a minister guy saying the Earth is flat because the bible says so and that any evidence to the contrary is manufactured by (literally) Satan and the US government and that they may not be able to prove it one way or the other, but they have to have faith in the word of God.

  There’s literally nothing you can say to that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon's understanding of science.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think Elon knows about second year.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Roxann Dawson (B’Elanna) passed on directing new Star Trek but has returned to science fiction with Foundation⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  TIL! Cool.