Fair enough. I was suggesting that Michael Okuda didn’t have utility in mind when he made it because that’s not what he was hired for.

Edit: In fact, I just read that he was under directive by Roddenberry to make something minimalist to suggest technological advancement. In that sense, it was prescient.

It was enough of a Nazi salute for the head of France’s far-right party, who are Nazis, to cancel his planned speech.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/21/steve-bannon-jordan-bardella-nazi-salute-cpac

LCARS is very pretty, but it’s also really poor as a GUI. It was designed for form over function because of course it was.

Just don’t let it near Porthos.

“Waiting” should have been left in the meme. It would be even funnier.

I know no such thing. My daughter isn’t even in danger from Trump.

Does the Great Koala not imply an even greater eucalyptus tree? And does that not imply a yet greater still Australia? At which point, is that on an even still greater Earth? Is it a Great Koala Cycle in both directions?

because you’re a troll who thinks trump is out to genocide your gay daughter. - that was your response to my being critical of democrats for genocide…

What on Earth are you talking about? Basically none of that was correct.

Also, that’s a pretty weird dodge around the fact that you are not a member of any human rights campaigns. You would have looked less silly if you had just lied and said Amnesty International or something.

You never answered me the other day when I asked you how many human rights organizations you were a member of. Why is that?

I told a member of an LGBT organization in York, UK that I would be happy for any help I can get regarding finding me a job above the UK family visa income threshold so my gay daughter can stay here longer than six months after he offered to look over my CV and give me pointers… for the glory of the empire?

It also doesn’t dismiss the fact that Voyager was specifically built to fix the problem.

And there’s also the matter of the fact that science is about confirmation as much as it is about discovery. The Federation would absolutely gather their own data to confirm this before doing something like design and build Voyager with the moving nacelles.

The Morn You Know.

I hear this all the time, but I have to always point out that the only way to make Step 11 non-religious is to totally rewrite it:

Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.

There is just not a way to interpret that non-religiously without rewriting it. Which is not surprising, since AA formed out of a prayer group.

If AA helped you, I’m glad it did. But there’s no science behind it and AA’s success rate is between 5 and 10 percent. It does help some people mainly because it’s a form of group therapy.

There are better, more scientific methods. Including medication. Unfortunately, in a for-profit healthcare system, free AA may be your only option. And your local group will almost certainly be religious.

Not to mention they literally invented a disease to explain how slaves that tried to or successfully escaped were suffering from an illness that made them not want to be enslaved.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drapetomania

Plea bargain agreements are always “voluntary.” Because the alternative is almost always going to be worse.

And you often have the “option” of going to AA meetings, which are almost always religious, or the “option” of being imprisoned. It’s literally the government enforcing religion.

“When you’re rich, they let you do it.”

Not as big a deal, but he also wants to get rid of your WiFi and your cell phone:

Departing momentarily from fake vaccine claims, the gang also had a long discussion about the purported dangers of wifi. Children’s Health Defense, the anti-vaccine organization that Kennedy founded and is the chairman of, has long made a number of false claims about electromagnetic, wireless, and 5G technologies. Kennedy suggested that “wifi radiation” could be causing autism, food allergies, asthma, eczema, or other chronic illnesses, which Rogan, in a rare show of basic critical thinking, suggested was “unlikely.”

“I think it degrades your mitochondria and it opens your blood-brain barrier,” Kennedy said, confidently.

Rogan paused and then turned to his producer, Jamie, who often acts as the show’s researcher by Googling things. “Do you see anything online about that?” he asked. After a moment in Google, Rogan paused again.

“Oh my God,” he said, finally, “we gotta get rid of wifi.”

https://www.vice.com/en/article/spotify-rogan-rfk-vaccine-misinformation-policy/

Too bad Joe Rogan is such an idiot. I would have asked RFK Jr. to define mitochondria. It would have made for amusing listening.