Geniuses occasionally doing incredibly boneheaded things is one of my favourite tropes, humanises them.

Either way it’s a goddamn amazing comeback.

If boss’ daughter did have an eating disorder and the boss is still calling out employees eating habits rudely and unprompted, then maybe a firm dose of reality is overdue.

I wonder why the TikTok owners would push the divisive conservative rage bait to the top of their feeds in Europe.

The goals of China, much like Russia, are to sew divisions amongst their strongest rivals on the world stage. So, the conservative garbage gets a big boost on the platforms algorithms.

Enterprise has Dr Flox and T’Pol.

Picard has… (I’m blanking on trying to think of something good)

Its a solid meme, captain - but the Le Forge template was right there.

OP specifically used cop unlocking your phone as an example. Don’t argue in bad faith.

Absolutely no access control on a consumer device is impervious to guns and torture.

Seconded. Wake me when Star Trek has been wrestled out of Kurtzman’s hands. He wants to make a dystopian crapfest with Michael Bay battles, no concerns over retconning or exploring deeper themes. This show won’t be going in anyones playlist the way the older Trek’s are.

Lower Decks is fun and fairly consistent to the universe considering it’s a comedy, perhaps because its the one new series Kurtman is the least involved in.

Meantime I’ll continue watching the older Treks when I need a Trek universe fix, and theres an abundance of good non-Trek sci-fi out there to keep us entertained also.

Absolutely agree that Enterprise is the far better show. Discovery was a lot of spectacle and little substance.

There were still actors and characters I liked - Culber and Stamets, Keyla Detmer, Saru.

But I had a completely different experience of Sonequa Martin-Green. She overacted and shredded most scenes into teen melodrama, while supposedly portraying a highly trained elite officer. I thought her work in Discovery was amateurish at best, so much crying and emotional outburst that it lost any weight. If a cadet’s constant state is lack of emotional regulation you they’d never make it through the academy.

Little known fact the ‘te’ in Techdirt stands for “terrible article titles”.

Yeah this is looking pretty deep-fried. I presume to elude repost bots?

They discussed their plight a lot in Star Trek IV. Some relevant quotes and context here: https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Whale

Or El Salvadorean president is trying to leverage the situation to get something big in return. It’s an unpleasant dehumanizing situation, but the man is now a bargaining chip for them.

Probably sees someone who will do exactly what he tells him to. Nothing more complicated

The most gen-x/millenial throwback thing about this set is the random card pack that has a chance to include a “signed cacodaemon rookie card”. Genuinely funny that you’d have to buy multiples of this set to try and collect the whole set of cards.

I don’t mind this stuff, I mean people spend stacks of cash on far more worthless and non-functional collectactables.

Some folks who work forces…

Most importantly - the time and people = money.

My last job had a dev, UAT, and prod environments because they knew it was important enough to the business to pay for them.

I dont pay me anything for running my home environment - so, there is only production. And lots of backups.

You are indeed a wise pancake.

If you’re OK with DVD resolution then grab em. There’s little difference for DS9 as it was only filmed for HDTV and on 4:3 digital tape. For TNG they remastered the whole series from the film originals and it’s available on 1080p Bluray for about a hundred bucks more than the DVDs. Personally i think it’s worth it for the increase in quality but it’s all personal taste.

Apparently the USA considers this legally acceptable “Proportionality” according to the wording of the Geneva Conventions, and therefore not a war crime. It is a highly bullshit interpretation according to many lawyers, but they have not been dragged to the Hague over it yet and probably never will be for many reasons. For one because nobody ever takes a swing at the USA in the ICC over anything due to political fallout, 2 because most other countriea are guilty of similar crimes and 3 because it is just too gosh darned convenient for the world power nations to be able to bomb apartments to hopefully kill one guy who they’re pretty sure is a terrorist to keep their shipping lanes open for business. I actually wonder if there is any real legal line of Proportionality that could be crossed, one terrorist in a fully-booked children’s hospital: still OK?

https://casebook.icrc.org/a_to_z/glossary/proportionality

Personally I think any extrajudicial executions are unacceptable. If the guy is a terrorist then arrest, try and convict him. If that’s “too hard” then the answer is not to send a drone strike at an apartment building, or a wedding, or a hospital.

Crazy they make you pay for the cloud saves feature which is provided by Ludusavi - which is free OSS.

It’s not about the environmental aspect of the car for them, it’s just another luxury sports vehicle to the buyers this is pitched at. Its fast, expensive and a desirable brand is all they care about, being electric is just a ‘cool quirk’ of it.

Were the brand to become really toxic and widely unlikeable by the general public then even the wealthy vapid types would be turned off it. Let’s hope we can get the momentum there, as the only buyers left would be the pro-EV MAGAs with money, and I very much doubt that’s a large enough demographic to keep Tesla afloat.