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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the best closing scene in the entire Star Trek Franchise, and why is it Kirk, Spock, and Bones singing "Row, Row, Row Your Boat"?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  In Cogenitor, Starfleet wouldn’t get very far if it had to roll up to every first contact demanding a species conform to human morality. It has to take a neutral position or first contact becomes an ultimatum. That doesn’t mean Starfleet is pro-slavery, it just means it recognizes that it’s not in a position to force that change on a species it met five seconds ago. Now if the species was trying to join the Federation (down the line) obviously that’s a different story…

  The Orion episode too… Uh, weren’t the “slaves” actually just pirates? Can we trust anything said when it was just a setup to steal the ship? Not to mention that just because a character says something doesn’t make it true or reflect the morality of the show/writers. Maybe that Orion is just an idiot or rationalizing his shitty behavior…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the best closing scene in the entire Star Trek Franchise, and why is it Kirk, Spock, and Bones singing "Row, Row, Row Your Boat"?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Enterprise doesn’t deserve to be in that list. It may not have been everyone’s cup of tea, but it’s way closer to the other series than Discovery or Picard.

  Also, uh, sibling sex and pro-slavery comments? I must have missed those episodes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I just finish to see all TNG movies.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Generations is a fun movie, but I demand an edit where Picard uses the Nexus to go back and save his nephew from burning to death and then uses his foreknowledge to defeat Soren easily.

  Why is it okay to go back to save millions of Veridians but not to save Remy and then the Veridians by extension? Either way you’re messing with the timeline. Soren already won.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We Got You⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Also curious. Possibly just sex / masturbation getting out of hand with intense stimulants, or maybe meth induced paranoia makes putting something in your ass for safe keeping seem reasonable… Meth heads generally aren’t hanging out in the safest conditions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Worst examples of Treknobabble⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Meh, Trek is always terrible at following up after the big movie action. Aging is reversible if Insurrection is canon. Literal resurrection has been possible since at least Khan. Time travel is routine in Voyage Home. None of it makes sense outside of the context of the movie, they’re basically their own canon even before JJ.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Waymo Robotaxis Are Giving 100,000 Rides a Week. It'll Soon Be More.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Reason number one million capitalism sucks. We should be happy to turn over dangerous or menial jobs to machines but we can’t do that because without jobs our society views us as worthless.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Archer new what he was doing⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think it’s a stretch to interpret it as petty when it probably just gave Trip a bit of focus and let his 8 year old nephew shout like “that’s my uncle!” or something. Real life astronauts get asked these questions all the time and they’re practically deified in our culture.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m okay with it. My problem with Disco is how high stakes breathless it is all the time, visiting the timeline with a lower stakes Academy lens could be cool. Being far future means it won’t be a TOS/TNG cameo fest (SNW’s biggest flaw) and I wouldn’t mind being able to do some actual character development on Tilly / other Disco crew if they weren’t just constantly in mortal danger.

  Of course it’ll probably end up being flashy bullshit again, but I’ll give it the benefit of the doubt for now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨BitTorrent is No Longer the ‘King’ of Upstream Internet Traffic⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  For music I’m just sick of the apps streaming super compressed crap. It sounds like 192kbps MP3 sometimes and you can definitely tell the difference. Setup Airsonic and never looked back, although still have YT music for the fam and finding new music. It is a bit of hassle, but it’s worth it and a FLAC collection feels way smaller than it did 10-20 years ago (both in terms of disk and home streaming bandwidth).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨IBM scraps rewards program for staff inventions, wipes away cash points | Big Blue staffers aren’t pleased to lose out on potential bonuses⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hello fellow ex-IBMer. I came to the corp from an open source background and I was happy that my LTC coworkers seemed to despise software parents despite the huge pressure from management.

  I wonder how much of this is that IBM fell out of the patent lead and decided to just take their ball and go home. Or how much is RedHat influence shifting the mindset away from the patent Mexican standoff with everyone else.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TrekMovie.com: Patrick Stewart Reveals New Star Trek Movie Script Featuring Jean-Luc Picard Is In The Works⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  All of the arguments I see for Discovery are based on representation and that’s literally the only thing the show got right. It’s like yeah, it’s great to have a diverse cast… I just wish they were on screen doing something good. Trek lives and dies in the writing, all the acting, effects, and out of universe concerns won’t save it from absolutely horrendous writing.

  If they’d have done SNW style plots with DSC cast, it would have been amazing from the beginning.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TrekMovie.com: Patrick Stewart Reveals New Star Trek Movie Script Featuring Jean-Luc Picard Is In The Works⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Agreed wholeheartedly.

  As some have mentioned, this could be a/another backdoor pilot for Legacy where Seven more or less takes the torch from Picard, similar to Picard taking it from Kirk in Generations - although that was obviously after TNG instead of before.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TrekMovie.com: Patrick Stewart Reveals New Star Trek Movie Script Featuring Jean-Luc Picard Is In The Works⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I… Don’t hate this. He meets Kirk too, which could be captain wish fulfillment. After his nephew is killed in such a stupid way he just exits reality and never returns.

  First Contact, like you said, is revenge on the Borg and saving Earth.

  Insurrection is then him inventing the perfect woman to save and finding the fountain of youth.

  Nemesis he fights an evil, young version of himself, which has gotta be worth a few years of therapy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TrekMovie.com: Patrick Stewart Reveals New Star Trek Movie Script Featuring Jean-Luc Picard Is In The Works⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is First Contact erasure and I won’t stand for it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dims⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The Bell Riots could still be pivotal even if nuclear war is on the horizon. The people running the government would be different, or, more abstractly, the progressive mindset affects how America recovers afterwards. Perhaps without the Bell Riots, we diverge into the Mirror timeline, for example.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Always look on the bright side of life⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Earning a pittance doesn’t mean they’re not slaves. They’re slaves because they can’t quit. Prisoners have basically zero agency in their lives.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨40% of US electricity is now emissions-free⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I didn’t mind the pie chart, the slices are labeled clearly, no need to use coloring like you have to read a legend.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A good grade at parties⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m the opposite. Game nights have a protocol on top of socializing so I feel caged up in a mandatory activity. I’m an extreme introvert and I’d rather just sit and listen to everyone else chit chat than to learn a new game, talk about rules, and be forced to interact.

  I dunno, maybe it’s different with friends instead of acquaintances. Or if you already know the games.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Computing, You Have Blood on Your Hands!⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m a little sad this ended up in the ACM. There’s plenty of shit computing can be tried and convicted of as a discipline… This ain’t it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can Flow Batteries Finally Beat Lithium?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I test drove a Leaf and honestly it felt bad brand new. I got range anxiety just taking it on the highway and back to the dealer.

  So far, I think Tesla has a monopoly on practical EVs. Say what you will about the cars (or their leadership) but the charger network they built out and having ~150 miles of actual range is hard to beat in an existing product.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AMD says overclocking blows a hidden fuse on Ryzen Threadripper 7000 to show if you've overclocked the chip, but it doesn't automatically void your CPU's warranty⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I don’t really see much of an issue here. If you get a defective chip back, it’s probably a good data point to know whether it had been “abused” during normal operation. Even if it’s just so you can ask more questions, or prioritize problems that show up on non-OC’d chips rather than flat rejecting an RMA.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨On the end of Discovery⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not a huge fan of Discovery but I do hope we can get a balance between bold and new and the sort of nostalgia bait we’re in now. I mean, I love SNW, and it’s really filling out some canon gaps (love Uhura getting some real attention) but I really want to get away from cameos. They felt cheap in Disco S2 and they’re still cheap in SNW, but the writing is so much better it’s forgivable. PIC and LD are also very rooted in referencing old Trek. Hell, even Prodigy couldn’t resist making Janeway a (sort of) main character.

  This is why I’m low key hyped about the Academy show, and am hoping it’s with Tilly in the far future. Give us Disco’s great, inclusive cast as peripheral characters, maybe even flesh them out more, but shift the focus to a class of cadets working as a team. Get back to that optimism and away from Burnham and whatever’s destroying the universe this season, without needing to root the show in old Trek.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Doom creator John Romero launches sequel campaign Sigil 2 for free⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Haha, I had the same thought.

  I don’t have the gaming bandwidth to play the old school shooters these days, but civvie’s videos are more than enough to remember what made them great, what made them suck, and where they innovated or did clever things you never noticed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google announces April 2024 shutdown date for Google Podcasts⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I needed this rec, thanks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Riker had some double-standard problems, man...⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Is the right vs. left ear thing head canon? I like it, but I’ve never heard of that distinction…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There’s a new iMessage for Android app — and it actually works⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, my sister-in-law has an iPhone and all of my wife’s pics and videos turn to garbage in transit. For the longest my SIL just thought Android cameras were terrible and it locked her in to iPhones at upgrade time - which is exactly what Apple intended.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Identifying Cat⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hahaha, definitely not

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Identifying Cat⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Andorians are shown at least once in TNG… Lal has an Andorian appearance in the running when choosing her non-android avatar.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jonathan Frakes Returning To Direct For ‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ Season 3⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  One Take Frakes returns, you love to see it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A happy computer is a productive computer.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Came here for the Discworld reference, was not disappointed.