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- Comment on Bradward Boimler is actually a deceased USS Pegasus Ensign. Prove me wrong! 3 weeks ago:
Strange New Worlds you mean?
- Comment on xkcd #3001: Temperature Scales 4 weeks ago:
I agree, historically they make sense, but times have evolved and I honestlt believe certain things should belong to the past, just like we abandoned 12 base monetary and measurement systems, except for a single place on earth that just ignores what everyone else does and goes their own way.
In a global world, we should unite things instead of dividing for ideological/political reasons. Still, my own is an ideological reason why the imperial system should disappear, but there are pratical issues it causes, espeically when used internationally in industrial and scientific fields, which is very common.
- Comment on xkcd #3001: Temperature Scales 4 weeks ago:
Technically they arr arbitrary yes, but sometimes some arbitrary makes more sense than others. Why is fahrenheit 0 at -32°C? Accordinfmg to wikipedia he chose 0°F as the melting point of water and ammonium chloride (what percentage of solution?) and the highest was initially “the average of the hottest temperature of a healthy man”. Do you see why this feels more arbitrady then " the melting and boiling point of water at 101.300 Pa"? Not only these points are constant and measurable, but water is such ubiqutous in human life that it feels at least less arbitrary as a reference point.
Historically, it was ok. Now it just doesn’t make much sense, sincd we tried (and mostly succeded) to standardize measurements units for centuries (and make them all base 10)
- Comment on Mozilla is trying to push me out because I have cancer – CPO 4 months ago:
We need to, because they are the only ones fighting against Chrome monopoly. It’s so sad to read news like this
- Comment on Alabama inmate Kenneth Smith executed with nitrogen gas, marking the emergence of a wholly new method of capital punishment | CNN 9 months ago:
The whole idea of capital punishment is “as a society we said that killing people is wrong, but some people are tol dangerous and they must be killed”, but at that point you want to do it without any unnecessary suffering, onlt for the good of society. So you either say that capital punishment should bw abolished, or it must be done without suffering. Death penalty with pain means you are the same as the people you are trying to kill because too dangerous
- Comment on Alabama inmate Kenneth Smith executed with nitrogen gas, marking the emergence of a wholly new method of capital punishment | CNN 9 months ago:
Reportedly, he appeared to have suffered, and nitrogen ipoxia can be painless but can also be fairly painful in some cases
- Comment on FBI Warns Of Extremist MAGA Plot To Go To A Polling Location And Vote For Preferred Candidate 9 months ago:
Sarcasm is the weapon of the weak, especially if it’s your only defense to others accusing your side of being antidemocractic
- Comment on Nato says Western civilians should prepare for 'all-out war' with Russia 9 months ago:
I mean, all of these Russia-USA shenanigans are not really Europe’s fault. Since WWII the USA started influencing world politics, you can’t really say this is just eurotrash land conflict
- Comment on Resistance is futile 11 months ago:
Maybe it’s “lights on” since it looks like the previous captain forgot to pay the bills
- Comment on Peace is too much effort. Suffer in silence. 11 months ago:
So you become the brotherhood of steel
- Comment on Crystals good, fungus bad 11 months ago:
In Discovery, instead of honorable warriors, the klingons are a bunch of sneaky backstabbing and coward warriors. They also don’t look like klingons at all, both in appearance and architecture, the speak like their mouth is full of potatoes and for some reasons they make ships out of coffins.
I’m not against change, what I don’t like is calling another thing with its name just because you get to be part of a franchise. The only thing they have in common with klingons of other series is the language and that they want to kill. All the modifications they made, just for the sake of it, makes it look like they wanted to use the standard scifi appearal of standard bad aliens and just put the name “klingons” on it. No surprise they reverted this change and discarded all of this in season two.
Btw “the klingons started growing their hair again” might be the single most stupid line I’ve ever heard in a Trek show, especially considering the reason why it was said.
- Comment on Crystals good, fungus bad 11 months ago:
Everything about klingon for example, the spore drive itself. Even the uniforms!
- Comment on Crystals good, fungus bad 11 months ago:
Honestly, I liked it much more than I thought, given what I saw on YouTube before watching the entire season, especially the klingon battles. After season 1 it gets much better, which seems to be a recurring theme in Trek shows, but for a very different reason herr.
Altought I really don’t like most character (especially Burhnam) and I find most of the representation of seasoned officers overly dramatic and silly (looking at you Tilly), most of the themes are well treated and some episodes were particularly good (I enjoyed the mirror episodes more than I could think possible given the first episodes).
Sometimes it feels a very generic scifi show and it doesn’t get me too attached, but it’s a decent enough show to keep watching.
- Comment on Crystals good, fungus bad 11 months ago:
I feel like the problem with Discovery is the same of the warp 10 episode in Voyager. A bunch of people create the most OP way of travelling and barely use it, and don’t tell me that the ship is unique and Stamets is the only person in the universe in the following centuries to be able to use it, because that just doesn’t make any sense, it’s a cheap trick to justify why such an incredible technology has never been mentioned after, not even by a super villain that gives no crap about genetic augmentation.
At least with Voyager you could just write it off as a badly written episode, but you cannot ingore a whole series. Yes even TNG had some magical guy make the ship travel fantaszilion light years, but at least it was out of their control and they could not exploit it.
Also, Trek shows have not been the most consistent ever, but Discovery really went their way on completely distegarding every Star Trek lore existing in the first season which, personal theory, is a major reason for the writers to “get rid” of the ship at the end of season two. Discovery just did not make sense in the universe created by the othee series, to put it where it does no more damage.
- Comment on The finest organic suspension ever devised FTW! 1 year ago:
I had a look at Memory Alpha and you are right, he is mentioned. Yet it was so forgettable that I removed it every time I rewatched the show
- Comment on The finest organic suspension ever devised FTW! 1 year ago:
On a different note, what surprised me the most afted rewatching voyager’s pilot after a good 15 years is that Janeway had a boyfriend/husband/partner. I mean he was mentioned in at least another episode during 1st season but I’m pretty sure he has been forgotten by then
- Comment on Space is 2D, right? 1 year ago:
Don’t forget about orbital mechanics. For a rendez vous between two ships you need a lot of maneuvers in opposite directions, it’s not like shown in movies where the fly like airplanes. If two ships are close to each other they will likely be in different orientations and it would be a waste of energy to face each other since communications still happen at thens of thousands of kilometers of distance
- Comment on The white stuff. 1 year ago:
What is this from?
- Comment on Go play with a cat somewhere 1 year ago:
According to Memory Alpha, the borgs in TNG use lasers to cut through hulls of ships and even planet rocks
- Comment on Given the circumstances, Janeway also would have sold you for a keg of coffee 1 year ago:
That’s the common trope for 2010’s+ scifi. For some reason in the future everything is dramatic and has more RGB than a gaming pc
- Comment on Resistance was futile 1 year ago:
I agree, she did great. But let’s not pretend she was put in her tight dress and heels for a plot point. But yeah, her sexiness was only a minor part of her reasonably complex character, so it was not that bad after all.
- Comment on Resistance was futile 1 year ago:
You can say a lot about seven but being a “damsel in distress” couldn’t be farther from fhe truth, she was the most badass of them all and in some episodes aliens tried taking advantage of her and failed miserably. She was mostly put there for nerds to drool over, but she was not a badly written character and even had a decent development
- Comment on Huh, I'm closer to being Borg than I realized. 1 year ago:
*Free health care as long as you are worth repairing
- Comment on Huh, I'm closer to being Borg than I realized. 1 year ago:
You make it sound as the hive is the perfect engineering job you’ll ever have
- Comment on Huh, I'm closer to being Borg than I realized. 1 year ago:
No matter what companies will tell you, cables is always faster and more efficient than wireless, there’s physical reasons foe that. Drones are linked to others and to cubes wirelessly because they need to do stuff and move around. Vessels are linked wirelessly with each other for obvious reasons. But there is likely an elabration center in each vessel and it’s going to be cabled to every alcove and every sensor and actuator of the ship
- Comment on My god. 1 year ago:
What’s up with the jacked guy on the back? Is that standard issue uniform?
- Comment on The Fediverse should do what redditors have always wanted and Reddit Inc. has always refused to do; Distinguish between NSFW and NSFL. 1 year ago:
In Europe you wouldn’t want a dick on your phone while you are in the office or on the subway
- Comment on The Fediverse should do what redditors have always wanted and Reddit Inc. has always refused to do; Distinguish between NSFW and NSFL. 1 year ago:
The distinction is made to differentiate between two very different and clearly separated categories, one being just inapproriate to show around (a boob on your phone in a public is inappropriate pretty much everywhere, not just in the puritan US) and straight disturbing content that you might never want to see, even in private.
Different customizeable categories would be needlessly complicated to implement in every client
- Comment on It's not that he's *wrong* in this case, but... 1 year ago:
Spoilers for Discovery Season 1 below
! it is probably because of that episode in which he is compared to Zefrain Cochraine or the Wright brothers. Must have been good for his ego.
What I found funny is that Lorca come from the mirror universe, it makes sense that Musk would ne idolized there. !<
- Comment on At this point just get some corn and make some fake pips, no one is going to tell you to stop 1 year ago:
Seven only joined the starfleet in Star Trek Picard