SaltSong
@SaltSong@startrek.website
- Comment on Drive with “Star Trek” on Waze. 1 week ago:
I got Councillor Troi for my ship computer. Good times.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | 1x08 “The Life of the Stars” 1 week ago:
Also, that one didn’t seem to leave any scars.
I think that refusing to hold her hand was unforgivable.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | 1x08 “The Life of the Stars” 1 week ago:
I mentioned to my wife, after Sam had asked, that the Doctor had, in fact, been in love at least once, and maybe three times, but I wasn’t sure one of them counted.
Seems I was wrong. That one did count.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | 1x08 “The Life of the Stars” 1 week ago:
I wonder why the old TOS fans like me are less impatient with fundamentals of human existence being presented through the growth of young adults?
I’m a TNG person myself. One thing that I very much liked about TNG, DS9, SNW, and to an extent VOY was the competency porn. (And then totally inverted in LDK)
This show doesn’t have much of that. It doesn’t even have what ENT had, which learning to be the professionals we want to see. This is still kids learning to be adults. That’s a different journey entirely.
Don’t get me wrong, I quite like it. But it has issues. But then, don’t they all?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
I’ll stop picking nits when I’m cold and dead. We trekkies have a reputation to uphold, after all.
But I’ve go nothing of substance that I object to. It’s a bloody good show.
- Comment on I want to know more of the breen. 3 weeks ago:
IIRC, the reason was absolute equality by way of absolute anonymity. You can’t tell what species or gender your fellows are, so it’s not possible to discriminate against them. If any race, for example, required a chilling apparatus, then all suits would have one, although only activated if required.
Or something like that.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | 1x06 "Come, Let's Away" 3 weeks ago:
I’m sure it’s perfectly safe, and we know the starships are held together as much by structural integrity fields as by metal, but I will be damned before I am chief engineer on a starship with the engines not bolted to the ship.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | 1x06 "Come, Let's Away" 3 weeks ago:
I would have liked Braca to have one or two more episodes as a scoundrel before becoming a villain. Dukat, with a bird of prey, as it were.
But yes, it was gloriously done.
- Comment on ‘Starfleet Academy’ Episode 5 Trailer Reveals ‘Star Trek: Deep Space Nine’ Connection 4 weeks ago:
A consideration, certainly. It might be because the actor passed?
Nog made Captain in STO. It’s not all cannon, but I like some of it better than actual cannon.
- Comment on ‘Starfleet Academy’ Episode 5 Trailer Reveals ‘Star Trek: Deep Space Nine’ Connection 5 weeks ago:
Which is the rank he held at the end of DS9, I believe.
I would like to think he made captain, but we didn’t see it.
- Comment on ‘Starfleet Academy’ Episode 5 Trailer Reveals ‘Star Trek: Deep Space Nine’ Connection 5 weeks ago:
Past the JemHadar Commandant, and Nog’s name on the wall, you mean?
- Comment on Nobody has ever lit a cigarette because of happiness. Smoking is a anxiety-coping mechanism. 4 months ago:
Isn’t the after sex cigarette kind of a trope?
- Comment on Microsoft is making every Windows 11 PC an AI PC 4 months ago:
They are helping, yes, but windows 11 is a driving force like I’ve never seen.
- Comment on Why are some many people role playing as animals? 4 months ago:
Possible. I’d hardly call that role playing, but I could see it.
OP should take the chance to clear that up for us.
- Comment on Why are some many people role playing as animals? 4 months ago:
If you’re not talking about furries, then you’re gonna need to use more words to ask your question. Who is role playing animals, under what circumstances. Are you talking about a game? Are you making political commentary? Street Theater? Help us help you.
- Comment on Was the fall of Rome this stupid? 4 months ago:
This collapse didn’t start in January.
- Comment on If copyright on a work expired immediately after death, would be that a bad or good idea? 6 months ago:
In this example, the child is living, and has needs.
- Comment on Trump says he plans to put a 100% tariff on computer chips, likely pushing up cost of electronics 6 months ago:
Do your iPhones usually take oil?
What do you think plastic is made from?
- Comment on Trump says he plans to put a 100% tariff on computer chips, likely pushing up cost of electronics 6 months ago:
Packaging, no. But manufacturing it into something else, yes.
Do you think a tariff on copper would apply to an iPhone? Or a tariff on oil?
- Comment on Trump says he plans to put a 100% tariff on computer chips, likely pushing up cost of electronics 6 months ago:
That’s generally how tariffs work. A tariff on grain is not a tariff on bread. A tariff on steel is not a tariff on knives. A tariff on cotton is not a tariff on clothing.
It can be, of course. A tariff can be on steel and items made with steel. But that’s not usually the case, and it’s usually called out as such. Of course, Trump is not what you’d call the most precise communicator in the world, but all we can do is work with what he says.
- Comment on Trump says he plans to put a 100% tariff on computer chips, likely pushing up cost of electronics 7 months ago:
Right, but this tariff, at least as I understand it, is on chips imported as chips, not on products that contain chips. An iPhone will, of course, be subject to some other damn fool tariff, but not this specific one.
Of course, my understanding of this specific tariff may be wrong.
- Comment on Trump says he plans to put a 100% tariff on computer chips, likely pushing up cost of electronics 7 months ago:
What he means is, if I buy an iPhone built in China, this tariff won’t affect the price I pay.
But if I buy a phone built in America, with an imported processer, this tariff will make that phone more expensive.
- Comment on How do AI data centers manage to *consume* water, but when I cool my house, my A/C *makes* water? 7 months ago:
I’m an actual engineer with a degree and everything, although this is not my area of expertise, it’s one I’m familiar with.
They could do something like you suggest, but every step becomes more expensive and less effective. The exhaust from a coal fired power plant is still plenty hot, and more energy could be extracted from it. But it requires more and more to make less and less.
The curse of every engineer is to see a way to them every waste stream into a useful product, but not being able to do so profitably. (Which means no-one will approve the project)
- Comment on Duffy to announce nuclear reactor on the moon 7 months ago:
Interesting. They only works in a few cases, but It’s good to have the options.
- Comment on How do AI data centers manage to *consume* water, but when I cool my house, my A/C *makes* water? 7 months ago:
The difficulty is, to put it in very simple terms, is that physics doesn’t allow that. The less simple explanation is a thermodynamics textbook, and trust me, you don’t want that.
Everything generates heat. Everything. Everything. Anything that seems to generate “cold” is generating more heat somewhere else.
- Comment on How do AI data centers manage to *consume* water, but when I cool my house, my A/C *makes* water? 7 months ago:
Note your use of the word “cool.”
- Comment on Duffy to announce nuclear reactor on the moon 7 months ago:
No sunlight for 10 days at a time.
- Comment on How do AI data centers manage to *consume* water, but when I cool my house, my A/C *makes* water? 7 months ago:
A condenser will generate the same amount of heat that they are trying to dissipate.
- Comment on Almost 90% Of Americans Are Worried About The Cost Of Groceries 7 months ago:
Remember, tortillas make every kind of meat better.
- Comment on Almost 90% Of Americans Are Worried About The Cost Of Groceries 7 months ago:
Can’t imagine you’d want to put your mouth on a pig or cow either, but properly butchered and prepared, they are quite palatable.
I imagine it’s the same principle.