HobbitFoot

@HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What television series in your opinion had very good writing and character depth?⁩ ⁨⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  They spent all their money on overdubbing lines.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Quidk! I need a chili recipe. What would you add to a pound of hamburger, diced jalapenos, chili powder and bloody mary mix?⁩ ⁨⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Was it the pineapple chunks?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Quidk! I need a chili recipe. What would you add to a pound of hamburger, diced jalapenos, chili powder and bloody mary mix?⁩ ⁨⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Wayne Gretzky suggests red wine, Worcestershire sauce, and pineapple chunks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What television series in your opinion had very good writing and character depth?⁩ ⁨⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Including his lies?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How does one country prepare to fight the other? With out spies? Like Iran is fortifying against a US strike. But how do they know what we will strike with and vice versa all thru history?⁩ ⁨⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  First, you always spy.

  Second, you monitor public information to determine enemy tactics and develop wargames around those strategies.

  For instance, anti-aircraft strategies against the USA changed radically as the USA launched preliminary drones to set off Iraqi radar stations then launched cruise missiles against all known pings.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thoughts on Kanar⁩ ⁨⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  There are some drinks that humans like which are more viscous than others. This includes items like port wine and hot chocolate. You also have stews and gravies which use various thickening agents like okra or a roux.

  I kind of think that Kanar is like an intoxicating gravy. You know, that might help out with American Thanksgiving.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Did you like Star Trek: Nemesis?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, the movie definitely deserves it’s accolades as one of the best Star Trek movies. It is just that you can tell, with this movie, there really wasn’t anywhere good for the original cat to go from there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Did you like Star Trek: Nemesis?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  while continuing to grow as individuals

  Only one person really grew, and that is Captain Sulu.

  It kind of doesn’t make sense for Kirk to still captain the Enterprise, especially given the disdain that the admiralty seem to have with him. I also feel like he doesn’t really have a mission any more like he did during the show. Given that Starfleet wasn’t desperate for officers at the time, I would expect that Captain Kirk should be captaining a desk and only getting pulled in because Spock wants Kirk.

  Spock shouldn’t be a captain in this movie. He is doing high level admiralty/government work here. It was already accepted that Spock would retire from Starfleet and become an ambassador. Now is the perfect time to do it. It also gives a way for Spock to outrank Kirk in making decisions while not being an admiral, something which is kind of banked into the premise of the show.

  Chekov was a first officer in Star Trek II, he should be a captain by now.

  Scotty is slumming it as chief engineer of the Enterprise at this point in his life, especially as the Enterprise isn’t the most up to date ship.

  McCoy displays what appears to be incompetence in letting the Klingon Chancellor die. A doctor on the front lines of the Klingon Cold War should know enough about Klingons to be able to treat Klingons.

  Uhura should know how to speak Klingon, also because she was on the front lines of the Klingon Cold War.

  The only one who progressed in his career is Sulu as he is has a prestigious Captain’s chair, but it makes sense given his age and experience.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Did you like Star Trek: Nemesis?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I didn’t like it.

  The premise was interesting and kind of seemed to be TNG’s Undiscovered Country, so that by itself wasn’t bad.

  Tom Hardy as a Picard clone was dumb. I don’t know what the obsession is with having Picard become a father when his character was written to have his lineage end with him. It would have worked better if Hardy was a Romulan who was manipulating the Remans for his benefit.

  Outside of Worf, the crew felt oddly in status. Giving Riker the Titan in this movie could have justified shaking up the crew. Bring in Crusher and La Forge as technical experts instead of crew because going to Romulus it’s going to be a big deal and the two have credible experience with Romulan biology and technology.

  Ditch the whole daddy/son thing and focus on the Enterprise and a small fleet trying to establish better diplomatic relations as invited guests and get attacked given how the sneaky Romulan politics is.

  The final ship battle was cool.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Did you like Star Trek: Nemesis?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I honestly have a problem with how the Undiscovered Country treats the original characters. Great story, but it did the characters dirty.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What was your social media path?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  AOL

  Yahoo

  Sensible Erection

  Reddit

  Lemmy

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can people irl be as mean as some people online?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m talking about at work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's stopping youtube from just going full authoritarian and mandate DRM for all their videos in attempt to prevent people from downloading it or block ads?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Kind of hard to buy something that doesn’t exist.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's stopping youtube from just going full authoritarian and mandate DRM for all their videos in attempt to prevent people from downloading it or block ads?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It is worse in that Vimeo makes money by charging creators to host their content instead of YouTube’s model of it being free or a way to make money.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's stopping youtube from just going full authoritarian and mandate DRM for all their videos in attempt to prevent people from downloading it or block ads?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Except who wants to be YouTube?

  Twitch only does streaming. Meta and TikTok only do short form video. Spotify’s attempts to branch into video seem focused on podcasts and curated content. If YouTube were to erase from existence, I don’t see a competitor getting made.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Given the obviously wide reaching implications of the Epstein files why arent other world governments demanding access or copies?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah. Most of the world may be seeing this as a set of crimes when this is really a massive trove of intelligence.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can people irl be as mean as some people online?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  They can, but it is less likely. I generally find work interactions are nicer if the interactions are in person than over written text.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How long and how hard would it be to get a star removed on The Hollywood Walk of Fame? Asking for a friend.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The official position of the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce is that, since the walk of fame is a national landmark, all stars are historic and shouldn’t be removed. Also, they only have the authority to create stars and not remove them.

  If a star were to be removed, it would need to be destroyed as an act of vandalism and the Chamber of Commerce would need to choose to not rebuild that damaged star. Even then, current policy is to rebuild all damaged stars.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How long and how hard would it be to get a star removed on The Hollywood Walk of Fame? Asking for a friend.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  There is a committee which reviews applications and approves nominees. There are also rules on who can get a star.

  It is an industry award that has a cost attached both in applying and actually winning it. This is pretty common for awards in various industries.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it normal to be mildly exhausted after talk therapy?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I would assume so given the mental labor. I’d be more concerned if I wasn’t exhausted after a session.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Whats the best way to clean up 15 years of stuff around the house?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Start small with determining a set of items to go through. Force a decision on those items beyond keeping them in their place.

  Continue for each small stack of items.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When did it become normalized to start passing credit card processing fees to the customer?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve seen it a lot for over a decade. It is usually small businesses who did it since the cost to manage cash is almost zero. There was a reform bill which said that you couldn’t charge more for credit, but there wasn’t anything about giving a discount for cash.

  I’ve been seeing it more for places with large transactions because the 3% is meaningful for those businesses.

  Large companies don’t do it because credit is preferable for them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How does one become a entrepreneur?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Any business. All you need to do is identify something that you can sell for more than the cost that it takes you to make the thing you are selling.

  It can be a good or service, it doesn’t matter .

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is America in the Wag The Dog territory because in the movie the pres was caught up in some sex stuff and fakes a war. Or am I just reading to much into our dipshit in Orange?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Part of it may be that. However, part of it seems to be that Trump is happy to look strong while others give the orders and now he’s surrounded by people who realize they can get Trump to agree to whatever.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How does one become a entrepreneur?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Start a business.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you ever feel guilty for trying to sign up for government assistance programs?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  No. They were put there for a reason in order to help me out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No One, Including Our Furry Friends, Will Be Safer in Ring's Surveillance Nightmare⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think they’ve said anything yet, but I don’t know if the tech is there for identifying random people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No One, Including Our Furry Friends, Will Be Safer in Ring's Surveillance Nightmare⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, but you got to be able to word it right.

  Does your friend have an ex they don’t want to know where they are?

  As I recall, Ring doesn’t provide camera footage to everyone on demand, just law enforcement. I can easily see Ring advertising back saying they only provide data to law enforcement to help prosecute criminals or willingly shared by Ring owners.

  Leaning on the ICE issues right now would also work in some areas.

  Some areas, yes. However, that could end up implying that the camera system is being used to capture criminals in general.

  It is a better idea than vandalism, but it requires thinking though to make sure that Amazon doesn’t get a quick win.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No One, Including Our Furry Friends, Will Be Safer in Ring's Surveillance Nightmare⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s just going to grow adoption.

  People are buying Ring cameras/AI surveillance because they feel unsafe and are using these cameras to feel safer. If cameras start to get damaged in a specific neighborhood, residents are likely going to see it as a coordinated attack and invest in more cameras, including cameras to watch the other cameras.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are we being distracted from?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  A lot.