taanegl
@taanegl@beehaw.org
- Comment on A Windows 11 bug is incorrectly nagging users to change their time zone 3 days ago:
It’s asking what time it is? What, is it Windows 95…?
Damn I’m old.
- Comment on Belarusian authorities are preparing children for war with the EU 2 weeks ago:
And nationalism will be crushed again.
- Comment on Big Four consulting firms 'operating in the shadows for too long' as Senate committee demands new rules for government contracts 2 weeks ago:
New public management is the bridge of money that spans the seperations of power… change my mind.
- Comment on 'We have no choice now’: Desperate to circumvent sanctions and do business with China, Russian companies resort to bartering and cryptocurrency pegged to the U.S. dollar 2 weeks ago:
Relying on crypto is the geopolitical equivalent of selling Mary Kay.
- Comment on Israeli Minister Reportedly Asks Military To Kill Palestinians Instead Of Arresting Them To Manage Overcrowding In Prisons 2 weeks ago:
I recommend we shoot Zionists in the face… on a global basis… because y’know I’m such a good boy.
Can I haz ribbon cutting ceremony?
- Comment on What would make you react like this? 2 weeks ago:
Chocolate cake…
- Comment on Microsoft’s all-knowing Recall AI feature is being delayed 2 weeks ago:
“Guys, this is a PR nightmare! Reign it back!”
- Comment on Still trapped on Baltimore ship, months after bridge collapse 1 month ago:
Fair enough, but that still does not justify them being stuck on a ship for several months, because 1) there is no “due process” (search online for it’s proper definition and not the perversed US instituonalist definition), 2) it’s punishment without verdict, and 3) it’s inhumane. Actually, it’s an edge case the US judicial system is not capable of handling, because the US judiciary is lead by morons.
Again, you don’t get to justify this kind of treatment of people “because they did bad”. What’s next, a return to witch burning because the milk soured? The average deck hand, who had no power or influence over the matter, should have weeks of their pay disappear, meaning their families will go without food?
Why do yanks continuously defend, deflect and try to gloss over their own governments incompetence and unethical behaviour? The US needs dire judicial reform.
- Comment on Still trapped on Baltimore ship, months after bridge collapse 1 month ago:
Yeah, you did. You basically indirectly justified it, a favoured tactic by republican think tanks.
“Corporate punishment is bad because the state shouldn’t get to kill people.”
“BUT WHAT ABOUT THE RAPIST’S AND PEDOPHILES AND ALL THE EVIL PEOPLE incidentally I’m pro-life”…
Same energy and tactic, bro.
- Comment on Still trapped on Baltimore ship, months after bridge collapse 1 month ago:
Excuse me, wtf? You’re not “discounting”, but indirectly condemning the whole crew when obviously it was the navigator and captain responsible for the negligence? Not only that, but almost indirectly affirming that they all deserve to be there?
“Oh I’m sorry, but this is ancient Egypt and you must be buried with the pharaoh.”
Prick. And no, don’t come at me with “but those 6 people who died”, because that justifies nothing.
- Comment on ifn't 5 months ago:
I’m just hoping this paves the way to code with Southern dialect
iffun is == true iffun ain't == false
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
Could I ask for an explanation of why you’re leaving? I’m a bit in the dark here.
- Comment on Friday night plans? 5 months ago:
CUS I GOT STRENGTH OF THE SOUL~
- Comment on There appears to be no sign of intelligent life 6 months ago:
Full spread!
- Comment on Writing 101 by Behr & Braga 6 months ago:
Listen, if you could throw a rock at all people with daddy issues, the new TikTok trend would be having a bruised and swollen face.
- Comment on Egg-nog-stic 6 months ago:
haha the catholics appropriated juletide, a festival of fattening, because they thought pagans were so gross they needed to appropriate the festivities and set the pagans on fire.
- Comment on Spread the love 6 months ago:
Listen, I’m never even putting my Jeffrey boner away.
- Comment on Fun Fact: Mike Tyson auditioned for Chakotay's role in Voyager 6 months ago:
So my Klingon warrior name is Nosyt Ekim. Got it.
- Comment on Teeth. 6 months ago:
It’s still the best way of identifying animals and human bodies thank you very much. This is why 1/10 conspiratorial privacy advocates advise against going to the dentist. That’s Gary. He’s kookoo for cocoapuffs and also has really bad teeth.
- Comment on Get this shit out of here 7 months ago:
He is political for heterosexual reasons.
- Comment on But who is Star Trek Voyager? 7 months ago:
Discovery is a Twitter debate between leftwing edge lords, and I’m not afraid to say it.
- Comment on Pips don't lie 7 months ago:
Ooo baby when you walk like that
Make me want to bomb the office of Dukat
- Comment on What does a PhD mean? 7 months ago:
I would use the definition of Dr Kanye West, but that might not be appropriate.
- Comment on Stupid Sexy Neelix 7 months ago:
Nothing at all
- Comment on Beware imposters... 7 months ago:
Next trend? Sexy pictures of Neelix.
- Comment on Listen, Susan. It's a valid theory, just look at the damn thing. 7 months ago:
Falsifiably so.
- Comment on When is season 4 anyway? 7 months ago:
“Contrived” is a better word I guess. I don’t feel like many of the arcs have been fleshed out, leading to conclusions that are ill deserved Burnham as a character arc is a perfect example of this. I think she gets everything served to her on a silver platter, that the action setpieces are not enough to justify the order of things. This might be an issue with cutting for time, but still.
- Comment on Rogan vs. Jones, tonight at 8. PPV PrimeTime 7 months ago:
Easy because the combined shine from our skulls would manifest into a cataclysm causing deathray. If you see two bald people fighting, throw a wig on one of them to save the world.
- Comment on When is season 4 anyway? 7 months ago:
I blame Discovery and Picard. I tried watching Discovery the other day. I desperately tried, you guys. I quit - and I won’t be watching Picard. I reject the callous and hamfisted writing, so I’ve personally rejected it as cannon at this point.
Star Trek Shorts was kind of okay, and Brave New World was definitely a step in the right direction. I’ll watch that soon because I’m rewatching most of the shows in chronological order (based on this IMDB list). Also, Prodigy is actually pretty great. I’m glad it didn’t get cancelled. It’s a kids show, but the Prodigy writers show they actually care.
But my god. The writers for Discovery and Picard really screwed the pooch. I won’t even blame direction or acting, like at all. What I blame is the paint by numbers forced progressivism, which pisses me off, because it shouldn’t feel forced. It’s Star Trek FFS. It used to be the platform for progressive subjects.
Star Trek has been a playground for masters of the powerplay, for subtext, allusion and theme. It was a progressive platform already, but did so through writing methods which has been employed by writers for thousands of years to convey stories and characters, tried and true methods that yield good quality story telling. All of that went out the window with Discovery and Picard. The writing in those shows is the storytelling equivalent of smashing the square through the circle shape.
When it comes to the Orville? It shows that McFarlane really has a love for Star Trek and that he could have helped to modernize it, in a much better way than what the production team did with Discovery and Picard. But much like with the Flintstone’s reboot, he got shafted. But at least he got bawled out by Tucker in Enterprise while playing the role of an enson. So he’s apart of cannon in some way?
- Comment on DON'T TALK TO ME ABOUT PAIN [1000th post. Holy shit.] 7 months ago:
TNG, season 3, episode 3…
Like my god. The gravity of that conclusion. It’s quite the Shakespearian tragedy.