and I don’t believe in ghosts, so you can imagine how poorly I rate the democrats

it really does feel strange to see it in the news rather than in an archive or a history book

It made sense in a world where MAD was still a new concept, international standards for nuclear stuff was still being ironed out, and the cold war was at its most intense. But today? If you want a barometer for existential crisis, look at the change in average °C

Personally I think DS9 started strong and lost steam gradually.

Yeah, the first few seasons felt like the writer’s room had a grounded, thoughtful perspective on great-power politics, on colonization and occupation, and on political violence. The documentary that came out a few years ago seemed to suggest a lot of it was on one writer that died partway through the show, but I’m not sure how accurate that is.

They actually built a set and (most of) the characters are compelling. Some episodes are kinda miss, some are really good. Biggest criticism is, it doesn’t really have TNG’s thoughtful hopeful depiction of the future, but the writers seem to think it does just by virtue of being a Star Trek™ show. Still worlds better than STD.

Develop Capacity?

No investment in personnel, only tariff!

I’d resign try to permanently resign from the security council. Pretty sure all it takes is a president and an ambassador appointment to pull off.

next you’ll tell them there’s not actually a big line in the ground between the countries

smdh spoilsport

Unfortunately for them, no amount of slop can make one as deluded the guys thinking a few more GPUs are gonna solve labor forever.

the good news is the US has been de-industrialized for so long people don’t actually know what an industrialized economy is supposed to look like

1, I wanna confuse the fuck out of Regan by getting Rommny to talk about those classic bible stories where Jesus visited the Americas or… uh… something about Lamenites…? I’ll be honest, I never paid much attention as a child, and none of the Book of Mormon stories got Prince of Egypt animations so I’ve forgotten all of them

really annoying to watch them go

You expect Trump to un-ban Tiktok?! DOn’t you know four years ago he said he wanted it banned??? Way to fall for the propaganda, bub.

as if hundreds of Democrat representatives didn’t vote for this, as if Biden wasn’t the one who signed it into law. It’s gonna be extra pearl-clutch-y when he forces a negotiated ceasefire in Ukraine…

Apparently in one of his recent videos, he argued we need to rethink the whole “anyone from anywhere being able to talk to anyone else” aspect of technology, on accounta scary-wary foreign disinformation

Yep. It’s mostly bible belt states, and typically requires parental consent. So usually (as best I understand it) parents marrying off very young daughters to much older men who happen to go to the same church as them. A couple of states have tried to end it, only for it to get blocked by their legislature or vetoed by the governor.

Not sure what to think of the magnetic lock on the controllers. That side port they plug into looks way more fragile than however the fuck the rails worked.

lotta, like, parents and other people on the periphery of gaming industry thought the WiiU was just an extra tablet you connected to your old Wii. Probably the sound decision here.

CEO once took a paycut rather than layoff staff. Happened years ago, and definitely doesn’t excuse the over-litigation.

Breaking news on that SpaceX starship that lost coms with SpaceX right after launch.

SpaceX is now saying there is a

RAPID

UNSCHEDULED

DISASSEMBLY.

[emphasis mine]

also fuck off calling a rocket a “starship”. You’re (failing at) dragging yourself outta the bottom of a gravity well, not voyaging between star systems.

This is more like if twitter users rallied around the default egg as an acceptable alternative to a username and profile pic.

Wake me up when 1 million people are all passing around the same username and password on a stickynote

that’s what is for

stay on top of your firmware updates and that’ll be sooner than latter