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Melllvar, charonn0@startrek.website
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Seer of the tapes! Knower of the episodes!
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Comments by Melllvar, charonn0@startrek.website
simpsonsshitpostingYou are technically correct. The best kind of correct.
Also, sliding around pretending to ice skate.
politicsThey do pay for their power. The bill would require them to pay for grid upgrades that their usage makes necessary.
TechnologyI’m curious how it’s considered a “layoff” if it’s based on performance rather than the job itself being eliminated.
Insurrection is weird because it’s a Star Trek movie whose message is apparently anti-tech and anti-exploration. They should have called it Star Trek: The Amish Country.
The SimpsonsBreak its legs!
It’s bringing love, don’t let it get away!
Star Trek Social ClubScotty: This is the commander of the U.S.S. Enterprise. All cities and installations on Eminiar VII have been located, identified, and fed into our fire control system. In one hour and forty-five minutes, the entire inhabited surface of your planet will be destroyed. You have that long to surrender your hostages. [dramatic music]
Bonus moment, DS9:
unnamed extra: The Federation fleet has surrounded the planet.
Random one-episode extra got the best line in the whole fricken franchise.
These are Klingons we’re talking about.
PC Gaming@lemmy.ca
Case/chasis: 15 years and counting
Motherboard/CPU: ~5 years (currently: 6.5 years)
RAM: ~2 years until maxed out (currently: maxed out)
GPU: ~3-6 years (currently: 3 years)
I had hoped to do a new build last year, but it’s just too expensive. For now I’m planning to use what I have until it breaks.
History MemesBut… none of those things actually contradict “stone age”. It might be better to point out that an advanced civilization isn’t necessarily defined by metalworking.
Late Stage Capitalism@lemmy.world
Whenever guillotines are brought up I like to point out that ~90% of the people guillotined during the French Revolution were regular commoners. And the last guy to be guillotined was the guy who had been in charge of deciding who to guillotine next.
Fun fact: no member of the Supreme Court was willing to sign their name to the Bush v. Gore decision. It was instead issued per curiam, “by the court” itself.
So stop acting politically, John.
General Memes & Private ChuckleBrick and mortar stores are going to extremes to compete with e-commerce sites.
Girlish scream I’ll be there :D
The Voyage Home is the very first movie I can remember seeing, and it’s still my favorite Trek movie.
Greentext@sh.itjust.works
Software is like a gas: it expands to fill its container.
A web page is a combination of a structured document and a separate stylesheet. The same structured document can be styled in radically different ways just by changing the stylesheet. This is how a website can offer different skins, light/dark mode, etc.
Consider this basic HTML document:
And here’s a stylesheet to make the bullet points square:
Change the stylesheet and you change how the document is rendered. “Reader mode” is just a minimalist stylesheet built into the browser.
A number of my repos are listed.
But the weird part is that it also lists a repo I don’t recognize. The repo does actually exist on my github account, but it’s marked as “ignored”, and the description says it was automatically exported from Google Code. The code seems to be a MacOS shareware file encryption tool called “BitClamp”, published circa 2008.
No idea how it got on my account.
“A keyboard? How quaint.”
I like TOS Operation: Annihilate! because it presents a situation where a starship captain would be justified in issuing General Order 24. I’m disappointed that they didn’t actually mention GO24 in the episode, but my headcanon is that the crew were all reluctant to mention it by name.
I think GO24 is deeply misunderstood. It’s only ever been presented as a thing that a bad, crazy captain would order; as grounds for mutiny. So why would Starfleet even have such an order on the books? I think it’s actually designed for situations like the one in this episode: to prevent the spread of dangerous life forms.
This interpretation also enhances my enjoyment of another TOS episode, A Taste of Armageddon. In this episode, Kirk actually invokes General Order 24. Scotty understands that Kirk needs leverage to bluff with, and plays along. Bluffing the bad guys by citing a public health ordinance is classic Kirk. See also Corbomite and Fizzbin
I usually go to wunderground.com
I say lean into it. Praise Jesus so loudly and obnoxiously that the preacher themselves asks you to tone it down a notch.
Guys. Guys. I’ve got it. This is poetry.
Show us your death certificate
Sure. Whether or not its constitutional, etc. is really beside the point. Any official challenge to the governor’s declaration would necessarily involve demonstrating that McConnell is alive and well (or not). In either outcome, the question of the governor’s authority would be moot.
Don’t stress over labels. They don’t fit anyone perfectly.
The tesseract code repository is no longer public, but someone else made a copy of the blacklist file: https://drive.proton.me/urls/F12YB7W52C#27AP8fGZ2xdp
It’s an alternative skin/user interface that fediverse instances can offer users. It turns out to have an internal blocklist of instances, communities, users, and keywords that it will silently hide. Some (e.g. child abuse) are understandable. Others (e.g. specific usernames) are less so.
Some people are upset they are on the list; some that they are not on the list. But most are upset that a list exists in the first place.
Roadside assistance services?
I don’t like fixing my own flat tires. I can do it but not quickly or efficiently; it’s not something I can do on the side of the road under duress. I should probably work on that, I know, but in the meantime I take my bike to a local shop and have them do it for me.
Baked green apples with cinnamon. Silver dollar cornbread pancakes. Thick, steaming pea soup with hot dog chunks.
Now I’m hungry and I miss my grandma :(
“I’m not gay, I’m overworked.”
-That guy
I find it interesting how “the promotion” is an end in itself. No context, no details, just “the promotion”. And you didn’t get it! Tsk, tsk, tsk.
I wonder what a Ferengi End-User License Agreement says.
This looks uncomfortable and humiliating. Now if they were to make it in the form of a suppository…
Last week I tipped a friend off about an upcoming job opening that would have us living in the same town. The boss sees their resume tomorrow.
O Mighty Potato, grant me this boon.