implying Google has customer service

He “tried” in a such a way as to appear to want to do good things without actually having to do them.

The Union’s medical technology is notably more advanced than the Federation’s, yes. Dr. Finn would have Pike up and walking in an afternoon.

The Union’s medical technology is notably more advanced than the Federation’s, yes. Dr. Finn would have Pike up and walking in an afternoon.

Games are free on PC, or at least very cheap if you insist on actually purchasing them

The powers of the President are whatever he feels like they are.

Citations Needed News Brief: As UPS Strike “Looms,” Media Frames Working-Class Revolt as “Threat” to “The Economy”

In an early episode of the Orville, Gordon and Isaac get into a prank war which culminates in Isaac removing Gordon’s leg. This is treated as going a little bit too far but ultimately harmless and funny.

In Star Trek, they tend to prefer to mitigate risks protectively with things like anti-grav harnesses and holodeck safeties, except for exceptionally reckless individuals like James T. Kirk and Jason Vigo.

Think of the poor cluster bomb manufacturers. How will they maximize shareholder value if nobody uses their widely banned weapons that mostly kill civilians?

Tradition, one of the worst reasons on earth to do anything.

firefox and a torrent client

It’s not crypto mining, because crypto mining is basically worthless on consumer hardware now. What it does is run its own ads and pay you for enduring them and being spied upon by them in its own cryptocurrency.

Pop os, but don’t install brave, it’s bullshit cryptocurrency spyware.

Really the whole Trashfuture extended universe is fantastic

Trashfuture is the best tech podcast

Poe’s law, but it’s chatGPT and centrists

The separate plotlines converge and the characters start to understand what’s going on

I’m still salty about the Shuttle in lunar orbit. That’s not what it’s for, that’s not where it goes.

I made it about halfway through season 2 and found myself rooting for the Cylons to kill every named character including the Cylon ones.

The optimal way to watch Stargate, and the way it originally aired, is alternating episodes of SG-1 and Atlantis starting with the former’s season 8 and the latter’s season 1.

Universe had a drastic tone and characterization change from the other Stargate shows, it’s much more tonally similar to Battlestar Galactica than Stargate. SG-1 and Atlantis are about competent professionals who enjoy each others’ company, while Universe is about a bunch of petulant children who hate and are constantly scheming against each other.

No, I don’t like BSG either.