If you don’t find the humour funny, it’s not going to work for you. It’s half humour, half love letter to trek. Star Trek meets Futurama
To some extent, the characters have to be hyper and heightened because they have to fit a Star Trek episode in under half an hour
Youtube should have never removed the maximum 10 minutes limit on videos in 2010
We are definitely well past that point. We are also passing the point where Star Wars nostalgia was fondly remembering watching Episode I as a kid and soon will be at the point where Star Wars nostalgia is fondly remembering watching The Force Awakens as a kid
Hype! Lower Decks; Lower Decks; Lower Decks!
Statute of limitations. Fleeing the country is a great trick if you can manage it. Roman Polanski had the same idea
Assange is a rapist that works for Russian intelligence. Notice how he has never once published anything that puts Russia or US Republicans in bad light
He’s so smart that he fled a country that doesn’t extradite to the US (Sweden) to a country that does (UK)
A new challenge with open submissions would be low effort AI spam. Scifi magazines are buckling under the tidal wave of crud right now https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/25/23613752/ai-generated-short-stories-literary-magazines-clarkesworld-science-fiction
“If you want peace, prepare for war. Si vis pacem, para bellum.” - Vegetius
Big bureaucracies do tend to have waste, but spending less reduces both useful spending and wasteful spending equally. Cutting a budget does not achieve virtue. US military spending keeps the world at peace
I left in November and deleted my account in December. Mastodon/the Fediverse is what I always wanted Twitter to be but it never was
Oh, I forgot about these. These songs are so lovely to catch up on
I’m sure I saw an interesting article about it many years ago, but this is the best I can find right now: https://www.reddit.com/r/startrek/comments/ql0bsd/what_time_signature_is_the_tng_theme/
The time signature (I had to Google) starts in the common 4/4 but then switches into 12/8 or 6/8 which has a lot of flavour
What’s blue-grey? No data?