I’ve been rewatching TNG and recognizing all sorts of actors who played Seinfeld side characters, etc but never realized Barclay and Murdock were the same actor.

Mind blown.

Thanks!

Cloaking for pre- first-contact missions makes a ton of sense. I think if the enterprise showed up in orbit today, we’d notice.

But if it is outlawed by treaty, that’s that.

Phasing just seems like really good shields to me—defensive, but not covert. How many times would the Enterprise been able to just outright avoid entire story lines if it couldn’t be touched? Not even confrontational issues—like when asteroid dust introduced metal-eating parasites, that just wouldn’t have happened.

Although, just like any advantage, even a defensive advantage like phasing could be used for offensive purposes (invasion, etc) unless an equal counter to it is developed.

Thinking about it further, you’d almost assume any people with the technology of faster than light travel would have had to develop some form of phasing tech prior to the FTL stuff…

I feel seen.

It is known.

That’s what Voldemort used to hide the prime directive from Ra’s al Ghul after Boromir tried to steal it from Optimus Prime at the Battle of New Caprica.

Wow, I’ve never been more terrified of “CNC machines”…

A bee-craft carrier?

My god…

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There must be other countries which require this.

Apple’s transparency reports are interesting to look at, though I think the last update was June 2024.

Here’s the latest update for the US.

In only the most playful and harmless spirit of sarcasm, it kinda reads like, “you are immortal if you make choices which do not kill you”.

And as an extension, “if you choose to survive long enough, that will eventually kill you, as well”.

It sounds like a complicated way of describing an instinctively non-suicidal existence.

That was on the corner of Electric Ave and Mason Street in Somerville, MA. I used to live very near there.

I also expect the community to form some sort of vigilance committee to get volunteers on the streets to do what the person who was recording doing, only hopefully with more presence.

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When something like a hat may actually cost you an arm and a leg.

Preferred search engine?

Using the website from outside of the US shows it with its proper name, but then the asshat version in parentheses.

I’d say I go to see a movie in an actual movie theater once a year, but the truth is I probably go half as often as that.

It isn’t that I am not interested in movies, I just don’t see the value. I am supposed to pay for a ticket, concessions, and whatever goes into travel to the theater to watch a movie with a bunch of (probably annoying) strangers in a fairly gross environment?

My guess is my annual box office contribution is approximately 0.5x the current ticket price.

If, however, there was a $20/month subscription service which would let me watch new releases at home, I would subscribe.

Even if it was relegated to expensive hardware, like an Apple Vision Pro, I would very likely buy the device and sign up for the subscription.

$240/year would be a hell of a lot more revenue than my current $5.50/year—regardless of whether or not it would be exclusive to certain hardware or platforms.

Honestly, my current TV and sound system may not be as impressive as a theater, but they are good and I’d take that experience over the modified bus depot experience of a public movie theater.

He’s like an X-Men hero designed to find Ant-Man when he gets stuck between couch cushions or something.

Eating? No, of course not.

Look at this as the bat-world’s equivalent of that that Piper Perri meme.