33 minutes and nobody has offered an impractical yet potentiall workable solution(?) yet… maybe it really isn’t possible.

After all, treason, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder.

Thought out in terms of psychology, philosophy, religion and politics? Absolutely. In terms of science, not so much. I mean, when has the plot ever depended on a consistent theory of any complexity? The science world-building of the show is mostly built around the needs of shooting a low budget SF show (teleporters to avoid expense shuttle landings) that requires very little knowledge of its unique from its audience. Need scanners for the plot? Sure, you can have them. Need to not have scanners? Sure, now there is a radiation field on this particular planet that interferes with the scanners. Need scanners not to work, but only for a little while? I have an ion storm for you.

Contrast with the Expanse which is based around real physics and forces it’s audience to puzzle through it and forces its characters to deal.

I remember an interview with Patrick Stewart where he was talking about his advantage as a Shakespearean delivering dialogue that was forced and unnatural…

Trek is not hard SF. There might be a manual, but in practice, the tech in the show is there to serve the plot and it usually just amounts to a critical delay, a fetch quest, and “some kind of” X.

Bring👏back👏Firefly👏

about what certain lines (about ship damage) meant. JJ simply told him it didn’t matter and to just say the lines very urgently, because the audience wouldn’t care.

To be fair, that’s most Trekian thing I’ve heard about the Abrams’ series. I love the show, but the tech was just plot contrivances stacked on top of each other and explained with rapid fire gobbledegook.

Waiting for eye pupil removal surgery to come back from the 1930’s. That Little Orphan Annie comic caused a lot of ocular dysmorphia in its day.

Yup. Motorola should be coming out with a GOS-compatible phone in a year or so. There was a bit of buzz because of local age verification requirements, which GOS dev said fuck you to, but I don’t think thatś enough to derail the project since I don’t think Motorola ever planned to ship GOS, just make it compatible for users and IT depts to install it—which so far does not violate any laws.

Yeah, well, heads up: black people and women consistently get worse medical care (regardless of income) and Nichols was both of those. Women’s heart attacks also present differently, but providers are (used to be?) mostly aware of the male presentation.

Re-read my comment?

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“Man is meant to be free, but everywhere, he is in chains.”

vs

“Fish everywhere are meant to fly in the air, but everywhere they swim underwater.”

The idea that man can ethically evolve in the tragically short period offered by Star Trek is preposterous. Star Trek is the dream of progress manifested via technology, but we have the technology to feed the world right now, we have the technology to greatly expand medical care at a low cost, yet we don’t because we are designed to be slaves of unjust systems that dominate and abuse.

Still love the show, though.

I can NOT watch Star Wars anymore without being overwhelmed the economic, spiritual, and political impication of droids that are always just… there.

Sadly, I think it’s exceedingly rare for a franchise to ever mature enough to question the foundations of its world building. It seems the role of a franchise is to recycle itself to increasingly younger and more naive audiences until it has lost all value.

The best we can hope for is a spiritual successor offering commentary, like the way BSG is really in conversation with Star Trek (no surprise given the writing staff).

Why are a multitude of poor options better than a few good options?

There’s this weird mix of free market capitalism and FOSS philosophy that says more and shallower forks = better ecosystem.

Not commenting on this OS specifically, but just questioning your blase assertions that more options is better. Maybe it would be have been better to invest more time into an existing project.

Edit: Great arguments for this OS all around, I’m just saying please DO make an argument instead of just assuming that ANY diversity is good.

You should stay up a little longer and watch some Picard episodes to the audio of some Blues Clues videos.

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Until the update that bricks the car unless it can consistently recognize a face.

Buying a new car in 2026 is a risky proposition with no horizon.

The Earth King has pre-emptively invited you to Lake Laogai…

Yeah, I saw it for the first time when I was in my mid-30’s. Amazing show. Might be the inspiration for my first tattoo.

I saw one at the Goodwill last week for $20, so they’re still out there. Maybe you’ve been pretty good about clearing your space, but a lot of people just keep accumulating junk until they have to spenddown to qualify for a medicaid-covered nursing home, or, worse, leave it for their children to clean up.

And, yes, absolutely I love thrifting for the hunt… I’m I stopped watching Sex and the City at the end of Season 2 I have two copies of season 4 and one of season 5, but I’m waiting for season 3 to show up at the thrift stores.