I guess she was right that it should never have been put to referendum if that’s what the average person thought.

If you don’t know, vote to keep the status quo. Or don’t vote. What the fuck did she think she was doing?

Jesus, these people.

It’s funny because people are saying this about new Star Trek shows to this day. As if there’s only one type of Trek, rather than, oh, I don’t know, Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations or something…

Is there air? YOU DON’T KNOW!

The Core

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance

Best of the best at Starfleet Academy.

Suddenly the War College isn’t looking too bad…

Maybe. Who am I to judge?

I ran into a girl I went to school with in New Zealand (school was in the UK). Didn’t know she was there working for a year, and even if I had, what were the odds I’d end up in the exact bar she was working in?

Brexet (pronounced “Bridget”)

😐

Sure, but the reason isn’t always just security.

We have government contracts and want more. But to get those, they insist on us doing a bunch of security things.

So it sucks for the users, but if we don’t implement the restrictions, we lose the contracts and thus the income.

And as a side benefit, holy shit we are pretty secure. Next annual pentest soon and I’m expecting good things from it!

EAT SMOG, POORS

Die Hard and Violent Night

Yeah, but the non-Nazis need somewhere to go as well…

I’m convinced the Picard ones were just the Reapers from Mass Effect

I completely agree.

You could almost say that my reply… lacked nuance 😉

Part of it is microblogging. Part is the ubiquity of internet access and lack of general education in critical thinking. Part of it is a concerted effort by hostile actors (whether corporations, nations or other groups, such as oligarchs) to discourage long form media because it’s easier to push out Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt that way than it is to be positive.

I think a lot of people have always wanted easy answers to complicated problems. Now they’re getting messages saying that they exist, and the people saying “I think you’ll find it’s a bit more complicated than that” are the ones trying to twist them to an agenda.

Easy solutions are comforting. Why think hard if you can just blame someone else and not have to do anything?

Twitter and its 160 character limit.

If they show interest, you can go into detail. If they don’t, that’s previous seconds of life you can use for more productive things.

It’s easier to tell someone you play D&D than it is to say you play Pathfinder, get the “… what?” question and then say “it’s for people who think D&D doesn’t have enough rules”

Gonna have to disagree with that. Marvel had a bunch of films of various quality, but pulling all the characters they had together under a single studio allowed them to do a ten year build up to Infinity War/Endgame which is something that’s never been done before and possibly never will again.

Sure, standards have been slipping since then, and I’m not going to argue that The Mouse is currently fascist-supporting and the Doctor Who collaboration absolutely wasn’t the high point in the show’s history. But the MCU proved that if you put your mind to something, you can produce greatness.