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but will it have a magnetic ink display option

You lied to me!

off the top of my head, maybe there could be one person payed to be the driver/scheduler to coordinate requests and plan the days routs?

of course, first instincts are usually have some unseen flaw, I’m sure there’s a reason this couldn’t work

in case you were wondering

H.R.1161 - Aligning SEC Regulations for the World Bank’s International Development Association Act

This bill exempts from securities regulations any securities issued by the International Development Association of the World Bank. The association provides loans and grants to developing countries. The Securities and Exchange Commission may suspend this exemption at any time.

Introduced to the house in 2023 by the House Financial Services committee, not yet passed. Sounds like an excellent financial opportunity for those in the know and with connections to the World Bank. You know. Like. For example. Members of the House Financial Services committee.

If we’re gonna get techincal, the US cannot do terrorism because terrorism is legally defined as a non-state organizations crying out violent actions. We inherited this legal framing from the British, who have used it against pretty much anyone who pushed back against their imperial project. Ironically, this includes most of our mythologized founders.

This also makes our State Sponsors of Terrorism designation functionally nothing more than an arbitrary punitive measure on countries we don’t like.

im ignoring anything established by STD and Prick-ard for the very legitimate reason that I have not and will not see them.

I do feel like both in themes and narrative, the federation is moving to a full on confrontation with the borg. It’s hard not to see some parallels between the two. And since that’s exactly the sort of thing Paramount executives are not interested in (That’s nice, but how does it relate to brand icon Spock™ ?), it’s never actually gonna happen.

But if it did… I think I’d want to emphasis the humanoid nature of both the Borg and the Fedderation. For the perfectly fine constraint that our actors are human people, most of the aliens we’ve seen are… not very alien really. It’s even been given a Lore reason. I think it would be fun to play off that – what if the borg aren’t just assimilating everything in their path, but only the humanoid species, descended from the precursor aliens seeding the galaxy. Everything else is just spare parts and nutrient paste for drones. Like, really, do you see the borg assimilating one of the dolphin crew? I’m not suggesting that they couldn’t, but that they wouldn’t – flat out doesn’t register to them. This also now gives us a reason for Changelings to form the Dominion; normal humanoids should not pose enough of a threat to a shapeshifter that they feel the need to start corralling them. But an expanding Borg collective, one that seems incapable of recognizing anything too different as a person? That’s the kind of threat that would warrant establishing Dominion. After the war, maybe changlings see the potential of cooperative collaboration with “solids”, but they’re hesitant. After all, the Federation looks to be doing it’s own weird cultural assimilation of humanoids.

I’d want a show that tries to center the more alien aspects of both new aliens and the one’s we’ve already seen. Like, just because a people have been in the federation for decades/centuries, doesn’t actually mean they’re all that known. Say the Vulcans have a massive library of cultural, historical, and scientific work. Ostensibly, it’s open to all members of the Federation, but the user interface was made to a Vulcan standard – barely a step removed from looking through chunks of computer memory for the data you want. “What do you mean you can not find the document? All content is arranged in the most logical manner possible.” Maybe an episode that plays up the shortcomings in relying on a Universal Translation algorithm. Star Trek IV establishes that humpback whales are aliens (or at least are in contact with aliens), there’s narrative potential there.

Also no more borg queen. Boring and dumb, undermines what makes the borg interesting. Hand wave it away with a single line of dialog; In the past We designated a single drone to be a loci of tactical coordination. This approach was deemed inadequate and has been terminated.

I welcome this change but encourage the people at Google to go further. Why, for example, not also add Gulf of Atlantic in square brackets after the regular parenthesis

Aku is putting up subliminal messages against capitalism?

just the other day one of the lemmys had a post that pictured us as the elephant graveyard “where the light does not touch” from the lion king

oh is that why the gateways haven’t been as bad lately?

oh yeah that’s what it was

Anyway, I’m gonna remember it as my version :garf-troll:

uh, best guess, the whole “female presenting nipple” debacle at Tumblr?

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middle right, I vaguely recall something about a dentist anesthetizing a lion to death in front of a live internet audience? Mostly this looks like a compilation of memes and movies from 2014, jarringly presented alongside some of the things that would actually go in a history book about the time.

Between DOGE and the tariffs, Felix described this second term as the US doing shock-doctrine to itself.

it’s a good observation, and i’m a little mad i didn’t think of it myself

Steven Universe: Unleash the Light got a rouge-lite update a while back, but I’m only looking at it now. It’s a little unbalanced, but impressive considering they put it together out of all the pre-existing pieces of the game. Such a shame Warner Bros. pulled all the games from storefronts

that’s not a real feature, is it? Like, in those newer phones that are advertised as coming with AI built into the software?

and I don’t believe in ghosts, so you can imagine how poorly I rate the democrats