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I wasn’t understanding how the Doctor allowed the Toymaker into our reality.

I heard him say that his sprinkling the salt on the ship deck in the second special is what allowed the Toymaker to enter, but I don’t understand why just sprinkling salt on the ground would allow that to happen.

Could someone elaborate?

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I appreciate the response, but I’m the type of person who wants my worldbuilding and lore to matter and make sense, even in more fanciful shows like Doctor Who.

When I was asking about was that he actually made some mention about the walls of reality breaking down or something (my paraphrasing), so I was hoping for someone to give a better explanation of that, specifically.

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I don’t find this answer very satisfying myself

Yeah, I can see what they’re trying to do, but it seems like it needs a little bit more push to make it be a viable/acceptable reason why.

I guess at this point you’re right, we just ignore and move on, though I do wish the writers weren’t so ‘hand wavy’ lazy about their worldbuilding.

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Fair enough, though without going down the rabbit hole, I gotta wonder how they break through the barrier from their reality to ours? I guess its ‘thin’ at the edges??

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have done it but they all think they’re the first.

It’s not about the first, it’s about the best.

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Maybe they got thrown back in time against their will, versus being a normal away mission?

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JNCOs

Junior non-com outfits?

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It might not be an away team, but instead they got thrown back in time type of situation, which in that case they would just have their normal outfits.

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I mean it kinda seems like there’s exactly one way to do it. They’re not elaborate costumes by any means, and they’re uniforms so you can’t exactly get creative with it.

Not with the costumes maybe, but with the acting, you definitely can.

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My new favorite comic site. Thank you for sharing.

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Yikes!

Talk about edge-case mayhem.

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From the articles…

The union is so far being mum on the details of the agreement, which will likely emerge in the next few days prior to the union’s ratification vote.

I wonder why?

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Seems worth a victory lap though, especially considering how hard they worked on it.

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If they don’t ratify it then it’s not a victory is it?

From the article…

The union is so far being mum on the details of the agreement, which will likely emerge in the next few days prior to the union’s ratification vote.

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Once they finalize it and all everyone has signed, then they will release the details.

From the article…

The union is so far being mum on the details of the agreement, which will likely emerge in the next few days prior to the union’s ratification vote.

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You just want to argue, don’t you?

No, not at all. I thought we were having a conversation.

Once they finalize it and all everyone has signed, then they will release the details.

I mean that’s what you said, which just seemed the contradict what was said in the story, …

The union is so far being mum on the details of the agreement, which will likely emerge in the next few days prior to the union’s ratification vote.

, so I mentioned that in the hope that you would elaborate on that, by either saying you’re incorrect, or that the story was incorrect for some reason.

If someone’s seeking a correction doesn’t automatically mean they want argumentative combat with you, they just want to resolve the discrepancy.

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Exactly, you’re looking to win an argument.

So you didn’t quote the part where I said I was just looking for clarification, and not attacking.

I’m really not trying to argue with you, so please don’t put intentions into my mouth that I didn’t have.

Again, that doesn’t mean announced or released by SAG-AFTRA.

Does it mean it’s not either. I’m making the assumption that they’re going to announce days beforehand so their base knows what they’re voting for.

The writer of the article is not a spokesperson for SAG-AFTRA.

Because writers never ask questions of spokespersons, either on or off the record, and get information that’s accurate that they would put in their story, right?

I mean, this is really blowing all out of intention/proportion. I was just trying to find out if you were some kind of insider who knew what you were speaking about, to learn something new and different about the subject being discussed. I wasn’t trying to publicly embarrass you, was just seeing that what you were saying was different than what the article was saying.

Edit: I just got the information I needed off of CNN, where they listed what was in the agreement.

Have a good day.

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Sometimes someone will argue a technicality just to try to appear the smarter person. You’re just being a pedant at this point.

You’re making assumptions on my intentions without any actual knowledge of me as a person to base them on.

My life is not so minimal that I feel the need to prove my intelligence to strangers on the Internet. All I was looking for was social interaction and conversation (and in this case, clarification) which you know, is what Lemmy is supposed to be about.

And defending oneself is not being pedant.

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Why would I quote the part I’m not responding to?

You’re not being intellectually honest, because your response was to negate mine.

And, CNN broadcasted today, days early, what I was asking about.

I stand by what I’ve said.

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these things only happen due to human error.

Software has edge-cases that are not easy to discover, they can have catastrophic results.

You can’t just automatically say it’s always human error.

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Be careful, my domain got on a whole bunch of ISP’s spam lists because I had done the same thing.

They really don’t like open domain email working.

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The jokes on LinkedIn. T-Mobile already has my social security number, birth date, and other important information on the dark web, thanks to their security breach.

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out of curiosity do you have any theories why your domain/aliases got blocked?

For my domain it was put on a spam list that various ISPs use.

When I spoke with one ISP they said it’s because I had an open email address situation going, where a spammer can send a spam email out to a third party and on the reply address to they can make up anything as an email address for my domain name and it would be ‘valid’ because my domain email server was set up to receive all emails that you described.

And because of that I got put on a global spam list which many ISPs use. At the time I didn’t even know about my domain being on the list, I just noticed a big drop in emails I was receiving.

FYI this happened over a decade ago, so I do not know if that is the current practice today. But better to make sure any email addresses to your domain that is not valid does not go through. No “catch all” bucket situation.

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That’s because you need to implement DKIM, DMARC, and SPF records to prevent others from using your domain name to send mail.

Well I used a third party service to host my domain, and as far as I can remember (like I said this was over a decade ago, maybe almost two decades), everything was set up correctly at that time.

Not trying to dispute what you said, but I can at least speak towards that as far as we knew at the time we had the domain set up correctly on our end, the stuff we could control.

The only thing is we had a catch-all bucket setting turned on for emails to be forwarded to an internal email address of our domain.

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Don’t forget Equifax, assuming you are in the USA

I mentioned T-Mobile because I had gotten notification from AAA/ProtectMyID service that I was signed up for free after one of their breaches, that my information from the T-Mobile incident what was on the dark web. The scan service specifically mentioned T-Mobile.

But yeah you’re right, I knew also that Equifax had problems as well.

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There has never been a correct way to deploy these services, just increasingly complex, featurefull, and or secure ways to do it

You forgot one way.

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What was the symbol used for “none”?

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Honestly I’m surprised that studios have never bothered filming multiple endings and releasing them all into the theater chain so people would basically go see the same movie multiple times just to catch the different endings, and the studio getting more profits.

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Ah, ok.

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I guess you don’t get any symbol and are now considered as the morally superior group, which will then use it to gain power and proceed to oppress the others.

Either that, or everyone with symbols would work together and gang up on you for not having a symbol.

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The unmarked will be slaves

Before it came to that though they’d be able to put yellow :-) stickers on their foreheads, confuse everyone else, and make their escape while the others debate what to do.

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Note that I may be conflating the publisher with the developer

You think?

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Well, eventually.

When Steam was first released, the running joke was

Has anything ever worked perfectly when first released?

CosmicCleric,
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Its a phrase that signals something else, and not a literal content reply.

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How about you write what you mean

I did. Its a standard phrase used by people in conversation. See defintion #2 below.

Below definition is from here

you think

  1. A question one uses at the end of a sentence to express uncertainty. We’re not going to get into trouble—you think?
  2. A sarcastic rhetorical question used as a retort when someone states the obvious. A: “Wow, I bet that fire is really hot.” B: “You think?”

and have quality conversation in the future?

Quality is in the eye of the beholder, apparently. /shrug

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So glad I’m using Linux for my gaming needs.

Edit: typed the below is a response to someone else’s comment, but I thought it would also be good for me to say in here, to elaborate on my initial comment.

Fedora/KDE, Steam, Bottles.

Fedora for the quality support and stability of your Linux distro, Steam for, well, Steam, and Bottles for non-Steam games, that still lets you launch those games from inside Steam.

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encourages me to move quickly to a linux distro of choice.

Fedora, Steam, Bottles.

Fedora/KDE for the quality support and stability of your Linux distro, Steam for, well, Steam, and Bottles for non-Steam games, that still lets you launch those games from inside Steam.

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Pineapple doesn’t belong on pizza you prick.

Needs more for the rest of us.

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Wouldn’t be surprised if they’re over here already.

There’s definitely bots here already.

Mozilla Senior Director of Content explained why Mozilla has taken an interest in the fediverse and Mastodon (techcrunch.com)

"the company looked at the history of social media over the past decade and didn’t like what it saw… existing companies that are only model motivated by profit and just insane user growth, and are willing to tolerate and amplify really toxic content because it looks like engagement… "

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Its unreasonable to ask people to push beyond their boundaries or capacity so that their pet project can become a 1:1 replacement for an incredibly mature platform

Sometimes things become bigger than just what they were before, take on a life of their own.

When it gets to a humanity community level need then maybe the devs should turn it over to others who can do that, or at least accept the help of others who have been trying to help them grow it more/better.

We have a responsibility to ourselves, but we also have a responsibility to each other.

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How did YouTube become the monopoly it is?

Back then Google was “do no evil”, and they had the infrastructure and the finances to support an endeavor like YouTube.

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How exactly is any of that legal? Genuine question. What about the Federal Trade Commission? Isn’t there fucking anybody regulating these corporations in the US?

There are government websites you can report this to, though I do not know what effect that will have.

IANAL, but my understanding is that if you paid for a year for a certain set of services they have to give you those services for the whole year, or refund you your money.

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Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum…

So singing and all is fine, but what we really need at this point is actual instructions on how to.

Back in the day it was all done via USENET, is it still like that today?

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That, and voting into office people that’ll actually write regulation laws to curb these bad behaviors from corporations.

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I try, but some days I end up being circus.

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Good to know there’s ambiguity for the future.

Could you be more specific?

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You see the irony, but you don’t see the humor.

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/applaud

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