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Mirshe,

Also still fairly anti capitalism. The whole core is “I worked at a Cadillac factory making cars I could never afford with what they paid”.

Mirshe,

He was also CEO of EA when a private equity firm (that he founded and sat on the board of) bought Bioware and then sold it to EA.

Mirshe,

Samsung, Hyundai, etc.

A judge orders Texas to move a floating barrier used to deter migrants to the bank of the Rio Grande (apnews.com)

A federal judge on Wednesday ordered Texas to move a large floating barrier to the bank of the Rio Grande after protests from the the U.S. and Mexican governments over Republican Gov. Greg Abbott’s latest tactic to stop migrants from crossing America’s southern border....

Mirshe,

Ah, but note they only have to move the floating barrier. If the reporting is correct, they also spread concertina wire along the bottom of the river.

Mirshe,

Don’t forget the time he wanted to quit benzos to show how masculine he was. His doctors wanted to taper him down so his brain didn’t fry (benzo addiction alters brain chemistry and withdrawal can seriously screw you up or kill you if you stop), but trying to taper off over several years wasn’t manly and powerful. So he flew to Russia and got a few potentially sketchy doctors to put him in a medical coma for a month, and that’s part of why he’s so fucked up now.

Oh, or the part where his daughter convinced him to only ever eat red meat, and literally nothing else.

Mirshe,

This is just a Torgue design. It probably fires gyrojet ammo too.

Mirshe,

Don’t forget Sisko.

Mirshe,

All of whom don’t have nearly the charisma or following that Trump does. DeSantis couldn’t sell air to a drowning man.

Mirshe,

Currently, at least 5 main lineages, with several sub-lineages among Omicron, at least. Wikipedia only marks Omicron as a variant of concern right now, and the others are considered out of circulation among the general population. I couldn’t find WHO data easily on their website, however.

Silicon Valley elites revealed as buyers of $800m of land to build utopian city (www.theguardian.com)

After weeks of local speculation, the purchasers of 55,000 acres of northern California land have been revealed. The group Flannery Associates – backed by a cohort of Silicon Valley investors – has quietly purchased $800m worth of agricultural and empty land, the New York Times has reported. Their goal is to build a utopian...

Mirshe,

While I don’t fully disagree with you, these towns being funded by the ultra-rich, usually by people who already have shady business practices, are looking awfully like company towns. Amazon’s already trying to build company-provided housing near a lot of their hubs, which is bad in that now your healthcare AND your shelter are directly tied to your employment. Imagine if they get their way with building a whole micro-city that runs on that idea - where every last bit of wealth an employee might spend goes STRAIGHT back to your company. Their utilities get dealt with by Amazon-built power and water plants. Their food is provided by Amazon grocery stores or deliveries. Your healthcare is provided by Amazon, and your housing is at the whim of your employer. All of this is provided at jacked-up prices, of course, so you’re effectively just a debt slave until you die or the company decides to kick you to the curb.

Mirshe,

Face is Scooby, obviously.

Mirshe,

Paramount wants it off everything and out of production so they can practice the dark art of tax writeoffs with its sacrifice. If they aren’t selling it or streaming it anywhere, they can claim it as a business loss.

Mirshe,

The toilet is cracked as well. I wouldn’t trust anything prepared anywhere near that countertop.

Mirshe,

He’s willing to call a truce against Disney directly. He can still attack them in more plausibly-deniable ways.

The Miracle Worker (startrek.website)

“I called her and I said, ‘Hey, this is Jimmy Doohan. Scotty of Star Trek. I’m doing a convention in Indianapolis, and I want to see you there.‘” he explained. “I saw her. Boy, I’m telling you — I couldn’t believe what I saw. It was definitely suicide. Somebody had to help her, somehow. And, obviously, she...

Mirshe,

Just think, this was a guy who was at D-Day. And the best thing he considers in his life was saving a young woman’s life through nothing more than words and a promise.

Mirshe,

Yeah, I’d accept this if it were a DS game. Not on major consoles in 2023.

Mirshe,

Zed from Pulp Fiction.

Mirshe,

There are reports of Moscow AA “accidentally” firing on it.

Mirshe,

He hasn’t bothered with bargaining with his challengers BEFORE, either. I mean, he tried to assassinate his biggest public political rival Alexei Navalny, then when everyone got angry at him for trying to do that in pretty blatant fashion, just threw him in prison and will likely keep him there on whatever charges they think they can make sound reasonable for as long as possible.

Mirshe,

Lorca was the only good part of S1, and even then, the best episode is Harry Mudd killing him dozens of times.

Mirshe,

Specifically, he’s the reason Hollywood is where it is. After his company invented movie cameras, he attempted to collect royalties on any movie created by an Edison camera, even having people harass and ruin movie sets and studios if they didn’t (as most movies were being produced in and around New York). So a lot of studios said “fuck you, you wanna collect, you’re gonna have to work for it” and moved across the country to California.

Braga: ‘I still cringe when I hear it.’ Apparently, it was a long road to the franchise’s most despised title music (www.slashfilm.com)

Working from the oral history in The Five Year Mission: The next 25 years, this is a fascinating deep dive that answers the question “How did a recycled cover of a 1998 song written for Rod Stewart, ‘Where My Heart Will Take Me’ aka ‘Faith of the Heart’ become the title music for Enterprise?”...

Mirshe,

To be totally fair, they were being produced during the writer’s strike.

Mirshe,

Shadowrun has gender changes as basically a walk in, outpatient procedure in most cases. There’s a character in lore that changes their sex every so often just for fun.

Mirshe,

I mean, generally speaking if your spouse is going THAT FAR to fabricate reasoning behind a name, that’s likely not the only thing they’re lying about to you.

Mirshe,

Oh no, there’s enough of them who also think JFK isn’t dead, is somehow not ancient, and has been secretly fighting the Deep State for the past 60 years after faking his death dramatically.

Mirshe,

Basically this. During the French Revolution or the Coal Wars, it was as simple as “the King/boss lives there, we should go there and threaten to kill him unless he capitulates”. Now it’s not as simple as storming Versailles or taking the boss hostage when he comes into work in the morning - you think a CEO is ever in their actual, physical office without an appointment to require their presence?

Mirshe,

Let me put it this way: I don’t like kids running into my lawn to get their baseball. I ask them to stop, and I put up a fence. These are both fine.

What I cannot do is place landmines behind that fence and sit on my porch with a shotgun to kill survivors.

That’s actively what DeSantis and Abbott want to do : turn the entire border into a deathtrap where even attempting to cross is absolutely going to kill you, one way or another. I believe at least one of the candidates last cycle DID bring up mining the entirety of the border. They want to make the US border look more like No-Man’s-Land in the Somme rather than the Berlin Wall or the Korean DMZ.

Mirshe,

Yeah, retroviruses are a hard nut to crack. Either you try to target the virus and leave the cells alone, which is the hard route, or you target the specific DNA sequence of the virus, which forces the body to start murdering itself.

Mirshe,

Yeah, it helps when you have a mind-boggling amount of computers across the world crunching your data.

Mirshe,

And it came together with new rapid prototyping technologies for vaccines, and far better computer modeling than anything anyone has ever had before. Like, there were a bunch of technologies that just happened to be coming into maturity at almost the same time, and between those technologies and the combined powers of most of the major vaccine labs on the face of the planet, and the near-infinite money to tie all of that in a nice package, a vaccine was developed in 10 months

It’s really a story of humanity actually pulling their shit together and deciding to throw all their chips in a pile, as it were.

Mirshe,

Gotta be an Adept with how little chrome he’s showing. Most Street Sams I know are about one cyberfinger away from going full psycho.

Mirshe,

Actually, Phyllis Schlafly’s kid was trying to crowdsource a “conservative bible” translation back around 2009, claiming that modern translations were done with a “leftist bias” and that several passages were added by “liberal scholars”, including the story of the adulteress in John (“let he who is without sin cast the first stone”), and editing any mention of the Pharisees to either “intellectuals” or “the elite” depending on which ‘translator’ you wanna go with. Oh, they also get rid of Christ’s prayer on the cross, because, and I quote, “it implies that Jesus forgives unrepentant people.”

Voters in Ohio reject GOP-backed proposal that would have made it tougher to protect abortion rights (apnews.com)

Ohio voters on Tuesday resoundingly rejected a Republican-backed measure that would have made it more difficult to change the state’s constitution, setting up a fall campaign that will become the nation’s latest referendum on abortion rights since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned nationwide protections last year.

Mirshe,

Ohio GOP hasn’t cared about the rule of law for as long as I can remember. More famously, they were ordered to draw fair voting maps multiple times running into 2016, and kept submitting maps that didn’t even come close to passing muster, including submitting the exact same map twice AND submitting the current voting map.

Mirshe,

The Inspector General apparently had enough evidence to tell Congress “y’all need to do something about this”, but I’m still going with “it’s nothing” until we see good evidence that isn’t just video clips or “I know a guy who knows a guy”.

Mirshe,

He’s very much meant to be “be careful to not become the monster you fight”.

Mirshe,

A fellow Lions Led By Donkeys fan?

Mirshe,

I’d love a Neelix cameo. Have him running or assisting a Talaxian colony somewhere.

Mirshe,

At least in the STO continuity, Kim is a captain by this point, commanding the Rhode Island.

billmason, to startrek
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First look at Star Trek: Prodigy season 2 is out.

The Doctor/EHM returns, as does the Voyager-A. Inject it into my veins. 🙂

https://www.startrek.com/videos/star-trek-prodigy-season-2-first-look

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Mirshe,

Or they’re releasing this to show potential platforms “look at all the hype, look at the audience that wants this.”

Mirshe,

He may only need to win the nomination. I could see his lawyers arguing that “you can’t disrupt an election by convicting one of the candidates”.

Mirshe,

Honestly have to agree. It’s weird, but fine.

Mirshe,

And here I thought that was gonna be the scene from Plato’s Stepchildren.

Mirshe,

There’s also apparently barbed wire laid under some stretches.

Mirshe,

I’ve never had a cat get hurt this way and I’m still paranoid, and will check both my cats are safe and not in the machine before I turn it on. One in particular feels the need to explore anything that opens - cupboards, dishwasher, dryer, refrigerator, even the oven. I’ve luckily trained him to keep far away of the dangerous stuff like the dishwasher and dryer and oven, but he’ll still try to climb into the fridge if I don’t pay attention.

Mirshe,

Richard Horvitz is indeed in there. Fun fact: he’s also the voice of most of the Alpha robots from Power Rangers.

Mirshe,

Heinlein: that, but pedophilia and incest.

billmason, to startrek
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An excellent thread on why to save Star Trek: Prodigy

(via https://twitter.com/NerdForce5/status/1686121027405819905)

@startrek

Mirshe,

Have you considered the $20 they’d need to pay the writers and actors over the next decade? Think of the poor profits.

Mirshe,

I believe it was Twain that said “I’ve never wished a man dead, but there are obituaries that I have read with great satisfaction.”

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