“The fact that we’re in the same genus makes me ashamed to call myself Homo!”

Temporal cold war, final answer.

There’s not enough restarting faulty equipment in Star Trek.

Fuck the cure for the common cold, a non-addictive, general purpose, sure fire cure for chronic pain would probably be the medical breakthrough of the century.

Good point!

Geordi started as the blind navigator, for irony

To be fair, a space ship is probably strictly on IFR all the time. Can’t imagine the Enterprise doing a lot of visual approaches.

Also IIRC canonically Geordi’s implant gives him better vision than natural eyes.

There are standalone GPS trackers that report its location via a cellular connection. Typically they are used to track pets and the elderly in case they get lost, you might be able to find them relatively cheap at pet supply stores, but they do require a continuous paid subscription to work. Though they do have the benefit of working anywhere that has a cellular connection without relying on having specific brands of devices nearby.

If you don’t need remote tracking, GPS trackers that only log to internal memory also exist. Those don’t require a subscription because they only need to listen for GPS signals and not transmit.

Airlines are a disgrace to the gift of flight.

Nice job, you took human flight, something once hailed as breaking the chains imposed on our species by the gods above, and in the name of profit made it the most tedious and insufferable thing imaginable.

So apparently in Canada it’s actually illegal to deface currency. Like the act itself is a crime with a prison term. It’s not like the US where it’s only illegal if you do it for the purpose of fraud.

https://www.leicestershirevillages.com/the-legal-implications-of-cutting-money-in-canada-uncovering-the-consequences-of-defacing-canadian-currency/

Which is a fucking stupid law if you ask me, as a Canadian.

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Then they went and made Chrome OS.

He didn’t want to die, but that didn’t stop him from wanting to make more money while undermining his own survival. Basically they were making fun of the self destructive, profit over everything else and infinite growth at all costs philosophy of capitalism and corporate culture. I think the writers’ intention was for him to be the personification of capitalism.

Thank you so much! I’m an amateur writer as a hobby. I currently mainly do worldbuilding posts (on Lemmy!) and also do literary roleplays (basically like a Dungeons and Dragons style roleplay but entirely in text, where you take turns writing a story bit by bit). Eventually I want to turn my worldbuilding into (most likely) a web series of episodic novellas, already have the overarching plot outline mostly figured out but haven’t started writing my canon story yet.

If you’re interested, I post on !worldbuilding@lemmy.ml, !worldbuilding@lemmy.world, and !worldbuilding@lemmygrad.ml, as well as on Reddit while the writing scene on Lemmy is still picking up.

except for Zapp Branigan. I couldn’t stand that bastard.

Yeah, but as a story writer and worldbuilder I’m inclined to cut them some slack on Zapp. I’d say writing a balanced and well thought out morally-bad character or villain is the hardest thing in character development. Counterintuitively, you can’t make the reader genuinely hate them like many do with Zapp, even if they are the designated big baddie, because if they feel such strong negative emotions, they won’t want to keep reading/watching your story. The reader doesn’t have to agree with their ideology or actions, there is a misconception that the villain always needs to be a little right to be compelling, but that’s not necessarily true. Really the most important thing is you need to make sure that you’re not making a character that the reader can’t stand and reading their interactions an unpleasant experience. At the same time, you have to make their motives believable and make them evil enough that whatever punishment your plot has in store for them is actually justified, all while still retaining a basic level of sympathy in the reader. I feel that Mary Sue heroes are talked about way more, but Mary Sue villains are just as detrimental. I definitely struggle with this.

I don’t get why programmers, especially ones actually working on open source projects, insist on using proprietary services. Stack Overflow is one, also GitHub.

jQuery is also dying. Coincidence?

Fuck Steam, download it directly from their website and tip them on their develoemt fund if you like it!

Someone should hire three bumbling idiots to exterminate them.

He’s part owl

Purrito