I don’t get why producers see prequels as a safe haven, they nearly always end up trashing decades-old canon, instead of adding to it.

Enterprise was one of the exceptions, it fit nicely with established canon, and added to it gracefully.

Except blue isn’t scary anymore after the Andorians. I can only fathom that they thought brown Klingons look like black Klingons and people will think that’s racist.

Oh how I wish people stopped separating humans in races and just stopped thinking in races and colors at all.

“There is only one race: the human race” - Robert Sobukwe, South African anti-apartheid activist

Crypto has just made more evident how finance wizards are simply adept at saying something is incredibly valuable, and getting people to believe them. Tesla has no reason to be so valuable. SpaceX I’d agree, but Tesla has been overtaken at every aspect by other companies.

Unfortunately, corporations have bastardized the term “open” (looking at you, OpenAI) trying to get the credit Open Source software has earned.

Libre was a good choice to emphasize “free as in speech”.

He understood the wasp, maybe they’re so ornery because no one understands what they want. He’s The Wasperer.

OTOH, I’d bet it will return and harass and probably sting the next customer that doesn’t give it a piece of their tuna sushi.

Taped animals were the most interesting of the set.

It would be funny it it wasn’t so sad.

Betting that a gorilla will get exhausted of ripping and biting off heads before it reaches 100…

It’s unclear how strong a regular gorilla is because you can’t make it commit like a weightlifter does, but it’s up to ten times a regular human. Women are about half as strong as men, imagine being five times even weaker. For a gorilla it would be like fighting 100 toddlers.

They can break banana trees barehanded, and their bites are even more powerful than ours, and they have fangs.

Those are like the most superficial layer of propaganda. The real danger of propaganda is that it doesn’t look like it, it looks like other regular people making you support their interests without you realizing it.

Do you like engines? Do you dislike electric vehicles? Do you like guns? If so, when and where did those ideas come from? You weren’t born with them.

I think the real problem is, people don’t know how to manage their emotions, and those end up swaying them left and right. Opportunistic antagonists will take advantage of those triggers.

Stop thinking with with your gut, take a pause to analyze your body response to emotions. Are you sweating? Are you afraid or is it actually warm? If you’re afraid, what specifically do you fear? Etc.

Propaganda, echo chambers, peer pressure, and even vicious cycles of self-pity, anger, sadness… will have a weaker hold on you.

Feel, but don’t stop thinking.

If humanity survives until then, we can implement 9-digit dates and delay the problem until Y100K.

Plex is more polished, but I love Jellyfin’s subtitle search; it blows Plex’s socks away.

Also, Jellyfin doesn’t nag me every effing time to enable DRM in Firefox for some unfathomable reason.

But Plex definitely wins on performance, IMO.

Take HomeAssistant for example: you’re free to use it self-hosted, but as soon as you want to expose it securely through the Internet, there’s need for infrastructure that has costs, both in materials and labor. In HomeAssistant’s case, it’s NabuCasa that does it, and costs money, and helps fund the work of HomeAssistant’s developers.

Having things free (libre) and open source is a blessing, but we have become used, entitled, even spoiled, to enjoy the work of very specialized people for free. That’s not always feasible.

Another example, Zabbix, is totally open source and free, they only charge for support and training if you ask for them. It has worked for them for many years, but if they start to struggle with funding, I’d understand if they charged for it.

It also assumes the masses behave rationally, which they won’t ever.

We’ll just get the cheapest shit with the limited information we are given, unless it is life-or-death, where we will pay any price out of fear.

What did GenP stood for?

In my country, it’s the casinos. They naturally receive cash predominantly, and can easily launder millions. Everything else is small potatoes.

We do what we must
because we can
For the good of all of us
Except the ones who are dead

Yeah, let’s see how well that ping works when they find a deathclaw in one of those trips.

YOU DIED (several minutes ago)

brag about Ubuntu being his favorite Linux distribution we? Like, can you imagine someone saying that in a room of Linux nerds?

H-hey!

I’ve always suspected these are attempts at stock manipulation. Release scary news, make the stock go down, buy, stock rebounds quickly as the scaremongering dissipates, sell.

The most mentally-challenged businessmen love pump and dump (and the reverse in this case) because it doesn’t require any talent whatsoever, just insider trading.