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Australis13

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  • Hegseth removes flu vaccination requirement for US troops

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  • Honestly, it's really hard to tell. I'm pretty sure some of them are just that stupid, but there's also some that have no problem undermining the US to enrich themselves. And of course there's some that are both.

  • Trek Wars

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  • This particular story is best read in the following order: Chapter 4, Chapter 5, Chapter 1 (optional), Chapters 2-3, and finally Chapter 6. There's a fan-fiction sequel with Chapters 7-9, but our class won't be looking at those.

  • Um excuse me. #picathecat

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  • "You seem to have forgotten that my bowl is half empty..."

  • Trump, 79, Posts Himself as Christ After Bonkers Pope Attack

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  • I agree. I think one of the arguments for the amillennial view is that it was talking about the Roman Emperor of the time.

  • Trump, 79, Posts Himself as Christ After Bonkers Pope Attack

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  • Oh, I know that the Antichrist (the definitive article) signs an agreement with Israel (that's what starts off the 7-year Tribulation, if I recall correctly). Trump hasn't done that, nor does he meet a couple of other specific requirements, so I don't consider him to be the Antichrist (note the uppercase).

    That said, he's definitely consistent with many of the attributes and I think meets the definition of an antichrist (lowercase) - hence why I said he's that type of person.

  • Trump, 79, Posts Himself as Christ After Bonkers Pope Attack

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  • I'd say only the idiotic ones who believe in a pre-Tribulation Rapture would want that. It really makes me wonder how many "Christians" have actually read the Bible they claim to believe (and how many would be those told "Depart from me, for I never knew you" Matt. 7:23).

    In my experience, Christianity is pretty divided over "End Times" worldviews - amillennial (no literal millennium, which usually says that there is no literal Tribulation either and so Antichrist isn't as much of a threat) vs. premillennial (we're living prior to a literal millennial reign of Christ on Earth, and there is a specific individual who will be the Antichrist and hold power during the 7-year Tribulation). Within the latter it gets even messier - rapture or no rapture? Ezekiel's War prior to the Tribulation or during it?

    Whilst one can argue for the Rapture from the Bible, it's definitely not as clear-cut as the Antichrist or Tribulation period - so if it were me, I would not be in an hurry to usher in the reign of the Antichrist especially when he will hunt down and execute Christians during the Tribulation.

  • Trump, 79, Posts Himself as Christ After Bonkers Pope Attack

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  • Trump is an antichrist (not the definitive article, but the type of person described in the Bible). It really can't get any clearer at this point.

  • Trump threatens Strait of Hormuz blockade after US-Iran ceasefire talks end without agreement

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  • I'm not an expert here, but considering that he is literally threatening other nations' vessels in international waters, I'm wondering at what point the actions of the US Navy to "interdict every vessel" would constitute an act of war.

    Hopefully the rest of the world increases the pressure on Trump and the US since it looks very much like he's completely to blame for the rising oil costs around the globe.

  • What, like it's hard?

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  • The ship's top speed is proportional to the speed of the narrative.

  • Amazon thanks loyal Kindle devotees by bricking their kit

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  • I understand not being able to support newer eBook formats or certain content on older devices; standards change, as do the capabilities of devices (resolution, storage, etc.) and that makes sense. But unless I'm missing something major, there shouldn't be any issue with them allowing users to keep accessing their account and purchase already-compatible eBooks for these older devices. Basically bricking it if you de-register or factory reset is absurd.

  • Crying is a free action

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  • No other actor has his range.

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  • One of the "Short Treks" would have been the ideal place to try it.

  • I don't know how to translate April 1 into a Stardate

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  • Wow, they've definitely spent a lot of time on it! I don't agree with it all either, and (to me) the biggest difference is that I always accepted that the 23rd Century had to have at least two rates of stardate progression (TOS, then the TOS movies) before the TNG/DS9/VOY 5-digit system came into effect in the early 24th.

    I'm also not beyond ignoring a handful of stardates to get the majority to make sense, since, as the author of that site says, there wasn't actually a canon system and so the writers were just loosely progressing the dates. Getting everything to align perfectly just isn't going to happen.

    What does bother me is that Discovery didn't even make an attempt to fit any kind of system - the stardates given in its first two seasons are clearly just trying to match the "vibe" of TOS without thinking about it any further than that. Unlike TOS, where you can somewhat reshuffle episodes around to make some sort of nearly-sensible progression of stardates, DSC's serialised nature completely undermines that.

    As the author finally concludes, though, DSC has to force a stardate reset -- something that does not surprise me in the slightest, since it's obvious from the rate of stardate progression in TOS that the most recent zero had to occur less than year prior to the start of the series. Of course, there's no in-universe explanation for how Starfleet would have kept track of the various stardate cycles (since the 23rd Century would necessarily have seen multiple resets to limit stardates to 4 digits), but I don't see any other option.

  • Artemis II Is Not Safe to Fly (Idle Words)

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  • Australia’s teen social media ban is a flop. But there’s no joy in ‘I told you so’

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  • Our government is usually technologically inept.

    The first online census (2016) crashed the system because they didn't allow enough capacity. Anyone with half a brain could have told them that most people were going to try to use it during one particular time -- after dinner (especially since the paper census is supposed to count everyone on that particular night). Instead, they decided to rate it for only 1 million form submissions per hour, despite estimating that two-thirds of Australians would fill it out online. At one person per family, that's around 4 million online submissions. Now factor in that the eastern states have most of the population (and are all in the same time zone at that time of year) and, predictably, the site went down after dinner on census night.

    https://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-08-09/abs-website-inaccessible-on-census-night/7711652

  • I don't know how to translate April 1 into a Stardate

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  • So, funnily enough, most of the online stardate calculators make the same mistake I did (start of year = xx000). However, this one doesn't -- it uses the 'Homestead' reference instead (based on the source code).

  • I don't know how to translate April 1 into a Stardate

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  • Interesting! If the stardate cycle isn't aligned with the calendar year, that would make sense (from a production perspective) since the broadcast seasons aren't aligned to it either. The thought did cross my mind but I've never seen it commented upon elsewhere, so thanks for the details.

    I doubt Voyager's clocks would be that much out of sync (especially once contact was re-established with the Federation, as that would reduce any offset to minutes or hours at most), so I usually put down that degree of inaccuracy to the writing (I seriously doubt the writers did anything other than just tried to evenly progress the dates between the start and end of the season).

  • The Webs Digital Locks have Never had a Stronger Opponent

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  • Interesting. If LLMs can deobfuscate code, I wonder if they (or other AI engines) will make it easier to bypass DRM.

  • There’s a Good Reason You Can’t Concentrate

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