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  • It was in second place because having to constantly go into Flatseal for permissions can get annoying.

  • Well, I was already sold on flatpaks, but now Flathub is going to be my main repo.

  • That's more addictive than Aldebaran whiskey! And way more expensive too!

  • Gee, aren't yachts amazingly flammable for being watercraft, though?

  • That depends on the timeline we're talking about. Kelvin? Yes, mostly. He straightens out once he meets Old Spock and takes command of Enterprise. Mirror? Yes, absolutely - he was a man with nearly limitless power, and he could exercise that power however he damn well pleased. Prime? I don't think so, no. He's described as a walking stack of books, a studious and attentive officer, and he's shown to be that way too. He beat the Kobayashi Maru through trickery and intelligence - he didn't just sleep with a professor.

    Now, I will borrow from the statement of one preacher who wrote in on "Plato's Stepchildren". Any red-blooded man who's holding a woman looking that beautiful, if he doesn't kiss her it's almost a sin. I think Kirk is presented as an attractive man who's in a culture and situation that leads to him encountering a lot of attractive women. We read it as womanizing, because in the real world, it probably would be. Frankly speaking, yes, Kirk is a reflection of Roddenberry's own 'free love' beliefs. Look that up if you want to knock the aura off the Great Bird. But in the fiction, no, Prime Kirk was certainly promiscuous, but not a womanizer, and I feel there's room to accept the difference. For the majority, the women he manipulated, canonically, he didn't sleep with, and the women he slept with (or wanted to be with), he didn't manipulate.

  • Miri is such a weird case. She's simultaneously an underage girl and a developmentally challenged woman. Kirk knew without question that he was manipulating her, and that he was doing wrong by her. The challenge of the episode is determining whether he served the greater good by deceiving her and saving his crew - did the ends justify the means?

  • Always multiply your estimates by a factor of four.

    Then find the bottle of green stuff.

  • Online advertising leads.

  • Work

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  • We are all raised to the level of our incompetence. The more you show what you can do, the more they want you to do.

  • LLAP.

  • Never give up, never surrender!

  • Because it just works, and updates faster than apt.

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  • Are dog breeds species?

  • So six months after First Contact? I can live with that.

  • I agree with the General's response to Dallas' refusal. She's also professional enough that you can tell she goes nuts when she's off-duty.

  • Chrome was always The DoubleClick Browser, since Day 1. Google Docs spied on you to create an AdSense profile. Google Maps & Earth were creating local business advertising profiles.

    Firefox. Zoho Docs. MapQuest.

  • Does that make the shot from 8472 to Voyager her Big Bada-Boom?

  • The Great and Powerful Woz strikes again.