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  • Decisions, decisions

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  • Thanks for not just downvoting like everyone else. People take this stuff too personally.

    Even in spite of my complaints, I'll still watch it with the family. I'm just bummed out that the qualities that made Star Trek so endearing are watered down or lost to the changing tastes of a new generation of media consumers and the insufferable corporate assholes who just don't get it.

  • 'Lost the battle': New data shows public turning against Trump on 'core issue'

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  • The funny thing about when leopards eat republican faces is that they no longer have eyelids to close to the other atrocities that their despot inflicts upon us all

  • Decisions, decisions

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  • It's just action sci-fi with a thin veneer of star trek universe on top. What made Trek so good was how it could present a moral dilemma that required the human spirit and willingness to sacrifice for the greater good to overcome. It also had cool aliens and tech and shit, which new trek does fairly well. But really the thing that gets me is how bad the writers are. They're inconsistent. They push endless fan service. They pander. They focus on action too much. They take the easy way out when it's clear someone in the writers room attempted to sneak in a satisfying narrative only for a suit to ruin it for everyone. FFS Lower Decks had better stories than SNW because they were able to sneak them in under the guise of it being farcical (and lower budget meant less suit involvement).

    Flashy technology to macguffin the solution to a problem isn't satisfying to watch. Plot-armor-mooted-heroism against all odds to solve a problem isn't interesting. The ensemble cast of Mary Sues doesn't make for good drama. The thinly veiled fanservice fueled corporate cash grab is insulting.

  • Decisions, decisions

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  • It's had a few good episodes. That's why I said SNW is the best of the bunch. But it's still a low ratio of good to bad. The current crop of executives, producers and writers need to go. The only way for that to happen is a hard reset on the finances.

    It's like when your grandmother is in hospice care on chemo. Sure, they can extend her life for a few months with drugs and invasive treatments. But what about the quality of her life? She's bedridden in a soulless understaffed hospital that's sole purpose is to suck every last insurance dollar out of her. Her family doesn't want to see her in that state so she's ignored and lonely and losing her mind.

    That's star trek right now. Let it die.

    edit: then to further the analogy, we can reboot grandma again later with a better healthcare system

  • Decisions, decisions

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  • Not a troll. A real person with an opinion that new star trek doesn't scratch that itch.

  • Decisions, decisions

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  • It's not star trek. It's all sci-fi flavored action with no moral dilemma or demonstration that the human spirit can evolve. Let it die.

    edit: and shameless pandering to fans - looking at you Picard

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  • SNW is the closest thing to Trek. I did enjoy Lower Decks. But otherwise.... I'm OK with that. New Trek is pretty awful.

  • Decisions, decisions

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  • Either option works if you pirate it to avoid giving Larry Ellison's son money.

  • Parsing ICE’s mixed-up, hard-to-believe assault claims | ICE officials keep touting a 413 percent increase in assaults on officers to justify anonymity.

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  • I wonder if some entrepreneuring judge could dismiss the assault charges with prejudice to get ICE to stop fucking pulling that bullshit

  • Refueling

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  • Coffee with an absurd amount of sugar

  • Marjorie Taylor Greene Says Americans 'Have Been Brainwashed' By Fox News, New York Post As She Opposes U.S. Entering Israel-Iran War

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  • Yet. They've got 200 million Americans to conquer first.

  • Godspeed

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  • Someone should make sure to take that snail's keys before he leaves the bar.

  • Plex has paywalled my server!

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  • Some FOSS projects are supported by having a for-profit company offer turnkey packaging and support for those projects. Look at TrueNAS. They sell nice NAS hardware preconfigured with their software and the profits support the development.

  • Reappraisal of the Geologic Time Scale: Evidence for a 6,001-year-old Earth

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  • You missed the pokedex entries too!

  • Writing Toy Software Is A Joy

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  • What the fuck is this "oh for fun I built an x86 kernal lol"

  • Democrats' David Hogg problem not over despite DNC's vote to remove him

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  • Yeah I've listened to a few of his videos. He's extremely off putting and unlikable. But he's also 100% right. It sucks that he isn't even slightly charismatic. I mean.. knowing his history I can forgive him for that without question. But still - a big part of politics is building alliances and he will never, EVER be able to do that on anything but an ideological position and that's not a recipe for success.

  • Perfect date

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  • You monster

  • Why Denmark is dumping Microsoft Office and Windows for LibreOffice and Linux

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  • All of the M$ office apps have premium features now too. Pay extra monthly and you can use python in excel. Pay extra monthly and Teams will... I dont even know because I closed that popup so fucking fast. FFS my company must pay M$ at least 7 figures a year - why are they trying to nickel and dime us?

  • Vomiting Emoji

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  • First one for when you havent showered for a day or so

  • Vomiting Emoji

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  • Yeah a lot of them really make you think they phoned it in.

    Like this one really should've been a phone handset puking out of the speaker.