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  • Jucika's meeting with Gagarin

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  • Shout out to Star City, on either Apple TV or the high seas. It’s alt-history set after Gagarin, but his presence looms large, and we might get a flashback eventually. It also shows a similar Soviet tour for the fictional first woman on the moon.

  • AMD ‘had to re-engineer’ the Ryzen 7 5800X3D for a re-release — 10th Anniversary Edition chip had ‘a whole body of engineering work’ put into it

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  • Consumers turn to older DDR4 RAM since prices haven’t gone up as much as DDR5

    In absolute dollars, sure, but hoo boy those percentage jumps are ROUGH! I bought 16GB of no-name DDR4 for my aging desktop 15 months ago for USD 22. That same listing is now USD 100, and still pretty close to the cheapest retail I see, though that's only with an admittedly superficial search of Amazon and PC Part Picker.

  • ‘Please avoid chugging your ranch’: TSA forced to issue warning as foreign World Cup fans fall in love with American condiment

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  • Their sauce is okay (I prefer Layne's), but that's good because it's fuckin' necessary, since I think somebody saw a recipe for the batter that included a pinch of black pepper and said , "Whoa there motherfucker! We ain't makin' ethnic food here!"

    Admittedly, when the Cane's comes out it does always look very sanitary and photo-ready. Like, I don't feel like I'm gonna get Salmonella from eating there, but it's just so joyless.

  • ‘Please avoid chugging your ranch’: TSA forced to issue warning as foreign World Cup fans fall in love with American condiment

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  • Raising Cane's

    Ugh. even within the limited circle of fast-food and fast-casual chicken finger franchises, Cane's is bland nonsense. Fried chicken as interpreted by a Star Trek replicator, and not one from the Enterprise, but the Cerritos.

  • Student Reading Ability Spikes After Removing Tech From Class

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  • Yup. Give 'em laptops or tablets if you like. Maybe you break their distance vision in exchange for saving their backs from the half a dozen hardback tomes and trapper-keeper we used to lug around. Textbooks can be updated quicker, incorporate video, and if there are public domain texts, they can be provided for free. Completing worksheets with a keyboard and trackpad also doesn't worry me, and I actually wish we had class discussion boards when I was in school.

    Leveraging tech because it provides some practical benefit is just common sense, but thinking the tech is the benefit is stupid, so of course that's where we are, driven by the olds you mention, as well as a healthy ecosystem of ed-tech grifters.

  • A Rivian Fender Bender Cost $42,000. Its CEO Says That Should Never Happen

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  • Fair enough, I may have inferred a bit too much, so here is what the CEO said:

    And so third parties, the reason you saw some of these really high numbers, is we’re like, ‘A Rivian? And what’s a Rivian?’ So they they don’t know the car, and they quote an enormously high number, the insurance company agrees to it, and then that happens.”

  • A Rivian Fender Bender Cost $42,000. Its CEO Says That Should Never Happen

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  • TL:DR: Poor scale and awareness due to being a niche brand, overly large aluminum body panels requiring either massive replacements or complicated welding, small shops guessing that it must be even more exotic and expensive than the CEO claims, and insurers shrugging and moving on because the volumes aren't hitting their financials hard enough for them to care.

  • Diabetes org apologizes for ejecting scientists over criticism of POTUS

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  • “What transpired is not reflective of who I am, the values I hold, or the way I was raised,” [ADA CEO] Henderson said. “I will work hard to bring our community back together to build on the progress we have collectively made for those affected by diabetes.”

    Jesus, he sounds like a pro athlete who got arrested for drunk driving.

  • Mormons outraged after Hegseth military policy no longer counts LDS as Christian

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  • Yeah, that's the main gist. DoD is straying from their lane because Hegseth is a raving Christian Nationalist, and not even one of their better advocates, and that is a LOOOOOOW bar. This all stems from a published list, screenshot in the article, that still includes Mormons but doesn't preface them with "Christianity" like it did for the others.

    I wouldn't be surprised if he personally redlined a Word doc to delete "Christianity" from the Mormons' line before approving it for release, and maybe without any particular emotional animus, just parroting what he remembered from Sunday School that one time he wasn't hungover. The fact that the Jehovah's Witnesses and Adventists made the cut might also argue for there not being a ton of theological rigor to the decision.

    I think Mormons get too defensive about wanting to be included in other Christians' theological definitions of Christianity (literally can't happen... The Mormon Trinity is polytheistic by almost any standard, to say nothing of extra books and other heterodox beliefs), but those invested in one group or another's theology can overlook that there are other contexts (shared history, cultural practice, self-iidentification, etc. etc.) that can generate just as much passion and be internally reasonable. It's almost like the separation of church and state is a pretty good fuckin' idea, especially in a pluralistic republic....

  • Mormons outraged after Hegseth military policy no longer counts LDS as Christian

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  • I guess, but that's some pretty unnecessary gatekeeping when one is dealing with the definitions assigned by a secular government who, in your analogy, is not in the business of evaluating wellness and healing practitioners' truth claims at all. All the various outgroups that became heretics when a very political conference wrapped up in Asia Minor didn't suddenly stop identifying as a Christians, and the fact that some provincial American conman steeped in Great Awakening Protestantism inadvertently reinvigorated some of their ideas 1500 years later doesn't make it nonsensical for his marks and their descendants to self-identify as Christians. The state has a very good reason (and no bar) to evaluate whether a given "healthcare provider" is going to harm the public by claiming certain titles, but the situation with religion is very different, particularly for a bit of minor military bureaucracy (historical contextisn't even really relevant here). Unforced error by the MAGAs.

    Now, IMHO Mormonism is a pretty toxic, high pressure religion, and it believes some shit that strikes the modern mind as particularly goofy, but it's a religion with a creed that's very clearly arising out of the Christian tradition. If you want to take different magic sky-daddy theology at face value, then sure, within that framework you can reasonably draw a line and declare anyone on the Arianism line of it as "not Christian," but that's not the US government's job. Absolutely not the hill for the Department of Defense to pick at all, much less to die on, but if it makes some Mormons disillusioned with one oppressive cult of personality, then that could be a good thing.

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  • On the one hand, as an Ex-Mormon, LOL.

    On the other, maybe it helps depress gop voter turnout and makes sure the Democrat wins their new district in central Salt Lake City. And maybe MAGA finds Utah is a lot less inclined to run through walls for them in 2028. Nobody does “stoically endure oppression, real or perceived” quite like Mormons.

    The way DoD did this is also classic Bible thumper Protestant shit, right out of a Chick tract. Mormons are absolutely not Nicene Christians, but they profess to follow Jesus of Nazareth, so if they want the gummint to lump them in with the Christians, it takes a special kind of stupid and short-sighted religious pedant not to humor them.

  • Untethered Ronald D. Moore goes hard

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  • As I understand it, they do have one more season...

    which a lot of people think will end with the first interstellar ship, or even first contact. It did feel like they wanted to cram in more than their episode allotment would allow this season, and a lot seemed undercooked. Like, they barely touched on Dev's role in the automation plans, just assuming we'd infer that the crazy Mars-first guy who's basically embezzling from his publicly traded company to build more infrastrucure for colonization actually needed to learn that "the right people were already on Mars." In retrospect, I do kind of appreciate that the farm dome attack was a disaster because he couldn't imagine life happening in Happy Valley. Not a bad idea, just didn't have the breathing space it needed to land.

    Then, as you say, Jarrett/Stevens was assumed to be interesting because of her family, not because she had anything really compelling to learn or do, and her arc with learning to hate Marsies and then overcoming it was almost laughably compressed. I did think the Baldwin family's stuff was okay, and I like Alex more than most people do. Also, thank God they didn't drag Ed and his age makeup through the entire season.

    So, I generally agree with you. They're sprinting through their plot outline to get to their end-game, and the "one season per decade" framing device is creaking under the weight of what they want to do.

  • Untethered Ronald D. Moore goes hard

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  • I think that was Babylon 5 and J Michael Straczynski. You're thinking of the repeated times when, in the middle of the hardest hitting writing in SciFi, there’s a ham-fisted, horribly conceived episode about a second-rate lounge singer coming out of a Ferengi holodeck or whatever.

  • Untethered Ronald D. Moore goes hard

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  • New generation just never grabbed people the same way, but at least nobody's fuckin' their dead son's best friend or doing missions in the throes of a serious hard drugs addiction. I'm still interested in how it all plays out, and only one season left, which feels about right.

    I will note that it seems like understanding Star City, probably every season they eventually make, will be key to extracting full value out of the plot to FAMK S5. They may be going full Marvel with a cinematic universe.

  • Amazon to introduce ads to Prime bundled music benefit and drop offline downloads on July 2; HD, Ultra HD, and Spatial Audio will require a separate Amazon Unlimited subscription

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  • I suppose to hear them say it, they'd say this is how they're holding the line on the core use. Shrinkflation instead of inflation, so... Yay?

  • Shelbyville mayor insinuates citizens opposing data centers are poor renters in ‘sh***y houses’

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  • It's almost like the tech companies are preying on places that have cheap land and residents with less political influence...

    Jesus, at least the meat packing plants and shingle factories employed people they were poisoning.

  • What show are you obsessed with atm?

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  • It reminds me of 30 Rock in that sense, where you can imagine some of these people will become respected names, but some will never deliver a performance as good again for their entire careers.

  • What show are you obsessed with atm?

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  • Also a solid defensive catcher on the baseball team.

  • What show are you obsessed with atm?

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  • I finally started watching Resident Alien, and I'm about halfway through S3. I am a sucker for both sci-fi and Northern Exposure-ish shows where a fish out of water is dropped into a quirky and isolated community, so I don't really know how I waited so long, but it does mean I don't have to worry about it getting canceled on a cliffhanger.

    As an aside, I watched S1 on a TV with "soap opera vision" motion interpolation turned on, and JFC I forgot how cheap and awful it makes everything look.