FlatFootFox @ FlatFootFox @lemmy.world

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The cat doctor wins on account of being able to swear. But Dr. Culber gets bonus points for sarcastically delivering medical care on occasion.

For you Voyager newcomers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIjOifRG-u8

I hope you won that round of Tee K.O.

Dan Olson has a pretty good video about that one time some geocentrics tricked a bunch of physicists and Kate Mulgrew into being in their lame documentary. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=icwDF8wRgF4

Whoo! More Subspace Rhapsody memes!

The writers were lucky / clever that they had the musical episode to further the tension between Spock and Chapel. Only in show tunes does this much inner turmoil make sense for a three month work trip. To your home planet! Just take a couple shore leaves to visit and she’ll be back before you know it.

Does Lemmy have /c/shittydaystrom?

The subspace anomaly caused everyone to obey the rules of a quantum reality in which people followed the tropes of 20th century American musicals. It was observed on numerous occasions that people affected by this phenomenon would generally sing their true feelings to those around them.

Considering this, we can contemplate that high ranking members of the Klingon Imperial Fleet were more open to regular relations with Starfleet and the greater galactic society than previously assumed.

The captain of this cruiser laments that his only interaction with the Federation comes during times of conflict. As shown by Lieutenant Spock after the events of this subspace rift and the hostilities on Cajitar IV, complex diplomatic situations can be defused by respect for and participation in Klingon social activities.

Knowing this, we can assume that significant damage was done by the widespread adoption of the “Vulcan Hello” by one of the founding members of the Federation. Had the Vulcans been more forthcoming about the history of this first-strike doctrine, the Federation may have been able to avoid earlier conflicts with the Klingons by reaching out proactively to their neighbors and not only call them when they’ve got dramas.

Ah yeah, I hadn’t considered they meant across Apple’s entire laptop offerings.

It’s still a slightly odd observation to make. Apple’s famous in the industry for having a streamlined catalog. Most PC vendors have 4-5 brands/lines with 4-5 chassis in each.

Apple changed the 13” and 15” MacBook Pros to 14” and 16” when they did their first redesign after introducing Apple Silicon. They kept one low-cost 13” model around using the old unibody Touch Bar design. They haven’t made a 17” MacBook Pro since 2009.

So right now it’s just 13”, 14”, and 16”. Two modern chassis and a legacy chassis taking advantage of existing manufacturing capabilities.

Cathode Ray Dude did a video a while back about the real world equivalent of “Bypassing the relays!” and exploding bridge stations. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpJ_6LCly4A Basically on military equipment like Navy ships, it can be important to be able to bypass circuit breakers and burn out motors if the difference is one last shot getting out.

“YouTuber talks at a camera for half an hour about something he found at the thrift store” is a well worn trope at this point, but CRD is a really good storyteller. It’s interesting to see out of all the technobabble and cliches on Star Trek, the exploding consoles and EPS relays are actually informed by writers who probably spent parts of their military careers toggling real world “battle shorts”.

Most unusual. So peculiar.

Dulles International: When you need a stock photo that immediately reads "Airport Terminal".

Apologies for getting the song stuck in your head again.

They acknowledge it briefly. Captain Shaw grumbled, “Forget all that weird shit on the Stargazer, the real Borg are still out there.”

Picard Season 3 was explicitly being pitched as a TNG reunion season. They knew a lot of viewers would be jumping in mid-show, so it intentionally doesn’t rely heavily on the canon of the first two seasons to enjoy.

I liked the first two seasons for what they were, but honestly I get it. Picard’s premise of, “Legacy and new characters getting into adventures away from Starfleet” would have been tricky to balance with a full TNG cast reunion. Leaning into TNG Season 8 vibes made sense.

Lest we forget the unwritten rule of acquisition: When no appropriate rule applies, make one up.

Ah yes, Ambassador Jar-Jar! Have you met Ambassador Nelix yet? You two deserve each other- Err, deserve to meet each other!

Hard to beat some Monday night gyudon. https://www.seriouseats.com/gyudon-japanese-simmered-beef-and-rice-bowl-recipe

Either you’re a friend of DeSoto or this is coincidental timing. 🖖

That’s a stupid question. 🥸

“Reno! Where are we with the time crystal?”

“Four minutes and eighteen seconds away until fully charged.”

“Can we cut that in half?”

“And violate the basic laws of physics? Uh, no.”

Trust a grease monkey to give you the honest answer.

I know you’re just joking, but for folks who are interested, OpenAI recently published details on how to request via robots.txt that future models not crawl your site. Won’t do anything for their existing models or their competitors, but there’s that.