Kichae @ Kichae @kbin.social

Astronomer & video game data scientist with repressed anger

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Yeah. Trump committed serious federal crimes, and they're happy he did so. Why's this headline treating this like a contradiction?

They don't want the laws to apply to "their team". They've been consistent, clear, and open about that for decades now.

Local isn't a good measure here, though. The BBC local stream is literally just going to be posts by BBC employees.

The global stream isn't a great measure, either, frankly, as journalists primarily want to yet their posts seen, not see a huge field of noise. Those who are doing digging for social media stories maybe want a wider cut of things, but they can still do that through their replies, and through global. Search just isn't going to be as effective as on generalist servers.

But then, search isn't super effective on Mastodon, anyway, and all the big generalist servers are running Mastodon.

There's nothing preventing them from using secondary accounts on .social for research, though.

Yeah. Rumored computational power, claimed to be coming from development units, puts it at a healthy fraction of the Steam Deck's when docked, but a much smaller one when undocked. So, people shouldn't get their hopes up about a Steam Deck+ coming from Nintendo.

I haven't played handheld in at least 4 years. I'd honestly prefer a version of the system that was screenless at this point.

It also does away with some of the really awkward practices news organizations engage in wrt social media. The number of @JournalistNameCBC handles out there is kind of super cringy, and seems to point to journos having company-specific/company-mandated social media accounts, but without any actual company support for them.

Something like this makes having a company-mandated social media account something they're assigned, just like an email address, rather than something they're personally responsible for.

You may as well say the same thing about having their own website vs using Facebook.

This kind of thing is exactly the point of the Fediverse. They control and own their content, they control who gets to post from their URL.

The Switch has a screen? I've never really noticed mine.

Burnham is raised by Vulcans which is used when it suits the plot (then she’s extremely analytical and objective) but then suddenly turns into an emotional mess when they want to portray drama. That just feels … off

No, that part feels very, very on to me. Burnham was a human girl who was witness to family being brutally slaughtered (as far as she knew/could tell) who was then placed in the care of a Vulcan man who liked living as a sociology experiment. This is a person who is traumatized from a relatively young age, and who has no idea how to cope with her feelings. She's never received therapy, only more psychological abuse.

The issue I ended up having with the show is that the show itself never addresses this. It's actually pretty clearly the setup for the entire series, but no one ever acknowledges that Michael needs help, no one ever tries to get her any, and, in the end, she never gets the help she needs. They took what could and should have been a character arc about healing from abuse and just turned it into "SMG's pretty good at crying".

Once it became clear that the show had zero interest in examining its inciting premise, I lost all patience with it.

This.

The headline is kind of awful - users finding satiation and logging off to do something else is not a sign that users had an unsatisfactory or suboptimal experience. Maybe they actually enjoy the experience more.

But it's not optimizing for Meta's business goals.

would such a thing be okay to give away free?

No. Assuming they rebuilt the game in a publicly available game engine, they could release whatever they did to that, but the characters are trademarked, and the game level design and any audio they'd have used would be copyrighted. The fact that you didn't ask for money isn't a defense that would stand up in court.

Have you considered just forcing everyone to access your sites via Internet Explorer 5.5?

He just needs to chew on bigger, thicker wires. The kinds with beefier plugs on the end of them.

We also made a commitment to other countries to cut carbon emissions, and not only have we failed to reach those targets, so have many of them.

Honestly, it seems like most countries do not meet the targets set in these agreements for anything, so why should this one be special?

Oh, right, because it means spending money on shit that doesn't actually help us, and that sends that money out of country.

I feel it hid to much information just to be able to give a twist in the end

I don't think it was much of a twist. Between the doctor's actions in The Broken Circle (using the protocol 12 combat enhancer to fight his way through a ship of Klingons with Nurse Chapel, as recapped at the start of the show), the Special Ops Andorian trying to recruit him to the mission (and the doctor declaring that his days of doing such things were behind him), the re-introduction of the P12 green vial, and the repeated aggressive physical contact between M'Benga and Dah'Ruk, it was pretty well spelled out for us before the end of the episode.

The red is alerting me to just how sanitized this iconography has become over the last 30 years.

That choice that happened in, like, the 90s?

You're, uh, replying to the wrong person.

Of course they won't, but that doesn't mean that that's what's being discussed in these articles.

I've been discussing this, lightly, on and off for a couple of years know, and most workers can't wrap their head around the idea, either.

"They'll never do that for us," says the class the owners are completely and totally dependent on.

Hang out with it long enough to see it drunk, then report back on whether it's still looks perfectly straight or not.