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@octalfudge is no one thinking this may be setting the stage for console gaming on the Apple Vision Pro?

I don’t know if I’d play pancake games on the Vision but no one knows what it will be good at yet

@deconstruct

How Ginni Thomas (the Wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas) Joined a Cult, Became an Anti-Cult Crusader, and Then Joined Another Cult

@JWBananas

This is a super useful clip. Voyager is one of the shows I’ve retained least well and I couldn’t remember who this holodeck character was supposed to be

@Sprite

Female is an adjective. People who use it as a noun are suspect as fuck.

@HWK290

Be careful about praising The Orville the way you are to people who remember TNG very fondly. It apes TNG very closely but also has more than its fair share of Mcfarlane’s Family Guy humor which isn’t for everyone and definitely doesn’t jibe with Trek.

The episode where we first meet the Krill has Lt. Malloy laughing maniacally and constantly at the fact that the Krill’s god is named Avis. This just isn’t that funny and breaks immersion.

McFarlane himself admits this episode was very juvenile and the show gets quite a bit better once he decides to stop going after Family Guy style jokes. Many people won’t watch enough episodes to see the show is worth a chance.

@Nanomerce

Those are horns

edit:https://giraffeconservation.org/facts/do-all-giraffe-have-horns/

I’m very impressed with startrek.website. The community appears to me to have completely forgotten about Reddit altogether.

@teft

Eshonai’s death truly shocked me.

Your death saddened me but I can’t say it surprised me.

@teft

Venli died? How’d I miss that?

@flossdaily

Yes, I’m aware of that. This is why I brought up Roger Stone. My point is people aren’t stupider or more insular today; they are actually slightly less so.

The machinery of propaganda is much more refined today.

@flossdaily

Were you alive during Nixon? I was a baby but I interacted with people Trump’s age when I was a child. I don’t know if it’s the lead in the air back then or what but more than half of all adults seemed terminally stupid. I was a child and I thought they were stupid.

We’ve clearly got a lot of people who think Trump’s smart today but Trump’s brand of gibberish was just considered “common sense” in the 80s. Social media hasn’t made us dumber, it’s just allowed the dumbest people to find each other more easily.

Regarding us all sharing the same facts when Nixon was president, that’s just not true. People lived in a very divided America then as well. Social media and the refinement of propaganda techniques does make things seem more hopeless today but the same Roger Stone who’s fucking things up today was around back then. He was doing exactly what he’s doing today back then.

Once again the sandwich heavy portfolio comes out on top for the hungry investor

@flossdaily

How many of those trump cultists admit today to voting and supporting G.W. Bush? You know they didn’t vote for Gore, if they voted at all, but they supported Bush and they supported his vision to make the US the world’s police despite claiming they are against this.

Do you think the people who supported Nixon were somehow dumber than Americans are today? Functional literacy was much lower in the 70s.

There are large swathes of people who just support the status quo. Nixon being the villain in his own story is “common knowledge” now and Trump’s just stupid Nixon.

@flossdaily

@btaf45

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/it-took-a-long-time-for-republicans-to-abandon-nixon/

When the House of Representatives voted in February 1974 to give the House Judiciary Committee subpoena power to investigate Nixon, it did not have the weight of public opinion behind it. According to a poll conducted by Gallup just days before the vote, only 38 percent of Americans were in favor of impeachment. And although a solid majority of Americans did eventually come to support impeachment, that moment didn’t arrive until quite late in the game.

@asistradition

but if I saw one in my bedroom or bathroom, that’s a dead bug brah.

If a house centipede is living in your bedroom or bathroom, that should tell you that you’ve got a pest problem.

House centipedes are wolves. Wolves don’t just hang around where there’s no prey

@deleted
Oh? You don’t have to setup a usenet provider to Sonaar work?

I’m out of the loop then. You have any recommendations for modern setup tutorials?

@rufus

@owiseedoubleyou @deleted @iHUNTcriminals

No, binaries were included. That was the main way binaries were exchanged for a time.

@iHUNTcriminals

@owiseedoubleyou @deleted

Usenet access used to be included by ISPs. It’s been a long time since that was standard. I’m not sure which Usenet providers are worthwhile now.

@deleted

Does your ISP still provide Usenet access or do you subscribe to a Usenet provider?

Paying $9 a month for Usenet makes me wonder if I shouldn’t just keep paying for Hulu

@mrMADAFAKA

@Midnitte

How cheap were Decks on sale? They aren’t likely to have refurbs on sale, are they?