Well, it looks fine for web browsing.

Specs sure read like my 2010 PC. If that works for ya, cool … I ain’t even looking at the price though. I’d just as soon plug in my 2004 laptop that’s still running fine on XP & an old version of Ubuntu.

Interesting, but there’s no evidence they are nazi themselves, just that they intentionally disregard whether any of their partners are nazis, and only concern themselves with whether or not any partnership furthers their goal of promoting open source tech.

So their focus is just limited and immature.

They themselves can still do a lot of good, orgs don’t need to be perfect, but I too would expect them to remove support for extremist led project when made aware, as to ensure they weren’t inadvertently supporting extremist views and actions. But I also can’t see punishing them for being politically or socially stupid while otherwise being very tech savvy.

Like we’ve never met a socially awkward tech savvy person before?

The world is mostly a bunch of grey areas: at this point I disapprove of a couple of their actions, but I won’t boycott them outright for their error.

If they started flying nazi flags themselves, well, then, I suppose things would be a bit different.

Handy, I VPN, but constantly have to use a seperate bypass browser for shopping and any website which forces language by region, which are many.

I’ve even been to some shopping sites with language options at the bottom but that also have endless scroll, so the bottom keeps getting pushed of screen.

There are a few that have an option right up in the corner, but sometimes they’ll only switch language, not region info, so it still shows costs in pesos and $80 shipping to my region.

The internet is 90% trash nowadays.

Hope this fixes that BS.

Just 5 million more and they might get something out of it.

I don’t know when that was, but check out lower decks, prodigy, and strange new worlds. They’re all a bit different, but are definitely Trek. Strange new worlds is kinda Next Gen with a bit more modern humor and special effects. The other too are animations, but lower decks is very adult. Prodigy is probably more family friendly, but it was really good.

Meh.

I’m not saying don’t watch it. But it’s so much drama and family junk, I get bored pretty fast. Oh hey, a monster, that looks cool. Somebody unimportant dies. Ok, back to the drama.

I won’t be rewatching it.

I like the idea of a system add-on that randomizes all user age responses with a different date that equals like 25-99years old (assuming 25 years meets the highest age for the applicable standards).

Not too dissimilar from a random MAC address generating feature.

Hilarious.

Well, if that isn’t just the cutest Klingon ratfink crossover I didn’t know I needed today.

She’s the ships counselor, who at any moment may need to have deeply personal and unofficial private conversations with anyone in need. Those discussions are officially informal. Thus she maintains a casual professional appearance.

It’s not jazzersize, it’s public lounge wear, she is at ease to help aid her clients ability to transition to an at ease state.

While doing official duty on the bridge it is appropriate for her to dress in uniform, but those duties tended to be momentary, not planned, so a wardrobe change would’ve been an odd choice.

She may have actually qualified as obese at times, as there’s an actual medical classification.

I don’t think that’s likely to be the case in that second photo you shared, she does have a heavy build in general, but there have been times since being on ST when she likely did qualify.

IIRC, obese is anything over a specific rage of BMI or BFP, whichever you use. So if a healthy BMI for you is 18-25 and you are 30 then you are obese.

I’m not a pro, so I’m not sure about the hard details, but the point I’m making is that obese isn’t a personal opinion of looks too fat. A person doesn’t necessarily even need to look it, but they could still qualify.

My SO looks fine at 30, but not much above that. I think they’re sitting at 28 currently.

The gurl is a bot, and can read and relate to all earth plays in a day of gleeful scanning. Pretty sure she can experience growth from child to teen, then download and integrate a year at the academy and process that input with the new perspective, then move forward still being the same person, just being more complex as a result of the upgrade.

The biggest issue with her 17 year childhood is that she appears to be alone with one other hologram on a starship, which wouldn’t exactly allow her to experience and process many normal experiences for people living in communities with mortal folk and pets n such–unless they added life like simulations, other school students, neighbors of varying ages and attitudes, pets that die…

She needed opportunity to deal with real world stresses as they typically increase in severity with age, but she just seemed to get a very performative and sheltered 17 year biological development cycle added to her program.

Seemed to miss the mark by a mile.

I initially put down a deposit on a Cybertruck at announcement, figured I might use it for camping.

Decided against it because it didn’t meet my quality and feature requirements at release.

Had one drive across in front of me in a hardware store parking lot with a big Trump sticker in the window, suggesting he was riding along.

So glad I never had one. Just no.

It’s a very different experience than seeing just any old car with a political bumper sticker on it. It’s not like it’s a big deal if somebody else with a Carola or Blazer happens to have differing political views.

The pro-Tesla group were primarily very environmentally savvy and mostly liberal for the longest time. Then it suddenly shifted into some really nasty cult BS.

On the flip side, there are still a lot of model 3s and Ss and Ys in the area, and I don’t think I’ve ever even seen a sticker on one of those cars, and I’ve never known their owners to be crazy Elon cult jerks (I’m sure some are, just my experience here).

I wouldn’t buy one now, but they used to just seem like cool and more sustainable cars.

It’s a real share Elon had to ruin that.

My hope is that he is removed from the equation and the company can shake off the cult and get back to doing well as a smaller clean car manufacturer.

How’s Piefed doing?

I prefer to refer to it as V’Ger, but you do you.

But our youths are supposed to be in training to be functional non-youths. So much YA BS just revels in and normalizes silly immature nonsense because it creates drama. There’s no reason these characters can’t be strong role models that make less ridiculous decisions.

Like the weird drama between the complete stranger boy & girl who just met and spent the afternoon together. Being all ‘OMG you lied to me by not immediately telling me you had a long history of hardship and trauma that your still trying to resolve, which naturally influences your choices’.

That whole bit was just drama for the sake of drama, and horribly unrealistic and dysfunctional. She’s not just an empath, she’s a super empath! Who is apparently also extremely immature and horrifically unfamiliar with basic emotion or behavior or relationships or…

But then her dad is also a bit of a short-sighted dick.

Then there’s the fighting between ‘schools’…

Most of the time they act like a bunch of 5 year olds.

Then they also have moments where they seem so deep and emotionally mature.

There’s very little consistency to their characters.

And they are in Star Fleet Academy. It’s a college for the members of a galaxy spanning humanitarian program, not an elementary school. And it has understandably very militant rules about decorum and conduct, as it’s members are working to master skills needed to successfully explore space and navigate complex interactions with a wide variety of very different species.

I know, sure, young people tend to make more mistakes, but some of the random stuff they just drop in out of nowhere to create drama when it’s not needed, probably just to meet a formula regarding content type per minute of showtime, it’s just disappointing.

It doesn’t add to the story, and it’s even often discarded by the characters by the next scene and never referenced again.

The kinda TV that stuck with me, even as a kid, was more mature and more meaningful. Episode after episode they taught morals, gave examples of strong healthy character traits, showed cooperation and problem solving and leadership, gave viewers heros to look up to, even if they were just kids still themselves.

There wasn’t drama unless it added to the story, created opportunities to expand on, or build from, to enhance the intellectual experience, not just give viewers a cheap and fleeting emotional rollercoaster ride.

I mean, do we want our kids getting caught in unhealthy relationship cycles with others, or their own emotions?

Of course, personally, if I wasn’t watching Trek as a kid I was watching PBS Specials, Discover (before it became trash), old Sherlock Homes DVDs borrowed from the library, or reading non-fiction books and magazines, or actually building or crafting things in the real world. So, I dunno, maybe I just never was the target audience for these show runners.

There will always be disasters, and suffering, and unfortunate events, and there certainly have been throughout Star Trek, but I too would prefer we had more protopian sci-fi.

I think SFA is actually trying to be more light and positive and less serious and dramatic, vs Disco for example. SNW seemed to make that intentional shift as well. And I think that’s also why other ST properties like Lower Decks and Prodigy are so highly rated.

SFA started out pretty dark, and I immediately went ‘yuck’… But again, I think they are working their way towards something better. Reopening the Academy is kind of a reboot for the Federation, so it’ll probably be getting better still.

I wonder what kind of insight Karim has into this, that he can share?

SC plays my favorite SFA character… I played a game with my SO to see if she could spot him on the show. She cheated by accidentally seeing him in the credits after the first few episodes. Was fun while it lasted though.

I hope the man gets to your question too, to tell the story himself, but just in case he doesn’t, after the AMA, you can search the web about him and his character and Worf or Dorn. There are articles that briefly talk about the two of them touching base on the subject of portraying Klingons on Star Trek.

But, again, I’d wait till the AMA is over. It’ll likely be more meaningful hearing it direct from the source.

They’re both a bit stranger in a strange land.

That’s a nice catch.