Well, I have been “tested” by neuropsychologists and they said I have symptoms that looks like ADHD, but it’s probably not that. I never pushed more as it’s difficult to get any diagnosis or help here in Quebec as an adult. In the end they said I may have PDA, and they will not give me a straight answer.
I still consider myself nerodivergent but according to the medical system here, I don’t have ADHD. I just have a lot of symptoms that are common.
Indeed. I often have my laptop and I’m not confortable just leaving my backpack to them.
Anecdote time. While on vacation in Saint-Martin, the security guard at the grocery store in Marigot insisted that I had to leave my backpack in a secure locker at the entrance. I didn’t want to turn around, walk back to my hotel, leave the bag, and go back, so I reluctantly put it in their locker. But THEY had the key. When I was done and wanted to get my bag back, the security guard was not in sight. He eventually reappeared after a few anguishing minutes and I signalled him from afar that I wanted my bag back. He made a sign that he’d be back soon and took several more minutes to come. So I was standing in the entrance by their lockers, just looking intensely at the security guard in the store, waiting for him to give me back my bag, but he was in no fucking hurry. And while waiting for him to eventually come back, I had enough time to realize that I left money and documents in that backpack.
It’s insulting and the whole thing made me super nervous. I’m never doing that ever again.
Sorry but this is unacceptable to me. If they default to “everyone is a possible thief” then I will avoid them. It’s a horrible way to profile the customers.
I make efforts to walk or bike everywhere, be environmentally friendly, and my backpack is a big part of that. I don’t want to become friendly with the staff of random stores I go to in order for them to let me in with it. It’s already a pain that I can’t use my reusable bags or my own cart/trolley in the stores.
It just doesn’t feel welcoming. And it also seems to be a car centric culture thing, because I live in a metropolis and this “no backpack rule” is pretty rare here, whereas when I go visit friends and family in small towns this rule is everywhere. What’s different? There’s much more people in big cities walking around and shopping with a backpack, compared to a small town where everyone goes to the store with a car.
So, like Bill Gates did?
It’s reverse for me. I don’t have a car so I bring a backpack pretty much anywhere I go. And in that backpack, there’s also a reusable bag.
If stores want me to leave my backpack at the entrance, I turn around and go shopping where they don’t automatically consider you a thief for having a backpack.
“It will help regulate overpopulation”
-Billionaires
I was wondering about the instances when she borrowed a runabout and when the terrorism happened but someone’s gonna have to remind me.
Once she brought back a few Bajorans that were still prisoners since the war, including Li Nalas.
Another time she kidnapped a single Barojan scientist to force him find a cure against a terrorist bioweapon.
What am I missing?
No, but since you’re mentioning it I might try. I’ve been so disappointed by the franchise that I didn’t bother looking into SNW, but just having someone that seems to be on the same page suggest it makes me want to at least give it a try.
Thanks for the suggestion, and the detailed rant!
I’m on the same boat. Apart from Lower Decks, I can’t watch the new shows. I keep hoping a new show might fix it, and be for me, but the longer it goes, the less I’m interested in Star Trek.
Lately I’ve been thinking about unsubscribing from all the Star Trek communities, as all the discussions and hype about the new shows is making me think I’m no longer a trekkie. I loved TNG, DS9, VOY and tolerated ENT, but the new shows are clearly not made for me.
And all this because we refuse to slow capitalism down. The most important question on everyone’s mind when there’s elections is the economy and money. We need economic growth. Can’t tax billionaires. Can’t stop the consumption machine. Economic growth!
The sad thing is that most people are willing to relocate to avoid the effects it will have on them financially. It’s not because it could help to mitigate the change; they won’t move into a 15 minutes city. We’ll just perpetuate the sprawl elsewhere and continue what we have always done before.
It’s even more sad when I look at images of natural disasters, and beyond the immediate lost of lives, seeing people lose their things and run (drive) to buy even more things produced by the very system that is causing more frequent and intense natural disasters.
Beyond legislation and enforcement, it’s been disappointing to try to explain those things to people around me for decades, hoping they will make the connection, only for them to end up being mad at high gas prices. Also, that survey asks about inside the US only. What if people from one state don’t want immigrants from another state? It’s gonna be interesting to see when the next inevitable question in a decade or so will be if people are willing to become climate refugees in other countries, and if citizens of other countries are willing to accept them.
I still use IRC. There are now modern web clients like The Lounge or Convos that can display/share images in the channels, keep history and push notifications. Apparently Convos can do video chat but I never tried it. Unfortunately I’m not aware of screen sharing features for any of these.
So on a very simple setup, you need an IRC server, then install and connect one of those clients to your server, and use them through a web browser, either on a computer or on a phone.
It’s obviously not entirely Discord-like, but it is a simple way to chat and share images.
But they’re gonna continue to consoom and drive their individual giant SUVs everywhere. Don’t worry they will be electric so buy buy buy.
Anyway, AI running in datacenters powered by fossil fuel will surely find a technological solution to our consumption problems.
Surely we can’t just stop consooming.
And don’t forget to recycle!
Anything but reduce car usage or invest in public transit. No, the solution to everyone wasting energy to move a personal multi ton vehicle around, and prevent parking lots from worsening climate change, is to install solar panels on top of every parking lot and road.
Cars will one day be made by green energy, powered by green energy, recycled by green energy, and be entirely carbon neutral, of course.
They will still emit tons of microplastic particles but we’ll eventually find a technoloical solution for that, I’m sure. They will still kill billions of animals every year but it’s not related to climate so no biggie. They will still kill one human every 30 seconds but again, not a climate issue. They augment the risk of cardiovascular diseases and make people fat. They are also a source of noise pollution and stress for millions of poor people living near freeways. And they are also an expensive status symbol. But none of this matters because they will be electric, and have solar panels on top of parking lots, thus solving the problem once and for all!
Personally I’d prefer we get rid of parking lots and build housing on top of it but, where will people park their climate friendly cars?!
Anything but to admit cars are an environmental problem.
EDIT: Sorry about the abrasiveness. I did read a study a few months ago about installing solar panels on top of parking lots and they did have a positive impact, but it’s just impossible to do this on every open air parking lot and road because of material and cost. Even if it could have a positive impact on localized areas, it’s never gonna be enough to have an overall impact.
Just to give you an idea of how much parking there is in the world, you can look for those maps where parking lots are highlighted. This is for Flint, MI. This is for Philadelphia. I tried to do it for a town of about 80k people in Québec (Drummondville), and just gave up before being done. And that’s just counting parking lots, not roads. How many solar panels do you think we should produce to cover all this?
Electric cars are mostly there so that the car industry can continue to sell one of the most expensive object of consumption. As far as I am concerned, they are mostly greenwashing.
They are climate friendlier than internal combustion engines but not an easy fix for all the other issues they still pose. For example, parking lots are causing heat islands and their impervious surfaces also contribute to flooding.
It’s just impossible to have every human on the planet to own a multi ton vehicle that spends energy to move that box and the human it contains everywhere they go. Even if electric.
But no, consume. Buy without remorse, it’s climate friendly(er). Hurray for overconsumption.
Pretty much the same. ENT was borderline with their war on terror phase, temporal war and some weird decisions, like introducing the Ferengi at that time… well, maybe I shouldn’t scratch the surface too much. But some of it was good enough to make it an acceptable ensemble, at least to me. I’ve never been a huge fan of the movies but ended up seeing most of them.
But it started to change with the movie in 2009. I didn’t like it but it’s ok, it’s a single movie. I thought I’d wait for the next series but they continued with this kind of movies. Then Discovery happened and I was also disappointed. I still watch reviews of the new stuff and avoid all the crap about being too woke because I know ST has always been woke, but the way the stories are now presented is not piquing my interest. I don’t mind preachy Trek, I like it, but IMHO The Orville is doing much better allegories than what modern ST produces. The new stuff seems like an attempt at being action/pop and so far, none of it seems to take place in a world/universe that I would like to know more about. I keep hoping they will fix this and have something different, but aside from LD, it’s always more of the same to me.
The last time a Star Trek project piqued my interest, it was Axanar, and the project got sued. Now with the new stories and bagage in the canon universe, I just feel like giving up on it. I was recently watching a new video about a character in Star Trek but it was featuring stuff from the new series, and I just stopped at that point. It feels like it’s not for me anymore, and I shouldn’t even bother. I’ll just keep rewatching the very same list you mentioned, adding LD, and pretend the rest doesn’t exist.
Sorry but except for LD, everything NuTrek doesn’t fit at the top of that triangle for me, and belongs in either one of the bottom corner.
Or maybe I just don’t like Star Trek anymore. Just like Seymour; am I wrong for not liking NuTrek? No, it’s the children who are wrong!
He looks enthusiastic and I’m happy for him if he got what he wanted. Clearly he’s a fan of the series and knows his stuff.
Unfortunately the bit they showed didn’t pique my interest. It kind of had the opposite effect.
Here in Québec it’s the gas companies that are doing that.
And they won with just intimidation. The town that was sued tried to ban all fossil fuel, but had to make an exception for natural gas because it’s obviously a renewable clean source of energy and not al all a fossil fuel.
“Our regulation addressed fossil gas and absolutely did not talk about renewable natural gas (RNG), which, according to our definition, is not a fossil gas,” he said.
I’ve been talking to my parents about this for 30 years.
They can see the winters are fucked up. They can see the frequency of natural disasters increasing. They say the climate changed since they were kids.
Yet, when I’m the one saying it, they reply that we will see, there are no concrete effects yet, electricification is a scam, etc. It’s so disappointing to hear.
I’m doing tech support and customer support. The dev team missed their deadline on the launch of the new ERP and launched it anyway a few days later. There are still Lorem Ipsum in some places. We can’t even edit client’s names or phone numbers yet. We also can’t open new accounts for a handful of clients.
I usually can cover for “my” team. We all make mistakes and sometimes things are not going according to plan. But so far it’s the worst deployment I have ever seen. I gave up on trying to help clients and I’m now just telling them I can’t do anything, while the dev team is telling me they are working on those issues and they should be fixed “in the following days, bro”. It’s been two weeks of “this is gonna get fixed soon” while I am bullshitting the clients telling them “oh I’ve been told it would work now, please try again”.
I’m tired and they should be better. I just script for fun. I was doing PHP 20 years ago and still host a few services for a handful of people, and sometimes I think I might do a better job than some junior programmers.