Never heard anything bad about Pine. Are you thinking about Chris Pratt, perhaps? Because he has certainly gotten some heat for his alleged affiliations with far-right religious/political groups (because those are the same things now, apparently).
They can keep their guns if they pass mandatory training.
Most cops don't ever fire a weapon on duty over the course of their entire career, so most of them don't actually need to be armed all the time.
Jokes can usually include a message, and often are more effective at delivering that message than a serious monologue with full citations.
Therefore, saying something is meant to be silly or a joke does not do anything to address whether the message behind that joke is a good one or not.
I'm not going to comment on the "should they have" question, but I think this is effective as yet another piece of evidence that the Democrats are not just "persecuting" the opposition party. If sham trials are acceptable and possible, why not use them as much as possible?
Resistance is futile!
Completely agree. The first two seasons are criticized for using leftover TNG scripts. While I think a lot of that is due to the nature of episodic TV production in the 90s, I also think those seasons are incredibly necessary to establish the context of the Federation and how that differs to other cultures in the galaxy (and even on the fringes of the Federation itself). The connection to TNG and the overlap with Voyager also goes a long way to establishing the ethos and morality that the rest of the DS9 story is commenting on.
Take away that foundation and backstory, and you just have another generic space opera.
I am usually on the other side of this argument, in that my main enjoyment of Star Trek is the exploration of ideas and morality plays that we get from TOS, TNG and the early seasons of Voyager. The utopian setting and unrealistic morality of all the main characters in TNG especially are what makes an episode exploring the nature of individuality or whatever topic work so well.
I enjoy DS9 for what it is, but it also set the stage for modern Trek which is so obsessed with "realism" and galaxy-spanning plotlines in a way that I do not enjoy. If I want to watch just an episode or two, I always reach for TNG or Voyager, but if I want to do a longer re-watch then DS9 is definitely my preferred choice.
Episodic is not always a bad thing, and sometimes it is actually a very important feature! I wish modern TV writers and producers would have the same perspective about serialization, but in reverse.
TNG had some multipart episodes and some plot lines that ran across the better part of a season, but the entirety of DS9 takes place against a continuous plot line.
"Entirety" is doing a lot of work in that sentence, IMO. While there is a general setting and eventually a serialized plot, it really doesn't get to the point where there's a continuous story until at minimum season 3 and in practice doesn't stop being episodic until even later.
Even once the main baddies are introduced--which does not actually happen until the final episode of season 2--there are still multiple self-contained episodes that have nothing to do with any kind of ongoing story or character development.
Don't get me wrong, compared to TNG and even Voyager or Enterprise, DS9 definitely had a story in mind that took multiple seasons to tell, but it's not like things were carefully known from the beginning. Lots of details change or are quietly retrofitted to fit better once the writers knew where things were actually headed. And that's fine, by the way! There is still a great story to be told.
I am a Nebraska fan, btw. I guess that wasn't clear from my first comment.
What most people seem to be missing is that a great many of those one-score losses were due to terrible coaching or just completely unbelievable mistakes by players. This game, by contrast, was lost by crucial turnovers, which is basically how every close game usually ends.
Of course not, but if you asked any of us before the game if we'd be happy with holding Minnesota to 13 and the game being within reach in the final minutes, we'd all have said that was a great result.
I agree with all of this. The Borg Cube especially was very difficult to assemble, and I've done some pretty big official Lego sets so I'm used to a good challenge. I had to resort to gluing some parts in place, as some of the plates were bent and just would not stay in place while I worked on the next side.
I also really came to dislike the tiny black pieces they use to add studs to the bottom of some bricks. Too small, too hard to insert, and way too easy to just roll away and never be found.
That said, the final product looks fine and nobody ever questions if they are legitimate sets or not. I don't regret the purchases, just didn't enjoy the build process like I normally do.
Why would a refugee or asylum seeker "never have a chance" at getting hired by a company like SpaceX? Seems like that is part of the problem, no?
For all the cries about it being political persecution, I haven’t seen anyone prove any of the evidence being used against him is false.
The whole reason "persecution" is the main talking point is exactly because there is no legitimate defense. There's not even an illegitimate defense that they can float to the base, so the only thing left is "witch hunt".
It's also pretty damning to the franchise that all of the directors were already established--or like Gareth Edwards and Rian Johnson, are up-and-comers--who are generally seen as being better than the Star Wars films they were involved with.
Clearly the problem was not just the directors. The whole approach was fundamentally broken.
Says who?
Mayim Bialik will not be hosting Season 2 of “Celebrity Jeopardy!” as she continues to support the ongoing WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes, Variety has learned from sources.
Linus also wants LMG to be about more than him, and a huge part of the controversy is tied to his decision making power overruling everyone else who says they are working too fast.
He could have appeared, that's fine, but that nobody was able to get him to drop the defensive attitude and just finally say "sorry" without any pity pleas would have been a very strong signal. That they either didn't think to do that, couldn't get Linus to agree or don't have the power to force him also sends a strong signal in the other direction.
I am a semi-frequent WAN show watcher and I definitely get that vibe. Some people will say that Luke stands up to Linus, but from what I've seen it's only superficial. I have never seen him push Linus enough that it becomes a real disagreement--not on an actual controversy like this, at least. The WAN show where they discussed the Billet Labs review is a perfect example: Luke says "well, maybe we should have re-tested" but then Linus goes off on his "$500 of employee time" tangent and Luke doesn't call that out as completely ridiculous and hypocritical.
He does voice his disagreement, but not in a way that is going to change anything.
He and his wife are still the majority (perhaps only?) owners, so Linus is still in charge even if he is pretending to delegate some duties.
I think the fact he appeared in the latest video and was still so defensive is enough evidence to prove that point.
You are correct to call me out on this. I edited my comment to clarify that I've now read her whole thread and her complaints are valid. The detail she provided with the frat-bro culture and sexual harassment is entirely unacceptable and I have no reason not to give her the benefit of the doubt.
Also, to clarify the part you quoted, I was not trying to downplay Madison's perspective at all. By "anything of value that she mentioned" I was primarily referring to the rushed production schedule, which is what I got mostly from my original read since that is what she focused on first.
Best lightweight OS option for repurposing older hardware?
My niece is turning 12 and we think she is ready for her own computer for school and personal projects. They have an older Thinkpad that works great from a hardware perspective, but it's quite old and not capable of running modern software. I remember from long ago that there was a project called TinyXP that stripped a ton of stuff out of Windows and made it much more performant on low spec computers. Does anything like that exist for Windows 10 or 11?
I would prefer to stay within Windows for her and her parent's convenience and so I don't have to be personal tech support, but I am comfortable with Linux if there is something that fits the bill and would be mostly or entirely hands-off once installed.
I want to make sure she has a good experience, so if we need to buy something new (Chromebook, probably?) that is also an option, but of course saving money is also nice!
Can we talk about the "top bar" and why it doesn't show my subscribed magazines?
I like the quick links to the all or subscribed feed, but what is the purpose of showing a bunch of apparently random communities across the top instead of my subscriptions? Maybe that is the intent and that feature hasn't been coded yet?
I'm looking for an easy way to get to my list of subscribed magazines. Sometimes I prefer to go to a specific topic rather than reading everything mixed together, especially if there is a topical event or controversy going on that I want to follow for that particular topic. So far, I have not found any way to see my subscriptions in Kbin beyond going through the list of ALL magazines.
Anyone else using the official Android app and constantly bombarded with "delete\_alert" notifications? Google is useless these days, but when I've looked into this before it appears this might be related to the app trying to update or remove a previous notification that is no longer relevant.
I don't recall ever seeing this by itself. There always seems to be another notification, usually updates for HA core or HACS modules.
Example: https://imgur.com/a/UEKZUKg
Editor's Note: Apologies if this has been discussed to death, but I figured covering old territory may be necessary as we regenerate.
I was too cool in middle school for Magic the Gathering (or maybe my Mom wouldn't let me player because of demons or something) so my trading card experience was fixated on Star Trek: The Next Generation Customizable Card Game, released originally by Decipher in 1994. At the time, I had no job and no allowance so I only had a few starter decks I got for birthdays or saving up whatever I made from mowing my neighbor's yard. I remember making a very of-the-times custom box from a shoebox covered in duct tape to hold my precious collection--I still have that if anyone wants a photo, haha.
Fast forward to a few years ago when I discovered a new coworker was also a big Trek fan! He also played the game, and he was actually good enough to win some tournaments! That is when I discovered the resell market and websites like The Continuing Committee and the wonderful people that have kept the game alive all these years. I spent more money on eBay (and a few semi-sketchy websites I had never heard of before) than I am prepared to admit, but it was all worth it to fulfill a childhood dream: I now own the entire TNG bridge crew and Enterprise D cards, something I could only salivate over as a kid.
We played a ton of great games over lunch breaks and I learned that all of my favorite cards are weaklings compared to the later expansions, as appears to be true of all long running card games. Eventually he moved on and I had nobody left to play with, but I still occasionally pull out the collection and go through it to relive the nostalgia.
The only major downside is that the popularity had dropped off pretty hard by the time DS9 and Voyager expansions came out, so while the market is flooded with affordable copies of the original run and the few early expansions I remembered, trying to collect the equivalent primary-ship-and-main-crew cards from my other favorite franchises appears to be completely beyond my financial range.
So, that's my story. Did anyone else play and/or collect? Anyone still involved in the modern incarnation?
On reddit, I was used to posts automatically hiding themselves if I voted up or down, or there was a way to hide individual stories manually. Is there a way to do this on Kbin, or even better across the Fediverse in general?
