charonn0

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[–] charonn0@startrek.website 3 points 2 days ago

Just lemmy in a browser for me. Never used facebag or twatter or others besides reddit.

[–] charonn0@startrek.website 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

More like, “I want a sandwich but i can’t afford one. I guess I’ll go become a porn actor or a prostitute to earn money"

[–] charonn0@startrek.website 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Weird premise aside, Kirk's speech at the end about how it "must apply to everyone or it means nothing" is actually pretty stirring, IMHO.

[–] charonn0@startrek.website 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I want Roland Emmerich to make a movie out of the short story A Pail of Air.

tl;dr/spoiler: ~20 years ago, a black hole passed through the solar system and captured the Earth, dragging it inexorably away from the Sun. This causes great earthquakes, tsunami, and other immediate civilization-ending catastrophes, but the real disaster comes when the atmosphere freezes and falls like snow to the ground. The original story follows a young boy born after the cataclysm whose chores include collecting buckets of frozen air.

[–] charonn0@startrek.website 19 points 2 weeks ago (15 children)

There is no such thing as an innocent billionaire.

[–] charonn0@startrek.website 2 points 3 weeks ago

The government only knows that they voted, not how they voted.

[–] charonn0@startrek.website 13 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Your replicator is probably too small to replicate larger components, which would be a major inconvenience at best or a showstopper at worst. And industrial replicators are even harder to come by than starships.

Then there's getting access to the replicator patterns for sensitive or dangerous components. Dilithium chambers, weapons, Mercassium composite for shield generators, etc. are classified by Starfleet.

Then there are substances that can't be replicated, such as verterium cortenide for the warp coils. I don't think it's explicitly stated that VC can't be replicated, but we know that Voyager had to find some to refit their warp coils, they couldn't just replicate it. Also dilithium.

And finally, there's antimatter. Building a starship won't do you much good if you don't have gas for the tank. Antimatter does not occur in large quantities in nature, and probably can't be replicated (or at least not safely.) So you'd need some sort of industrial base to produce it, further complicating your plans.

[–] charonn0@startrek.website 5 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

I yearn for the simpler days when the worst thing a Republican president might do is tamper with Medicare.

[–] charonn0@startrek.website 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

My intent was to point out how ridiculous the "103% increase" line is, not to suggest the comparison was valid in the first place.

[–] charonn0@startrek.website 3 points 1 month ago (9 children)

In other words, it jumped from about 0.5% to 1.5%.

[–] charonn0@startrek.website 27 points 1 month ago

Looks like compatibility hacks for various websites.

Interventions - are deeper modifications to make sites compatible. Firefox may modify certain code used on these sites to enforce compatibility. Each compatibility modification links to the bug on Bugzilla@Mozilla; click on the link to look up information about the underlying issue.

User Agent Override - change the user agent of Firefox when connections to certain sites are made.

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Compatibility/UA_Override_&_Interventions_Testing

 
 

An elderly Catholic priest dies one night peacefully in his sleep after a long life of serving God, and finds himself standing at the pearly gates.

"You were such a pious and holy man in life," began St. Peter, "that as a reward you can make one request of me before leaving behind your worldly cares and entering heaven."

"Well," says the priest, "I'd like to read the original manuscript of the Bible."

Even more impressed now than before, St. Peter grants the request and takes the priest to God's own private library, before leaving him to his studies.

Shortly afterward, the priest lets out an unholy shriek. St. Peter rushes into the library and asks, "what is it? What's wrong?!"

And through gritted teeth and streams of tears the priest cried out: "Celebrate! It says celebrate, not celibate!"

 
 

Odd that they never re-filled the whale tank

 
 

It would have included loops of Star Trek sound effects, but Paramount lawyers said no.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Satriani#Musical_themes

Thank you for your attention, Bajoran workers. This mandatory cultural appreciation moment has been noted on your time cards and will be deducted from your food ration.

 
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