The true Christian response would be that Trump will be judged in the afterlife but that they still support what he’s doing in government… which is making things harder for people with darker skin and/or who are LGBTQ+. “The enemy of my enemy is my friend” and all that.

Ask them if they would allow their preteen daughter to stay the night with Trump and you’ll see where their feelings truly lie. Many of them would! Many of them would happily traffick their child to him hoping that she might be his fourth wife and their family would benefit. A few would tell you that the accusations against him are inventions of the liberals, but those people are never mentally sound.

I call myself rich, but if I don’t go to work I don’t get paid, and if I don’t get paid I can’t pay the rent… and out the door I went go.

People can call themselves Christians, but unless they actually follow the teachings of Christ, it doesn’t mean anything.

For what it’s worth — and keeping fully in mind this is a meme and therefore not serious — Starfield (crappy Xbox/PC game from the people who made Skyrim) did this. A particle accelerator experiment (albeit involving an alien artefact) caused reality to split apart. So I’m gonna say, it’s possible!

They absolutely were impacted by the writers’ strike, but at least for Silo, the source material is already done. I’ve read the books. I know what happens at the end of Silo. A lot of people do. Of course, they’re adding a bunch of stuff, so everything I know is subject to change. But the end of season 2? That curve ball? I knew exactly where it was going. The part we didn’t see? There is stuff from the end of the first book I was expecting us to get, but they cut us off to show the stuff from the second book, to whet our appetites. So I know how the next season is going to begin, because they are absolutely going to wrap up that story, because what comes next is so big. They aren’t going to hold it off… I’d say at the latest, the end of the first episode.

Was Sisko’s office a ready room though? I think it was just the commander’s office.

Maybe they serve the same function. I’m well aware of Sisko’s office, but I just never thought of it as a ready room.

On a Mac, it’s pretty easy. Shift+Option+Dash. Option and Shift+Option plus a lot of keys does a lot of different symbols. With letters, you can hold the letter to open a menu of accents, so it’s ridiculously easy for me to type Pokémon correctly. I hold the E and hit 2 to get the correct accent.

On a Windows computer, yes, it’s an ALT code. ALT+0151. I’ve committed it to memory so it’s nothing for me to type that if I’m using a Windows machine. 0150 is the en dash, which is a little shorter, and has a different function.

I’m on a US keyboard right now, but it’s a Mac keyboard. I think the only difference is, instead of Ctrl-Win-Alt I have Ctrl-Opt-Cmd. And then Cmd-Opt-Fn-Ctrl right of the space bar. I think the rest is basically the same. Except my F keys do different things, like F3 isn’t search (that would be CMD+F) it’s Mission Control, kind of like Alt-Tab in Windows but way, way better.

On some phones you don’t have to go into the number/symbol section. HOLD that button and it makes that keyboard pop up; now DRAG to the symbol or number you want and LET GO, it’ll type it and bounce you right back to the ABC keyboard. You can also linger on a symbol to get the alt symbols. So, in practice, hold the ?123 or whatever key, drag up to dash, but don’t let go, linger for a couple seconds, then slide over to the em dash and release. Should take you back to the ABC keyboard.

From back then? The Lonesome Jubilee by John Cougar Mellencamp.

These days I just use Apple Music. Costs less than Spotify, pays artists more, and doesn’t finance the alt right. (Well except for that dumb participation trophy Tim Cook gave Trump.) Anyway, I pay for music because I love music, and I neither smoke nor drink, so it’s like, my vice, I suppose. That and coffee.

Anyway, I have access to all the music I had back then and since on the handheld Mac phone I carry in my pocket.

We didn’t think about the absence of things we’re didn’t have. It’s easy to look back and say “I could have gotten away with so much” but we didn’t think about it.

Your whole life being recorded was a thing for my generation (X)… if you were rich. Rich families had video cameras and they did record all kinds of things. Birthday parties, holidays, vacations, and so on. We saw cameras. We either tried to avoid them, or tried to flip them off — so the cameras avoided us. They didn’t wanna see the poors anyway. And for the most part, they were, and mostly did their filming, in places you couldn’t go if you/your parents worked for a living.

GenX here. Before computers… that’s a lie, my father always had computers, long before computers were cool. What we didn’t have was the Internet. Before the Internet, I read books. My father had a couple encyclopedia sets. One was more for kids and had colorful bindings. The other was the Encyclopedia Brittanica. So yeah, books were our Wikipedia. (Wikipedia is based on the encyclopedia concept. It’s right in the name!)

It seems to me that Intel themselves aren’t doing anything wrong here by letting the government take a stake in their business.

They never promised you privacy, they sell complex tiny calculators that add and compare ones and zeros trillions of times per second.

As a Mac user, I feel that it affirms Apple’s choice 5 years ago to design their own silicon. Apple made the right move.

Owners of current Intel chips should be fine. It’s future Intel chips I’d worry about. AMD is probably still fine. PC builders and enthusiasts still have a lot of good choices.

As for the government, I don’t really see how. 10% doesn’t give them enough clout to ask for a back door. The UK didn’t ask chip makers anyway, they went straight to Apple and asked for the encryption keys. Apparently they’ve dropped the request, but that’s not something that needs to be done at the CPU level. It’s also the government — they’re not gonna do it the best way. They’re not gonna do it the way a mad Linux geek would do it if they were a fascist dictator. Governments are still run by Boomers.

It’s more likely exactly what Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders say it is: the government is investing in Intel so their investment through the CHIPS Act pays off. It’s just good business sense. Set aside the president’s nationalism and look at it strictly as a business decision. It actually makes sense, hence why Sanders is behind it as well.

Last dream I had, I was completely and ideally convinced I was gonna rewrite IT by Stephen King.

I’m currently reading that book. King wrote it high on coke and it’s absolutely insane how much detail he packed into it. If you’ve only seen the movies, you’ve barely scratched the surface. Book is literally about fear and I think it’s his third longest? Was the longest for a long time.

I’ve been using the em dash online for decades. If AI is trained off of human-written posts (it is) and it’s trained on sites I’ve posted on (it has), and if em dashes are a telltale sign AI wrote the post (seems that way), then logically speaking, I am partially to blame.

I’m still going to use them, though.

And I’m still going to teach people how to use them.

My first Star Trek game was on the Amiga, and it used the TOS crew/ship. I couldn’t get anywhere in it. Maybe I wasn’t old/smart enough for it.

I agree that a Star Trek game shouldn’t be all action, that’s just the kind of game I want to play.

I really don’t care for the Call of Duty games, but one set in a Starfleet combat situation would be awesome.

Starfield could have been a good Star Trek game without the branding, but it mostly sucked.

I don’t have a religion, but I get ya. (Doesn’t mean I don’t know some of what the Bible says, mostly for the sake of argument.)

Did Kirk and Sisko have ready rooms? I remember they had private quarters (they all did). Picard’s was just an office.

Maybe I worded that poorly. Yeah, we generally trusted the news, but for the most part the TV was the “idiot box” and was not to be trusted. At some point, the news — I think, largely, FOX News at first, but the others weren’t far behind — became “news entertainment” in the same way WWE was “sports entertainment.” It was either not real, or at the very least it was heavily biased. Whenever The Newsroom came out — what a lot of people know for a 3 minute YouTube edit about why “America is no longer the greatest country in the world anymore” but was really more of a love letter to the way the news used to be. They told real news in a way that was entertaining, but through a character (portrayed by Jeff Daniels) who was trying to tell the news the old way. Give people the facts and let them make up their own mind. But by that point, I think most news on TV was fake/heavily biased.

I’m religious neutral (I don’t like the term atheist), and I’m fine with the Ten Commandments.

Work within the system to bust it open.

The first commandment says “thou shalt have no other gods before me.” In a monotheistic religion (one god), that seems nonsensical. What He’s really saying is you can’t put anything before God. Including money. Or greed.

Another one says “thou shalt not bear false witness,” which is to say “don’t lie,” but they can’t stop doing that.

“Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s…” I forget. Ass is in my family’s KJV (meaning donkey of course) and that’s funny. But this is another good one. They need to stop coveting our freedom and what little we have left and stop stealing from the poor.

Why should we live by these rules if the people in power won’t? In that case the rules aren’t even arbitrary.

Can’t tell what they are, but they don’t appear to be waifus. That would be funnier.

Or if it was all kid characters… e.g. Eleven and Max from Stranger Things, Anya from SPYxFAMILY, Wednesday from… Wednesday… I dunno, I’m sure there are others.

Basically that. It made for good TV.

Now I’m wondering if Discovery needed to spin or if that was more of the same.