Janeway really needs to moderate that coffee addiction. I don’t drink the stuff personally, but I don’t think it’s worth some of the stuff she did for a better cuppa
Haha, I don’t know enough about that fan theory to say I believe it or not but I will say no matter what, humans still stopped the Borg cube. Otherwise Earth would have gotten assimilated.
They are “remodulating” chrome. If you continue to use chrome and any browser based on it, you might soon realize that adblocking doesn’t work anymore, because filtering support was neutered and you no longer will be able to switch to Firefox, as they will outright block it as it allows to block ads.
It is important to use Firefox now to make sure sites won’t start blocking it.
Wanna bet? There are ways to frog in a boiling pot this. And chrome isn’t the only browser that will support blocking Firefox. (They’ll argue Chromium is not Google, only Chrome).
That's a fig leaf. US courts might agree with that argument, but European courts will see that it all is monopolistic practices to support their ad business. YouTube itself can't survive market dominance without it's preferential deals with it's parent company's hosting and ads. Ask viemo how using cloud hosting to serve video and third party ads works out. It would be suicidal. The truth is they ALREADY should be broken up.
Google likely will be one of the last ones to do it (exactly so it will be hard to to put them in court). I already see Microsoft (surprise!) do this and asking to use Chrome or Edge.
You say that but Google is working on shoving a drm scheme into Chrome that’d keep you from being able to modify sites (e.g. ad and script blocking) and, due to the sheer market share that chrome and Chromium-based browsers have, Google can kinda just do whatever they want. Of course, it’s ultimately up to the site owners to implement it, but you know probably 90% of sites will use it.
Toss up between EMH and T’Ana, really, but I’d say T’Ana has more lovable burnout energy that the crew vibe with, where the EMH is just kind of a dick. I love him, he’s one of my favorite characters in all of Trek, but his bedside manner makes him a huge pain in the ass for anyone normal to work with. The people who got along best with him are Seven, who basically had high-functioning autism implants from the Borg, and Kes, who was, by and large, incapable of being mad. Janeway dealt with him fine because she just never took any shit from him as a matter of policy, and the only other person he vibed hard with was a fucking serial killer. Tom Paris, who stands out for being by far the biggest normie on Voyager, couldn’t stand the EMH (though he also hated sick bay).
So, gotta go with EMH having the worst bedside manner.
Going to have to agree. He was never intended to need a good bedside manner because he was never supposed to be doing long term patient care. So they never bothered to program it.
He was designed for emergencies: “Do this. Do it now. Moving on.”
Fair enough, I would have given any name that wasn’t on the list, I mean, Tom Paris was a doc for a short bit, right? (My collectors plate has it in a footnote)
Pfft, Geordi is the least of Worf’s problems at that table. Data is literally a walking computer, Troi can read minds, and Riker is evidently the greatest poker player who ever lived.
The Borg still adapt even if they use a randomly changing sequence, which means even in the future of Star Trek, they haven’t actually found a way for computers to generate real random numbers and it’s just an algorithm to simulate it, which of course the Borg can extrapolate from.
You’d think they’d have quantum mechanics on lock by the 24th century.
That’s an interesting idea, although I’d say in that case they just “meta-adapted”, so that even truly random variations in the same degrees of freedom would not have helped.
So would I… wondering if there’s a way I could easily set it up or something. Bunch of trekkies watching Rocky Horror Picture Show. That’ll be a ton of fun!
I’ve decided there’s a “single downvote” bot or something. Though honestly, the buttons are pretty close together in some apps, so it could just be fast fat fingers.
That’s true. I’ve accidentally downvoted people before and had to change it. For the record, I am not complaining. I do not give the remotest of a flying shit about how many numbers I have on a random webpage. If I did though I doubt I’d be upset about 1 downvote when I’ve got, according to my Boost app, over 200,000 upvotes.
I just thought it was funny that THAT was the comment that got downvoted. Everything else I can see why and like yeah, sure. People gonna voice their opinions. I am not bothered by that and actively encourage it. It helps me know what to post and what not to post and to judge the vibe of a community. I just thought that was hysterical. “Trekkies watching Rocky Horror Picture Show? SILENCE QUEER!”
Oh god… That’s the next musical episode we need! Or at least a live stream of the SNW or DSC cast singing Rocky Horror numbers and talking about their favorite parts.
spoilerKurt Russell’s character realises he is in a simulation and has an existential crisis. You lived your entire life to this point and from someone else’s perspective you’re basically an NPC. Dread.
The difference is NPCs exist only for the main character’s experience. Oblivion’s Adoring Fan does not have a life outside of interacting with the main character or an existence outside of when the human in the external reality controls the main character in the simulated reality. In our reality there is apparently no main character. Everything and everyone simply is. To learn one is artificial is to realise that everything one has done is artificial and confined to the boundaries of someone else’s experience. A created slave with a hollow origin and no means of escaping a forced purpose.
I mean a cursory glance at your own life ought to show you that you do in fact have a life outside of the experiences of some arbitrary person. If you were told you are an NPC, does your lifetime of personal experiences simply vanish?
Even if you were shown proof that you’re a simulation, can you really just let go of your entire existence like that?
I think denial would be a far more common reaction than existential crisis.
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