Since April 2022, 110,000 migrants have come to New York, with 10,000 arriving a month, largely bused here to the Port Authority terminal by conservative leaders from border states like Texas, in a political dispute about border security....
Randomly relocating migrants to other cities with zero communication or planning with pure intention of causing harm to the migrants as well as the people of the arrival city for political gain is indeed a bad thing to do. I must remind people that cruelty and harm is the point of Republican policies. There was no thought that New York has resources so clearly this is a good choice of the health of either the city or the migrant to send buses there; else it would be planned and communicated ahead of time.
Let’s use Texas for example. There are big cities in Texas if you weren’t aware: Dallas, Houston, Austin - odd that there was no thought of sending migrants to those cities with all their city resources. There are also large other cities between Texas and New York: Oklahoma City, Kansas City, Indianapolis, Charleston, Pittsburgh, etc - it’s almost like right wing propoganda incessantly targets New York as a city of Democrats and we must punish them. Cruelty is the point. There is no functional purpose of sending migrants to New York other than cruelty and chaos for political gain.
Eugene Cordero and Tawny Newsome reacting to a few episodes was great. Especially seeing Tawny nerd out over so much Trek.
"Whenever I was in college and I tried to date a girl and they would turn into a lizard cape, I’d be like “Ah man, you’re a lizard cape!”
It’s nice seeing Discovery getting the honor it deserves for kicking some life back into Trek. I get it’s not for everyone, and I get that some people outright hate it, but you can’t deny that without Discovery we wouldn’t be swimming in so much Star Trek. More now than ever before. Not all of it is for everyone, there’s some Trek that I like but am not crazy over, but I’m still happier than ever. Nearly 60 years later and still new Trek coming out weekly? Worth it all.
Also nice just seeing Discovery get props for continuing the carry the torch of representation for all groups of people. As a gay dude who always felt invisible in the Star Trek universe, it’s been really nice to just know that I exist in the future.
I haven’t even seen Prodigy yet (I don’t know why) and even I feel incredibly uncomfortable by them celebrating so much Animation and never mentioning Prodigy. They even say “9 sequel and spin off series” since the release of TAS. TNG, DS9, VOY, ENT, DSC, Picard, SNW, LD. That’s 8 but I don’t know if they’re including Prodigy in that. You could argue Starfleet Academy but it hasn’t been released yet. However, Short Treks existed. So are they counting Prodigy in that 9 or are they counting Short Treks instead?
They have called Strange New Worlds ‘beloved’ twice in this video. I completely agree with the assessment but it just feels ever so slightly odd for me. I’m not sure why.
Billups saying “Beam up” and then it cross fading into TAS bridge crew arriving in the transporter room is something beautiful and special.
I know that this isn’t the Lower Decks discussion page but they show a Lower Decks clip here. Is it just me or did anyone else think that the Voyager Museum Curator was voiced by Ethan Phillips when he first started talking?
They have a drag queen in a bedazzled Starfleet Uniform to talk to random strangers on the street and ask them about Star Trek. I am… oh this is incredible. I would like more of this please.
Jackie Cox: “What show does this hand signal come from? 🖖” Stranger 1: “The Big Bang Theory?” Cue Jackie with the most side eye possible just saying “That’s not correct.” “ET?” “Still wrong.”
Overall thoughts: It was fun but you could really feel a corporate hold on this. It was celebrating Star Trek, absolutely, but it did come from a Studio side with seemingly very little input from the creative side. Seeing zero mentions of Prodigy was incredibly disheartening. I don’t understand why they’ve just decided to pretend like it never happened. If they don’t want to continue the show, fine, but to deny its existence during a celebration of animation? I don’t get it at all.
Edit: Looks like you can opt-out of that “new look and feel” pretty easily under the appearance settings but still, whats with putting rounded corners everywhere?...
This also throws up another “odd” consistency between various types of crimes, be it related to guns, cars, sexual violence, whatnot: Men. It’s virtually always men.
That’s 4% of these deaths being accidents, that is, the result of guns. In all other cases, gun use was the result of someone wanting to kill someone else or themselves.
Though to murder someone you need motive, means and opportunity. Restricting/removing guns takes a huge chunk out of the latter two parts. Plus it’s not like we need to look at things in isolation: There’s an odd through-line between the US and youth deaths and other western industrial nations and their - comparative lack of - youth deaths. If only it were possible to figure out what that is… 🤔
There are a lot of different things that make america more dangerous to young people than guns. The culture is less united, more individualistic and more violent. 1950s US had equal access to guns as today, and probably a higher per capita gun ownership rate, and had fewer murders and suicides. Why stick to western industrial nations? A gun ban is a gun ban, less guns per capita is less opportunity to use a gun no matter if the government has nukes or not. “The West” is an arbitrary distinction here. America is not like Europe, it is more like the rest of the Americas culturally and historically, all of which have higher murder rates than Europe, and all of which have less guns per capita and more restrictive gun laws than the US. Some of them even have higher murder rates.
There are several countries in the world with higher rates of murder with less guns per capita, almost all of which have much stronger gun restrictions, and at least one with a higher suicide rate. Why don’t we figure out what that odd line is that differentiates them from Europe. I highly doubt it’s gun availability.
If you count US states individually rather than aggregating the whole federation of 50 sovereign states with their own gun laws, and 350 million people, which would be akin to aggregating the EU as one country and so less accurate, the state of Maine is safer than any European country. It has some of the least restrictive gun laws anywhere in the US.
My scenario focuses solely on interest income for simplicity’s sake. There are other investments one can make to increase your gain, but such investments are more volatile. You could end up doing quite well and increasing your nut, or you could invest in the wrong stock and lose a large chunk of it.
I also left out other considerations for simplicity’s sake like the fact that most retirees are couples and past the age of 65 the odds that one of you will require significant medical treatment increases every year. Some elderly couples are getting divorced so as to only bankrupt one of them when this happens.
Life is messy and $1M will only work in the best case scenario. It’s just not realistic. By allowing people to think that $1M is enough, you’re actually leading them into ruin. We need to be aware that retirement is becoming a dicey proposition and we should be taking steps to ensure that the elderly will be provided for in the coming decades, especially since a large number of millennials won’t have children to make sure they are properly cared for.
Source: I worked in the elder care industry in Florida for a decade. I saw what happens when people run out of money.
For me it is the fact that our blood contains iron. I earlier used to believe the word stood for some ‘organic element’ since I couldn’t accept we had metal flowing through our supposed carbon-based bodies, till I realized that is where the taste and smell of blood comes from.
If you get 23 people in a room the odds of two of them sharing a birthday are 50%
The birthday paradox is a veridical paradox: it seems wrong at first glance but is, in fact, true. While it may seem surprising that only 23 individuals are required to reach a 50% probability of a shared birthday, this result is made more intuitive by considering that the birthday comparisons will be made between every possible pair of individuals. With 23 individuals, there are (23 × 22)/2 = 253 pairs to consider, far more than half the number of days in a year.
Democracy Now! news clip containing info about Uranium weapons already in Ukraine (supplied by the UK), as well as info about Uranium weapons used in the past (in Iraq), and the effects of their use.
Odd thing to fixate on what? What Uranium is? An American soldiers getting sick from Uranium in Iraq? Learning things? That means you’re sympathetic to Putin?
a TorrentFreak article got me spooked so I fired up the ol’ yt-dlp. Got the entire channel, including comments, description metadata, and thumbnail images....
Switching to Gentoo has been the best. If I don't want something I just blacklist it in my make.conf. getting errors from an odd package? Blacklist. Don't want systemd or gnome software? Blacklist. It's great. My shit runs insanely fast and my system only breaks when I explicitly do something stupid, and it's usually just one minor adjustment away from getting fixed.
Like the other person commented, I would suggest trying Krita (open source/native painting or graphics program. That isn’t my forte, but my understanding is Krita is a professional grade program that is actually used for professional work.
With that said, there is a useful program to help setup Wine called “Bottles”. It’s all graphical, and gives tons of options to tweak to try to get programs running. It has dramatically helped me get done other odd professional type software running.
One long shot thing to try: check the file properties of the program installed on wine, and make sure “executable” is enabled. It’s a handy security thing to prevent random files from hiding malware, but can be a pain to new users.
An extreme solution is running a program in a Windows virtual machine. If you go that route, I highly recommend doing some research. The simplest to me solution I’ve found is Virtualbox, and I believe you can even directly pass USB devices through to the virtual machine, but since of the other solutions are supposed to work better.
Products are just products designed to get money out of people. I don’t have an appreciation like its some sports team for them. It comes down to simply if it is worth spending money on or not. Being entitled is a good thing, since it encourages less consumerist behavior with how lot of people can use less frivolous spending in their lives.
You can try to spin it as a negative, but I find this hail corporation approach to consumerism very odd. Wanting more value for the money is a good standard to have.
I also agree, I loved Horizons story and lore. I also agree people either love it or hate it which is super odd to me because it is such a great game and reminds me of all the other great games yet somehow this one gets shafted. You never got to see the past but just the retelling of what happened throughout the game was perfect.
“‘Darco’ is slang for “De-Urbanized Arcological Construct”. Originally designed by the twisted genius of Dante McCallavre, the artist/architect proclaimed it a reactionary response to the rigid, archetypal Arcologies of his day. No one really knows what this means, and many engineers are frankly baffled at how the thing stays standing. Inside, the ill-lit corridor’s twist into odd, meandering corkscrews that mysteriously turn back on themselves. There are rumors that a strange sub-species of man inhabits the air ducts.”
— in-game info
(The other two kinds are the Plymouth Arcology and the Forest Arcology, BTW.)
I grew up in a climate where they were rare. I never saw a roach in-person until I was in my 20s.
For the first year in my current apartment, it was rare for me to see a roach. Maybe an odd one every once in a while.
Now, I get multiple every time it rains. Which sucks on its own. But, they’ve all taken to the same habit of crawling up the back of my couch and staring at me 3 inches away from my face to say hello.
When this happens, I transcend beyond fear and anger and enter a blackout rampage mode. Move all my furniture. Couch cushions. Hunting until I’m absolutely certain that every single one of them is dead.
I’ve bought drain covers. I’ve bought roach traps. I’ve cleaned my house top-to-bottom. I’ve checked the seals on my door and windows. They’re nowhere in sight on a dry day, but every time it rains, they’re fucking back.
It’s genuinely starting to fuck with my head, because whenever I see peripheral movement out of the corner of my eye in my apartment, I think it’s a roach. Sometimes it is, sometimes it isn’t. Are those a pair of little antennae poking out from behind my couch, or am I imagining it? I don’t know until I’ve done yet another sweep.
It’s harder to fall asleep. I keep having brief bouts of imagination wbere bugs are crawling and swarming all over me. I constantly do visual sweeps of my apartment. I can feel my stress level rising on rainy days. I feel like I’m losing my mind.
Observations and thoughts as I watched (initially posted at the other place):
We begin with “Twovix”.
Holodeck waste material, AKA jizz, poop, and god knows what else.
Oh, hey, T’Lyn!
DAT VOYAGER THEME!
Oh, hey, the probe from the one with the whales!
Neelix cheese!
Shit did get freaky.
Oh shit, they’re going to Tuvix Billups and T’ana!
“Janeway straight-up murdered Tuvix.”
MACROVIRUS.
The Pike Thing, of course.
“Back in the 70s”
“Captain, I caution against socializing with the organism.”
So many VOY deep cuts.
“Holy shit. Janeway didn’t mess around.”
Macrovirus of Borg. And robotic warp salamander of Borg.
“Water, room temperature.”
This is definitely T’Ana’s side of T’Llups.
Oh god, they tuvixed the Matt the whale! Wait, what about Kimolu? Is he alright? Is he okay?
A Tuvixy meatball!
Heh, the real solution to the Tuvix conundrum was just to keep merging until it’s a nonsentient blob of meat so there is no murder, so to speak.
Oh god I just realized that we’re going to get so much Tuvixy fanart.
Bizarre series of Voyager-themed obstacles.
SHE GOT A PIP
Beckett Mariner receives the fate worse than death for her: promotion.
Nothing ever good happens “somewhere in Klingon space”
RIP Klingon lower-deckers.
And now, episode 2:
Heh, Romulan lower decks.
Goodbye, Romulan lower deckers!
Heh, those 80s workout stuff.
Oh, cool, Boimler still has his Tom Paris tplate!
Please tell me Denty has a Memory Alpha page.
The Nacelle is right there!
Non-botanicals
I have just met Moopsy but I would die for it.
Oddly enough, this is the SECOND time this year that a Jack Quaid character looked at a VERY bright light. Shoutout to my boy Richard Feynman, the one man crazy enough to watch a nuclear test without goggles.
Okay, I would no longer die for the moopsy.
Tucker Tubes! Good old Trip got stuff named for him!
The Ad Astra Per Aspera poster!
I do feel like Starfleet would have better soundproofing, but then again this is the Cerritos.
RIP corn guy.
LIVIK!
Aww, D’Vana Tendi giving orders.
Teeth as bread crumbs.
Heh, the humans really are the worst.
Hah, he could have just used the viewports.
Overall, I think I liked this second episode more, even though I loved the VOY fan service.
— I found the 4 x 01 Twovix the best season premiere yet.
All the premieres seem callback and Easter egg heavy. Making this one a museum (ship) mishap episode worked that into the story in a natural way and allowed some of the weirdest and trippyest things from Voyager to pike on. Bravo.
While some reviewers have expressed regrets that the original Voyager actors voices weren’t used, I’m glad that the focus stayed on the Cerritos crew, the artifacts and how Voyager remains dangerous wherever she is, even as a literal museum.
I am unhappy that the Klingon lower decker and his ship were sacrificed for the seasonal mystery big bad. It’s clear it’s really dangerous though. (Perhaps the mystery ship is collecting humanoids to take them to another era where they are extinct….?)
It’s also likely the case that I enjoyed the ride of the premiere more for knowing I had another new episode to watch immediately.
— The second episode was mostly a straightforward Lower Decks classic, but one that did its job to move the main 4 lower deckers into their new roles.
We’ll have to see how well it works on rewatch, but the moopsie scenes seem likely to be classics. After the Voyager celebration of weird in the season premiere, it was very smart for Lower Decks to underscore its ability to give us its own very original weirdness, and remind us that humanity are the most dangerous in the menagerie.
I’m glad that they make Rutherford a bit of an odd man out in the promotions. I still feel that he’s a bit of an incomplete person/character because his ambition and drive has been submerged by the implant. I really hope that the writers will keep dribbling out more about that.
I had agoraphobia growing up. I know exactly what it is. And I had moments of it exploring the planets. I found myself hugging to keep buildings in range and not wanting to stray out into the great wide open. For some odd reason, I got more of that in Starfield than in NMS.
I’m also still fairly early into the game, so perhaps I’ll spend more time indoors than I have so far.
EDIT, also, it kinda is the opposite of claustrophobia in some ways. There are some overlaps and nuances (both fears sometimes include fear of crowds). I had a grandparent with really bad claustrophobia who never used an elevator in her life. Ironically, we could relate on a lot. But they were still opposite issues.
My parents are 57 and 63. My mother is erratic, forgetful, and when she gets mad she sometimes screams and throws things. My father is slowly going deaf, getting slower and more stubborn and forgetful as well. They can be infuriating sometimes, but I know that they’re aging and I can’t be mad at them. How do I deal with...
No, b12 deficiency causes anaemia, not iron deficiency. it’s also independently a cause of nerve degradation and cognitive issues, much moreso than just iron deficiency. However it’d also be a little odd for two people in a couple to both get it at the same time.
It would be a very strange design approach to add an “backup” port. I think there are alreay gaming phones that have it? But for the normal person this seems to be odd.
I would like that we can exchange those ports without removing the display… i had two phones that had broken usb c ports. A good thing we have wireless charging.
I’m probably the odd one out, and I used to be infuriated by the idea that my phone didn’t have a headphone jack, but I got used to not having it.
I only use wireless headphones now, and I have a USB-C adapter I can use in case I do want to use an aux port. Have been tempted to buy some decent “Chi-Fi” wired earphones, I do miss higher quality sound.
Thousands of migrant children test NYC schools system (www.bbc.com)
Since April 2022, 110,000 migrants have come to New York, with 10,000 arriving a month, largely bused here to the Port Authority terminal by conservative leaders from border states like Texas, in a political dispute about border security....
Star Trek Day 2023 Special (www.youtube.com)
Updated Edge and it now seems to put a frame with rounded corners around every website (lemmy.world)
Edit: Looks like you can opt-out of that “new look and feel” pretty easily under the appearance settings but still, whats with putting rounded corners everywhere?...
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Saying you feel like a million bucks is like 'meh' in today's economy.
What are some commonly known facts that are too bizarre for you to believe to be true?
For me it is the fact that our blood contains iron. I earlier used to believe the word stood for some ‘organic element’ since I couldn’t accept we had metal flowing through our supposed carbon-based bodies, till I realized that is where the taste and smell of blood comes from.
"Alarming": Biden to Supply Depleted Uranium Shells to Ukraine Despite Contamination Risks [Democracy Now!] (youtu.be)
Democracy Now! news clip containing info about Uranium weapons already in Ukraine (supplied by the UK), as well as info about Uranium weapons used in the past (in Iraq), and the effects of their use.
I just downloaded the entire Classic Chicago Television youtube channel on a whim (lemmy.one)
a TorrentFreak article got me spooked so I fired up the ol’ yt-dlp. Got the entire channel, including comments, description metadata, and thumbnail images....
Why I dislike snaps (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
Screenshot doesn’t even show half.
Our Computer (infosec.pub)
OC for you.
Cat with a powerful aura (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
Todd Howard asked on-air why Bethesda didn't optimise Starfield for PC: 'We did [...] you may need to upgrade your PC' (www.pcgamer.com)
You heard him 4090 users, upgrade to a more powerful GPU.
Nintendo Is "Evolving" Into An Entertainment Company, According To Doug Bowser (www.nintendolife.com)
"With gaming as a nucleus of the overall business model"
What game has a great story and is worth the time investment?
I recently finished Rise of the Tomb Raider and Final Fantasy XVI, and I’m hesitant what I should play next (PC or PS5)....
Musk cut internet to Ukraine’s military as it was attacking Russian fleet (www.washingtonpost.com)
If you’re hitting a paywall, here’s a CNN link to the same story: www.cnn.com/2023/09/07/politics/…/index.html
The splines have been reticulated (lemmy.world)
Beauty is on the inside (lemmy.world)
Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Lower Decks | 4x01 "Twovix" and 4x02 "I Have No Bones Yet I Must Flee"
"Twovix" loglineThe Cerritos ensigns must assist a caretaker on the voyage of a historically significant starship....
Bethesda says most of Starfield's 1000+ planets are dull on purpose because 'when the astronauts went to the moon, there was nothing there' but 'they certainly weren't bored' (www.pcgamer.com)
Sure Todd, lol
How do I tame my frustration toward my aging parents?
My parents are 57 and 63. My mother is erratic, forgetful, and when she gets mad she sometimes screams and throws things. My father is slowly going deaf, getting slower and more stubborn and forgetful as well. They can be infuriating sometimes, but I know that they’re aging and I can’t be mad at them. How do I deal with...
[POLL] Do you use/require a headphone jack on your phone? (strawpoll.com)
Alternatively, if your current phone doesn’t have a headphone jack, do you wish it did?