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Trump to make taped remarks to a Christian group that calls for abortion to be 'eradicated entirely' (apnews.com)

Donald Trump on Monday will make a virtual appearance before a Christian group that calls for abortion to be “eradicated entirely,” as the presumptive Republican nominee again takes on an issue that Democrats want to make a focus of this year’s presidential election....

ApostleO ,

Nah. Then they’d just be embarrassed they had been pushing a book with such a woke lefty agenda. Some might even learn that they can throw away most of that commie stuff in the later parts of the book, and just keep the juicy bits they liked in the first half about how men are in charge, and slavery is okay so long as you follows some rules. Oh, except Revelations. That part rocks, let’s keep that. In fact… Let’s make it happen. That would be so sick.

/s (even though I really shouldn’t have to)

ApostleO ,

Sure, but that quote calls it a “virus” but the headline says “fungus”.

ApostleO ,

Shit, I’d do that job for minimum wage, if only to see Musk fired.

ApostleO ,

I get the hate for those movies, but I honestly enjoyed them all.

They are what got me to watch TOS, finally. Then I did a full watch through of the series. They were great for revitalizing the fan base and making new fans.

I honestly love having the movies as a different universe/timeline. Saves us from tone whiplash, like Shakespeare TNG Picard vs Rambo Movie Picard.

A question about Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home. [Spoilers]

The whales Gracie and George were stated to have wandered into San Francisco as calves. Outside of feeding events which can include the famous bubble nets, humpback whale pods usually consist of a lone mother and calf (or calves) pairing with a trailing “escort” male. Humpbacks are one of the few mammals that can be nursing...

ApostleO ,

That, or she should be named “Mary” instead, I guess.

ApostleO ,

Debt strike!

Debt strike!

Debt strike!

ApostleO ,

I, for one, thought this was a reasonable take.

What else do people expect you to comment? Like…

Neat.

Or…

Thoughts and prayers for the driver and his family.

?

What discussion can a post like this garner except speculation? And to preface your speculation with an acknowledgement that the story has no real details… seems fair to me.

ApostleO ,

Which explains why it was standard procedure for presidents to put their money in a blind trust. And why Trump didn’t.

ApostleO ,

The population of NYC is 8 million, and they had fewer than 1M votes for mayor? That, like, 12.5%.

Even if you limit it to just citizen population, I found that number to be 6-7 million. Thats still only a 14-16% voter turnout.

The fuck?

ApostleO ,

The previous conviction was overturned on a procedural issue, like a mistrial. He wasn’t pardoned or found not guilty, so it isn’t double jeopardy. It’s just a “redo” to make sure another jury would still convict without the procedural issue.

AM radio law opposed by tech and auto industries is close to passing | Ars Technica (arstechnica.com)

A controversial bill that would require all new cars to be fitted with AM radios looks set to become a law in the near future. Yesterday, Senator Edward Markey (D-Mass) revealed that the “AM Radio for Every Vehicle Act” now has the support of 60 US Senators, as well as 246 co-sponsors in the House of Representatives, making...

ApostleO ,

I had never heard that before, and that now my truth. It makes so much sense.

ApostleO ,

the [worst] Democrat [is] better than the best Republican

That’s generally true, but not in the hypothetical. I’d honestly vote for Mitt Romney before I’d vote for hypothetical Democrat-Ticket Trump.

ApostleO ,

It’s called “Whattaboutism” and it’s straight from Russia’s playbook.

ApostleO ,

There are no bad dogs. Only bad dog owners.

ApostleO ,

At this point I can only understand it if I know who’s saying it.

That is the most frustrating thing about discussion these days. Everyone using the same words but speaking an entirely different language.

When you don’t agree on the definitions of words anymore, or you don’t hold yourself to using them in good faith, then you take discussion off the table. You’re no longer debating; now you are just arguing. It’s one step away from violence.

ApostleO ,

See, we all thought that.

Turns out the problem wasn’t that they committed genocide. It’s that the genocide was directed at the Jewish people.

And as Netanyahu would have you believe, if you’re against Israel, you’re against the Jewish people. So that makes you a Nazi.

Flawless logic, clearly.

/s

ApostleO ,

If you think growing up in a conservative household guarantees a kid becomes conservative, you didn’t grow up in a conservative household.

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Star Trek: Lower Decks Will End With Its Fifth, Final Season

Well hell.

https://gizmodo.com/star-trek-lower-decks-canceled-season-5-paramount-1851407280

@startrek

ApostleO ,

As disappointing as it is to see it end, 5 seasons is a decent run, and I’d rather it end before they “jump the shark” or just fizzle out.

ApostleO ,

Billionaires now control 1 out of every 25 dollars of American wealth.

1/25=4%

According to Google, there are 735 billionaires in the US, and the US population is 336,269,260. That makes Billionaires about 0.000002% of the population.

And they control 4% of the wealth. (And that’s probably not counting money they have hidden and sheltered.)

For reference, 4% of the population would be 13,450,770.

So 735 people have as much wealth as would be held by about 13.5 million people, if all wealth was distributed evenly. So each billionaire would be worth about 18,000 people.

But, it’s even worse in our current distribution:

Due to this influx to the very top, these 800 individuals now collectively control 1.5 times more wealth than the entire bottom 50 percent of American households, who share $3.7 trillion between 65 million households.

And, since money is free speech, that means these 735 billionaires have 1.5 times the voice of 65 million people, the majority of Americans, combined.

We’ve gone full oligarchy.

ApostleO ,

Vulcans.

As a regularly stoic person (maybe on the autism spectrum), I often struggle to show appropriate emotion. Or, at least, it is exhausting.

Having a conversation with a Vulcan would be a breath of fresh air.

Railroad agrees to $600 million settlement for fiery Ohio derailment, residents fear it’s not enough (www.opb.org)

Per this source, a 25 mile radius includes 585,000 people. That means (before lawyer fees so imagine half in actuality), Norfolk-Southern wants to give $1,000 per person for permanently poisoning not only their property but their body which is now forever scarred. This was filed for approval by the Plaintiff (people hurt) but as...

ApostleO ,

Nah, I think that’s Mason Verger.

ApostleO ,

Prediction: Starbucks resolves the issue by raising all “milk” product prices to match the most expensive option.

ApostleO ,

Eww! No I don’t! Take it back!

ApostleO ,

Yeah, that’s pretty true.

ApostleO ,

I used the lottery for the same reason for a long time. Then they raised the price and lowered your chances to win even further.

Also, seeing people win a “$1Billion jackpot” and take home less than $400M after taxes, meanwhile multiple billionaires can be shown to pay $0 on taxes… It’s pretty disillusioning.

ApostleO ,

“Donald Trump is a scab.”

Trump would be a scab, but he’s never worked a day in his life.

ApostleO ,

Didn’t return your grocery cart? Straight to jail.

StarTrek.website has updated to Lemmy version 0.19.3 (Clear cache/cookies in browser or remove+re-add account in app if experiencing login issues)

We had been waiting at 0.18.5 for a while because 0.19 came with some federation bugs (and obviously it would be extremely embarrassing if this instance had issues in that department)....

ApostleO ,

Be advised: I am unable to log in using the Android app, Liftoff.

I first noticed content wouldn’t load. I removed the account, and tried to re-add it. It simply spins its wheels endlessly with no error or connection. I cleared the app data and cache, and now when I try to add the startrek.website instance, it says “Instance not found.”

I suspect the issue is with their app (looks like they haven’t updated since July), but I thought I’d post here so admins would be aware, and in case any other Liftoff users are having the same issue. I see a lot of comments about Jerboa, so I’ll be trying that app.

🖖

ApostleO ,

They almost certainly picked it just for the joke.

queer.af = Queer AF = Queer as fuck!

It’s like how popular the TLD of Guernsey (.gg) is with gaming websites.

I wouldn’t be surprised if they didn’t even realize what country code the TLD was when they registered it.

ApostleO ,

If the big bang had never occurred, queer.af would never have died.

Ergo: big bang killed queer.af.

QED

ApostleO ,

Sure, but there’s also cost to the state to be considered.

That said, the common methods for execution used today are surprisingly expensive.

ApostleO ,

On a tangential note: I propose we ship the top 1% wealthiest people to Mars and make them colonize it.

We can send all the life sentence and death row convicts with them.

Judge in Trump’s civil fraud trial faces bomb threat ahead of closing arguments (www.nbcnews.com)

Nassau County police on Thursday have responded to a bomb threat at the home of Judge Arthur Engoron, the judge presiding over former President Donald Trump’s civil fraud case, a source with direct knowledge of the situation told NBC News....

ApostleO ,

Having grown up in a redneck community, I’m quite confident Trump supporters can at least make a functional pipe bomb.

NYC issues vacate orders to stabilize synagogue and nearby buildings following discovery of 60-foot tunnel (www.nbcnews.com)

An investigation by the city’s Department of Buildings uncovered a tunnel that was 60-foot-long, 8-foot-wide and 5-foot-high located underneath the global headquarters of the Chabad Lubavitch movement, an important Jewish site....

ApostleO ,

Yeah, I do not get it.

2023 saw record killings by US police. Who is most affected? (www.theguardian.com)

In 2023, Black people were killed at a rate 2.6 times higher than white people, Mapping Police Violence found. Last year, 290 people killed by police were Black, making up 23.5% of victims, while Black Americans make up roughly 14% of the total population. Native Americans were killed at a rate 2.2 times greater than white...

ApostleO ,

Until they kill a beloved celebrity, there will be insufficient outrage to force change. And even then, it might not matter beyond the specific cops that did it.

ApostleO ,

Goes back before Reagan, even. Look at Nixon. His pardon from Ford started the trend that the president was above the law.

ApostleO ,

Yeah. I’m tired of embarrassment every time I see my state mentioned in a news headline.

ApostleO ,

I will never understand how someone reconciles conservative politics with being a Star Trek fan. The cognitive dissonance is astounding.

ApostleO ,

It should have an option to add an event to your calendar.

ApostleO ,

Agreed, but it’s unfortunate, because I feel that clinical detachment can come across as insincerity in a therapeutic context. It can promote a feeling of cynicism.

On the end of Discovery

I have mixed feelings about Disco ending. I really dug the first season’s look at a Federation at war, and following the person who arguably set that war in motion dealing with her culpability. Add to that a ship that is part weird science lab, part haunted house. And yeah, I could live with the Klingon redesign....

ApostleO ,

I saw a lot of hate for the Saturn class, and the arguments made sense assuming classic Starfleet designs and concepts.

I, however, love it because it begs the question: why? What is that for? And my mind jumps to all sorts of cool technobabble uses for such a weird ship design.

Some weird portal experiment? Evacuation ship made to maximize shuttle bay access? A specialized science ship designed with tons of inward-facing sensors? The mind boggles with possibilities.

The people who hated in it see wasted space. I see an unopened techno-mystery-box.

ApostleO ,

I’ve read through two threads recently on DIS, and I have found nobody talking about S4. Did everyone just give up at S3? Did we all forget about “growing the beard” and how long it can take a show to get it’s legs?

S4 is my favorite season of DIS. Species 10-C was some of the coolest new sci-fi for Star Trek in a while. The overarching plot was interesting in that it had high stakes, but it didn’t feel oppressive like other seasons. It still had a sense of hope and optimism. A lot of the characters got to expand their roles and relationships, feeling more like an ensemble.

I know there was some stuff that didn’t hit well in that season, but I can’t recall the details off hand (like I can for S1-S3). In my memory, the good outweighed the bad.

I am hopeful that S5 meets at least that mark, and hopefully glides into a graceful ending for the show. If I had my wish, S5 would make a switch to a more episodic style (rather than a big season-long central plot).

ApostleO ,

That’s fair, and I think Starfleet HQ fits that bill. But I think (at least in my opinion of architecture as an art form, which I think starship design falls under, since people live and work there), I’d be frustrated to work on a Saturn class if that big hole did nothing, and made navigating between any two places on the ship more of a pain. That said, with personal transporters, maybe it’s not an issue (assuming this ship isn’t near any action that could make personal transporters inoperable). Maybe it would work well as a sort of diplomatic vessel, where having all these rooms with windows facing into the ring (like a giant round table) could be artistically conducive to discussion. Maybe they have a bunch of huge holo emitters in the ring, and they use it to project the current speaker, or just cool holo-art when not in session.

ApostleO ,

Oh, nice. I’m glad we aren’t ending with another stress-fest. End on a more fun note.

ApostleO ,

All the more sad.

I honestly would love to see a “Utopia-Realized Level Federation” series, even a limited run, where all the plots are philosophical, artistic, interpersonal, or scientific.

ApostleO ,

I personally liked Ruon Tarka. He felt like a good foil for our protagonists. Sympathetic, believable, but still squarely in the wrong. I did not, however, believe Book siding with him for so long.

But I agree the coolest parts of S4 were at the end, trying to actually learn about the 10-C for first contact.

Idaho Keeps Some Psychiatric Patients in Prison, Ignoring Decades of Warnings About the Practice (www.propublica.org)

A temporary program for “dangerously mentally ill” patients has continued for five decades, despite calls from critics to provide better care. Soon, Idaho will be the only state still using prisons to house patients who face no criminal charges....

ApostleO ,

As an Idaho resident, I know any time our state is in a headline, it’s gonna be bad. I don’t even get how our state is like this.

ApostleO ,

Yeah, as a leftist who likes guns for fun, survival, self defense, and theoretical political unrest… I still think it’s ridiculous we don’t have gun licenses in the US. Or a gun ownership registry.

Bans restrict freedom for everyone.

License and registration lets you maintain that freedom for most, but still restrict it where necessary (e.g. crime, mental health), and more easily track and punish those who misuse firearms.

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