Data was artificial and autonomous. The Dr originally wasn’t autonomous, it could be argued he’s just part of the ship, but the holo emitter changed that. I’m amazed the Daystrom institute let him keep it, but since it’s apparently his, and that makes him autonomous, I would argue he’s just like Data (minus the permanent corporeality of course). I suppose there’s a question about ownership given his origins as a Starfleet asset, but since he can be replaced with a copy of the original program, there’s no real material loss in letting him leave the ship.

Ok, so, there’s at least two of us.

I don’t think Republicans feel. They approximate the social rituals that allow them access to society (and its benefits) in the same way high functioning sociopaths do, more or less.

1am, taco bell is open. Guy orders a crunch wrap meal, and they have no problem making it. It’s exactly the same as it’s always been and the guy is happy. Cashier rings him up and it’s $20. He snaps.

It blows my mind that the greatest trick Valve ever pulled was releasing a console that relies solely on backwards compatibility. There are zero games released for the steam deck.

Ok, so, the trick is to make sure the NPC’s are the same way. That’ll really confuse the players.

Person jumps off a roof and splats in front of the party

player: “why did that happen?”

dm: “They had just purchased boots of flying from an untrustworthy source and figured this was the best way of testing them.”

like, super alpha this time. S rank Alpha, but with a T. Best alpha this time, we promise.

The Cage, the original pilot, was filmed and screened in 1965. It was reworked into “Menagerie”, which contained a lot of the original footage, but aired in 1966.

So you’re saying the original timeline, well call it the Pike Prime timeline, is the real timeline, and that the show containing Kirk & Co, and everything from 66 onward, is fiction.

That’s a good head canon, I like that.

Oh sure, I was mostly being flippant. My response to the article is basically that billionaires losing billions is a good thing. I don’t feel optimistic enough to say we’ll get around to taxing them but yes, that would be ideal.

Venture Capital is probably the best way to drain the billionaires. Those billions in capital weren’t wasted, that money just went to pay people who do actual work for a living. What good is all that money doing just sitting in some hedge fund account?

Nexus 5.

I stared at that thumbnail for a solid 10 seconds trying to figure out why there was a water cooled GPU in someone’s trunk

I know people who would describe that as “I fight coworkers”

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Orbelievable was hanging low on that branch, but you reached higher and the effort paid off. Bravo.

I’ve learned that training a model to search your (companies) unmaintainable, unorganized, and continuously growing documentation storage is a godsend.

Almond tits are microscopic, takes forever just to fill a thimble, let alone a carton!

REALLY low, REALLY slow.