Shine on, you crazy diamond

Ooh yeah I’ve heard people speak highly of The Orville, and I keep forgetting to check it out! If I’m not mistaken, it’s got Penny Johnson (Kasidy Yates) in it, right?

Ugh… I’ve been so reticent to watch modern Trek. I’ve heard such bad things about Discovery and have never been tempted to try it. But I really love the TNG era, so I gave in and watched Picard season 1…man, that was a mistake. Too modern, too snarky, too fucking meta. I swore off modern Trek. But then I read loads of threads saying that SNW was a return to form, and that it felt the most like Star Trek out of all the modern series. So even though I knew I might hate it, yesterday I watched the first three episodes. I’m already so annoyed with it. Super meta, the cast is for the most part way too young, and it’s loose or completely disregarding toward canon (yeah, Spock and T’Pring having sex without Pon Farr… give me a break!), and plotlines that make no sense at all. I’m so annoyed with it. I get that '80s/'90s TV was too earnest for today’s audiences, but SNW feels like a parody of Star Trek, not a worthy successor. So far, nothing feels like actual high stakes. There really isn’t serious drama that I actually care about. When shows are too snarky and meta, it makes it really hard for me to connect with them.

I do recognize that first seasons can be rocky, so I’ll at least stick with it through the end of the season. But I can’t lie, it’s off to a terrible start. I wish we could have shows more in keeping with the tone and themes of TNG and DS9 (or even Voyager!).

I’m from New Jersey and I pronounce it Wuh-stah-shur. I think that’s reasonably correct?

Maybe you shouldn’t be seafood if you don’t want to be eaten by cats. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Yeah also 4chan

They should be Edsels for maximum insult

Do you not have a VPN?

Has to be Obvious Plant

Aw adorable :)

If you want my squidbod
And you think I’m slimy

Ooh baby sexy slimy squid bod

Mostly unrelated, but here’s one of my favorites (I had this on a mug but I broke it :/ ):

I’m 42. I owed about $88K after college (including one very expensive semester of med school in which I realized I didn’t want to be a doctor after all). In addition to my full-time job, I did a whole bunch of consulting work, which let me completely pay off my student loans plus pay for grad school out of pocket.

Heeeere we go again guys… hold on to your jeans

Recently Trump was selling $100K gold watches; I’m assuming it was mostly maga folks who bought them

Murr SAY deez

Ooh I do mulled apple cider in the crock pot with cinnamon sticks, star anise, cloves, ginger, allspice, cardamom, nutmeg, and orange slices. Bottle of spiced rum on the side for those who want it. People really love it!

Different strokes for different folks… more for me! 🎃🍺

Fucking excel. Lemmy lemme tell you. At a former position my boss wanted me to make an economic model in excel. I begged to do it in R but no dice. Annoyingly VBA was the skill all other employers were interested in (in my brief foray into industry). I had a million sads.