What reputable VPNs these days offer port forwarding? That’s a big part of what keeps me on a seedbox.

Play dom-jot, hu-mon?

Of course, but when you don’t know who is a deadly foe, there’s a bit more subtlety than having to be defenseless because you aren’t certain. The risks can never be reduced to zero, and the safety of you and your team can’t be ignored.

At least aiming their phasers while they were unsure would have given them a chance to react once the changeling transformed.

RIP to an OG.

You mean enhances the episode with her peerless villainy.

Horga’hn!

“Bones, help me, I’m injured!”

“true”

It does happen among Esperanto speakers; parents whose common language is Esperanto is a major source of what few native speakers there are.

Just following in the footsteps of the Silk Road’s creator on Stack Overflow. The FBI mentioned the post specifically.

How is a lack of magnitude order objectively wrong? A date format is ultimately a language feature, and the US format successfully transmits the needed info just fine within its natural context.

It may seem objective from your perspective, but language is used in many more contexts than those you are familiar with.

You haven’t explained what is objectively wrong other than you don’t like it. My argument is more than just being used to it, closely matching verbal convention is useful.

Also, it’s funny that you think I’m arguing either is objectively better than the other.

Only the combination of formats results in ambiguity. Neither format is ambiguous on its own.

Standardization is good, and if someone were to change it should probably be the US given the apparent worldwide consensus otherwise. That doesn’t make either format good or bad on its own.

What I take issue with is people acting like the US format is some kind of bizarro nonsense when it in fact makes perfect sense in terms of matching spoken dates. That is hardly a weird basis for a format.

Each has its tradeoffs, and which set of tradeoffs is better is a subjective matter. I agree that d/m/y makes the most sense for an international standard (if not y/m/d), but to claim that the US format itself is somehow objectively bad is silly.

That’s how formats work, I hate to break it to you. The ambiguity sucks, but the format itself makes perfect sense given the way americans say dates.

It’s not unclear to americans. “Objectively” is hilarious here. If it’s in the format people expect, then it’s perfectly fine in context. Sorry that US traditions don’t suit your fancy.

It’s definitely confusing in an international context, but well-estsblished conventions don’t change easily.

Do people outside of the US not say dates like “June first” etc? M/D/Y matches that. It’s really not weird at all, even if the international ambiguity is awful.

I wonder whether they really are over. I have to imagine there will be future surges once negative sentiment fades and just the right novelty comes along.

Wait, Lower Decks? LD captures the spirit of Trek better than any official property in a long time. No soap-opera-style parade of cataclysms, just exploring humanity by exploring space.

I was put off by it being a comedy initially, but the framework the comedy happens within does a lot of great examination of Trek and of life. Plus lots of great characters with growth.

What kinds of contradictions do you mean?