andyburke

you better watch out for the DS9 people…

At this point does Google ever do anything that isn’t awful for the consumer?

Eject, friend, eject!

Both sides are all just humans being the worst we have to offer as a species.

Egged on by ridiculous stories about men in the sky, they fight for no reason when we could all just treat each other as human.

Same. Thought maybe some local woodworker produced a beautiful lectern.

No, turns out it’s from amazon with some spray paint and Arkansas is just being Arkansas.

Not going to agree with the commenter above, but I want to point out that this happens a lot:

A person who holds views that are detrimental to others comes to a community of those people and cries “why, when I am not quite like other people who hold these views, but agree with them on the detrimental stuff about you, do you not accept me?”

The people in the community try repeatedly to explain why holding views that harm others is harmful and that the person asking may need to revaluate their own views.

The person then says they’re being attacked. Everything they predicted about this community is coming true! They feel like they’re being kicked out!

And they are! Because when they came to engage then didn’t change, let alone evaluate, any of their own views, the community rightly showed them back to the door until they are ready to actually listen and put themselves in someone else’s shoes.

I am sure you feel like you have been badly treated at this point. What you do with that now is up to you. I’ll say this: I have no hate for you, I would like nothing more than to give you some feedback that might help change how you view some things. I hope there is enough food for thought here for everyone.

I find it positive to think about these writers, inspired to try to create something scientific and exciting but lacking the education themselves to do it justice, but then inspiring generations to learn and explore, who then return having learned enough to spot the problems.

I hope Star Trek can use science, and the generations of fans now inspired, to keep pushing these stories further because it feels like our collective need for Star Trek’s vision is as deep as ever.

☝️

FWIW: these types of password rules are discouraged by NIST -

1. Eliminate Periodic Resets

Many companies ask their users to reset their passwords every few months, thinking that any unauthorized person who obtained a user’s password will soon be locked out. However, frequent password changes can actually make security worse.

It’s difficult enough to remember one good password a year. And since users often have numerous passwords to remember already, they often resort to changing their passwords in predictable patterns, such as adding a single character to the end of their last password or replacing a letter with a symbol that looks like it (such as $ instead of S).

So if an attacker already knows a user’s previous password, it won’t be difficult to crack the new one. The NIST guidelines state that periodic password-change requirements should be removed for this reason.

If Evergrande even actually built it.

I hear you.

Just remember that we know so much more about everything that happens on the earth than even just a few decades ago.

Things have always been bad everywhere, we just didn’t all have to hear about it every single day.

I say this just so you can maybe temper some of your feelings to make sure you’re accounting for that difference.

Agree. However, if we get to the general and it’s far right or democrat, I hope people choose the ancient democrat to the more fascism-friendly alternative.

I hear you, but they didn’t timewarp from the late 90s to today, either. 2014 would have been a good time to think carefully about their defensive coalition membership.

Edit: I want to finish by saying I wish the US lived up to our ideals more often and that I also wish Armenia had better protection through their defense pacts.

Thinking about this more and it’d make more sense: a Ferengi that believed in giving gifts would certainly be banished, maybe he brought his message of giving to Earth…

… there’s a chance he may have been Ferengi.

Armenia is a member of the CSTO, right? That’s the NATO alternative run by Russia, as I understand it. Russia has no ability to actually help Armenia in this conflict, though.

I agree that the west is awful about doing the right thing if there’s no compounding factor to juice it like oil.

But Armenia made a decision to ally themselves with Russia for protection. That has proven to be a terrible mistake. Let’s not pretend this was a completely unavoidable situation that the west could just walk into and stop. Armenia’s membership in CSTO complicates that greatly.

So … gonna go with “a little of column a, a little of column b” here. I wish the west was more righteous and less greedy. I wish Armenia had chosen better friends.

Hey, family is family. Like I said, India needs to police their shit, they’re losing the script badly.

Hey, US citizen checkin in. Don’t fuck around in or with Canada unless you like pissing the US off, too. I don’t think India wants this heat. They need to change course.

My friend, many, many planes that have been crashed have been serviced and returned to service, including airliners.

You’re not alone, but maybe we are? Everyone else seems to understand.

I watched Star Trek because my dad introduced me to it. I’m now a dad and I am sharing it with my kids.

I don’t know you, and I don’t know your family, but if your father liked Star Trek enough to introduce you to it, my guess is that he wouldn’t want his death to take that away from you. If anything, my bet would be he’d hope it would bring you comfort and fond memories and hope for the future.

I hope you can get there when enough time has passed, and I hope this message might help it all hurt a little less.