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This is really cool. Loved this season, well its the only one i've watched. Does anyone know a way to launch a webpage as a screensaver?

Where exactly would our data be going once we upload it?

This reminds me of a scene in my favorite movie, "The Big lebowski". IIRC, the dude is complaining about a 'chinaman' peeing on his rug. Walter goes on one of his rants and ends with "By the way, Asian-American is the preferred term". It always struck me as curious that the peeing guy, that Walter is presumably advocating for wasn't even present in the scene. All this hullabaloo and most times, the affected person isn't even there. Indeed, pronouns are instructions for how people must refer to you when you are not present!

If trends like these help out used/old bookstores, I am all for it

> "I do think it's interesting that given the choice between admitting its own wrongdoing and claiming the article is fake, it chooses the latter.

That sounds very familiar

> (inexplicably) conservative wing of Trek fandom was outraged that a show about happy space communists solving problems while remaining friends suddenly “got woke.” Good, old-fashioned Star Trek at least had the good grace to cloak its progressivism in allegory that could slide past the otherwise closed minds of some of its viewers.

For all the great points raised in the article, I was struck my the deliberate meanness of these lines. Can someone tell me who this was meant to appeal to? Why are people writing like this? Have we lost all hope of any sort of peace in this so called 'culture' war? Its ironic because the writer starts by how grim and militaristic Picard is and then launches that missile above at unsuspecting readers!

Maybe so. I'm talking about the impulse to do that in the first place.

> quite clearly connects the dots to a clear picture

Thats the opinion part

I always find articles like these odd. CNN states a "fact"(1), then states a bunch of other "facts" with the obvious implication that this is the reason for 1. Yet in no where in the article did the affected parties go on record to corroborate this. Nevertheless they have successfully gotten the message out there that Twitter is in trouble under Elon.

I hate these filters too but the fact that someone out there thought that a good command to run for funsies is the "rm -rf /" command just breaks my heart. This is why we can't have nice things,

> you are contributing to a workplace culture where employees buy what they need

This is nevertheless a great point. This culture is coming if it isn't here already especially when you add WFH to the mix

I request paper receipts every time. Now I know I had the right idea

They "underperformed" because his own party establishment thwarted the efforts of candidates he endorsed.

> Nate was aware this was happening and by not addressing it he ended up contributing to misleading the American people about what was happening in the election

Please observe closely the manner in which the accusation "misleading the American public" is deployed. Truly we are headed for dangerous waters in our public discourse if we are not there already. How was Silver supposed to address whatever it was???

> To match and fuel that growth, we hired for a different economic reality than the one we face today

I will never tire of reading phrasing/euphemisms like these. Language can be so beautiful even when its something bad.

> Is it the "monkey" part and because some racist rednecks call black people monkeys?

Ding! You hit the nail on the head! To be succinct, if you hear monkey and think black people, then you are a racist regardless of any good intentions you may or may not have.

The analogy itself is the problem. If I wanted to assign a racism value to the creation of a fantasy race with certain characteristics and the resulting analogy by some to black people in this instance, the analogy would always have a higher racism value.

> the folks who've built successful small businesses around the SRD and the OGL aren't going to forget what they just learned

Regardless of what happens, THIS is ALWAYS a good lesson to keep in mind when businesses are built on the platforms of others.

I think there is at least a third group. People who don't care about Nazis or whatever but just want to enjoy the new toy.

> There was that microsoft chatbot which “turned nazi”.[1] They then had to turn it off.

At the time, I thought it was incredible that Microsoft was held responsible for this! so much so that they had to turn it off because of all the blame. It was really weird and it made no sense. Here we are again.

> Do you really want this industry to be consolidated into 1-2 players?

There has to be some happy medium between the two extremes. Sure, the pre-streaming era sucked but I don't think having multiple subscriptions with maybe 2 good shows per channel is utopia either.

> If you remove ads then there's no reason for the broadcaster to keep going.

Not removed. The volume is turned down. In any case, if I'm figuring this out correctly, the broadcaster is paid to run the ads, which they are doing.

My reading of the article suggests that they think the solution is better networking/internet!

On this particular topic, I don't think it really matters who the source is, especially since the problems brought up in the article are generally accepted to be true at least from the comments I have read. Even a broken clock is right twice a day as the saying goes.

With the so called prosecutorial discretion firmly in mind, it is always interesting to observe the sort of things our "Justice" department would rouse themselves for.

what is "vanced"?

I find it amusing that the apologies linked in the post read like hostage notes. I can't help but imagine a gun to the heads of each of those guys as they nervously typed out the apologies.

My general point in these sorts of stories is that while you can name a bunch of advantages of subscription only software, its the disadvantages that really get ya!

> Put it this way: I’ve never encountered groups of ghoul-lovers hanging outside abortion clinics and harassing women about hauntings.

This made me throw up in my mouth and my eyes hurt from all the eye rolls

> I wonder if the crime increases in absolute numbers, but goes down per capita.

You might probably be right but its nevertheless amusing the way statistics can render things banal in a weird way