It’s almost like Israel is a genocidal colonial state.

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I have tried so hard to get my co-workers in software to unionize, but they all have a combination of apathy or contempt for the idea as somehow being beneath them.

The problem is that they want to eat their cake and have it to when it comes to being a comedic show that parodies Trek, but also a serious part of the Trek canon.

Sometimes it works, like with the SNW crossover episode, or the ludicrous gambit to clear the captain’s name when she’s being framed for blowing up Planet Packled. Other times, like with the stupid koala or the people sleeping in the corridors it goes beyond what makes sense in-universe and becomes stupid for an out-of-universe joke.

Yeah, we were talking about the Connie. Galaxy class is like 20x the volume of a CVN.

And it also isn’t carrying 100 fighter planes.

That’s not even a big carrier either. American supercarriers between the flight crews, the ship crews, the marine contingent and everything else can fit up to SIX THOUSAND people.

There’s no need for anyone on the Cerritos to sleep in the fucking hallways. That’s like “we live on a literal submarine” level of privacy. It’s beyond idiotic. The Cali class are MASSIVE. There’s no need for anyone to be living in the hallways like that.

AS much as I enjoy some aspects of Lower Decks, that was one of the most phenomenally stupid decisions that they could possibly have made.

The crew sizes for Federation starships are TINY compared to the actual size of the ships. SNW giving every crew member their own studio apartment is something that reflects the ludicrous amount of empty space that a Federation starship has availalbe to it.

If you ever look at the deck plans, there’s just a crazy amount of space that’s unused.

What’s that, the company infamous for being restrictive as hell in regards to usability, interoperability, repair, and even infamously went to court to defend their right to throttle their consumer’s hardware capabilities to force them to upgrade isn’t supporting their legacy hardware?

What.

A.

Fucking.

Surprise.

That’s because windows will run on a box of rusty rocks, and works with just about anything and everything. There may be the occasional crash, but the OS WILL run.

Mac OS only runs on their own proprietary hardware that it’s optimized for, and got help you if you have to integrate it with ANYTHING AT ALL.

I will die before I use Windows 11.

“Upgrading” from 7 to 10 was already painful enough.

That’s it?

THAT’S FUCKING NOTHING.

I wish someone had trained me how to use a buttplug. Could have saved myself a huge pain in the ass.

If he loves Russia so much, we should deport him there, and nationalize all his assets since SpaceX is a critical security apparatus and he’s clearly the foreign agent of a hostile power.

Scientific studies have shown that you’re faster on the draw when responding than when attempting to strike first.

I’d have more sympathy for the people of Afghanistan if they had actually fought back against the Taliban.

People say that America lost in Afghanistan, but we were basically the only thing propping up democracy. The people themselves made no effort.

Sounds like Twitter needs some obstruction of justice charges and for some people to get arrested.

We shouldn’t just be giving a measly 24 billion.

We have something like 3 and a half THOUSAND Abrams tanks sitting in deep storage at army bases in the desert. This is the only use case for them between now and the heat death of the universe. Let’s get some fucking good out of them and send them to Ukraine.

I don’t care that we have laws about exporting them. Change the fucking laws and give Ukraine what she needs to protect democracy in Europe.

Even if war with China happens, that isn’t going to be a “we need those 3500 Abrams more than we have in active service” war. That’s going to be a “We start pumping out planes and CV(N)s like it’s WW2 again.” war.

Well, since gun control in this country is basically verboten, one of the simplest ways to reduce suicide is a non-starter.