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I don’t know what it is you’re trying to show. Is it that this drink is 500ml while all the others are 20 in whatever medieval unit is in use? I’m confused because the bepis says it’s 16.9 floz, but if I type that into a converter it’s not 500ml, and the other drinks are in oz, not in floz. I don’t know if they’re different. Is that the problem? One’s by weight and one by volume? 500ml is standard for a large can in 90% of the world, fwiw.

I still don’t really get it. I don’t have a TV at all, so it doesn’t matter how many other rooms I have.

Why do we care about proprietary projects again?

No, I don’t have a TV in my bedroom.

Why does me having a living room have any bearing on that?

You reuse, “Nature abhors a vacuum, so silence takes its place.” - is this something you’re going to use as a motif going forward?

It’s the chest of drawers from a dolls’ house. Someone’s put a TV on it presumably so they can watch in bed.

If you’re stuck on Windows for work or whatever, you probably don’t have rights to do that.

Running windows in a VM is still… running Windows. It’s not idealistically different to having a dedicated Windows computer. There’s nothing magical about running Linux as a host that makes Windows less evil.

There is definitely going to be a better metric than pure numbers of centres, but I doubt floor area is it. Something to do with actual useful capacity.

Why will there always be an option for another OS? I think it’s perfectly plausible that the government(s) would require hardware manufacturers to limit OS installation to “approved” software with revokable keys.

And this isn’t science!

Once you make the workplace adjustments and accommodations for parents, there’s no good reason not to do the same for everyone. It’s like cutting curbs or making wide doors for wheelchair access. Once you’ve convinced the company to do it for new premeses, why would they ever decide to make some without that access? Shits and giggles?

If you’re talking about mat/pat leave then that’s a separate thing (which everyone should definitely get)

God I hate that the younger generations use the word “drop” to mean both “cancel” and “release”.

Ko’Zeine,

None of that episode hinges on Darem being gay, though? What would have changed if he was straight? It’s not the plot. The plot is that he has responsibilities to his home world and has new found family with Star Fleet.

Trek expresses gay people being normal. It’s explicitly not the plot. There’s no plot point about it. The plot is about kids (for a certain Steve McQueen value of “teenager”) being in school and battling Space Foes. I’m picking on “being gay” as a point because I imagine it’s what the people who cancelled the show had an issue with, but I could well be wrong.

There was no exploration of the things the right-wing hate in Academy. They just exist. There’s no ongoing plot about anyone’s sexuality, or if you think there is then it’s dwarfed by the same plot with other straight characters.

It sounds so much like saying you can’t have a gay character unless there’s an interesting moral plot point about why they’re gay. That’s not what Academy did.

Theoretically these have a lot of benefits as well, like saving on paper and ink. One barker could last as long as thousands of prices over its lifetime, and mean staff don’t have to spend time changing them.

I mean, capitalism gonna capitalise and they’ll be used for evil, mostly, but.

I wonder if they’re all wired or run off batteries? If the former, then there’s a single point of failure, if the latter then ho boy do I have a plan for a zigbee/wifi/whatever device.

tbh I’m not sure why any “war” is legal in the first place. Seems like a failing.

I agree completely with your point about the Orville. It was really well done.

I don’t agree with your assessment of New Trek, however. I know it’s all very variable and I don’t want to generalise, but even if we accept this:

Everything is presented in the first 10 seconds as “this is good, this is bad. Accept the message we are feeding you are you are a bad person.”

Then, I have to point out the obvious: if it’s so lacking in nuance, then yes, if you don’t accept it you are a bad person. For example, if it’s saying, “gay people are ok and normal”, there’s no subtlety to that because it’s not something anyone in the future will hopefully give a shit about. And if someone in their society did, then yes, they would be in the wrong. 100%.

I’m going to add a little context for completeness.

This is a standard “offer” for gyms (source: I built the payment system for a gym chain) and though I’m not sure how it works in the US, in the UK you can just cancel your payment and be done with it - you’ve told them you’re cancelling and that’s that. They expect this and won’t even be annoyed.

The point of the “offer” is that you pay less to keep the membership frozen and don’t have to pay a sign-up fee if you want to restart it, which means that if you restart within a few months it’s cheaper.

It’s a trick, of course. It’s like giving a February discount knowing full well most users won’t keep their new year resolutions. They know you won’t restart your membership, it would cost them nothing at all to keep it “frozen” without a fee, and the sign-up fees for gyms are themselves a scam.

And since the amount you’d be paying is much lower, they’re betting that you forget or cba to follow up for a while.

Fuck 'em. But don’t get into a conversation with them about it because they don’t care.