yeah but where’s the pun in that

what do we call this scandal? seagate? seagate…gate?

i wish we got to spend more time with Captain Georgiou. she saw potential in Michael when no one else did, but didn’t see the disrepency between what she was and could be. she paid the ultimate price for making her the xo, and it arguably led to a quadrant wide war. that’s interesting! the Emperor always felt to me like an excuse to reuse an actor and just came across like more noise in a season that already had too many anttagonists.

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it’s worth bearing in mind that comparing audacity and reaper is like comparing notepad++ to libreoffice- in many cases libreoffice is a much more robust program but in others all the extra bells and whistles are bloat. you wouldn’t want to program in libreoffice!

that said audacity has some wildly bizzare design, and any forks are either even worse with this or incredibly unstable, so audacity being terrible isn’t wrong sadly

next you’re gonna tell me he never finished high school!

um obviously they mean Secret Messages, ELO’s much maligned 1983 penultimate album that has since developed a cult following surrounding the original planned 2LP tracklist before it was reduced to one disc shortly before release

getting from there to here…

we watching the Picard S3 finale when they’re back on the D (or E?)

reminds me of the M5 Stack, but with a much more portability friendly profile

not only are they still at it but they’re firmly in the “kicking ass” column while their remaining contemporaries are increasingly being filed under “no really it’s ok you can retire now please” category

There must be some kind of way out of here…

“jaws” is an equivalent of that for a metro NY accent. i could never hear my own accent until someone had me say it and really listen for it. now if you’ll excuse me i need to walk my dawg to the cawfee shop

i use mobile sites whenever possible, but if it’s something i use often and the app is more convient i’ll relent. looking at my home screen it’s all mostly things that don’t have a web equivalent. i’ll use an app for things that i WANT notifications for, so really only mastodon and email. for mbin specifically i use the PWA because i’m not sure if any kbin/lemmy/whatever apps work with it, and the user CSS themes are pretty neat

i remember you used to be able to download voice packs for one of the common map apps (maybe Waze?) but instead of saying the road names it just gave simple commands like turn left and turn right. i betcha you could rip all of those straight from episodes without needing to synthesize anything new

my favorites are Christmas Wrapping, Last Christmas (never got the hate!) and basically everything off of the Phil Spector and Mannheim Steamroller records. (edit: and Brian Setzer! how could i forget!) the only ones i really dislike are All I Want For Christmas Is You and any time someone covers and upbeat christmas song as an acoustic ballad- people think that’s an easy way to make something emotional and meaningful but it actually takes a lot of skill to pull of, and i’ve yet to hear anyone pull it off with a Christmas song!

i love lower decks but that’s in spite of and not because of the “adult humor.” the jokes that make me laugh- which is most of them!- would be exactly the same if it was an all ages program on Nickelodeon like Prodigy. the good does ultimately outweigh the bad, and signifigantly so, i just think it was a missed opportunity. i was pretty young when i watched TNG and TOS with my parents and probably would’ve gotten a huge kick out of LD

apparently tawney newsome is gonna be writing on the starfleet academy show so that might end up being The Best of Both Worlds (Parts I and II) between all-ages trek and funny trek

this is my go-to music for building various contraptions to erradicate the local wildlife to make room for factories to make even more contraptions

https://youtu.be/44gWxAKXCDI?si=OV_i8IZsR_hVRuZ2

the thing with NYC is thay everyone is moving so slow it stops being driving and starts being walking in a crowded hallway. it looks like a clusterfuck, mostly because it is a clusterfuck, but if you take it easy and be patient it’s very managable. once you cross the throgg’s neck, that’s when you’re in for a really bad time. although that too can be predictable: just assume everyone on the road is going to do the single most malicious thing possible and you’re right nine out of ten times

iirc when beaming, you can momuntarily feel yourself in both places at once, which implies that your brain activity is at least contigious even if you’re made of new atoms. i guess it comes down to what you consider “you”