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Hey, as a librarian I have to tell you You don't have to finish a book that doesn't interest you. Life's too short for that. Not your jam? You have my permission to move on to the next book.
I'm a Map Guy because I value how scientists think and I value how specialists in the humanities think. Maps are technical projects that use math and data science and satellites and lasers and theodolites. But they also are semiotics and history and epistemology and language. Both and.
I'm old enough to remember Skibidi being a weird Russian music video (the band, Little Big, moved to the US a few years ago and still puts out weird music videos)
Quite the hair trigger you got there, officer.
Clearly you are unfamiliar with the responsibilities of the Mayor of South Bend, Indiana.
Sean Duffy: "Pete Buttigieg was running for president as opposed to doing his job and making sure that we got our air traffic control system modernized." (Pete Buttigieg ran for president in 2020. He became transportation secretary in 2021.)
It was "Orphans of the Sky" actually 😂
This reminds me, I really should get back to reading that Harlan Ellison anthology which I ironically took a break from to read, among other things, a Robert Heinlein novel.
OK but imagine this crew fighting demons in the 60s. I'd watch that movie. But then I've enjoyed all six of the original Star Trek movies, so my taste is considered a little suspect.
No, it's true, music peaked when I was 16, due to complex historical and sociological reasons and also because that was when I started listening to the radio while driving to school.
Also, fond memory of reading that book, and my dad asking with considerable curiosity what I thought of it. I told him, and he responded with "Well, you're too Catholic to appreciate it." This was, in my entire life, probably the only time my dad ever teased me about being Catholic 😄
I'm just saying, there's a couple of reasons that I, someone who unironically has enjoyed every Robert Heinlein book he has read except for "Stranger in a Strange Land," do not tend to recommend Heinlein to anyone my age.
I don't think the problem that a lot of younger readers would have with Heinlein has anything to do with language evolving a lot since the 1980s, and I say this as someone who's first Heinlein book was "To Sail Beyond the Sunset" back around the turn of the century. 😆
Studios are also the one place where you can control 100% of the lighting anyways, making auto-metering stuff a lot less necessary.
Yeah was about to say, be careful with the voltage. I think you can check it with a multimeter against the specifications for your camera but I'm not sure.
If I had a nickel for every time Doctor McCoy had to perform rocket surgery, I'd have two nickels, which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice.
If you ever feel really dumb, just remember that Christopher Columbus coined the term "Indians" to refer to the Lucayans, the indigenous people he met in Guanahani, despite this being nowhere near Indiana. Truly one of the worst navigators of all time.
WTF? I was quoted in this story but I have never spoken to the reporter nor would I have said those things. Is everything just generated by LLMs these days? cosmosmagazine.com/earth/oceans...
An update on the IMLS
I don't really follow basketball but am genuinely amused by Nikola Jokic, all he really seems to want to do is to race horses in small town Serbia but he's like "fine, ugh, I will go to work as a generational basketball player to pay the bills"
*me putting on yellow tinted shades* oh no I've been teleported to television Mexico!
4. Star Trek Into Darkness is a good movie. It's not the best Trek movie by a long shot but it does some interesting stuff with TWoK's formula by switching some of the character roles around (Khan is now the whale, and Kirk is Ahab) and it is overall well put-together.
3. Kevin Thomas Riley was a fantastic character who was terribly underutilized. I wish he'd come back for the movies.
2. The first season of Star Trek: Picard was the best season of the series. The second season was also pretty good. And the third season... had a lot of stuff I enjoyed!
1. Star Trek V: The Final Frontier is a fun movie. Is it Casablanca? No. Is it in the lower fifty percent of movies quality-wise? No. Of all the films, it is probably the most faithful to the spirit of TOS, which is to say it's campy as hell.
"That's my secret, Cap... I'm always tired."
Everyone’s a nerd but me.
I'm nothing if not a trendfollower. One like = One opinion about Star Trek. I'd end up sharing the opinions regardless lol
I will also do this one! One like = One opinion about Star Trek
Like, I realize he was being mean to Picard, but my brothers in Sarek, Picard was there under false pretenses and ended up dragging Shaw's crew into terrible danger behind his back.
I felt the way his story ended was a misstep, but then I always felt like that episode was like hitting a pothole on the freeway. The whole season was otherwise pretty great and had lots of elements I enjoyed, especially Shaw. Even when he was a jerk to Picard and Riker, he wasn't wrong about them.
My only critique of that episode was that we didn't get more of Boimler and La'an working together. I thought they had great chemistry, especially with La'an understanding how Boimler feels about the time travel challenges. Also we need her to have an opportunity to use the Grapplers.
I adore Tilly. Someone on Reddit did the math and figured out that she was probably classmates with James T. Kirk, and my headcanon is that he was the boyfriend she talks about sitting on a roof with in the S4 finale.
Hot take: It's not a true Trek *unless* they redesign the Klingons.
Yeah, the 90s shows did this kind of thing a lot. I appreciate episodes like "Yesterday's Enterprise" for the Elseworlds plots that they were but the franchise at the time was allergic to long-term consequences for plot decisions.
*hand waggle* I liked them both for different reasons. Very different takes on the character, but then Kelvin!Spock *is* a different character, which is something I think a lot of fans too easily forget about the Kelvinverse crew as a whole. I do agree that Peck excels as a truer-to-TOS Spock.
Look, I'm not sure most Trekkies with a pulse would be emotionally prepared to deal with Admiral Scully. I don't have problems with high blood pressure but I *would*.
Generations is essentially a movie-length TNG episode, and a pretty good one at that. Whether this is good or bad depends largely on personal taste (I like Final Frontier essentially because it is a big-budget TOS episode, and I think that's exactly what a lot of folks dislike about it)
So uh, who do I talk to if I spot an error in an Air Force regulation? The newest version of DAFI 36-2903 references a seemingly non-existent AFI in the first chapter.
The irony of this is, having grown up in the Deep South, the only people I knew who gave a shit about “Gone With the Wind” were the art girls in High School who all moved to the big city and became communists in college.
even at the time, Mark Twain was roasting this kind of airless romanticization of aristocracy in the South as "the sillinesses and emptinesses, sham grandeurs, sham gauds, and sham chivalries of a brainless and worthless long-vanished society"
Ahem. It also offered shenanigans.
I BROUGHT THIS FUTURE ABOUT
Reminds me of the meme where folks would post a disclaimer on FB saying they didn't agree to some of the things that they'd already agreed to when they signed the EULA for Facebook.
It cracks me up when the Snyderbros claim that Cavill!Supes would beat Corenswet!Supes. Let's be for real for a second. Why would they be fighting? They're more likely to team up to save the Multiverse as is the norm for this scenario.
I met some NFL football player in Guam while I was at Silver Flag. He was doing a USO tour and they brought him out to the training site on the last day of training when everyone had left to go to the BX and the base club, so it was like me and two other people chatting with this guy.
Defense Department schools will introduce a new biliteracy certification in the upcoming academic year, with the aim of encouraging students to show their skills in languages critical to the military and national security.
Reposting with alt text: There is currently an NWS flash flood warning in effect for all five boroughs of NYC.
In Cornyn's defense, he's deeply stupid.
Texas officials appeared to be almost entirely issuing vital emergency alerts about the deadly Kerr County flooding via Facebook and Twitter/X. Utter malpractice to restrict these alerts to social media platforms that huge numbers of people don’t use anymore.
It’s especially insane that so many officials continue to rely on Facebook and X/Twitter as their primary point of public communications when these platforms are *actively designed* to hide vital, timely information from users.
Also that was supposed to be a gif on my post but it evidently is not. Sigh.
If you haven't seen #KPopDemonHunters you absolutely should. Great music, great action scenes, funny and emotional. Animated by the same folks who did Into the Spider-Verse. Exactly what it says on the tin: They're a K-Pop band who are also demon hunters.
I'm reminded of a comment I saw on a post from Trevor Noah talking about racism in America. The comment was along the lines of "You're English! You don't know anything about racism!" Which happened to be wrong in a variety of very interesting ways.
What are a set of praying hands but a high-five between you and the Almighty? Wait, that sounds kind of narcissistic, lemme workshop this metaphor...
#HappyPride for the next 335 days, too.
2019 was a really rough year for me, and I started running in January of 2020. Uh, things continued to be rough for a bit and I've run two marathons since then.
There's like, one unexpected letter in the middle of it, and the ways people find to say it wrong just... don't make any sense to me. The most logical way to say it wrong almost never happens unless someone is trying to be funny.
That said, I sympathize with Zach because I have a last name which doesn't *look* like it should be hard to pronounce but people consistently find a staggeringly wide variety of wrong ways to say it, to the point I almost missed a dental appointment today because I didn't recognize the name called.
That's where you just have the Fire Department send out patrols looking for folks with fireworks, with permission to fight the fires.
My town posting on Facebook that they don't have enough police to respond to fireworks calls so please remember that it's illegal to set off fireworks may not have the dampening effect they were hoping for.
I mean, they probably like leather crafts.
My absolute favorite bit in the film is McCoy tending to a wounded Spock. The films didn't have enough of those two playing off of each other.
*vibrates with excitement* #TheRunningMan www.youtube.com/watch?v=KD18...
Well this is a big fucking yikes for military couples that want to have kids.
Here’s the list of Republicans who voted to close rural hospitals:
Hey, here's a question for my #CBRN and #Military folks: If a clean shave is required for a gas mask to get a proper seal, why don't they include a shaving kid with the C-Bag?
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Presumably from the original usage in this sense from the Roman senate. Evidently it referred to a type of ship prior to that, until they mounted some captured ships on a wall to use as speaking platforms. The Romans were a little extra, huh?
I think if I manage to stand on top of a lectern it becomes a stage.
From a word meaning... Beak? I didn't expect that etymology. Language is wacky.
Since it has multiple steps, the winner's podium could also be referred to as a staircase. *ducks to avoid an aggressively thrown football*
So if I stand on it and read from it...?
A podium does kind of resemble a big foot. But also you have words like "Base" which has a similar meaning but also refers to a military installation.
Merriam-Webster says they are synonyms, but I'd be curious to hear your reasoning. www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/wait...
I'm seeing some people claim "we didn't USED to need air conditioning before we RUINED THE PLANET" and uh, that is extremely inaccurate. People used to die in droves during heat waves before air conditioning. This study found that AC "cut premature deaths on hot days in US by 80% since 1960."
I have not noticed this phenomenon.
I think we need to address the prejudice that ICE has against bald people that they assume this is offensive. Captain Picard would not approve.
Got a ConEd alert telling me to use less energy during the heat wave and this is all I can think about.
Goodness forbid a man like to strut a bit in the kitchen while he's making lunch lol
This is the time where I'd invite any right-wing/manosphere commentators who declined to join the military but want to talk shit about how emasculated they think the military is to sign up and show what you're worth, but to be honest I'd rather not embarrass you by putting you on the spot.
Objection: Anyone who uses the phrase "fighting age men" cannot be a cunt because they lack the depth and warmth.
I'd just like to jump in here and point out that you can buy a wide variety of cheeses pre-sliced. It doesn't actually require any more effort to drop a slice of Swiss or Pepperjack onto the sandwich. It actually requires less because you don't have to deal with the little individual wrappers.
I usually keep my fridge stocked with some kind of shredded cheese (usually sharp cheddar or a cheddar/jack blend) for tacos, and sliced either provolone or swiss for sammiches. Kraft singles aren't my thing but I won't yuck someone else's yum or give them shit for buying what they can afford.
Which by itself is whatever, oh no, some random French person will never discover Monterey Jack and thus has never experienced joy, but also it allows a certain sort of person to wrap up classist snobbery in a veneer of just poking fun at the Yanks.
This is my main complaint about "American Cheese" being a catch-all term for Kraft-styled processed cheese, because it feels like a cognitive short-circuit that keeps folks from outside the US from learning that there are in fact other cheeses from the US.
*cough*classism*cough*
It'd mostly sound squishy, no?
"And the word's in about our next mission: Berlin. And we weren't assigned. We were requested."
youtu.be/5jp0ONJZF74?...
Oh wow, guess who plays Benjamin O. Davis, Jr.?
Juneteenth seems like as good a say as any to rewatch The Tuskegee Airmen, especially since I just got an HBO Max subscription.
Never thought I'd say this but haha fucking get him, Tuck! Gorramed shitweasel.
TIL that the F-104 Starfighter flew 5,200 sorties during the Vietnam War, and only suffered one loss to enemy aircraft. 14 Starfighters were lost in total, with six of them being accidents and the others being lost to anti-air guns or missiles.
