EnsignWashout

But no, between Archer and Kirk Starfleet must have recruited just the worst of the worst.

All good points.

But I've done some mental gymnastics to make it work. We actually know:

And I assume that the same character in my spoiler tag recruited various dysfunctional crew, while Saru recruited those crew that actually perform like Starfleet officers.

So basically, with enough mental hoops, I can assume that only Discovery, itself, is crewed unusually for Starfleet.

Edit: I also feel that Archer's bring-my-dog-to-work leadership should also shoulder some blame. And Kirk is still a low ranking officer at this point, so we haven't reached Starfleets prime.

Hence the number one rule: cool stuff should be done in the game, not your backstory.

I prefer Fate, where the rules practically require having cool stuff in each character's back story.

Yes. That's one reason that the Fate system basically disallows characters ever being low level. Low level starts aren't actually particularly fun, and they can prevent characters from having diverse epic shared backstory.

Everything I used to use root access for, I do without root access on GrapheneOS.

And also, I can still take root anytime I want. I just don't need to. Instead, I set per app permissions, including storage scopes for each app.

If you've been waiting for root, check it out. I bet you'll like what you find.

Thank you!

Humble Bundle used to be a shining beacon of mostly DRM free purchases.

Lately, I'm tired of researching what accounts I will have to create to redeem the Bundle contents.

Raspberry Pi with Android Open Source Project is the best privacy option. It's quite a bit of work to get tuned, but nice afterward.

I'll wait.

crickets hum to each-other in the distance

I don't really think you can possibly do something to deserve eternal torment like some of these comments seem so gleeful about.

It wouldn't be eternal. Most kids don't have that kind of attention span.

Plus, these consciousnesses might be carefully protected the way major corporations have protected my SSN. So maybe the billionaires have nothing to worry about...

I mean, I would.

Of course, the pool won't have a ladder...

Misleading title: there's questions about rising car costs and discussion of cancelling new safety laws that haven't gone into effect yet.

That said, I suspect we'll get another dose of Reagan economic policies, rather than anything that could work to lower costs, such as sending price fixers to jail.

There's plenty to be angry about, but this isn't a compelling argument to change minds and build desperately needed class solidarity.

It was such a relief, to me. He was interesting and compelling, but his achieving a rank of Captain in Starfleet, and then throwing it away to Mary sue with Burnam, felt silly to me.

The reveal fixes this. Although they could have been more explicit that