FriendOfDeSoto

joined 2 years ago

The incredibility about that statement only comes from babies having dramatically different, incompatible sleep schedules compared to grownups. And not all babies are the same, of course. Once my kids were down though they slept through earthquakes and I suspect even a hypothetical 747 revving its engines next to the bed wouldn't have woken them up. There is some truth to the saying.

There will be people like Tim Apple who regularly make it to normal people news. The majority will be famous within their industry, often only within their country, if a all.

These top whatever biz lists are masturbatory exercises. Virtually no one who isn't on there gives a shit.

[–] FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Us smart monkeys are a product of so many things. You are asking about one single aspect. A loving, caring parental home makes it likely the kid doesn't turn into a psychopath. The reverse is probably also true. But neither is guaranteed.

Is this a campaign? A few days ago we had the question about how Finland is better at fighting homelessness (the post has been deleted). Now this? Maybe we can shortcut this by saying Finland is probably beating the US in any vaguely progressive statistic you can throw at them. Average temperature and GDP however are safe for the US. For the time being.

The other post may have been deleted, like maybe this one will be also, because it asks a question and basically answers it in the post below.

I'm sure some have, especially those who can set their own prices.

Normally it takes about a month at least before the price rise trickle comes through. And I suspect you'll feel it at the grocery store before while eating out. A lot of companies will sacrifice a bit of their profit margin first. The question will be how long will this genius military operation that is somehow both over and on track to succeed last. A couple of months is something the markets may be able to recover from quickly.

I'm so glad America was looking for a guy to drain the swamp and keep them out of wars to be the president. And they found one convicted of sexual assault, whose name appears in the released Epstein filles more often than God and Jesus combined in the Bible, and who threw a hissy fit after not getting the Nobel he invaded Venezuela and started a war with Iran. Sad.

I can't remember. As you can tell from my lengthy historical summary, I'm old enough to use that as an excuse.

[–] FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website 10 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I have recorded songs off the radio onto cassette. I have made mix tapes. First off records, later CDs. There was a general trade going on at school among friends. Somebody would get a new album on tape or on CD and when the owner had listened to it enough times it would make the rounds so people could record it for themselves. Musical socialism.

I have made Minidisc mix tapes as well. I went as far as recording concerts from VHS onto Minidisc. Adding track names was harder than T9 texting and took fucking ages.

I ripped and burned CDs, some of them are still stashed away in an attic somewhere.

I don't remember the infancy torrenting service that we used around the turn of the century. It wasn't Napster. I also made mix tapes of downloaded songs onto CD. To play more easily because there weren't any iPods yet but everyone had a stereo.

Now I stream the music I used to steal. Can't feel great about it because I know the artists get next to nothing for it.

I miss having a good stereo. Now it's crappy phone speakers or compressed Bluetooth shit.

[–] FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'd argue he isn't a great leader; he is a successful one. He gambles, he takes chances, and is swashbucklingly lucky throughout his career, even when he gets punished, until he meets and follows the lead of arguably the better leader between the two of them, Jean-Luc Picard, in the nexus.

TOS was quite woke in its day. There is still an awful lot of sexism on that Enterprise. The treatment of Spock is quite discriminatory. You could argue his unilateral decision that appears to be salomonic more than covered by actual law or regulations to maroon Khan and company on Ceti-Alpha 5 leads directly to the death of his own son, of whose existence he didn't really know because his mom knew better than to stay in Kirk's orbit. While you could say that an orderly private life isn't a prerequisite to being a great leader, I think Carol Marcus knew he'd be trouble at home and at work and that's why she wanted out.

He was very often in the right place at the right time and only made decisions that were later judged not to be entirely wrong. He had the charisma of a great man right until he oh-my'ed loose his mortal coil. If there had been an HR department between the music room and the colorful food cube dispensary there would have been need for the admiralty to get involved. He is a beloved character for his brazenness and faults.

[–] FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website 79 points 1 week ago (8 children)

It's nice that an American company will enforce a 24-hour cooling-off period for the installation of a few 1s and 0s on a device I already own.

They wouldn't do this for the purchase of a firearm.

This biting satirical take is brought to you by a disillusioned Android user seriously thinking about switching to an iPhone. If a walled garden is inevitable I might as well go where most stuff gets developed for first.

How can anyone answer this unless you vaguely doxx yourself?

[–] FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I wish this petition the best of luck. I would like them to succeed although I fear this effort will be in vain.

Wouldn't it have made sense to choose an image from the actual show though?

view more: ‹ prev next ›