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Scientist just discovered how to upload a picture to a bird. Non-drone theory isn't looking so good.

He looks like he's failing to pretend that burn didn't hurt.

Oh no, it's all the AI shit! We don't even have cyberware yet and we legitimately need to start worrying about AI helping people talk themselves into psychosis.

Your thoughts mirror my own a lot. Early B'Elanna was rough. She mellowed out a little later in the show 😆

Weirdly, nowadays it's Chkotay that makes me cringe, knowing what I know now about how his character was cobbled together by a racist scam artist memalpha link

I had a friend with a trauma-riddled past who identified with Neelix. He said he saw a lot of his own past struggles in the character, and that watching him go from bumbling joke to competent team member instilled a kind of hope. Turned my perspective around on him.

Cheap domestic crap like GM still exists, it's just expensive now.

Motherfucker wants to live in Night City so bad he's more than welcome to go get chromed up and start a war with California, no need to drag the rest of us into his delusions.

This sent me down a rabbit hole.

Napster is still around AND they pay artists more than anyone else!

It's for that half glasses glare "I'm deep" dramatic flair.

The up-trickle billionaires are currently living with:

Absolutely! See if you can get an IKEA to move into your city. They generally build out the areas they're built in and they use roundabouts everywhere they can.

Sure! I was just trying to answer the question. I'd point out that his current attitude is exactly how enshitification starts, so the writing may be on the wall for Tidal. After all, it was started as a passion project by a group of actual musicians and then sold, so the soul of it is likely gone too.

Spotify used to be the good guys, too.

I get it. I hated neelix for a very long time. I think part of what you're picking up on is classic episodic arc pacing. Before streaming, shows would put light episodes in between the heavy ones (the heavy ones usually being the ones that drove the arc). Since it was all episodic, the disjunction didn't matter. SNW feels like they're playing into that, whereas Disco was ALL RED ALERT ALL THE TIME WE CAN LAUGH WHEN WERE DEAD. (The only thing I truly disliked about Disco).

and since SNW is bingeable, the silly episodes feel a lot more prevalent

(IMHO)

(I loved the singing episode)