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I feel like short seasons leads to insufficient time to know the characters, and causes writers to pack in so much plot and melodrama that it's exhausting to watch. Every second is packed too tightly , always trying to be EPIC. Miss 3 seconds in the episode? Sorry, that plot point was critical and either you go back and find it, or give up on the show. And heavy serialization also requires more of this obsessive watching and a requirement to not forget minor details between seasons. The higher production values result in 2-3 years between seasons, deepening all of the problems above: it MUST be considered epic, it MUST be tightly serialized to every minor detail, and when people don't live to watch the TV, well, they might as well cancel it.

Writers also seem like movie writers have come to TV - think up a premise, write a story arc, and then have no idea where it goes after that. The drop off after S1 is usually pretty stark, and then S2 is when it gets cancelled.

TV having 20+ episodes (almost half of the year with weekly releases) means the characters were around long enough that they can actually build meaningful on-screen relationships. Every episode didn't have to be a high stakes drama, plot, or writing. Lower budgets per episode means that writing quality, dialog, and character building takes precedence over flash, action, location, and epic camera shots.

Give me more Star Trek Deep Space 9 and less Marvel-like Star Trek Discovery.

It also deepens genre-ization. With only 10 episodes, a comedy is a COMEDY. A drama is a DRAMA. We don't have time to be experimental or weave something more complex.

At my high school, a student brought a gun to school and took his English class hostage. SWAT showed up, the school went on lockdown. Ultimately, he didn't shoot anyone, but he set off fireworks in the classroom, causing SWAT to burst in.

Am American. Moved to the Netherlands in July. My salary went down some, and the taxes are higher, but structural differences mean that I'm paying a lot less out of pocket on essentials like healthcare and transportation, which translates into the same, if not better, net take home pay.

DOA in the Senate.

The Execution of Private Slovik by William Bradford Huie. Very niche book, but tightly wound narrative that sticks to the facts while giving you the complexities to come to your own nuanced opinion. It's a biography of the only man to ever be executed in the 20th century for dereliction and refusing to fight after having been drafted. The entire affair is a microcosm of human tragedy.

I just finished Star Trek: Resurgence on Nintendo Switch. Don't sleep on this game if you want a well-written classic 90s Trek feeling adventure game! Very Tell Tale like.

The graphics aren't amazing and quicktime events are occasionally awkward, but the story and choice opportunities make it a lot of fun for some casual playtime!

It is Trump backlash. It will last a cycle or two, in which Democrats will pass some small policies that slightly soften the edges of our modern dystopia, and then Republicans will come back to power and continue the march into misery for the masses.

Which requires a malicious network operator or some other kind of DNS poisoning. Not exactly a radical exploit

tl;dr A network operator can perform a MitM attack on the built-in updater's call-out checking for updates by faking the Notepad++ update website, telling it a new version is available at and then downloading and running the malware

It requires a malicious network operator, or preexisting malware on the host.

I'm currently reading We Were Eight Years In Power by Ta-Nahisi Coates. I'm not going to finish it. I've read most of his Atlantic articles and I buy the thesis he's weaving, but I feel like we're past the point where awareness matters (or that I am insufficiently aware). People know the bad they're doing and want it. We're in the activist moment.

I'm next going to start Shift by Hugh Howey because I need some entertainment out of my reading.

Failure of leadership. That's what the history books are going to say about this era.

I've had Fedora on a Thinkpad X300, Thinkpad T420 (what I'm typing on right now), and Asus ROG Zephyrus G14 GA402RK. The last has a Mediatek MT7922, unlike the prior 2 with Intel wireless -- and they all have worked flawlessly.