“I don’t understand, if you don’t want crushed orphans, just don’t toss them in the orphan crushing machine”

Well maybe they shouldn’t have an orphan crushing machine in the first place.

“we’re not doing illegal, and no you can’t check.”

-People doing illegal things

Hey they can have my old GPU if they give me a new blank laptop.

I’ve always wanted to try linux

Here’s the thing…

Birb

Tweety

Birdy mcbirdface

Birdemic

Blue tits

Yeah this’ll go well

I’ve seen a carbon fiber fork withstand the weight of a car (equivalent, not an actual full size car)

I’ve also seen a carbon fiber rear triangle fold from bumping into a rock at an almost-standstill.

Gotta say, I like the idea of a titanium bike.

Oh, for sure they made tons of mistakes, I just thought of that one as the most glaringly obvious “framing issue”. I’ve seen all the episodes as aired and as on DVD, with commentary and special features, because I’m a super nerd, and given your pfp and the fact you know how they framed it tells me you know a thing or two yourself!

If I remember correctly, they framed it for wide-screen knowing that in the future it could be put out in other formats than TV, so wanted widescreen from the start. Bts footage shows the framing boxes for tv/wide on the monitors.

I love catching mistakes and weird choices in my shows. For instance: in Firefly, Alan Tudyk is pretending to hold the controls of Serenity because they couldn’t have him up in the normal spot for framing reasons.

But yeah, I’m actually rewatching SGA now and their weird focus issues (and let’s be honest, terrible backgrounds) are especially bad in season 1.

How do they handle the science behind everything? Do they try to use modern concepts and technologies and misunderstandings of how those work, or do they hand-wave it as “this is their technology and they will not elaborate because it’s basically going to be magic to you” kind of science?

I’m not an educated science-ologist (not to be confused with scienTologist) but I do dabble in quite a lot of the astrophysics, geology, etc, as a 20+year hobby, so space-based science fiction tends to rub me the wrong way when they try explain things using modern concepts, but they have misinterpreted or misrepresented things to “make it work”

Treknobabble is 100% okay for me, it’s a technology I don’t understand because it’s too advanced for me and uses concepts only theorized for now.

Or is it less sciencey focused and more “these are the stories of these peoples” anthology type? Both sound good.

Honestly it sounds fascinating, and from the buried synopsis of a few, I think I’m gonna like it. It’s been awhile since I read science fiction, I’ve been focusing on fantasy lately, specifically Dungeons & Dragons-universe books.

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Not just clickbait, either. Straight up lies.

They cite their own article, INCORRECTLY I might add, to say “nicotine free vapes aren’t nicotine free”.

I mean, if this is the scientific standard people listen to nowadays, I have some bridges that need selling. scientifically

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I also did not think it was clear.

Honestly my first thought was “is this a religious question like do your braces go with you to heaven/hell or something?”

“what non piracy reasons are there”

“If you have nothing to hide then what’s the problem with putting a camera in the bathroom. What non crime reasons could there be?”

Really though, if you’re technically proficient enough for torrenting and vpns, you’re proficient enough to convert to newer formats, too.

So even then, it’s really just not that big a deal. Other than being a once-used format for the platform. And honestly how many devices are still functioning that can only use mobi? Heck I have a 10 year old Kindle somewhere that probably has 4 or 5 different formats from about 10 different sources.

People are a bit nicer in general here, I think, although certain niche subreddit were far more welcoming to newcomers.

I’ve only had two people on lemmy so far tell me my thoughts are stupid without bothering to explain why they feel this way, and only one person has assumed they know my life from a single comment. (homer_so_far.gif)

I have yet to see a single interaction where someone has changed someone else’s mind in an amicable and polite way with both thanking each other for their time though.

I tend to focus less on news post comments though. Someone calling me an idiot because I don’t blindly support something or someone doesn’t phase me.

Someone breaking down my comment about why Picard is a better starfleet captain than Commander Sisko and giving me reasons why I’m stupid for thinking that? That’ll stay with me for a few days.

Perhaps I just don’t interact unless it seems like the general vibe agrees with me, and therefore people are more likely to be nice, because I don’t like rejection and mean comments are just different kinds of rejection, so I hide in places I know will like me.

0 reason to interact when you know there’s a good chance you will come out unhappy, I get it.

Woot! I’m more of a lurker but I comment occasionally (not necessarily smart or informed as they should be ones) and I would love to post in recreations of some of my favorite niche places, but running them is quite an investment…

I’m pumped I can still see star trek memes though.

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