I read the Foundation series a long time ago. Yeah I love Asimov but it was pretty dry. The ideas and plot lines were really cool but he needed a coauthor to help flesh out the writing and dialogue.

How about no?

It’s not like Republicans care about women or human life so why would they care about women having medical access?

You’re absolutely right that is a major problem. The biggest reason is the mismatch between what your inner ear says (we are not moving) and what your eyes tell you (we are moving). I get nauseous really easily in VR.

That said I just bought a steam frame and have had pretty good luck because of how I’m using it. It’s completely wireless and I have a large space I can use it in. So I’ve been playing things that don’t require fast movement and where you have a space to explore / move around in. This allows me to physically walk around the real room while exploring in VR. It’s made a huge difference but not everyone has the luxury of a big empty room they can use for that. I just mention this in case anyone else was like me and wants to do VR but gets nauseous easily.

I was ribbing but also teeing you up to make the punchline for the Airplane joke “I am serious and don’t call me Shirley.”

Surely you can’t be serious?

My objection is that this is clearly built from massive old growth trees. These may technically be renewable compared to oil but they really aren’t in practicality since it takes multiple lifetimes for trees to grow that large. I don’t have an issue with using younger trees and replacing them but once you’ve seen an old growth forest irl, you realize how tragic it is that most of them were cut down.

YouTube has tons of bodycam footage from arrests etc. I’ll warn you it’s not good for mental health though.

JFC I need a drink after seeing that.

You know, as a treat.

You don’t have ten kids in ten years by lolligagging about taking pictures.

YES! These clowns are pathetic.

Where he parked should have been the LAST sign to go up. What was he thinking?

/s

Same I bought a PS5 during the pandemic, played TLOU 1 & 2, God of War, and haven’t touched it since. I have a Bazzite gaming machine I subsequently built so the PS5 has been sitting in the box for years at this point.

I was introduced to Trek as a kid starting with Wrath of Khan and the rest of the films, then TNG which I couldn’t get enough of as a teen. Trek to me was always about philosophical exploration of ideas and moral quandaries, with some action added in for spice. I will admit I probably was skewed in my perception of the original characters because I was introduced to them in feature films where they were already heavily developed and where the characters were midlife and getting older.

I felt like the Kelvin movies went all in on the action and completely abandoned the philosophical core that made Trek special compared to any other space shoot-em-up.

I also felt like the dialogue and script writing was just impossibly bad. The worst example of this was when the commanding officers die and there is this scene where McCoy says something like “We’ve got no captain and no first officer.” And then Kirk just says “Yeah we do” and sits in the chair. I was screaming at my tv in that moment. It was like the writers had no clue what a chain of command was in any sort of military organization or even a civilian vessel. It’s not like the Johnny come lately just says oh man Captain’s dead I guess I’m captain now. Uhh didn’t Spock train him, and therefore probably outranked him at this point? Anyway it just seemed so poorly written and contrived that it completely broke immersion for me when I was already struggling with the plot.

Now that I’ve gotten all of that off my chest, I am glad that as an OG Trekkie you enjoyed it. I’ve noticed in clips I’ve seen from TOS that the show often had a much lighter, whimsical feel compared to the later films and I didn’t really absorb that because I didn’t watch the show, just the films. Maybe the writing and characters matched TOS better than I realized but I was coming at it with a skewed perspective because of what I had / had not watched.

I do agree the casting was pretty good though.

Edit to add: I think what bothered me most was I really like to see character growth and development and the trailer really billed the first movie as Kirk’s growth arc from irresponsible youth to captain. In the actual movie it was like here’s a random circumstance where you can sit in the chair with no substantial growth and now do action-y stuff. I was really hoping it would be more about the character change. I’ll stop now as this has become War and Peace.

The only thing good about JJ touching Star Trek was the trailer for it, which is 10/10. The movies were all a big let down in comparison. But the trailer is amazing, in no small part due to the music from Two Steps From Hell.

SpaceX has done some impressive engineering feats but so far the only part of the business that has been profitable is Starlink. More importantly, Elon merged his AI business into Starlink shortly before it went public. I read somewhere that approximately 93% of the value of the IPO was based on the AI side and its wildly speculative projections for future income.

My point is that it almost doesn’t matter what they do with Starship, the company is massively overvalued unless Grok suddenly becomes the most popular AI in the world and everyone begins tithing to it.

Tax Wealth, Not Work.

Canyoneering is on of the best things ever. If anyone reading this is remotely tempted, find a way to try it out safely. It’s a complete blast!

Threatening to pull funding from rape kit investigations to get bully people into funding a domestic paramilitary squad is so on-brand for Republicans.