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Last dream I had, I was completely and ideally convinced I was gonna rewrite IT by Stephen King.

I’m currently reading that book. King wrote it high on coke and it’s absolutely insane how much detail he packed into it. If you’ve only seen the movies, you’ve barely scratched the surface. Book is literally about fear and I think it’s his third longest? Was the longest for a long time.

I've been using the em dash online for decades. If AI is trained off of human-written posts (it is) and it's trained on sites I've posted on (it has), and if em dashes are a telltale sign AI wrote the post (seems that way), then logically speaking, I am partially to blame.

I'm still going to use them, though.

And I'm still going to teach people how to use them.

My first Star Trek game was on the Amiga, and it used the TOS crew/ship. I couldn't get anywhere in it. Maybe I wasn't old/smart enough for it.

I agree that a Star Trek game shouldn't be all action, that's just the kind of game I want to play.

I really don't care for the Call of Duty games, but one set in a Starfleet combat situation would be awesome.

Starfield could have been a good Star Trek game without the branding, but it mostly sucked.

I don't have a religion, but I get ya. (Doesn't mean I don't know some of what the Bible says, mostly for the sake of argument.)

Did Kirk and Sisko have ready rooms? I remember they had private quarters (they all did). Picard's was just an office.

Maybe I worded that poorly. Yeah, we generally trusted the news, but for the most part the TV was the "idiot box" and was not to be trusted. At some point, the news — I think, largely, FOX News at first, but the others weren't far behind — became "news entertainment" in the same way WWE was "sports entertainment." It was either not real, or at the very least it was heavily biased. Whenever The Newsroom came out — what a lot of people know for a 3 minute YouTube edit about why "America is no longer the greatest country in the world anymore" but was really more of a love letter to the way the news used to be. They told real news in a way that was entertaining, but through a character (portrayed by Jeff Daniels) who was trying to tell the news the old way. Give people the facts and let them make up their own mind. But by that point, I think most news on TV was fake/heavily biased.

I'm religious neutral (I don't like the term atheist), and I'm fine with the Ten Commandments.

Work within the system to bust it open.

The first commandment says "thou shalt have no other gods before me." In a monotheistic religion (one god), that seems nonsensical. What He's really saying is you can't put anything before God. Including money. Or greed.

Another one says "thou shalt not bear false witness," which is to say "don't lie," but they can't stop doing that.

"Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's..." I forget. Ass is in my family's KJV (meaning donkey of course) and that's funny. But this is another good one. They need to stop coveting our freedom and what little we have left and stop stealing from the poor.

Why should we live by these rules if the people in power won't? In that case the rules aren't even arbitrary.

Can't tell what they are, but they don't appear to be waifus. That would be funnier.

Or if it was all kid characters... e.g. Eleven and Max from Stranger Things, Anya from SPYxFAMILY, Wednesday from... Wednesday... I dunno, I'm sure there are others.

Basically that. It made for good TV.

Now I'm wondering if Discovery needed to spin or if that was more of the same.

Which in turn trails the latest Apple A-series chips. Because Qualcomm had to compete. Apple doesn’t.

Then you have Samsung’s NVMe SSDs. They’re in iPhones and gaming PCs. Android phones use slower UFS. Slower in benchmarks. Equivalent in real world performance. And cheaper.

My main phone is an iPhone 16 Pro Max. Best Apple has to offer right now.

I also have a Galaxy S10 from 2019. It was weaker than the same year iPhone at launch. Now it’s five years behind my iPhone.

The iPhone might boot a second or two faster, but it’s very close.

Guess which one kicks the other’s ass when it comes to typing. I don’t know why Apple can’t figure this out. If I’m gonna be doing much typing, I will turn on the S10 and wait. It’s worth it.

Also literally everything you like about Android. Of course I have Nova Prime on it.

I like Apple stuff, especially Macs, but like Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak said, I like my iPhone, I just wish it did half the stuff my Android phone does. I see advantages with both.

I wouldn’t worry about this Tensor chip. I’m sure it’s fine. But I think we should all stop upgrading every year or two. I think after 4-5 years with these two, I’ll retire the S10 and get a Pixel. Then after another 4-5 years upgrade the iPhone. Because I have use for both platforms. And I think Pixel phones are just fine.

It’s not just the UK. Severance and Silo were made by Apple TV and the second seasons took like 2-3 years. And Apple is massive. Shingeki no Kyojin — Attack on Titan outside of Japan — was practically a breakthrough in anime, and it took them four years to do the second season.

It does feel like the UK has pioneered the short season with the 2-3 year break though.

Time dilation.

Imagine you go to prison for a year. That’s one year you’re without your family and friends, and a year they’re without you. 1:1 time.

Now imagine you’re put to sleep and kept in a coma like state, fed by tubes. A computer or similar machine induces a dreamlike state that is indistinguishable from reality in which you will be imprisoned for 100 years. You never sleep. You never eat or drink. You never need to. And you can’t relax, you’re constantly being hunted or otherwise threatened. In the real world your family never left your side because in the real world, you’re only under for an hour.

Something similar happened to a guy on Star Trek (O’Brien on Deep Space Nine). Black Mirror did it a few times. And the fourth season of Sword Art Online (an anime) did it as well. Probably some others. Oh yeah, Interstellar. So you may have seen it.

End of trust, not truth.

Back in my day, we assumed that if it was on TV, it was a lie or likely not the whole truth. When the Internet began to rise up, we extended that mistrust to the Web.

Lately, people have become too trusting of the Internet and I’m glad that trust is starting to roll back.

Always TNG/Ent-D.

Voyager had some cool design choices though. Not specific to the warp core/Engineering. Just overall. Such a well designed ship. Maybe a little "cool for cool's sake" but I was a teenager when it started airing and I liked it. Still do.

See, this is why I lean left. I'm not far left or alt left, I have some right leaning tendencies too, and I'm not gonna get into that because that's neither here nor there, but all told I do lean left. And the reason is, generally speaking people on the left have their morals too (and it's odd that the right says we don't) and if someone on our side, even if we think he's a saint (how people see Keanu Reeves, because he doesn't play villains and they never played Cyberpunk, I guess) or maybe the best chance of beating an alt-right candidate in a high stakes election... we will bring him down, with facts. We hold ours accountable. The right? They say it's fine for them to do bad things but for poor people? Stiff penalties because they gotta appear tough on crime... as long as it's poor, dark skinned, or LGBTQ+ people doing the crime. If it's them and theirs it's fine. Never forget, they nominated and elected a convicted felon, an insurrectionist, a rioter, a traitor... and oh yes, a pedophile. They had plenty of cleaner guys they could have ran but they didn't.

Now, there's a rule in law, or a rule of thumb, I'm not sure if it has a name. It basically says if you destroy or hide evidence, that evidence is whatever we say it is. I don't think it's an actual law, it's more of a philosophy of sorts. So everyone opposed to releasing the Epstein files, we can assume that either they are in them, or someone they owe favors to is, and it's worse than we think. Like, I'm inclined to think maybe Trump fooled around with some 15-16 year old girls who could pass for 18-20. Lot of rich people probably do. Grass green, water wet, news at six, etc. He knows his base doesn't judge him for the stuff we know he's done. So what's he afraid of?

Here's my theory: we all know Trump is in the Epstein files. It's a sure bet. I think that Trump doesn't care about his name being smeared. How much worse could his reputation get now? Nah, I think the GOP has a short list of younger men (guys in their 40s and 50s, say) who could carry the torch for the next 8 years. I don't doubt Trump would try for a third term if he had the health and youth for it. He has neither. I honestly think we need to stop worrying about his third term and start worrying about the two terms his successor is going for. Anyway, I think one or more of these successors are in the files, and they probably messed with some obviously underage and very young looking girls. Like 13 but can pass for 10, young. Underdeveloped, partly malnourished, that kind of thing. And these guys, after another 4 years of Trump, are going to come up and say they're going to fix things. They're going to fight hard for the middle and some of the left, but they're going to be just as bad. And I think Trump is trying to protect these guys more so than himself.

Thanks! I went and followed the discussion link the other guy posted. I saw one concern — the handling of voting. But someone/some people are going behind a lot of those comments and saying they fixed it based on user feedback. So that's good. I also feel I understand the two (Lemmy and Piefed) and their relationship a bit more.

If it sounds like I'm a bit eager to learn, it's because I like to help others, but to do that I have to understand things first.

So let me see if I understand you correctly. The "one I'm on now" you refer to in the third paragraph, meaning dbzer0, is an instance of Lemmy (along with others) that are federated (loosely united) together in the same feed.

You're on piefed.social, so you're federated with dbzer0 and the other Lemmy feeds. So it's not like you're on a whole other federated social network like Bluesky (which is more like Twitter whereas Lemmy is more like Reddit). But it has different programming, so you can access more/different features from your end than I can on mine, but we still have access to the same communities?

Still kinda struggling to understand how fediverse stuff works.

For me it’s chaotic good vs lawful good.

D&D divides character alignment along two moral axes, good vs evil, and lawful vs chaotic. Both can be neutral, and if you’re neutral in both you’re True Neutral. Heroes are good, but most are lawful good, like Superman in American comics and All Might (My Hero Academia) in Japanese ones. For chaotic good, that’s someone like Batman. I think that’s an anti hero.

Whereas villains can be lawful evil or chaotic evil, that doesn’t seem to matter as much. Darth Vader is lawful evil — he is evil, but he follows a set of laws. The Sith code or whatever. Trump is more chaotic evil, he makes his own rules and just wants to see the world burn.

I think most of us are close to true neutral. We might lean towards good but I don’t think most are pure good like a hero would be. Some of us lean toward lawful but aren’t pushing it like lawyers, judges, good cops I suppose… and some lean toward chaos (like say movie pirates) but they’re not trying to make the world burn, they just wanna watch stuff for free. The four extreme alignments are really reserved for heroes, villains — the movers and shakers.

That makes a lot of sense! I haven’t done it, but it occurs to me that you could do this, and teach yourself how to run a community, at least on the technical side, in case you want to make one folks can join!

They say it’s locked and are directing people to… let me see if I have the format right … !fedigrow@lemmy.zip … okay Voyager autocompleted it! But that’s the place they said to go! You can fact check me by going to the link in the post I replied to and checking the top comment! It may be unlocked at some point making this post no longer true, so please check me if you’re skeptical.