Matchups are open for voting September 23-30 between 12 - 9 p.m. US Eastern Timezone/ 9 a.m. - 6 p.m. US Pacific Timezone

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Let them ruin the existing things. I’m interested in the new things. Knowledge workers getting around the predatory journal/publishing system. The US West coast states creating a new Healthcare recommendation authority. If anything is vulnerable to take over… it should die. Diverse, messy systems are robust. Statistics was created to reinforce race “science”. Gynecology was created to keep female slaves making babies. This stuff has to go in order to get to there, look for the new ways. Break existing ontologies if they suck.

It would be so much we easier if they just admitted they were in highschool. Sure. The only thing I need a car for if groceries. The only thing this person needs a car for is 45$ of Mom’s Costco membership worth of Doritos

Don’t worry. I’m sure I’ll figure out a way to bring the conversation back to Trek… Aaany second now

High fantasy can be such a balm, cool worlds with cheesy love stories to motivate your unlikely heros:

Jupiter Rising John Carter: Man From Mars

• Princess Bride

• Lotr extended editions

• Underworld

There’s an audio series coming Star Trek: Khan, with a helluva cast. I really hope this format works, we could get so much new Trek with original actors voicing their parts. Could be animated later, or not, just so glad they’re playing and not shelving the IP

I don’t read much but the posts got me too! I really want to read the Voyager trilogy that picks up right after they return to the Alpha Quadrant. But true to my millennial nature, I need it free and on my phone, so that’s my first project. Leaning towards Libby but I lost my library card, and since my ADHD won’t let me do the errand, I’ll probably have to torrent

Whoa Just realized that is Dwight there. Something Rain, what a baby face

No grocery tax in Texas, Ohio, or Pennsylvania either. This is the first I ever heard of groceries being taxed

Are they only supposed to have a single fruit/plant?

Nope. Not seen that one. But how was the skin dust collected?

Manul

Mandalyn Nichole Artist has a sticker club with phone backgrounds of the Chonky, Floofy Illustrations linktree

It’s a taco

Got this map from this Live Science article (where you can zoom, how can they even prevent you from zooming on a mobile site? Why?). My biggest question, as a lay-fan of geosciences, is: What in the “Wounded-Moose Soil” are we doing here with these… time? Era? Epoch? Names? I need more novelized tectonic histories in my life, Did Reid wound the Moose?

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Thank you! I have only seen this mentioned in Reddit posts and Substack articles, and definitely feels like an op to undermine trust in the voting system. Targeting an audience that wasn’t wrapped up in the 2020 campaign to undermine the voting system… eyerolls all the way down. The people in place are like electors, delegates, and state secretaries, where the power is de-registering people, throwing out whole locations of ballots, refusing to certify counted results, and many other ways to make voting painful. But not necessarily messing with individual ballots, except where they have armies of people to review any questionable ballots but those are reviewed by reps from both parties in that scenario, I think? Mostly remember the Nevada episode of Veep on that last point

When covid stopped everything the noise in the oceans and cities decreased so much the animals started singing again. Dolphins returned to Venice, whales to New England harbors, the environmental impact of those years was significant. We are capable of adapting quickly and making huge impact, covid showed us that’s it’s just an unwillingness on the part of the ruling class. It can be done, we’re just told “small, incremental change is best” (neo-lib bs enshrining short-term profits). Kill the industries, pay the people via social safety nets, federal jobs program to build better stuff, public projects, public ownership. Public money made most things but the people in power transferred all that tech and IP into private hands.