Yeah, I wasn’t going to touch on the spore drive because they really seemed to be playing on the idea that it took the singular genius of Stamets to create it… except his genius wasn’t singular. He had a research partner, Straal.

Yes, Straal died and Stamets went to the future, but whatever groundwork science existed for their research to even get off the ground still existed for other scientists to build on. And they started this research in a classified lab, sure, but surely others in the lab knew about it. And it only took 6 months after the technology was co-opted by Starfleet for the war effort to be fully functional in two separate ships, so they must have been pretty far along by the time they left the lab too. Two separate human scientists of about the same age who knew each other were able to found the groundwork from existing science and tech and work independently on developing the technology on two different ships… so the likelihood that they were just uniquely qualified and no one else could do it is extremely unlikely.

As you said, the spore drive was used openly and effectively in the war and the Klingons and others certainly knew about the capabilities of it, as well as some details of its nature. And even if the existing research and memory of the Discovery was successfully buried in the federation, the scientific knowledge it was based on was not. The scientific principles upon which the tech was built could be rediscovered eventually, especially if people had an idea of it’s usefulness (putting it mildly).

Given the technology would literally be a paradigm shifting technology as much or moreso as warp technology was, there is absolutely no way that the tech wouldn’t be pursued by someone… eventually… Yet 1000 years later, and Discovery is still uniquely capable of essentially teleportation in the entire galaxy, at at time when interstellar travel has become critically difficult. It’s value is beyond priceless. Even the fact that future Starfleet isn’t immediately using it to build more is mind boggling… or that the past starfleet didn’t either for that matter…

They could have kept the knowledge of the spore tech even if they had to hide the existence of the Discovery. It was the ship itself that was the host of the Sphere data, not the spore tech. It stretches believability for sure that Starfleet didn’t do what it could to preserve this technology which could see them extending their INSTANTANEOUS reach to the entire galaxy.

And if they were going to pretend it never existed for inexplicable reasons, they could have at least made the cover up believable by doing something like planting false scientific data around the technology, poisoning the well to prevent others from discovering it for a long time. But no, they just say “shhh” and it goes away for a millenia.

So was this technology just singularly impossible to recreate? Was it sheer dumb luck that it was created at all? Is it impossible to reverse engineer? Or did the writers just fail to think of a good way to explain why the tech never reoccurred in 1000 years? 🙄

It goes beyond just this ship and the tech that is isolated to it. They also establish events, organizations and technology that is used widely throughout the federation that they also have to shoehorn in a way to explain why it is never referenced or used again.

Like the holograms are really prevalent in long range communications. After the conflict with Control where the AI is able to impersonate an admiral with faked hologram imaging, they casually throw out a line about how they’ll never use that tech anymore as it isn’t trustworthy (and thus aligning with the established canon). Like not “we need to put in more safeguards”, “we need to only accept orders through official verifiable channels”, or “this tech should only be used for casual communication with family and friends”, etc. Just “Welp that tech was cool, but fool me once! Never again! No holograms for you! Also, the existence of Control is also being buried and made illegal to talk about, so we can’t even explain why this tech being used all over starfleet is being shut down completely and immediately.” That is a purely nonsensical outcome that they wrote themselves into just becuase they wanted largely cosmetic tech earlier than it should have existed.

It’s not like you can’t make an early-timeline modern show without making a bunch of weird conflicts, retcons, and anachronisms. Strange New Worlds is great and sticks pretty well to the canon tech, styles, and sigh Klingon physical appearance as the original canon (or Next Gen canon for the Klingons) with slick modern production, design and writing. But they wanted an early-timeline show with advanced late-Trek tech, unique species designs, and muddled in with established characters. They wanted their cake and to eat it too. It isn’t a bad show, but from the very beginning they wrote themselves into having to later recon the entire show out of the annals of Trek History or else all of the canon would make no sense.

I remember when they we attempting to shame Obama with a national debt ticker. Weird how they don’t do that now despite it’s continuous rise under the last 3 terms of the presidency too. It’s now triple what it was at that time

Fuck Off you backwards assholes.

The fang thing is so true that I need you to buy my course!!!

*FAANG

I think I might know why you’re course is failing. Also that term is outdated with modern rebranding (Facebook > Meta, Google > Alphabet). MAANA is more accurate now.

Turns out that to brew a health potion, you first have to brew a deadly poison, and then pass it through the mirror dimension to flip its properties.

He was determined by a jury in court to have sexually abused E. Jean Carroll too. While the case was a civil suit for sexual abuse (and defamation), not a criminal charge for rape, he was still determined to have committed specific acts that do constitute first degree rape under New York law, a crime for which there is no statute of limitations. In other words, he’s not a convicted rapist, but still definitely a rapist, just an as yet unconvicted one.

He wasn’t convicted of the crime of rape because he hasn’t, to date, been criminally charged with rape. He was sued civilly by E. Jean Carroll for sexual abuse and defamation, and found by a jury liable for both acts. Which means the jury found that sufficient evidence existed that he did sexually abuse her even without a criminal conviction for rape.

The judge later clarified that the acts that the the jury found him liable for, forcible penetration of the vagina with his fingers, do constitute first degree rape under New York law. And first degree rape in New York has no statute of limitations. Were he to be tried for rape, the evidence in the civil suit would be admissible and he would almost certainly be convicted of rape. Weird that hasn’t happened, but here we are.

So technically, he is not a convicted rapist as he has yet to be criminally charged and tried for rape. But he has also been determined by a court and a jury to have absolutely sexually abused E. Jean Carroll in a manner that constitutes rape under New York law. “Rapist love this one weird loophole.”

They had already fired the comedian for saying negative things about the administration, actually. They hired a magician, or mentalist, or something like that instead.

C is unforgiving and… let’s call it “quirky” with anything that resembles UI. It’s just not built for it. C sits just above Assembly in low level code, and it has many pitfalls in that regard.

It’s not that it’s not valuable to learn, because it is. But learning C is more about learning about the backend of how programming languages work (pointers, heaps/stacks, memory allocation and cleanup, etc.) and the specific quirks and dangers of C itself than it is about teaching you good programming skills.

Modern programming isn’t about guarding against overflow, managing memory, or dealing with pointers and memory manipulation. Having a deep understanding of those things will do very little for your actual programming skills. It’s far more important to understand data structures and algorithms, and having some exposure to different paradigms is a good idea too.

Python is an easy entry point, and frankly, many have made their careers off of python alone. It is often slow at scale and has its own quirks, good and bad, but it’s far easier to focus on the logic than the quirks with Python than compared to C. It has built in tools for basically any paradigm, though it is built primarily for object oriented and procedural, but has some nice declarative tools like list comprehensions too. Java is also a common language in the industry and gives you more exposure to Object Oriented Programming. Try out Haskell for pure functional and prolog for logic/declarative. C lacks all of those things.

Good for you. Lets hope your standards for conduct that actually matters for their job are as high.

Your view is that him getting shit faced drunk and all damages and injuries that occur should be covered by the public.

What damages? What injuries? What the hell are you talking about? If there were any, then of course those would be his responsibility. I saw no mention of anyone being hurt by him at all though.

We aren’t his servants.

No shit? Who said otherwise?

If you want to do whatever you want, dont do it on the property where we will held liable.

Again, what are you talking about? Held liable for what?

Also I agree it shouldn’t matter who you fuck, but if it’s a journalist/reporter, all subject matter pertaining to your position is now null and void.

I’m really not sure what you mean by “subject matter pertaining to your position” or “null and void”. Those words don’t seem to mean anything at all in this context. But if your concern is that an elected official is having sex with a journalist, there’s literally nothing wrong with that so long as it’s not coercive (like to get/stop a story, for example). Elected officials are allowed to fuck and even marry journalists, my guy.

It’s like fucking the health inspector, someone else needs to be doing the inspection then.

You’re suggesting that this creates a conflict of interest, and it very well may. But that conflict is the journalist’s who writes the stories, not the official’s who is the subject of them. So I still don’t see how this matters for his job at all.

If you care more about this dude having sex in his off hours at an inappropriate location than literally any other detail of his performance as an elected official, then you’re as ridiculous as that guy, yes. Actually you’re probably way more ridiculous because they are at least one of his constituents, and I’m guessing you are not. If that is the case, you need to majorly sort out your priorities. This purity test shit, is nonsense.

Well that’s a stupid take too. I do my job and my employer pays me. That money is now mine. What I do with that money within the bonds of the law is no one’s fucking business. That goes for elected officials too. I don’t care if the an official spends every spare dime of his money getting drunk on nights and weekends if he’s still competently doing his job. Idk if he is competently doing his job, but I don’t think this necessarily indicates that he’s not either. And if getting drunk once is enough to indicate someone shouldn’t hold office, that’s bad news for nearly every American politician.

If the line is drawn at the door of any goverment building especially one that’s isn’t currently open and doing business, that’s strange too. They’re not hollowed ground or holy sites. They’re administrative buildings. People working there are people. They piss and shit in those buildings. They microwave fish. They spread their shitty fucking colds. If the very idea that someone may have had consenting sex in one of the rooms disturbs you, I would suggest you not go into any building ever. Someone has almost certainly been fucking there at some point.

That’s not what I said. If the city council wants to fire him, I’m sure that’s in their power. But for some random dude they interviewed to feel like this guy needs to be taken down, it’s ridiculous.

Ah I didn’t see that part. That does move beyond lying to cover up embarrassing sexual event to destruction of public property.

Literally the kind of bullshit that Sony mocked Xbox for trying with the Xbox One when it and the PS4 came out. When legitimate concerns were brought up that some gamers were not able to connect their device to the internet regularly, for instance if they are in the military deployed overseas or on ships and play games on their downtime, or if they simply lose service for some time for financial issues, or if they have metered connections that they depend on for work, etc. they were told to just buy an older Xbox. Sony gave them hell in interviews after that. Here we are 13 years later, and Sony is busy retroactively doing that dame shit. Smh

So let’s just assume his excuse is false and he was actually there having sex with the journalist. Let’s be honest, he almost certainly was. If you lose respect for the guy over the act or the lying to excuse it and don’t want to vote for him to represent you, I get that. If you’re his wife and want a divorce, absolutely. If you’re his child or family and embarrassed by his behavior and don’t want to be around him, fine.

Short of that, like… who gives a shit? “He’s got to pay” “It’s an insult to the city.” Really? Because he had casual sex with another consenting adult that isn’t his subordinate? Because he did that in a (closed) government building? Why does that matter? Why does that need to be punished? Why does he need to lose his career over it? Of all of the less than righteous things someone in a leadership position could do with their power, the thing I care the absolute least about is consenting adult sex in a government building after hours. Hell I’m not even an adventurous person and I’ve had sex parked in a dark parking lot and in a closed store. Should I “have to pay” for those dalliances, and lose my career over it?

No I’m telling you that if you’re rooted to the ground close enough to a similarly rooted neighbors and the wind makes both of your arms wiggle hard enough, you might lose a finger. People can accommodate neighbors, move freely, and shelter from the winds.