I have watched all the trek. Major Grin does a really good job explaining the issues for those who don’t intend to watch the series. All he does is clip new and old trek together in amusing ways so you can see the things that bother fans.

I’m glad you liked it, I would have liked it too if it wasn’t labelled as Star Trek. But acting like no Star Trek fans watched the show before forming an opinion is extremely ignorant of the fandom. Many of us have spent decades enjoying Star Trek and will at least try to watch everything with that label. Those decades watching formed certain expectations that Academy did not fulfill.

The outrage certainly seems excessive at times, but that is because of the passion fans have for Rodenberry’s vision and because outrage is granted higher value by the algorithms determining our feeds. You may not want to believe it, but the hate Academy receives is more organic than manufactured. Of the dozens of fans spanning four generations I am priviledged to call friends and family, not a single one said Academy was good and the viewership overall seems to agree with that sentiment. I get a lot of crap from them because I think the Kurtzman stuff would’ve been great if he made it in its own universe and called it something else. It just doesn’t feel like Star Trek to many of us who have been following since the beginning.

Yup. If you want to understand why some nu trek shows are hated, I recommend Major Grin’s youtube channel. They do an amusing job of showing how inconsisent the new shows are in regards to respecting Gene Roddenberry’s utopian vision and the established canon.

Shows like Academy and Discovery would’ve been highly acclaimed if they were set in their own sci fi universes, but they chose to label it Star Trek then immediately threw away many of the qualities that people look for in Star Trek. Its kinda like if someone started writing new Sherlock Holmes novels where Holmes and Watson are too stupid to discover clues. You could still write stories about them solving crimes, but the stories will be different in a way that pisses off much of the estalished fanbase.

You really think its just about food? If you can’t see how a hot heavy metal barrier could be a useful thing to keep between you and riot cops, you know nothing about protesting.

I built a new gaming computer a month ago. After a couple hours of research, I chose Nobara. It was by far the easiest experience I have ever had setting up an OS and everything has worked flawlessly so far. Even my wife who isn’t tech savvy at all has no issues using it. I cannot recommend it enough to new users who want an easy time gaming. I’ve been a linux user for almost twenty years, but I just wanted something easy that didn’t need tinkering and Nobara delivered.

If you know what these are, your knowledge has capped!

How about a link to something similar? Symphony of Science is basically the same thing only it isn’t just Sagan. https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFC4EE4355ADEBDB1

This was my grandma. She married a Quebecois man who was ESL and raised his french kids from a previous marriage all while refusing to ever utter a single syllable in their language. You could ask her anything in french and she would clearly understand and respond in english. She spent sixty years living with and loving french speakers but she never slipped, not even a bonjour. She also refused to ever say why. We waited until my grandfather passed to bury her ashes because we were certain if we left her alone at the family plot in rural Quebec she would find a way to make us regret it.

Baby Steps has made me laugh a lot this past month. But my last laugh in gaming was on saturday when I started the new Katamari game and the very first thing I made was given the title Miso Flavour Uranus.

Ceratosaurus! Its basically a t-rex and triceratops mixed together.

Sadly I knew when the Daily Zeitgeist kept repeating the hilarious clip of him saying “My infant nearly died in a drug fire after mass shootings” that the next time I saw his name he’d be getting rewarded by the fascists for his insane lies.

Edit - found the video https://youtu.be/no7Qrqto5ks

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxalis

Not sure if you’re sarcastically trying to confuse or not, but they’re the same thing. Oxalis is a genus of the wood-sorrel family.

Love me some David Graeber. I keep this link handy in case anyone wants to introduce themselves to his ideas or anarchism in general. https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/david-graeber-are-you-an-anarchist-the-answer-may-surprise-you

This is just catnip bubbles with extra steps

You know the smell dirt makes when its wet? It’s called petrichor and humans can smell it better than sharks smell blood in the water. It is detectable by the human nose at 0.4 parts per BILLION. This gave early humans a huge advantage in finding water when needed. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrichor

I was hoping for some news on this after I noticed them filming season 4 at my work this week. Shame they’re ending it at 5 with a half season. Its the only live action trek I’ve thoroughly enjoyed since the Rick Berman days.

The article is about honey taken from grocery stores in Sweden not being honey. Did I somehow miss Sweden leaving Europe?

There are companies that pick up that stuff from all around and deliver it to your door. No need for driving or crowded food libraries. I can recommend mamaearth.ca if you’re in the Toronto area. It has been over a year since I’ve set foot in a grocery store and I don’t see that changing unless I forget something important for a meal that can’t wait til tomorrow.

Damnit I read this in Geddy Lee’s voice and now I’ll have Rush stuck in my head all day.

Sometimes calling it a tramp stamp is more fitting. Here’s an example my wife and I had done last summer

Jenna Ortega. For awhile I only saw her name in poor bastardizations of my favourite childhood media and it has soured me on her work entirely.