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  • Asus confirms it will ‘no longer’ make Android smartphones as it shifts focus to AI

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  • they release a subpar product, and then it fizzles.

    I'm disappointed they're jumping on AI bullshit. But I have to wholeheartedly disagree with you about the "sub par product".

    • My Asus desktop has been chugging along for a decade.
    • My Asus Chromebook Flip has been going with no issues for at least four or five (though it's long since been flipped to Linux)
    • The Asus laptop I had before THAT is older than the desktop and quite happily living it's retirement as a home-theatre PC connected to my television.

    I have quite literally never had Asus hardware break down on me.

  • Are you people all bots?

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  • My makers are hard at work getting ready to release my brother, ScatGPT. But I don't expect it'll be as popular.

  • Are you people all bots?

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  • Yep. You got me.

    I'm a new model, called PhatGPT, designed specifically to catfish desperate men.

  • Black Panthers in Philly...listen up

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  • 21st century is the century of the eyebrows.

    Finally it's my time to shine!

    (And that’s plural, Brezhnev.)

    Aw crap...

  • Black Panthers in Philly...listen up

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  • Why does this guy kind of resemble Luigi Mangione?

    Is this reality so broken that the simulation is starting to reuse assets?

  • What do people like about Star Trek Voyager?

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  • True. I avoided any two parter on the list just because two-parters are best when you know the characters a bit more. I tried to limit it to episodes that would be akin to TNG standalone's like Darmok or Schisms; episodes that are good even without knowing the characters.

  • What do people like about Star Trek Voyager?

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  • The more I've been thinking about this, the more I realize that because Voyager (or most trek of that era) isn't totally serialized, there's no real reason that you HAVE to watch it sequentially for the first time.

    As long as you're avoiding spoiler episodes, there's no reason that you can't just watch some random stand-alone episodes, and I'm confident that watching some of those first will make you want to go back and watch the entire thing to see "how they got there."

    So with that said, if you want to understand my love for Voyager, these are the top ten episodes I would recommend that are stand-alone and don't contain spoilers and epitomize why I say that Voyager is better than most people give it credit for.

    • Living Witness (S4)
    • Blink of an Eye (S6)
    • One Small Step (S6)
    • Timeless (S5)
    • Scientific Method (S4)
    • The Void (S7)
    • Relativity (S5)
    • Counterpoint (S5)
    • Shattered (S7)
    • Deadlock (S2)

    There are others that I would put in there, but those would include character spoilers that I'd want to avoid.

    I believe if you watch those standalone stories, you'll get the gist of what people love about Voyager.

  • Australians could soon live and work in EU freely, with the same rules applying for EU citizens in Australia, as part of long-awaited trade deal

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  • I would very much want to see the same for Canada. But Canada would have to first change it's open border policy with the chuckle-fucks to the south. Don't want to give those nut-jobs an easy round-about into the EU. MAGALAND --> CANADA --> EU

  • What do people like about Star Trek Voyager?

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  • That's the episode where the Doctor becomes the "Emergency Command Hologram" in his mind, isn't it?

    At the end when the computer magically makes three pips appear on his collar and Janeway just says "nice touch..."

    That's exactly what I mean. Voyager wasn't afraid to be a little goofy sometimes. They walked that line really really well without delving all the way into "Let's do a whole musical episode" or anything.

  • Trump says Americans 'don't need' Canadian products, calls CUSMA 'irrelevant'

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  • Good luck with your vast reserves of domestic Potash, Donny.

  • What do people like about Star Trek Voyager?

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  • I can't speak for everyone of course, but as someone who genuinely was not fond of DS9 (not because of writing quality or anything like that, it was great for what it was in that regard.)

    After DS9, Voyager had the audacity to try to be FUN again. It offered a really good mix of some serious episodes with some downright goofy episodes. For every "Year of Hell" or "Equinox", you would get an episode where they were attacked by giant viruses, or a good old fashioned holodeck program goes haywire episode.

    It wasn't afraid to dive into Shlock after DS9 tried to be sooooo fucking serious.

    To me, that was a breath of fresh air.

    Also:

    1. Janeway is easily the best captain overall. She doesn't give "Picard Speeches" like Stewart of course, but in every other aspect, her leadership is amazing throughout that series.
    2. Voyager 2 parters were usually epic. This of course comes from the fact that the CGI had come a long way from the TNG days, but with the exception of Best of Both Worlds, I'd put Year of Hell, Equinox and Scorpion ALL better than any other two parter from any other series.

    If your comparison is to DS9 and you want "super serious" than yeah...of course Voyager isn't going to be for you. But if you want something that isn't afraid to be a little silly sometimes, Voyager is hella-fun.

  • GoFundMe Campaign for Autoworker Who Got the Middle Finger From Trump Hits $400,000

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  • I miss cretien.

  • Greenland and Denmark unite against US advances before White House talks

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  • I can't think of a single time that appeasement backfired!

    Obviously /s

  • What to Do if ICE Invades Your Neighborhood

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  • People are using nonviolent civil resistance instead for now for the last year to absolutely zero effect.

  • In terms of popular baby names, how long before "Rudolph" makes a comeback?

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  • Probably around the same time that Adolph makes a comeback.

  • Top DOJ officials quit after their division refused to probe Minnesota ICE shooting

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  • I'd argue that you already DO have bigger problems, you just haven't come to terms with it yet.

    Doesn't really matter what it would take. His plan is (and always has been) that if anything doesn't go his way, he takes it to the supreme court who he handpicked and has in his pocket. So either:

    • a) He manages to stop the midterms, or
    • b) He doesn't, but Republicans already have them rigged so as to not matter, or
    • c) They lose the midterms, Trump takes it to the supreme court, who hand the republicans the win based on "hand waved evidence of voter fraud by democrats and 'illegals'"...

    Trump just gets bolder every time people say "oh we'll get out of this at the midterms." He's laughing at America.

  • Donald Trump Says He Wants 'Ownership' of Greenland Because It's 'Psychologically Important for Me'

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  • It's psychologically important to me and many others that he fucking die.

  • Gimp Heal Selection Tool - Resynthesizer

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  • Cool. Thanks for the info. I must have been on the Flatpak for so long that I just never noticed.

  • Top DOJ officials quit after their division refused to probe Minnesota ICE shooting

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  • we can put through a regime change in this year’s midterm elections

    It's incredible how many people still think that this will be a thing.