There are people who absolutely prefer videos to text.

A few years ago at work one of my tasks was writing up technical documentation. I’d write it up, get feedback, make tweaks, report complex errors upstream to improve or eliminate error messages, basically make the text as simple and straightforward as possible.

But over the years we’d get feedback, “Can this be a video?” and I didn’t get it. I figured I must not be writing it correctly. I’d chat with people, I’d gather more feedback. People still wanted video. I asked people for video how I could improve. They literally just wanted me to read the text I wrote. I didn’t get it.

Other folks on my team decided to make a few videos. The videos were just pictures of the text, the same pictures already included, and people reading it verbatim, plus a little background music. People loved it. Many people ignored it, but those that watched it, loved it. I still don’t get it.

Not according to the opening sentence?

The Gates Foundation plans to give away $US200 billion ($313 billion) over the next 20 years before shutting down entirely in 2045

I think I’ve seen this before and I know the solution. Time to use the “Bugs Bunny Maneuver”.

Impeach Trump.

Impeach Democrats.

Impeach Trump.

Impeach Democrats.

Impeach Democrats.

Impeach Trump.

Gottem.

It also doesn’t make sense. To make Trump angry all you need to do is tell the truth. Just state facts and he’ll be tweeting up shitstorm at 3am.

AI as auto complete is exactly what I was thinking.

I’ve seen lots of cases where AI appears as an auto complete suggestion and I can just hit <TAB> and it finishes the current line. It’s essentially filling in the boilerplate text. Heck in some cases it isn’t even right, but it’s close enough that I can change a few values.

I also want to point out that this isn’t particularly new technology. This existed before AI. It has perhaps expanded more, but it isn’t a revolutionary improvement, it’s an incremental one. So when we talk about usefulness, I think it is actually more useful.

Now if it could do all the magic planning and thinking, that would be more useful, but we’re not there yet.

I wonder if having a robots.txt file that said to ignore the file/path would help.

I’m assuming a bad bot would ignore the robots.txt file. So you could argue that you put up a clear sign and they chose to ignore it.

Ah, so this is what MC meant. I’ve enjoyed my time here.

I think Storm is being flippant but I don’t think she is an asshole or should shut the fuck up.

Storm has absolutely faced discrimination as a result of her powers. She is still a mutant. She is still hunted by the government who want to lock her away in a cage.

Now, I don’t in any way want to discount the pain that Rogue has had to endure. She faces the same problems Storm faces, PLUS the curse of her power causing her to be touch starved and the inadvertent pain she has caused others.

It’s understandable why offering such a cure would be appealing for Rogue. But let’s not forget Rogue has slowly gained more control over her powers. She can have physical contact with people, she even gets to enjoy their powers for a brief time.

Forcing the “cure” on people is the problem. Forcing them through fear or forcing them as a means of control. That’s the problem. It’s totally fine if Rogue decides to take the cure and is of sound body and mind.

Just because a sizable population sees Rogue as a “freak” doesn’t mean that she is one. Storm is reminding her that there is nothing wrong with her. She doesn’t have to make this choice. She’s reminding Rogue that she has friends, she has a (found) family, she has support.

Should Storm perhaps be a little more tactful in how she approaches it? Sure. But she is absolutely right to say it.

I do agree it makes a very public attachment to Trump. However she was already nicknamed “Lady Trump” so she was already pretty attached.

Either way we agree that the pardon is a terrible act and the crime, which should not have been pardoned, was also a terrible act.

That’s my point, unless he is aware of additional crimes Trump has nothing on this woman. She was convicted of a crime, it happened, that doesn’t go away. What goes away is the punishment.

Additionally the pardon power is absolute, even Trump knows that as he’s been bitching about being unable to do anything after Biden preemptively pardoned a handful of people.

Now if you could uncover some type of quid pro quo for this pardon that would be a new crime and you could get both of them on that (possibly). Although I’m think technically Trump could sell pardons and that would be legal. It would be abhorrent. It would be unethical. But it would legal. (Although hopefully he would be impeached, but that’s also a separate process.)

Trump gave her a pardon, how is she fucked if he goes away?

Now looking at her past she’s done plenty of other terrible things, and after this she’ll likely continue to do terrible things. So it won’t be long until she needs another pardon for a new crime (or the uncovering of an existing crime).

She was also already a Trump loyalist.

So this is less a “bribe” and more a “reward”.

Knoppix. I didn’t see it listed yet so I had to chime in.

I saw it and was confused that computers could run something that wasn’t Windows and wasn’t Mac. Then I was handed a Knoppix LiveCD and suddenly MY computer was Linux. Absolutely blew my mind.

I then explored Mandrake (now Mandrivia?) for a while but it never really stuck.

A few years later Ubuntu was handing out LivdCDs to everyone running Warty Warthog and soon after window managers started to use Beryl (?) which let you have a fancy cube desktop. Absolutely pointless but that’s how it all started.

You know who I am

That’s the wonderful thing about Tiggers.

I’ll do something similar.

What headphones do you use on your Switch? Or on an airplane? Or a regional bus?

How is the experience switching from your phone, to your laptop, to your tablet, to your Steam Deck?

El-Aurian would be amazing!

Strange New Worlds has Pelia (technically a Lathanite but similar idea), so Academy can have Tig. Plus Tig Notaro is definitely a Star Trek name.

Tilly is one of my favorites on the ship and Admiral Vance was fantastic, probably because he’s the first competent Admiral (that we didn’t previously see in the series). Reno is fine, but I like Tig Notaro, so I just head cannon it’s Tig always and it works.

They’re also adding Robert Picardo, hopefully as THE Doctor, which is another favorite of mine.

The far future isn’t my favorite timeline, I’d love to go back and pickup after 90s Trek. We got that a little with Picard, but that show also had some issues. But I want to explore, proper explore, that time more.

That said I’m hoping Academy works out.

(And if not I still have Strange New Worlds to enjoy.)

I wouldn’t have hated a two hour finale and certainly the show deserved more than a 15 minute post credits scene, but Discovery was overall a weak Star Trek show.

Enterprise only got four seasons (although it had more episodes) and that was a much better show.

Now if any of the characters want to come back, I’m all for it. Sonequa Martin-Green was great. I hope they can write a script and she comes back and gets the finale she wants, but Discovery is over and I’m ok with that.

I mean VP in recent history is there to balance the ticket. If the presidential candidate is weak in one area, they pick a VP strong in that area. Sometimes the VP is just to lock in a competitive state.

The winner picks the VP. If number 2 works well, great, but the winner picks.

You could beat this president at tic-tac-toe.

OMG! I HAVE THE EXACT SAME NUMBER!

Wait what three digit number do you have on the back? No way those match too.