A couple years ago I was a field technician for an ISP in Michigan. There was a customer connected to this terminal reporting their service down.

A brewer that is trying to make their beer increasingly addictive is both a cool magical villain, and a fun modern metaphor!

You are being abused. Get your meds.

Rule 6 says no sexism! Just make sure to keep it dull

Absolutely. Just the fact that I have to call my doctor every month to get my prescription renewed, rather than it just being a normal refillable prescription feels like it’s intended to make me forget, and go of my meds.

My partner’s doctor actually told her that they probably wouldn’t continue prescribing her stimulant if she were to become unemployed. Because everyone knows you don’t need executive function for your life! Just for work.

Crazy ADHD would be disqualifying for joining the military. In life-or-death situations, distractibility becomes vigilance. There aren’t a ton of studies on the benefits of ADHD at the moment, but it’s hypothesized to have been a survival advantage evolutionarily, and has even been shown to increase the quality of decisions made by military leaders.

But I guess you’re probably also more likely to recognize bullshit 😜

A Canadian cartoon about caring bears for kids sounds like exactly the kind of thing that would exist in the Federation. It would just be on the Holodeck

“Desalination facilities are oftentimes necessary for the survival of the civilian population and intentional destruction of those types of facilities is a war crime,” said Niku Jafarnia, a researcher at Human Rights Watch.

The way the various shows handle the holodeck is pretty similar as well. It can generate environments and stories for you, but sometimes it makes crazy mistakes, and over time, it’s made clear that custom programs made by real authors are of higher quality. It even has guardrails that frequently fail.

The replicator is the same idea. It makes good-enough food, but a real chef with real ingredients has a higher ceiling for quality.

There’s a quote from a character in Generations, “We believe that when you create a machine to do the work of a man, you take something away from the man.” It aligns with the Federation’s ideal of self improvement, and in a post-scarcity utopia, I think it makes sense. Without intellectual property, environmental concerns, or the need to work for a living, AI isn’t so terrible. It’s just important you maintain your own motivation to better yourself. Too bad we’re so far behind on all those parts

This is why Boimler keeps a statue of Archer by his bed

He was actually worse with women than Harry somehow

Neelix just collapsed one day, because his lung ascended into energy to be with Suspiria

Watch out for chronoton poisoning

No wonder Voyager took him in. It often feels like everyone in Starfleet has it too

Every time you die, or are replaced by something like an alternate universe duplicate, your seniority resets

If it’s not a war, I’m pretty sure that makes it strictly a crime against humanity. Is that better?

My partner just picked up an old second generation iPod. When she saw the weird proprietary end on the wall side of the cable, she actually said, “We’ll have to order an adapter so I can hook it up to iTunes.”

Lol. Lmao even

What’s with the quote at the bottom right?

If they didn’t get all the extra time, elves would never get anything done