One of the best things about DS9 is that they touched on the idea that those outside the Federation see the Federation as exactly how you just described.

For me that kind of ethics play and such is part of what is missing from new trek.

They haven’t changed the plumbing for printers since Vista, the changes they made then are part of why it took until 7 for things to work correctly.

Currently passing through the state of chaos.

I want to believe it’s just a husband trying to be cute, but the ‘grew up around too many trad wife type people’ part of me is having a hard time not assuming the worst.

Thanks for the warning. Any show that continues Discovery’s bullshit isn’t going to be worth a watch in my opinion.

Picard didn’t leave him to die, he expected the ringleader to let him go back for the dude but she didn’t. The point of the scene was to show that she was an asshole not that Picard was heartless.

Fedora is on 43…

I get what you are saying but even by that criteria I would still go back to the dancing baby gif, I Will Survive alien, the Happy Hamster Dance, or like something else from that time period.

This isn’t even close to the beginning.

The word meme was coined in the 70s to describe social phenomena of the time years before fax, email, or general internet memes became the norm.

I mean… the alternative exists…

IIRC it’s 1 in 3 households are living paycheck to paycheck.

As an aside, Scripps is barely better than Sinclair.

I am pretty sure MacOS does this and that there is a Gnome extension for it as well.

That’s quite a pun you orchestrated. Be careful though, puns drive some people to violins…

They were pre-trained, they cannot learn.

Don’t forget about all the Maquis.

It’s a mid-2000s remake of a 70s movie called Race to Witch Mountain.

I feel like I remember a transition step. Like it was just Computer or something for one version.

TIL those things have a name.

You can see what looks like a place for the cables to go though right above too.