Oh dear God I thought rocket man had decided to blow us up for a brief moment. Thank fuck.

Girl are you CVS? Cause I'm gonna settle for you for decades but quit you when something better comes along.

Freenode's programming language communities in particular are very bad.

##C: "go fuck yourself, here's an uninformative manpage"
##C++: "go fuck yourself, no, really just go fuck yourself, also here's a link to the isocpp documents"
#python: "just use twisted"
#<any functional language>: "I am better than you and I will make this known immediately"

The charging standard is a pile of fuck, rarely obeyed, and is really stupid actually. I think USB-C only partially solves the problem... dodgy Chinese chargers designed for MacBooks will probably happily send 20v to your phone and brick it.

Interlinked Foundation casino: it has a craps table that's got weird brown skid marks from someone mistaking it as a toilet, a video poker machine that's stuck playing minesweeper, a slot machine where the handle just falls off, and a roulette wheel made out of an office chair and a spare tire.

dd if=/dev/zero of=mastodon

https://mst3k.interlinked.me/media/5RjYhzofm_c-yJeFQEA

Internet Funny Money tax.

5% excise on all purchases of Internet scrip or currency, like Bitcoin or WoW gold.

Lucrative source of revenue and great way to get people to focus on the real world and not abstract ideas.

/cc @bea if you wanna see a thesis on rheumatoid arthritis full of more holes than a boat made out of chicken wire

I looked up Dr. Phil's PhD dissertation.

Ohh boy...

How did this ever get defended...

https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc331903/

Blah

@Mainebot Most dialects of English are mutually comprehensible (except maybe Scots), so it's valid to say, but should be qualified with a dialect (the closest we have to "standards" are US and UK English)

Deep in Ft. Mead,
In a rectangular building covered in glass,
A millitary man asks you a question,
"How many countries are we at war with right now?"

You start to count on your fingers,
You start to name the countries

But he laughs and says,
Your going to need more hands

If you've got a fast dialup modem you could say it's baud-ass.

However, people do not wish to believe that the Internet is presently supported by Capitalism. They prefer to think of it as an abstract entity with modular components. That is only true to a limited extent. Internet backbones will never be replaced by mesh networks, and anyone with a knowledge in networking knows that.

Mesh networks don't excite me a lot. They have limited applicability in the countryside, and radio spectrum is a finite resource (renewable, sure, but nonetheless finite). Anyone who's had wireless Internet in their own home and had poor reception or such will tell you it's not a full replacement.

The real solution is more communal infrastructure such as fibre optics.

"You can't work on open source on company time!"

"Actually, it's GNU/Company Time"

I don't like the whole "CW everything" movement because they're turning CW's into meaningless things that people will just ignore, like the boy who cried wolf. It also is a reaction to fake outrage trolls, which I don't like either (if you aren't familiar with them... oh boy... you don't wanna know).

Believing you can please everyone is nonsense.

The past is easy. You get new limitations. You get new intrigue and plot points. But I feel like it's been done to death in Star Trek. We literally know basically /everything/ from the first warp flight to TOS and a bit in-between TOS and TNG. Just do the freaking future already.

@guinan @Trev @er1n s1 was when Roddenberry still played an active role... but he was clearly in his twilight years. It also suffered from early installment weirdness, as most shows do.

s2 was affected by the strike. Really bad. It was also when Crusher was introduced, that didn't help.

s3 saw the introduction of new writers. Roddenberry was basically gone.

Also, they kept going overbudget. They had bottle episodes to keep it cheap late-season (which often blew the budget anyway).