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Richard, 1 month ago to random

It's really a shame just how many anti-capitalists are out there spending their time and their voice trying to predict just how soon #capitalism will fail. It's already failed! I am more anti-capitalist than most, but I do not see capitalism going anywhere anytime soon. There is nothing wrong with being a realist.

SFRuminations, 1 month ago to scifi

Jonathan Fast (1948-) was born on this day. Bibliography: https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?387

L, Boris Vallejo. 1979; R, Bruno Elettori, 1980
#scifi #sciencefiction #books

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ExtinctionR, 1 month ago to conservative

#ego #eco #ecology #nature #climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #GlobalWarming #humanity #anthropocene #animals #plants #flora #fauna

Richard, 1 month ago to AllStarTrek

Janeway is at her best when she is looking after others like here when she is looking after The Doctor's needs.

#AllStarTrek @allstartrek

Richard, 1 month ago to AllStarTrek

Please finish your drinks and meals for goodness sake.

#AllStarTrek @allstartrek

Richard, 1 month ago to AllStarTrek

I never understood why Kes is such an disliked character. Kes is brilliant. Unique. Jennifer Lien was great. #AllStarTrek @allstartrek

Richard, 1 month ago to AllStarTrek

This is still early enough in the series that Garrett Wang had not yet found a way to express Harry Kim's character, or, at least he still seems uncomfortable acting. Still very much a novice. But that didn't last long. Garrett Wang perfected the character quickly. #AllStarTrek @allstartrek

Richard, 1 month ago to AllStarTrek

Hmm, did I skip ahead early?

I should pause. I'm streaming, obviously. Do you have commercials on H&I?

#AllStarTrek @allstartrek

Richard, 1 month ago to AllStarTrek

It's exercise guy. I think he only made into like 4 episodes. Maybe 3.

#AllStarTrek @allstartrek

Richard, 1 month ago to AllStarTrek

"Eye of the Needle" stands out in #StarTrekVoyager because they show Kate Mulgrew in a nighty with her hair down and that is with Kate Mulgrew's insistence that a strong women leader need not be sexualized, hence Kate's conflict with Jeri Ryan. This is the only time in the 7 seasons of Voyager that they got away with attempting to make Kate sexually appealing. Kate Mulgrew did a great job preventing them from doing that. A true feminist. #AllStarTrek @allstartrek

Richard, 1 month ago to AllStarTrek

Alexander may not be a warrior, but I think he does prove that he is brave. In J. G. Hertzler's DS9 books, Left Hand of Destiny, Books 1 and 2, Alexander has developed a great deal. And in a short amount of time.

#AllStarTrek @allstartrek

Richard, 1 month ago to AllStarTrek

Seeing Dukat try to give Kira a dress makes me think of the documentary, What We Left Behind, where Marc Alaimo says that Dukat desired Kira and he desired Nana Visitor. Marc Alaimo said it in a really sleazy way, too. It was very much in the spirit of Dukat. #AllStarTrek @allstartrek

Richard, 1 month ago to AllStarTrek

"The busy life of an interstellar despot"

#AllStarTrek @allstartrek

Richard, 1 month ago to AllStarTrek

I love this scene. It was brilliant writing. Rozhenko being confused by a simulation and then fooling the entire bridge that they were under attack. Brilliant. And hilarious. #AllStarTrek @allstartrek

Richard, 1 month ago to AllStarTrek

Rozhenko saved by is father.

#AllStarTrek @allstartrek

nocontexttrek, 1 month ago to StarTrek

#startrek

Richard, 1 month ago to webdev

My host informed me that it is possible to integrate #Cloudflare into my websites to take the pressure off my hosting account CPU (if I understand this correctly), which is already high because I upgraded my services to prevent problems with my websites not loading. It only happens every once in a while, but still.

I thought Cloudflare would be used before hosting, not after. So I am very confused. Going to take a while to wrap my head around this.

#webdev #hosting

https://help.mailgun.com/hc/en-us/articles/15585722150299-Cloudflare-DNS-Setup-Guide#:~:text=Already%20own%20a%20domain%20hosted%20somewhere%20else%3F%20(Third%20Method)

annaleen, 1 month ago to random

A science fiction obsession led me to psychological war. I spent the past three years researching and writing a book about the history of psychological warfare in the United States, and it's coming out in early June. Not all the gems I discovered could be crammed into the final manuscript, and I've been dying to share what I found in the archives ... check out my latest newsletter to see some amazing treasures from a history that's rarely told.
https://buttondown.email/thehypothesis/archive/how-a-science-fiction-obsession-led-me-to/

ai6yr, 1 month ago to climate

Part of the collections of practical solutions to climate change (which most people refuse to adopt due to convenience, time availability, peer pressure, having to work too much, and consumerism). #laundry #climate

Richard, 1 month ago to random

#NowPlaying

#Calexico & #IronAndWine

Years to Burn

#IndieMusic #FolkRock

Richard, 1 month ago to Astronomy

Doubts Grow About the Biosignature Approach to Alien-Hunting

https://www.quantamagazine.org/doubts-grow-about-the-biosignature-approach-to-alien-hunting-20240319/

“New ideas are being explored all the time, and there could be some abiotic mechanism for that phenomenon that just hasn’t been conceived of yet”

#Biosignature #SETI #Astronomy #Exoplanet #Astrodon #Astrobiology

elizabethtasker, 1 month ago to random

Because I had a meeting in France before visiting my family in the UK, my main flight home to Tokyo leaves from Paris. I’m therefore taking the Eurostar from London to Paris! I remember the channel tunnel being constructed while i was at school, but this is the first time taking the train 🚂🧜🏾‍♀️🌊

No lie: I’m excited. And I’ve packed a cheese and pickle sandwich 🥪 and a bottle of ginger beer.