dr_analog
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I've been catching up on some Star Trek since I was a teen when a lot of these aired. And holy cannoli the first episode of DS9 has to be the heaviest ever.
Sisko is assigned to DS9 and is meeting with Picard about it. Sisko expresses this assignment isn't to his preference and Picard starts giving him the "Starfleet duty" lecture and Sisko erupts in his face saying to cut him some fucking slack, he is raising a kid by himself because his mother died on a ship that he helped the Borg destroy when he was Locutus. 🤯
Despite also popping Picard's bubble he makes it clear that he's not some career obsessed owned-Starfleet loser who uses it as an excuse to never start a family.
In addition to rebuking Picard, he's also a sensitive enough black man that he can cry on camera (while the wormhole entities ask him why he dwells on the memory of his wife's death) but he is still hard ass enough to blackmail a ferengi into keeping his shop open in exchange for not putting his nephew in prison.
A very different Trek.
Okay what's your worst example of free speech under attack in the UK? I see claims like this posted to X a bunch but whenever I look into it the people are being so offensive to the point of derangement or they're co-mingled with violent threats or slander.
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
1mo ago
Huh. I would bet the intelligence communities have AI that's absolute crap and that the commercial stuff is as good as it gets.
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
1mo ago
Maybe they're communist accelerationists? Best case capitalism collapses under the strain of all of the wanton grifting, worst case they can say they tried but failed but hey at least they got rich?
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
1mo ago
This seems like one of those Late Stage Capitalism style ads that were in the RoboCop movies, except these people are apparently serious?
Just gamble with your credit card bill?
Does anyone think this shouldn't be illegal?
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
1mo ago
Oh! Okay that explains everything. I thought you were talking about a private practice and my head exploded.
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
1mo ago
One issue I have when I solve math problems is that I've found that I have two threads going on at once. There's my primary thinking thread where I'm writing the problem out and evaluating it, but there's also another thread going on where I'm "voicing" the numbers and symbols in my head. Like it's just background babble. The problem is I frequently voice the wrong number or symbol and it confuses me into writing the wrong thing down.
I make so many stupid mistakes this way. I can't make it stop. The more I stress about it, the more I concentrate really hard on the problem, the worse it gets.
It's a genuine defect in cognition, IMO.
I kind of thought everyone struggled with this. And that this is what they mean when they say they hate math, but I had a professor point out that he saw I suffered unusually from stupid mistakes like this. It's not common but it's also not rare. He thought the fact that I wrote so big on my scrap paper to try to avoid getting confused was a tell-tale sign.
This isn't holding back my career or anything, but I did start doing mathacademy.com recently for fun and find I'm struggling in this way again.
Anyone know what I'm talking about?
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top 1% of underdog fetishists
1mo ago
The alarming part of the story is that one went to HR and HR sided with them, resulting in their caseload being reduced and moved to other attorneys. This person is now being paid the same as those other attorneys to do much less work, and because of the way it all went down, all those other attorneys are very aware of everything that happened.
Are you serious? I... didn't think it was possible for lawyers to hate money like this.
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1mo ago
The FBI only recently got the go-ahead to use Palantir technology on the giant NSA databank of all internet activity to find the suspect.
'they kept clicking "solve case" with every new release of the FBI crime database software and this time it finally worked' is the most reasonable guess
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1mo ago
I've been reading Verner Vinge's a Deepness in the Sky and it's quite... slow.
Someone suggested I read it because they have interesting takes on dealing with software that's thousands of years old. About 150 of 500 pages in and I'm still not really seeing much of that.
Anyone else read this thing?
Same. I do want to make it a point to show my kids TNG. Although the first few seasons when Gene Roddenberry was still alive were pretty wild. I think it came into its own better later on.
I like the new Star Trek series. At least, Picard is better. The acting, cinematography and editing are good. And they involve a bit of swearing and a bit more sexually explicit content. And more realistic combat.The plots are pretty good too. Each season of Picard has been excellent and nail biting.
They're a bit over-the-top with the girl bosses but it's just background noise you get used to after awhile. I do like Jeri Ryan as 7 of 9 and don't mind seeing her deck people in the face.
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top 1% of underdog fetishists
1mo ago
I've been catching up on Star Trek: Picard
I have to admit seeing all of the crew of TNG get back together hit me in the feels pretty good.
I'm kind of bummed that Star Trek is declining in popular culture. On the Dwarkesh podcast recently, he had Andrej Karpathy the brilliant AI researcher and educator on. He asked Dwarkesh if he had seen Star Trek and he said no. If you ask most teens and twenty,-somethings, even if they're nerdy, they'll say no 😭
I'm in a running club. It's kind of interesting how it stratifies.
Tier 1. Exclusively extremely younger fit dudes that win sprint races. Coach has completely different conversations with them.
Tier 2. Younger fit dudes and extremely fit middle aged dudes that win distance races, and some extremely fit younger women that win their category in distance races.
Tier 3. Middle aged fit dudes and younger fit women. Maybe we win our age+sex age group in some races. I'm in this group.
Tier 4. Obese dudes, not very fit dudes, thinner women.
Tier 5. Obese women.
Even though we're in a very blue town the vibe of the club is... not overly political! The most political thing we did was try to organize a food drive for people losing SNAP benefits.
Running is for everyone and you don't have to be competitive to enjoy it but it's pretty clear the young fit dudes are on a different plane of existence and we all know why.
No amount of hugboxing will get you a top 5 10k time if you don't put in the work and don't have genetics working against you.
The coach is not based enough to flat out announce the single best way to improve your running performance is to lose weight. But he will admit it in private!
It seems like culture around 1999 was different on this point in a really important way, which I think led us to the ennui of the middle-aged office worker asking, "is this it?" This isn't as much of a thing on the more recent years. I think it's been replaced by a view that even the "soulless middle-class existence" would be a significant step up from what the younger millenials, zoomers, and alphas actually got
I remember watching an old interview with Ayn Rand on Donahue, when he had a talk show, circa 1980, and there was this bit where Ayn Rand said she felt good about skyscrapers and cities and Donahue responded with dismay at all of the people working these soulless office jobs in big concrete buildings.
As someone that came of age around Flight Club I was surprised at how much older the office drone disgust sentiment was.
I wonder if I recall that correctly?
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1mo ago
There is effectively no one in charge of four offices at this point
Aren't courts supposed to appoint US attorneys if the AG's choices can't secure Senate confirmation?
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1mo ago
I'm amused that progressive copium that "nobody competent will work with these assholes" is turning out not to be cope.
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1mo ago
overall great. the diminished cravings are very mindfuck. I used to have to go to a coffee shop nearby every morning to get a latte and a goodie. like I just had to
and about a week after going on GLP-1s the whole place started sounding disgusting. I've been there twice in the last year and didn't enjoy anything
I'm sure going on this drug cost them like $2000 a year in revenue alone
the thing is I don't enjoy food any less when I do eat something I like. I just find the space of what sounds good, and at what frequency, very reduced.
I still deeply enjoy a good rib eye and burgers and french fries and stuff.
it's also not bulletproof. some foods break through. pizza and french fries are unaffected and I can really overdo those and feel disgusting.
5'11
190 last I weighed myself, but that was about 2 months ago
my starting weight was 220
my all time max weight before GLP-1s was about 260. I bounced between 210 and 230 most of my adult life while dieting and exercising and trying to be health conscious
I've never been 190 in my adult life before! could I hit 180?! seemed impossibly out of reach until now
probably I'll get my muscle and fat mass tested at the one year anniversary
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
1mo ago
Amazing success.
I was on semaglutide but started over with tirzepatide halfway through due to costs.
Lost about 30 pounds effortlessly. I chose to go slowly so that I could still continue to do my run club and also preserve strength. Gained about a minute on my mile time. I lost a bit of absolute strength but relative to my weight my lifts have mostly held, with some improvement on stuff like chinups.
Compared to how much misery and struggle it usually takes to do this through dieting these results are fucking incredible for me. I can basically forget about food.
A lot of anxiety around travel has disappeared as well. I used to worry quite a bit whenever I would go on trips to make sure I booked places near healthy food options so I wouldn't binge on junk food. But now it's not a worry at all.
Congrats friendo. I started GLP-1 drugs almost a year ago and could have written a similar post. I'm in my mid-40s though.
Day 2-4 after dosing is my peak appetite suppressing effect and I have to remember to eat lest I feel tired.
I have had some immediate taste changes as well. I used to consistently put two sugars into coffee and tea my whole life but now that sounds gross and I limit myself to one.
Overall I'm very pleased with the effects so far, I just wish they'd lasted longer but I'm sure that'll happen either next week or when I step up to the 5mg dose.
It has like a 5 day half life or so, so after you've been on a therapeutic dose for a few months you'll still have appetite suppressing effects weeks after discontinuing.
Conversely, I do notice that after upping my dose it takes about 3-4 weeks to reach the peak effect.
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That moment Luke appeared in front of Ren on the battlefield and survived all of that weapons fire. That was so exciting. Luke was going to lay the biggest fucking beatdown on that Ren guy, who so badly deserved it.
And then it doesn't happen. Instead Luke's entire life ends just trying to be a diversion.
I wish I had seen it in theaters. I bet the disappointment would have been palpable.
I'm still kind of pissed off about it. I sat through that damn movie waiting for closure and it was denied. Luke checks out with basically a whimper.
Well played, Johnson. Definitely peed on Star Wars with that one.
Too bad they had Holdo sacrificing herself to slice that first order ship in half instead of Leia, given that the Carrie Fisher died so soon after. That would have been perfect.
dr_analog
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2mo ago
Is it 100% shame? Is any part of it "I don't want to let someone see what's on my screen because then they might talk to me about it and that sounds annoying"?
I never saw the pilot episode. This clears up a lot of confusion. In the later episodes when the prophets are speaking to him I had no fucking idea what was going on, not realizing they're entirely in his head and using figures from his memory to speak to him.
The most vivid episode was the one where they try to trick that... Romulan senator into believing the Dominion plans to attack them. But then he discovers the Federation faked the evidence and he's enraged and then his ship just ... suspiciously ... explodes and they were all oddly okay with this?
I guess also that episode where it cold opens to Worf having rough dry humping sex with Dax?
Gene Roddenberry passing away early in TNG is probably the best thing to happen to the show. He never would have let the Federation get so dark, though he would've probably kept the rough Worf/Dax sex scene.
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