My hot take (especially since I also haven’t seen Picard): this might have been one of those very few exceptional situations where an AI deepfake would’ve been warranted. Still have Brent Spiner do the acting, obviously, but de-age him in post.

Every other Democrat failed to whip these to hold the line.

What I’m hearing is that we need to threaten the rest of the Democrats for failing to whip them.

Oh no, they’re copying our bad habits.

And more Lower Decks!

It’s absolutely 1000% unacceptable unless the Republicans get nothing they’ve tried to extort and make some additional concessions on top of it. That’s what a compromise is, not letting the fucking thieves and saboteurs get away with half their goddamn crimes!

and keep any federal taxes unpaid and in an escrow

That’s not how federal (income) taxes work. They get paid directly from the employer (or worker, in the case of the self-employed) to the Federal government without passing through the State.

Not sure if optimism or naïveté.

Ad-blocking is praxis.

It’s not even just that. I can’t find a source right now, but I remember reading about how the “dark enlightenment” lunatics have worked out their “ideal” US population for their technofeudalist dystopia, and it’s vastly lower than what the population is currently. I believe that’s what the commenter was referencing with the “kill 268,000,000” figure: 343 mil - 268 mil = 75 mil, which I think might’ve been what the thing I read said.

A cat would take a targ in a fight, easy.

Is anyone left from Hitler a “communist” now?

Literally and without exaggeration, yes, that’s what they truly believe.

“Would you like them in a store?
Would you let us build some more?”

“I would not like them in a store.
I will not let you build some more.
I don’t want you to track my van.
I do not like them, Sam-Alt-man!”

I’m disappointed that this didn’t appear in my feed adjacent to the “teaching an octopus to play piano” video for a nice screenshot.

I nominate “octopodusai” to be the new English plural. (Where’d the “a” come from? To make it easier to confuse ‘ai’ with æ because fuck you, that’s why, of course!)

Remember that Lore is Data’s older brother, which shows that Soong had already figured emotions out (albeit with some significant bugs) before he built Data. Between that and the fact that he made an emotion chip for Data, it’s clear that he fully intended Data to have them, so why would he leave out any of the other hardware that used them?

The Adventures of Captain Proton from Star Trek Voyager

I’ll also list these, not because they’re my favorites but just because they haven’t been mentioned yet:

• Los Dias y Los Noches de Monsigñor Martinez from King of the Hill.

• McBain from The Simpsons

• Various interdimensional cable shows from Rick and Morty

Reject crab; return to anamolocaris.

My kids have Raspberry Pi 400s (which I ought to upgrade to 500s, as they complain about them being too slow).

I think those specifically are a good choice for this use-case because they come with a big (physical, paper!) book that teaches kids all sorts of stuff that can be done with them.

You’re still fucking lying. Go away.