I was going to say “I don’t use em-dashes in my books for when they sole all those books” but then I went into my first book and found 22 em-dashes so… oops. I thought the word processor changed – into an en-dash and not an em-dash.

I think you’d probably be ok with using em-dashes (I typically use en-dashes myself but I’m lazy), but don’t use cliche phrases like “It’s not [x] – it’s [reframed x]”

“This is not just a leak – it’s a blueprint for mass exploitation,” the researchers said.

Are the researchers chatgpt? Because that looks almost word for word how chatgpt would write something like that, right down to the em-dash.

Well, don’t I feel silly. haha

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The important thing is that it shows that canonically the holodeck is for porn.

Is there a cold there were two Vulcans on that ship, and I think they both had to do it at least once, but according to dialog from memory alpha, it sounds like it’s pretty common:

“I am a married man.” “It’s the holodeck, Tuvok. It doesn’t count.” “Is that what you tell your wife?” “No, of course not. My days of rescuing slave girls from Planet Ten are history. Look, you have photographs of your wife, right? The computer can use them to create a replica. You wouldn’t be breaking your vows if it’s a hologram of your wife.”

Wait a sec, tuvok literally used it to pon far. So even more canon, on screen canon!

Not just Barclay either. Remember laforge? He was basically married to his warp drive waifu and then she showed up and it’s like “oh shit uh awkward I’ve boned you in every hole”

That’s just canonical at this point. 👉 👌

Otherwise why can you create holograms of your coworkers to bang and apparently that’s not against the rules or the programming of the holodeck?

Especially time cops.

You kind have to admit that Star Trek isn’t much of a post-scarcity socialist utopia.

For one thing, it’s viciously elitist and hierarchical. You’d think a “post-scarcity socialist utopia” would have ways that a decorated captain would be able to get their hands on a ship in a pinch, but every Star Trek captain has had to steal a ship at some point because turns out there aren’t a lot of them and they don’t hand them out very easily.

Now you might say “Yeah but they can’t just give out prime war assets to whoever asks for them!” – at one point the ship they steal is an Enterprise that’s being decommissioned – you can’t even use their junk without permission! Then ended up sending half the fleet after a piece of junk they were in the process of throwing out!

“We’re delivering food and medical supplies to the colonies!” why? Why is that a thing you need to deliver? I thought this was post scarcity?

For another thing, Seems to me like there’s plenty of racism in the star trek world. I mean, you don’t want to be a borg, and God forbid you’re one of soong’s androids, you’ll be on trial because they want to dissect your brain.

God help you if your ancestors were genetically modified, that’s a jailin’.

Wanna live on the wrong planet? That’s a jailin’.

Wanna stop a pre-warp civilization from being destroyed? that’s a jailin’.

Wanna be a pre-warp indigenous civilization and not be destroyed if the Federation wants your planet? that’s a jailin’.

Wanna get trained at star fleet academy without being part of the top 0.1%? You know that’s a jailin’.

wanna be a hologram and get too uppity? That’s a deletin’.

Wanna be a combination of two of the captains pet crew members and you don’t want to be separated again? That’s a murderin’.

Wanna be inconvenient to the fleet? That’s a section 31…in’.

Some utopia. Some socialist utopia.

But look on the bright side! If the shiny headed captain wants to bang your mom, maybe you’ll get made a member of the bridge crew anyway! Hope you have a hot mom!

But uh oh! Sorry Wesley, you got kicked out of the academy, you have to go off with space pedo now or no space for you! Maybe if your mom was seven of nine instead? “Your mom is seven? Never mind then, no space pedos for you because I want to get in that skintight catsuit!”

It’s actually a technocratic aristocracy where we get to see the aristocratic few and only occasionally see the earth tone bedecked underclass in establishing shots.

Oh, we do get to see a space autist in Barclay – oh, and he’s mocked and ridiculed and belittled, and they’re looking for any chance to get rid of him. Utopia, ladies and gentlemen! (Let’s not talk about the fact that he’s not allowed to be a space autist, but anyone is allowed to use the holodeck to create bangable versions of real people you’ve met or are likely to meet. Turns out the hierarchy can’t enter yellow gridlines, go ahead and bang the ship’s doctor, or the hot lady who’s real good and making the space ships go fast good!)

“We’re so advanced because we don’t use money” great but who needs money when the highest ranking aristocrats get to choose exactly how all the capital gets used and the lowest ranking proleteriat can just die because there’s no star ships available to deliver supplies this week?

“You don’t understand! We’re morally superior! We’ve ended want! We’ve elevated the common man to a new level!”

Yeah, that’s exactly the logic by which the natives in America were subjugated. “Good news! We’re bringing you Jesus and freeing you from your heathen ways!”

To be honest, Voyager is really great because it lays bare the fascist undertones. The young, attractive crew in nice uniforms walk around the pristine ship and live under the thumb of the God-King Janeway who will kill you if she can get 2 crew members out of it, and will destroy entire civilizations if she deems it acceptable.

But don’t worry, she got her comeuppance by… being promoted to Admiral (and that’s not in Picard, that’s during the movie timeline)! But don’t worry, our good pal Picard, he… was kicked out of Star Fleet for having political opinions the people higher on the hierarchy (I guess Janeway?) didn’t like. How embarrassing. I guess he just didn’t murder enough crew members to get them to multiply like firing neutrons at an atom until it splits.

While we’re talking about Picard, let’s talk a bit about holograms and synths. Why does star trek need EMH mark 1s cleaning plasma conduits in a socialist utopia? Why does star trek need mass produced worker-synths in a socialist utopia? Is it because they need slaves and they’re not allowed to use black people anymore in their space aristocracy? Sounds a bit like a Greek or Roman socialist utopia.

But all joking aside? It’s the space military-industrial complex. It’s Space America minus the capitalism and the democracy. Far from a socialist utopia, unless joining space Raytheon is socialist utopia.

Maybe Q was right and humanity is just lucky he picked the francophone shakespearian hawk-tua who bamboozled him with bullshit into thinking humanity wasn’t still a savage child-race?

I like to think that after his episode in TNG, Scotty went on to have all kinds of adventures in his little shuttlecraft.

When I was a kid, I’d draw his little shuttle craft showing up in battles against the borg and the like.

It’s really simple when you think about it, the taste of any fermentation is going to be the taste of what you put into it minus any of the sugars. Maple syrup is sugar and the liquid extract from a tree. So once you remove the sugar, all you have left is alcohol and the liquid extract from a tree.

It’s actually one of the reasons that I think my need made from honey turned out to be so lovely, is once you take the sugar out of honey what you’re left with is extract from flowers.

It wasn’t a terrible idea, but I tried to make maple syrup mead, and it tasted exactly like breaking a branch off of a tree and trying to suck it. Like, that green tree taste. Complete waste of some very expensive maple syrup.

One of the key bits of fermentation is that the conditions need to be pretty close to perfect for yeast to be a dominant Factor. You need to have a relatively sterile environment, you definitely need to make sure that there’s nothing else competing, and you need to make sure that you’re within certain factors of things like acidity. Stomach acid has a pH of 1-2, most brewable juices are closer to 3-4.

Some microbes do end up surviving the journey through your stomach, and they become the microbiome inside of you. I think that brewer’s yeast would find that environment extremely challenging more than the stomach even because that microbiome is like skid row, filled with the dregs of the food you eat. The spoiled rich kid brewers yeast isn’t going to thrive in that environment.

Consider a piece of advice from cider brewing: you are sometimes told if you don’t have yeast to just juice the fruit without washing it and natural yeast on the fruit will grow in your cider and if you’re successful it’ll taste better than beer brewer’s yeast. This shows that yeast is everywhere and it’s on many things we might routinely eat and people aren’t going around naturally drunk after eating an apple off a tree or some berries off a bush.

The key to “AI” is having a human there to take algorithms and apply them to the right problems.

This is what most people don’t understand because many of the demos are quite impressive and narrowly tailored to prevent the fact from being obvious unless you know what you’re looking for.

COMPILE ERROR - LIBRARY CALCAREA.H DOES NOT EXIST

goddamnit you acid tripping LLM…

About 200 pounds.

The interoperability of different software really is amazing. One of the best parts of the fediverse imo.