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Please calculate Pi to an infinite number of digits.

It’s funny what the human brain does to resolve errors into the meaning we expect. It’s like having a good onboard AI. It gets things right a lot, but it has its issues.

Actually, it kinda depends on how you view the captains. I think Kirk is pretty awesome. I’d probably rate Sisko and Picard higher. So I think the cake is pretty good, but not like professional grade.

Ah, trying to bring back old nerdus obnoxious, eh?

Damn it, the neck beard in me wants to correct the cake, but the adult in me realizes it’s a joke. I really hate the way I think, sometimes.

Well done! I’d rate it a Kirk on the Captains’ Scale.

Wait, wait, wait…if this is going to be a Dukes of Hazard thing, Cooter was an ally to the erstwhile heroes (confederate naval jack notwithstanding). That would make Putin Boss Hogg and Trump the inept Rosco P. Coltrane, so Vance would be the deputy, Enos (rhymes with penis).

AP - Today, the office of United States Vice President JD “Cooter” Vance announced plans for him to attend the annual Future White Supremacists of America summer picnic and ice cream social in Laurens, SC…

Since he’s a hillbilly, can we call Vance “Cooter”?

Slavery with extra steps…

As an American, I’d prefer you guys not prop up the Trump regime. I was hoping Europe and the rest of the world could find your own way and let us suffer the consequences of our stupidity so that maybe we might learn something.

One of the best things about Enterprise was getting screen time for other important races in the Federation. Lower Decks was pretty awesome in this vein, too.

I heard somewhere that the overhead costs for standard Medicare is around 4-5%. Medicare Advantage comes in around 15%, because of the need to turn a profit. It’s very inefficient. The public option was always the best way to go, but we’re stuck with this stupid narrative that private options will be more efficient. Like trickle-down economics, it’s bullshit, and it needs to be exposed at every opportunity so that maybe folks will finally realize they’ve been hoodwinked.

Fantasy, I know, but I can still hope for truth and rational thinking to win the day.

Didn’t even have to change Murdoch’s picture. Phenomenal!

Well, I guess the Nazis Kirk fought weren’t humans from Earth from the 20th century, but I recall they wore exactly the same uniforms and had the same symbology.

Kirk fought literal Nazis. Sheridan fought future Nazis. Why did you get downvoted for this comment?

Anyone here like Folding Ideas? He’s done some good stuff about flat earthers, crypto bros, and such.

I read Imzadi and Vendetta. I really liked the latter because it involved one of Guinan’s people using the Doomsday Machine to kick the Borg’s collective ass.

He wrote a lot more Star Trek fiction than just the one novel.

Why have I never heard of this artist/group? This is like DJ Shadow and Del the Funky Homosapien did a collaboration, and I mean that in the best possible way.

“I do think there are some things we don’t understand. If we’d be back in time a thousand years, trying to explain this place to people, they could only accept it in terms of magic.”

“Then perhaps it is magic. The magic of the human heart, focused and made manifest by technology. Every day you here create greater miracles than a burning bush.”

And then…

“We are dreamers, shapers, singers, and makers. We study the mysteries of laser and circuit, crystal and scanner, holographic demons and invocations of equations. These are the tools we employ and we know many things.”

I love B5 so much.