wise_pancake 2d ago • 100%
Have you seen his books?
Awful sexist crap where he blames his ex wife putting out too soon for him cheating on her. Then the whole point of the book is that women need to use sex to control the relationship or men will never respect them.
His books make my blood boil.
Also he calls sex “the cookie”, like an 11 year old.
wise_pancake 2d ago • 75%
That would violate the laws of thermodynamics, you can’t create more energy in a closed system.
wise_pancake 2d ago • 80%
I suspect they couldn’t replicate dilithium because they’d be consuming dilithium, converting it to energy, then converting that energy back to dilithium.
The laws of thermodynamics state that this would be inefficient.
wise_pancake 2d ago • 100%
- Extreme amounts of energy needed for large items, but it seems like Earth has transporter quotas, so presumably they enforce energy budgets (based on DS9 Sisko using his transporter budget)
- Not all materials like latinum can be replicated
- Materials like dilithium are seemingly not viable to replicate, probably due to it being an incredibly wasteful process
- Many dilithium byproducts are unstable controlled substances, so at some point Starfleet would interfere to prevent the creation of trilithium or other unstable substances.
- I don’t know if you need antimatter, but I don’t think you could replicate it. You could replicate the machinery needed to produce it though.
- The Federation does have industrial replicators but they seem to be treated as controlled assets they rarely give out or provide access to. So they might meddle if you start building these.
wise_pancake 2d ago • 100%
What happened to those facts over feelings?
wise_pancake 2d ago • 100%
Same here, was on Reddit since 2010.
I remade an account because some of my communities aren’t big enough here. But the quality of interaction through the fediverse is much much better.
For sports, Reddit has utterly ruined them because in the app they show the results for every F1 Grand Prix as soon as the race finishes in an unremovable “trends” tile. I often can’t watch live, and so I had almost every race this season spoiled.
wise_pancake 2d ago • 100%
I don’t agree, the longer I’ve been here the more familiar usernames I see, so to me it’s been improving.
wise_pancake 2d ago • 100%
Never EVER let anyone figure out your Reddit username.
wise_pancake 3d ago • 100%
wise_pancake 4d ago • 100%
This is like the class president campaigning on free pop from the vending machines.
I feel like Jesse Pinkman yelling "he can't keep getting away with this"
wise_pancake 4d ago • 100%
I'm sorry Elrond and Lorien, the terms and conditions state you must resolve the war of elves through binding arbitration adjudicated by the Mouth of Sauron.
wise_pancake 4d ago • 100%
Most dragons are misunderstood. Do you know how long it takes to count a mountain of jewels and coins, with at least one jewel worth entire kingdoms hidden in the stack?
You can't estimate the value by weight, it's a heterogenous mixture. It must be meticulously counted in only the way a dragon can.
It's no wonder they attack anyone trying to steal from the horde they're working on.
wise_pancake 4d ago • 100%
The elvish council spent centuries debating why Sauron would do this, but the truth was he was interested in the tax deductions and a detailed income splitting scheme that harvested losses from Dwarven commodity futures to offset Mordor’s growing volcano habit.
Smaug was only ever in the Lonely Mountain to fully calculate wealth Sauron had sheltered there.
wise_pancake 4d ago • 100%
My great aunts looked like this until she died.
It was a lot more pink and less yellow because she didn’t smoke. Actually was a cool house with the old wood panelling and well kept furniture.
wise_pancake 4d ago • 100%
In the 2000s our basement furniture was all 70s furniture that looked basically new but was very out of style.
My 3 year old couch cushions are sagging and the stuffing leaks out. Modern couches are priced as luxuries with quality worse than IKEA.
wise_pancake 4d ago • 100%
PP needs to see who is compromised.
When it comes to national security there's no excuse for our second major party and likely next PM to not have clearance.
At least Trudeau can hide behind national security on this, and I would like to see more. But PP isn't behaving responsibly or in good faith.
wise_pancake 4d ago • 100%
This is what the 80s really looked like. Not like stranger things at all.
wise_pancake 4d ago • 100%
It’s a great way to save on number boards
wise_pancake 4d ago • 100%
I am so sorry for your situation.
I have a disabled sister and stories like yours have guided my voting my entire life. Disability can happen to anyone and the rules around it are brutal/should be criminal.
I'm going to donate to my local food bank today because you've reminded me of how hard people have it.
Also thank you for being a paramedic, I agree that they don't get the recognition and benefits they deserve. It's a hard and dangerous job, with tough hours too.
ETA: I have now made that donation to the food bank.
::: spoiler Trigger Warning suicidal thoughts ::: --- Hey all, I want to thank you all again for my previous thread and the support you all gave me. I can't state enough how helpful you all were for me in that moment, I am so grateful to you all! After my previous post I saw my doctor, they prescribed escitalopram, and I went through two weeks of hell (stomach issues, constant anxiety for no reason, and chills). After the 2.5 week mark things got much better for me. At 4 weeks I'm feeling much better. I can do tasks that I previously struggled with. My anxiety is much better, it's not reaching the levels of panic or struggle. Now that the feeling side is better I can see things which are behavioural (I'm trying to get back to CBT, but now there are waitlists). Overall it feels like my life went from VHS quality to HD. Literally colours seem brighter, tastes and smells are better, and touch feels much nicer. I do have one question: has anyone had suicidal thoughts while on escitalopram, and did they subside over time? I had suicidal thoughts before taking the meds, at least since I was 9/10 years old. I have them regularly especially when anxiety or depression hit. It's more thinking about it than an impulse to action on it. Normally I wouldn't think much of it, but the last several days those thoughts have been more intrusive and more impulsive. I was warned this can be a side effect and I'm still early on so I'm wondering if this is something that subsides? I don't honestly feel that I will action on these thoughts, and generally I feel good, so I'm hoping this won't be a dealbreaker or get worse. I do plan to talk to my wife about it, I've never really shared these thoughts with her, but I don't want to worry her.
I had fun with this one, it’s a bit messy though In my head there was a heavenly light pouring out from the grocery store. I’ve never used my marker pen before so decided to try it out, I like the feel of it
I don’t often shade with brush pens, and I’m rusty on my lining, but I had fun
S5 E3 Ensign Ro Mot talking over Picard feels like a latinum mine for memes.
Hey all, I hope this post is okay I'm currently going through a very high anxiety moment and have been having panic attacks all weekend. I'm still in one. I've got a doctor appointment scheduled for next week, but I need some encouragement and advice to calm things down right now. I have avoidant anxiety. When I was a student and I started having panic attacks for the first time. I couldn't force myself out of the house and stopped showing up at work and got myself fired and failed out of my classes. It took me years to recover. I found a therapist privately back then and did CBT and it helped make things manageable enough that for years things were okay. She's no longer working, and I specifically avoided drugs then but I think that was a mistake. I've been working for over a decade and have been carefully managing my anxiety with only a couple incidents. I worked in small companies, then did independent contracting, but now I've been in corporate jobs since COVID. The last couple years I've been really struggling with my anxiety. As soon as everyone started doing mass layoffs and tightening the belt I've been struggling hard. The last few months it's gotten exponentially wise, and it's beyond my ability to manage. I can't focus anymore, sitting at my desk gives me a panic attack every day, then I fail to meet my deadlines, so I stay up all night pushing myself, which boosts my anxiety. I feel like I'm on a treadmill running full speed, but I'm tired, I can't breath anymore, I have that feeling if I run anymore my legs will collapse. But I'm on a treadmill, if I fall I get wrangled and crushed, even though I know I can't keep running. Man I just need someone to say they know how I feel, that I'm not alone, and to help me push the next week until my appointment. Edit: thank you everyone, you all helped me through that moment and I'm feeling clearer right now. You said some things that were what I needed to hear, with concrete advice, and I can't express how much I appreciate that. It's going to be a rough week and I have a lot to think about
TNG S4E16 Galaxy's Child This episode has so much cringe in it. Geordie setting up a meeting and trying to make it into a date is a lot. Plus omitting that he had the computer summarize her files to resolve a critical crisis, while using the information he got from her file in discussing with her is not good. Brahms does an excellent job letting him down and putting up firm boundaries. But oh god, when she discovers the holodeck program, and then Geordie rant! It's tough to watch in a totally different way than the Quark Gender swap episode.
(OC) Inspired by https://dubvee.org/post/1489076
I just watched Measure of a Man, they rule Data has the right to choose. But in Voyager the EMH gets relegated to forced servitude. Why? Doesn’t that violate precedent?
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre stepped into the debate over trans rights on Wednesday, saying "biological males" should be banned from women's sports, change rooms and bathrooms. "Female spaces should be exclusively for females, not for biological males," Poilievre said in Kitchener, Ont. The Conservative leader made the comments after being asked if, as prime minister, he would introduce legislation to prevent "transgender women" or "biological men" from participating in female sports or entering female prisons and shelters. "A lot of the spaces … are provincially and municipally controlled, so it is unclear ... what reach federal legislation would have to change them," Poilievre said. "But obviously female sports, female change rooms, female bathrooms should be for females, not for biological males," he added.
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Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre stepped into the debate over trans rights on Wednesday, saying "biological males" should be banned from women's sports, change rooms and bathrooms. "Female spaces should be exclusively for females, not for biological males," Poilievre said in Kitchener, Ont. The Conservative leader made the comments after being asked if, as prime minister, he would introduce legislation to prevent "transgender women" or "biological men" from participating in female sports or entering female prisons and shelters. "A lot of the spaces … are provincially and municipally controlled, so it is unclear ... what reach federal legislation would have to change them," Poilievre said. "But obviously female sports, female change rooms, female bathrooms should be for females, not for biological males," he added.