Not anymore. >_<

Put him in a red uniform and let him tell us odd facts about museum ships and out-of-the-way (windy) Federation worlds.

You’re not alone. I recall getting sniped from every direction at some points, with very tough 1:1 battles and boss battles that just kinda “happen” out in the open.

Just automatically started uploading everything on my hard drive to an account I didn’t set up

Wait, what?

Real question here: has anyone else had luck side-stepping the Live365 signup during/after install? I’ve done this, and I’m very confused that more people haven’t.

Yes

I’m dead. How is anyone this bad at delivering crucial information?

Oh, everything’s fine now, …

I wish. Nope, nothing like my family.

… but two weeks ago she was murdered.

Nevermind, this checks out.

Tofu chili was nasty. It’s probably a texture thing

Even Mapo Tofu still has real meat in it for the right texture. For a 100% veggie option, you gotta go extra/ultra firm. I’ve only ever seen it at the local Korean grocer though - “American” grocery stores don’t carry stuff with the right texture. TVP might work too.

He wants you to use X like you would use your credit card.

I should have seen this coming.

That same year, Musk co-founded X.com, a direct bank. X.com merged with Confinity in 2000 to form PayPal. In October 2002, eBay acquired PayPal for $1.5 billion. (wikipedia)

Aw man, he’s trying to build Paypal? Again?

I’m still amazed the Internet itself works.

Same here. FWIW, it’s built on older, slower, less-reliable tech, which forced ridiculous amounts of resiliency into every layer of the design. It’s still amazing, but perhaps slightly less so if we look back 40 years. I’m convinced that some parts are running just fine over infrastructure no better than wet string.

Hate that my government is apparently dead set on all of us driving massive trucks and SUVs spending thousands to money lenders, auto manufacturers, and dealerships over realist vehicles.

Doubly so if those parties are campaign contributors. Always follow the money.

I’ll preface this by saying this shady shit gets all my hate.

It’s tempting to opt for telematics/black box insurance because of the initial cheaper prices but the privacy violations and potential downsides make it not worth it.

The overall problem here is that human psychology tends to frame this difference as a loss not a gain. Given the choice, people will see the cheaper option as the baseline, and then ask “can I afford to pay more for privacy?” instead of affirming “my privacy is not worth this discount.”

Also, those of us that have paid for insurance without such a “discount”, are likely keenly aware of the difference. For new drivers, from now to here on out, the lack of past experience presents a new baseline where this awfulness is normalized. Competition between insurance providers won’t help us here since the “privacy free” option is still profitable and is enticing for new customers (read: younger, poorer). So it’ll take some kind of law, collective action, or government intervention to make this go away.

Have fun fighting with your insurance to get them to remove anything from your record. […] If I had spyware insurance they would’ve dinged me for it.

I think this is the bigger problem. If someone has the data an insurance company wants, you probably agreed to an EULA or signed something that makes their ownership, and its sale, legal. With the “yeah go ahead and use my data” option on the table, the machinery to do this without your knowledge is already in place. All the insurance provider has to do is buy the data from someone else. When the price is right, 1st party spyware isn’t required at all.

Lower Decks, per usual, had the best take on this trope.

in the in-universe parody show “Wormhole X-treme”

That whole episode was such a gift.

Computer, set a sexy course for the sexiest year…

Good point.

All while perfectly mimicking the visual style of the DesiLu production.

For those of us that are into set design, lighting, cinematography, etc. the first minute of the cold-open in episode 1 goes hard too. If they kept a 4:3 aspect ratio (I think) and added some film grain, I would have struggled to tell them apart. They did a phenomenal job here.

Outstanding. This show gave us so much.

If this post got your attention, give the short-lived Hyperdrive a shot. It’s much more Trek than Red Dwarf and leans more comedy than sci-fi in similar ways. As a “normal people just working a job in space” show, it now watches like a BBC template for The Orville. Hey, it even has Nick Frost¹ and Miranda Hart in it.

1 - Simon Pegg feels suspiciously absent, although he did land a part in an actual Trek movie not long after this.

Everything I’ve ever heard about Avery Brooks suggests that this is exactly what was going through his head.

Nice! I love them too.

I would go to a different site to watch it/wouldn’t go to a movie theater for it.

The internet really did change a lot of things away from how older generations view society. I think this point alone carries OP’s post - T&A in a movie isn’t exactly the draw it used to be. Even romantic content¹ is easier to find on streaming than it was ever made popular on TV or movies.

1 - For “trashy” romantic content, Anime is doing the heavy lifting these days.