A Star Trek idea: A comedy sitcom where instead of a Vulcan on a mostly human ship it is a human on a mostly Vulcan ship
All the Vulcans are fiercely protective of the ‘fragile, illogical, prone-to-danger, smart, reckless little human’.
To make the human feel more accepted (as it is only logical) the Vulcans try to include aspects of terran culture in the ship’s day-to-day life, failing spectacularly at it.
The human loves them even more for it.
They’ll get better at celebrating the human’s birthday next year. It’s the thought that counts.
@jvlianbashir THAT’S A GOOD END TO THAT EPISODE THOUGH…
the vulcans put together awful, bland decorations. they make a cake because it’s of “significant importance”. they go through the process of putting together this party and Studying this Human Ritual and the entire episode is setting up to what you KNOW will be a horrible result. they do a bad job!!
then when the human’s birthday comes, and they reveal the off-the-mark, underwhelming looking birthday bash, the human just. starts crying. because they had no idea their crew would go through all this trouble to celebrate their birthday, and even put up DECORATIONS, or make a CAKE, and there’s a birthday card with extremely polite impersonal messages written and a hundred perfectly tidy signatures.
and the vulcans are just standing around like “you appear upset. the Birthday Party was unsatisfactory”.
I would watch the fuck out of that
“Humans require regular physical contact to remain healthy. We have a weekly rotation for The Daily Shoulder Pat. Please inform us if this is insufficient contact, either in frequency, magnitude, or duration.”
Okay, I reblogged this because of how adorable it is, but then I started picturing McCoy as the sole human.
One Daily Shoulder Pat is a thing that exists and is currently being regularly updated
According to my records 140,000 people want to see this.
#Oh golly gee!!! I NEED my one daily shoulder pat in the WORST way!!!!! I hope things aren’t so crazy right now that you’ll have to postpone an update!!! I feel so needy 😩🥺
Updates have been on the slow side lately because Android is very busy, but I know for a fact that they ARE still getting written. As long as the author is still committed to the work I don’t mind recommending things that aren’t finished. I know Android well enough to say it’s bound to be amazing the whole way through.
An inherent problem with the Star Trek concept is that any time people want to make movies or videogames about it, they always move away from what Star Trek is about.
Because Star Trek isn’t very action focused or cinematic or tactile. They don’t even really have guns, they basically fight by aiming laser pointers and just standing there. You’re not gonna get sick action shooter gameplay from Star Trek. The best Star Trek episodes are the ones where no combat happens at all.
Because Star Trek wasn’t made to be an action movie, or a videogame. Star Trek is a TV show, and everything about it was made for a long-form TV format, and a long-form TV budget. It’s about character drama, and politics, and diplomacy, and encountering weird alien shit. It was built for characters making tough decisions, and going on Shakespearean soliloquies.
The only kind of game that would REALLY stay true to the spirit of Star Trek…. Would unfortunately be a Telltale style choose your own adventure game.
Funny that members of the Telltale team worked on Star Trek: Resurgence. Which is pretty exactly that.
“The Onion’s bid was backed by the families of eight victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting and one first responder. It also will have an exclusive advertising deal with the gun control group Everytown for Gun Safety.”
“The Onion is proud to acquire Infowars, and we look forward to continuing its storied tradition of scaring the site’s users with lies until they fork over their cold, hard cash,” said The Onion CEO Ben Collins. “Or Bitcoin. We will also accept Bitcoin.” (CNN)
“The Onion’s bid was backed by the families of eight victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting and one first responder. It also will have an exclusive advertising deal with the gun control group Everytown for Gun Safety.”
of course when you see PayPal being uncooperative your natural instinct is to want to start an independent lightweight payment processor, but that’s exactly the logic that brought us PayPal.
we could aim to charge lower fees and then not do that.
Do not attempt to out-malicious-compliance the staff at the malicious compliance conference.
Some dipshit decided to pay the conference fee ($250) in quarters. He handed us a wrapped plastic bag full of loose change. “It’s all there,” he said with a shit-eating grin, “you can count it.”
Oh buddy. We’re going to count it. What were you expecting?
At about the time I got to $60, he offered to give us $300 collateral so he could get his badge and go to the conference.
No, bud. You get to watch the most dyscalculic staffer count to a thousand while all your friends go in to the breakfast and find seats for the first talk.
“Ruining someone’s day” is the favorite hobby of everyone here. Why would you hand us the perfect opportunity to wreck your shit and think that was an own? Half the con is calling him “Untraceable,” the other half is calling him “Quarter Boy” and nobody cares what he says his handle is.
I spent an hour counting that and made him go fetch me baggies to hold it every fifty dollars.
This ended up being a good bonus prank for me too, because when the counting was done I wrapped the bags in gaffer’s tape and spent the rest of the day handing it to people very casually while saying “oh here, hold this for a sec” and then watching they weren’t ready for the weight (I only did this to people I know well enough to know this wouldn’t hurt them).
It’s an infosec conference, so it’s a weekend in a hotel full of people whose favorite thing is breaking the law and whose second favorite thing is following the letter of the law while cheerfully violating the spirit.
Hey, a while ago I called you fat. I just wanted to apologize. I’ve recently gained a lot of weight and now I’m fat, too. Definitely wouldn’t appreciate it if someone called me fat.
the death of 8tracks made you all so bad at making playlists i fear. good ship or character playlist is max 16 songs and devastatingly perfectly crushingly curated. it should make sense musically, if not across the playlist, then at least from song to song. GRADIENTS of genre. think about this before you make a 200 song ship playlist that includes both maroon 5 and mitski. Think on it
if cooperations try to steal the stars from me, I’ll be on the news in minutes
I went on a work trip recently and was able to see one four stars when I looked up. Four of them. One of them is currently the brightest fucking star other than the sun. I couldn’t even see Polaris.
Anything you don’t stop to appreciate has no value and is safe for corporations to mess up. Anything. The Lorax isn’t really fiction anymore. So stop and take a moment to decide what free things you value as priceless. Anything can become a corporate commodity
Apparently this tiktok was deleted hours after I saved it.
[Video ID: A Tiktok that several users have added onto, each making a different joke about gender.
Person 1: They say “No pronouns? Damn… another victim of gender identity theft.” They start cracking up on the last word.
Person 2: They start off smirking while they appear to think about what to say. Then, they look at the camera imitate a spam call voice, saying, “We have been trying to contact you about your gender’s extended warranty.”
Person 3: They come in through a doorway and yell, “It’s my gender identity, and I need it now!” The camera angle shifts to indicate they’re a different person, and they say, “Tired of not having a gender identity? J.G. Wentworth can help. Call J. G. Wentworth; 877-pro-nouns. They’re your pronouns, use them when you need em’!”
Person 4: They imitate the kind of voice you hear on legal ads and say, “Attention: If you or a loved one has been diagnosed with Gender, you may be entitled to financial compensation.”
Person 5: Starting off strong and dissolving into fits of laughter as they speak, they say, “-and now a word from our sponsor: Raid Shadow Genders; conquer all of the genders" End ID]
you know that post that’s like “if thinking naruto would be proud of you for brushing your teeth gets you to brush your teeth go for it” well today i texted my friends and asked them to pretend to be wizards sending me on a grand quest to eat lunch and buy hand soap and it worked so well i put a load of laundry in and did the dishes too so. i don’t know what the lesson is here but maybe give that a try
this scene was so funny. wilson beckoning house back over like a dog. house folding immediately. all while wilson is laser-focused on rolling the world’s most mediocre joint
Sweat the onion and the apple or pear in the butter on medium heat for a few minutes. Add the chicken and brown on all sides. Add the salt, pepper, dill, and garlic powder and mix until all ingredients are coated.
Add the beer, water, and Worcestershire sauce and bring to a boil. Lower the heat to medium low and low boil covered with the lid ajar or vented for 30-40 minutes to boil off most of the alcohol, stirring occasionally.
Add in the oats and can of potato and simmer for another 10 minutes to cook the oats and heat up the potato. Skim the scum off top. Turn off the heat and mix in the milk and melt in the cheese. Top with a little more shredded cheese and crackers if you like.
I came up with this after I decided to experiment with cooking with beer. I tried a couple of different versions and this is the best one I think. I liked it so much I thought I’d share it. The apples add a subtle sweetness I really like and apples and pears are good in soup in general.
You can use whatever cut of chicken you have available but I find that the fattiness of the thigh is really good in something this dense.
OP where tf do you get a CAN of potato instead of potato-potato
The grocery store, usually.
Yeah okay no I get that but i am wondering who came up with the idea of canning potatoes and why anyone would get a can over a potato
I hate peeling potatoes. If peeling potatoes is one of your personal life’s joys I won’t judge you for it but I don’t like doing it
Who peels potatoes??
With all due respect I’m starting to believe that you’re a troll of some sort or perhaps some other flavor of internet trickster. Either that or you are of of the 10,000 people today being introduced to the concept of peeled potatoes.
Collection of pride flags for us in the modern era :(
IT WAS ON A SFW SELFIE OF A TRANS PERSON and BLUESKY JUST BANNED A THOUSAND TRANS WOMEN VIA AN AI LABELING SFW QUEER ACCOUNTS AS CSAM you HACK
“bluesky has no algorithm” fucking lies, you poor imbeciles fell for it.
An account gets featured on libsofbsky on twitter and six hours later them and anyone they’ve regularly interacted with gets labeled as CSAM and instabanned. The head of the moderation team follows libsofbsky and libsoftiktok on twitter. They played all of us for fools.
Collection of pride flags for us in the modern era :(
IT WAS ON A SFW SELFIE OF A TRANS PERSON and BLUESKY JUST BANNED A THOUSAND TRANS WOMEN VIA AN AI LABELING SFW QUEER ACCOUNTS AS CSAM you HACK
“bluesky has no algorithm” fucking lies, you poor imbeciles fell for it.
An account gets featured on libsofbsky on twitter and six hours later them and anyone they’ve regularly interacted with gets labeled as CSAM and instabanned. The head of the moderation team follows libsofbsky and libsoftiktok on twitter. They played all of us for fools.
There are only around 1,500 native Cherokee speakers left, and most of them are elders
Little Cherokee Seeds is a program where mothers and babies spend all day with first language Cherokee speakers, speaking nothing but Cherokee, so that the babies become a new generation of native speakers. They’re also teaching traditional skills and mothering practices to the mothers to pass on.
This is so so important for the survival of the language. These babies are on track to being fluent first language speakers, and they will be able to keep the language going for another lifetime.
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