Snowyday

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[–] Snowyday@startrek.website 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Thank you, Lieutenant Broccoli

[–] Snowyday@startrek.website 23 points 1 year ago

I recall the saying the Viet Nam fought the US for 10 years, France for 100 years and china for 1,000 years.

Makes sense they’d make up with us first

[–] Snowyday@startrek.website 9 points 1 year ago

I once used ChatGPT to write a story where Dax slithered out into Quark’s bar to join the conversation

[–] Snowyday@startrek.website 17 points 1 year ago

I always love one-on-one scenes between characters who others don’t get much time together

For example, Data asking Worf for advice on picking out a present for a human wedding is gold!

[–] Snowyday@startrek.website 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Oh wow! Please let me know where I can find this, thank you!

[–] Snowyday@startrek.website 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It’s amazing how many things he’s predicted (or noticed and predicted would become mainstream) over the years.

Bitcoin, metaverse, the importance of cryptography in modern IT, monetized streaming video, …

[–] Snowyday@startrek.website 2 points 1 year ago

Ser Brienne of Tarth has found her people

[–] Snowyday@startrek.website 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The opening scene of that movie is some of the best Trek ever made. I say that as someone who’s been watching since 1987

[–] Snowyday@startrek.website 3 points 1 year ago

As someone who’s read the entire Wheel of Time series multiple times, I get it. I love it, but I get it.

Mat and Rand would probably be able to explain it better though if they were on here

[–] Snowyday@startrek.website 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The US has been doing this too. For example, I recently drove through West Virginia and was surprised at how much wind power they had

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[–] Snowyday@startrek.website 57 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You reminded me of this story from 2018 when the Trump team tried to put someone in charge of government weather data so that they could shutdown free public access, allowing private companies to use it and commercialize it

“ One particularly alarming thread explored in Lewis’s reporting follows the ongoing efforts of Barry Myers, the chief executive of AccuWeather and Trump’s pick to run the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, to privatize the agency’s practice of collecting and analyzing data that helps generate weather warnings meant to keep all of us, and not just those who can pay for it, safe.”

https://www.vulture.com/2018/07/the-coming-storm-michael-lewis-audiobook-review.html

https://qz.com/1341347/michael-lewis-audiobook-the-coming-storm-is-public-weather-data-at-risk-of-privatization

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