Can’t say I expected someone on Lemmy to be one of the lucky 10,000 for this topic, but here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dril

while i enjoy making fun of Arch in general, I will admit that Valve’s fork of it works really well on my Steam Deck

if that’s from who i think it is, the artist is 100% sincere

honestly, i can’t think of a better endorsement of ipv6 than “people who think cryptocurrency is cool hate it”

This would imply that a single slice of quiche would itself become toast. I don’t think we can apply the cube rule to pieces of food; it has to be the original prepared form before being served.

Given how much Gannett is to blame for newspaper consolidation and the resulting shitshow, this feels more like a “let them fight” at best.

no

I always figured the real authentication was tied into the comm badges, and the authorization codes were just a fancy “are you sure”

you’re an idiot if you think China is communist

the entire country is just capitalism with extra steps

True, it’s hardly a complete explanation. But it at least makes it easier to rationalize it as “because effects budget” than might otherwise be the case.

(Alternate comedy option: Starfleet isn’t human-dominated, it’s actually Lanthanite-dominated and they just got better about hiding the accent.)

Eh, the problem I have with that approach is that in my case, Adderall helps me do stuff like “get the trash out to the dumpster” and “make phone calls”. Executive dysfunction is a bitch and a half for plenty of reasons that’d still be there even if we finally attained fully automated luxury gay space communism.

Regarding the humanocentrism, there was one possible explanation I hit on while playing Star Trek Online and noticing the availability of species-specific ships (such as the Atrox carrier and the Andorian escorts) – basically, most member worlds maintain their own independent fleets, but Earth doesn’t. The human prominence in Starfleet is an artifact of that – there’s no official Earth Expeditionary Fleet, so the people who might join it apply to Starfleet instead.