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OK. I now have a feel for it.

Edit: The Dali is 300m long, so the Enterprise-A is a mere 5m longer. The ship pictured is a larger design. It's carrying more than 20,000 containers to the Dali's 9,971.

Not following the Lower Decks logic at all.

Family Guy's been running 22 seasons and counting. The Simpsons are now a multigenerational temporal anomaly with middle-aged Marge and Homer meeting in high school simultaneously in the 1970s through the early 2000s.

Lower Decks could run forever.

#StarTrek

Well, good news and bad news for Star Trek fans.

Strange New Worlds is renewed for Season 4.

Lower Decks is cancelled with its final 10 episode season this fall.

An unspecified Star Trek origin movie is scheduled for 2025 release.

#StarTrek

That thing where the cat jumps on your keyboard deleting your last 20 minutes of work and _he_ is the aggrieved party.

The cat's discovered and figured out the stay-cold mat I put down for him.

@OldAndCranky @cowvin

Well, happy happys.

I'm 64 and amazed how little that means. Zero of the social norms for the age apply to me; I'm not retired nor can I foresee that even ever being a possibility. I didn't skew right politically in my old age, though apparently a number of my contemporaries did, etc.

I dunno, don't you think we define ourselves in whatever you wanna call this stage? It seems to reveal peoples true selves like the New Yorkers in original Beneath the Planet of the Apes.

@cowvin

Trouble is it's in the best interests of the monied to keep everything in play as-is to keep the gravy train rolling as long as possible while they build compounds and bunkers and mega-yacht fleets.

Kind of like playing soothing music to animals headed to slaughter, if you'll forgive the darker imagery.

People are normalizing insane amounts of BS already, I attended a tech gathering at the height of the forest fires, air choking with yellow fog of burned houses; they said nothing.

@OldAndCranky @cowvin

I never thought they'd go full doomsday growing up, though as history teaches us, that had elements of luck to it such that there's gotta be timelines where they did, but I'll be honest I have kinda been amazed someone somewhere hasn't blown off a nuke being morons so a merciful Providence be thanked for the overtime work there.

I mean as a species we sure do produce some thickies, esp. lately, and give them access to atomic weaponry, so miracles are likely involved. :)

Anyone else notice how the climate-related deaths are being normalized exactly like the covid deaths?

1000 die of heat stroke at Mecca, heat dome killing seniors in North America.

It's becoming like everything is traffic accidents - deaths we accept as a random inevitable part of our environment but that we directly cause.

Death by contagious airborne vascular infection, death by heat, death by flooding, death by drought, all just part of the landscape now. Normal as sunshine.

God's will.

I think it's a neat setup how the US Supreme Court Justices can just openly take bribes then tell the rest of the country to go fly a kite.

Since justice is more illusion than reality in any case, and always has been, in one sense this is just openly acknowledging it.

Traditionally as one ages out in our society, society is revealed as a bunch of arbitrary bullshit with only a tangential relationship to objective reality.

The open corruption is such a timesaver; /teens/ can see the truth now.

You know how it's always said how if public libraries didn't exist, there is no way on Earth our current libertarian capitalist system would allow them to be created today?

State of Missouri just voted to eliminate them completely.

I'm sure other GOP-run states will soon follow. Fascists do love to purge books and readers of them are at an all-time low anyway. Hell, I used to read like 20 a week and I've bought like 2 in the past year.

Shape of things to come.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/y3wgv5/missouri-voted-to-defund-public-libraries-book-bans