Ragnell 7 months ago • 100%
Not just that it's a crapshoot, if you are taking other medications some meds are not possible because of potential drug interactions.
Ragnell 7 months ago • 100%
Not everyone has the same combination, comorbidities, or severity.
Ragnell 9 months ago • 100%
I mean, I understand you need to make money but if you choose to use the name of an ancient Greek Goddess as your trade name, you can't get exclusivity. You just can't.
Ragnell 9 months ago • 100%
You should not be allowed to do DMCA searches on words that are over two thousand years old.
Ragnell 9 months ago • 100%
I think the favored beast of the gods is Bear. They're very tanky.
Ragnell 9 months ago • 100%
Still doing the Final Draft on Alan Wake 2 but might switch back to a replay of Spider-Man 2.
Ragnell 9 months ago • 100%
All 3 of the current series. Spider-Man, Miles Morales, Spider-Man 2. The first one was released in 2019, I think.
Ragnell 12 months ago • 50%
If the choice is between working on a literal genocide machine and dying, the moral choice is dying. Granting an exception for the guy who sabotages the genocide machine by building in a way to blow it up.
Ragnell 12 months ago • 75%
Because the assholes got to "men's rights" "men's movement" en masse, and you'll spend your whole life critiquing individuals and find communities full of those individuals when you see those words.
Ragnell 12 months ago • 85%
Older folks: What would our kids generation do in the event of a terrorism attack?
Millennials who lived through 9/11: Seriously?
Zoomers who have to have active shooter drills: SERIOUSLY?!
Ragnell 12 months ago • 100%
They would have to call cubes back from where they are pushing territory on the other side of their territory.
The Borg were not just fighting one species when they came to get the Federation, they were expanding outwards on all sides. So they committed the lowest level of resources they believed were necessary, and because the Queen was an arrogant fool, that was just one cube.
For First Contact, you can argue that having been thus far unable to assimilate the Federation they are unaware of the speed of human advancement. In the Star Trek Universe it has been implied that humans are EXCEPTIONALLY inventive especially when faced with a problem, and that the Federation is even FASTER than humanity alone because of the additional viewpoints added to human inventiveness. Basically, the Human Problem of Fantasy Games where the humans are an average, all-around boring species while Elves and Dwarves and others all have specialties? That's not applicable to Star Trek Universe, where humans are especially well-suited to be engineers, and highly valued for their social abilities which foster teamwork. The presence of humans in the Federation is one of the ingredients that makes the Federation uniquely effective at technological advancement. Not only is the Federation large and powerful, it advances more quickly than the species that the Borg have assimilated, and has advanced to a level that the Borg never allow other species to advance to, AND it advances the way the Borg do by peacefully trading and adding technologies when it admits new member species.
The Queen never dealt with a society like the Federation before, and she didn't expect them to advance very far beyond their capabilities at Wolf 359. She figured her cube was better, and that should be good enough and if by some weirdness it wasn't she would destroy the Federation by going back in time and destroying its weirdest, least predictable species: humanity.
Ragnell 12 months ago • 100%
I was planning to go for an island on the edge of the world that you can only find after stealing the single eye shared between my 3 sisters and forcing them to give you directions.
Ragnell 12 months ago • 100%
Wish I could offer more than my upvote and my boost for this.
Ragnell 12 months ago • 100%
Upvote the Klingon Kitty? Upvote the Klingon Kitty!
The US military is appealing to the public to help find an advanced F-35 fighter jet that has gone missing over South Carolina.
Ragnell 1 year ago • 100%
Garak being really good at buying cheap leftover fabrics and using them up just explains all the clothes on DS9.
Ragnell 1 year ago • 100%
GENTLEMEN, HOW DO WE KILL SUPERMAN?
Ragnell 1 year ago • 100%
Or the novelty of AI-created art will wear off and we'll go on with our lives.
Ragnell 1 year ago • 100%
I feel like the only difference between Riker and a Betazoid man is that a Betazoid man tells his stupid jokes over telepathy.
Ragnell 1 year ago • 80%
Hives suggests she's allergic to something. Yeah, see a vet.
Ragnell 1 year ago • 60%
Actually, that money goes to the Welsh and other Celtic peoples and ALSO comes from the British Royal Family, who is descended from invaders.
Ragnell 1 year ago • 100%
Yeah, but Wolverine still needs to breathe so Clark can take him out like the Hulk.
Ragnell 1 year ago • 100%
I have a solution.
We rename the continents.
Ragnell 1 year ago • 100%
You can't use the second because the official name for Mexico is United Mexican States.
Ragnell 1 year ago • 100%
There's also the Republic of Ireland, the Republic of Korea, the Islamic Republic of Iran, the United Republic of Tanzania, the People's Republic of China, the State of Kuwait, the Kingdom of Belgium, the Republic of Latvia, the Principality of Monaco, the Kingdom of Spain, the Kingdom of Sweden, the Commonwealth of Australia, the Republic of Peru, the Republic of Paraguay, the Republic of Ecuador and a whole ton of other countries who are called by the last word in their official names because that is HOW ENGLISH WORKS.
And if you really gave a damn about all the people in Latin America, you'd call them by the proper names of their countries.
But if you insist I'm wrong, go over to lemmy.ca and post a thread telling them they're American. See what they think.
Ragnell 1 year ago • 100%
I'm pretty sure those crusaders are not from the Americas.
Ragnell 1 year ago • 100%
This is from the ep where Geordi had that transporter accident. You haven't seen it.
Ragnell 1 year ago • 100%
I've heard it's stronger than vibranium, but not as strong as Superman.
Ragnell 1 year ago • 100%
"We apologize for the inconvenience."
Ragnell 1 year ago • 66%
I have never met anyone who hates this episode. This is the one where Lwaxana shows up at the wedding naked.
Ragnell 1 year ago • 100%
See, now I think early Lwaxana is key to understanding Betazoids. It is a society of telepaths and empaths, and as a result they have an EXTREMELY strong sense of self that can actually lean into the narcissistic, they don't understand boundaries, and they do not have that filter that lies between thought and speech because everyone can tell what everyone is thinking anyway. They are so aware of people's feelings that they don't feel a need to cater to passing comfort, knowing that annoyance is just a thing that happens and will pass and that it's better to focus on the more important hurts--which is why she goes out of her way to counsel Alexander and Odo but just rolls her eyes at Picard's discomfort.
This really strong sense of self is so ingrained in the species that even Lon Suder, who doesn't have these abilities, is still such a strong personality that he TAKES OVER Tuvok during a Vulcan mind meld, and Tuvok is no slouch in telepathy.
I think it was an amazing idea to portray a telepath or an empath like this, let alone both, and it indicates a unique and interesting society in the Federation. Star Trek has a (criminally underused) race of telepaths that is unlike any other race of telepaths and that is all because of Gene Roddenberry's Auntie Mame joke.
I mean, just stop and think about what Aunties and Moms can be like. Now stop and think about them in a matriarchal culture where men are still traditionally masculine and women are traditionally feminine. Now consider them in a culture where NOBODY CAN LIE.
That's the key to Betazed. Nobody can lie, so you may as well be yourself even if you're annoying and overbearing.
Going by Lwaxana, Lon Suder, Tam Elbrum ("Tin Man") and even Deanna Troi when she lets her Betazoid half out a bit, Betzoids are an extremely impulsive and hedonistic species but also the premier telepaths of the Star Trek Universe and that is just unlike any other portrayal of telepaths but it still makes so much sense when you think about it.
Ragnell 1 year ago • 90%
FOR SALE. PRE-BLESSED.
Ragnell 1 year ago • 100%
Equal parts Dukat, Q and Data.
Ragnell 1 year ago • 100%
Yeah, Riker probably gets a rebellion roll everytime Troi's mother is around.
I wonder if there's a category for "The Captain COULD get some tail if he had better taste in women."
Ragnell 1 year ago • 89%
There are two kinds of Star Trek fans: those who love Lwaxana Troi and those who are wrong.
Ragnell 1 year ago • 100%
Where does "Troi's mother comes to visit" fall?
Ragnell 1 year ago • 100%
The one you made me think of falls under "Data takes over the ship" and "The holodeck has a malfunction"
Ragnell 1 year ago • 100%
Well, just about every world is a dystopia with only one climate.
A federal judge on Friday upheld a finding from the U.S. Copyright Office that a piece of art created by AI is not open to protection. "In March, the copyright office affirmed that most works generated by AI aren’t copyrightable but clarified that AI-assisted materials qualify for protection in certain instances. An application for a work created with the help of AI can support a copyright claim if a human “selected or arranged” it in a “sufficiently creative way that the resulting work constitutes an original work of authorship,” it said." Thaler was appealing this, and his appeal was denied.
Here's another perspective on Prosecraft being taken offline. It goes into the actual use case of the program, and it is indicative about what AI makers are getting wrong about making art.
Researchers Alex Hanna and Emily M. Bender call on businesses not to succumb to this artificial “intelligence” hype.
"The chatbot gave wildly different answers to the same math problem, with one version of ChatGPT even refusing to show how it came to its conclusion." It's getting worse. And because it's a black box model they don't know why. The computer science professor here likens it to how human students make mistakes... but human students make mistakes because they don't have perfect recall, mishear things being told to them, are tired and/or not paying attention... A bunch of reason that basically relate to having a human body that needs food, rest and water. A thing a computer does not have. The only reason ChatGPT should be getting math wrong is that it's getting inputs that are wrong, but without view into it they can't figure out where it's getting it wrong and who told it the wrong info.
This comic goes over the political history of technology in the workforce, showing that even automation to reduce manual labor was introduced as class warfare against the laborers, and that sabotage, protests and legal action were needed to preserve worker's rights.
I've been saying for a while we need a wiki and I finally stumbled across one. But is it a good resource? Anybody use this site? [https://joinfediverse.wiki/Main\_Page](https://joinfediverse.wiki/Main_Page)
Dan McQuillan, author of 'Resisting AI' looks at how the publication of his book has helped move the AI discussion away from ‘is it good or bad?’ to the more radical and worrying aspects of the technology as it is being implemented, in terms of augmenting society’s existing disparities.
I used to blog on blogger and livejournal before using Twitter destroyed my discipline and I find myself writing longer comments and mastodon posts right now. I'm thinking about a WriteFreely account. Does anyone know a good instance to start with?
As social media breaks into splinters and conditions deteriorate in general, I want to ask once again for your support. A lot of what I detail in this article has already taken place in academia, which was at the forefront of this new, exploitative push, and having left the halls of higher education to provide analysis and work to find solutions, I rely on DISPATCHES FROM A COLLAPSING STATE,
I'm researching network monitoring software. We looked into LogicMonitor, Paessler, and Solarwinds. My company is reluctant to trust Solarwinds again, LogicMonitor is EXTREMELY expensive and Paessler just ghosted us. Does anyone know who else is doing network monitoring? My boss would prefer a cloud-based solution because he'd like to cut out all the server upkeep but at this point I can't seem to get my hands on an on-prem setup.
Landlords are using AI to screen their tenants, heightening errors and discrimination.
One of the most useful things about old reddit was niche gaming communities where you could look for game guides or ask questions. It's taking a bit to populate those niche communities outside reddit, so could a community like this be a good one to start threads to list all the Hidden locations in Control, or list game guides. Is it a good place, mods and nonmods, for general gaming news and asking about a specific part of a specific game if you get stuck? If so, should we have a dedicated thread for game guides or just kind of post when questions come up or when we post them? OR should we stay away from general gaming stuff and stick to the intersection of women and gaming?
I've played through *Control* at least 10 times by now but I just found an area with a resource box that I hadn't seen before. This game is so detailed and so intricate I can enjoy it again and again. Does anyone else have a game like that? That you can play again and again and still get surprised sometimes?
This is an article by Cat Valente during the Twitter Migration, discussing the cycle of enschittification and the history of social media. We found it very perceptive and helpful when leaving Twitter, and I think people leaving Reddit may feel the same.
Article talks a little bit about how differing inspiration sources are contributing to developing gameplay.
How do I see what magazines I'm subscribed to? I know how to see the THREADS that I'm subscribed to, but I haven't been able to find a list of subscriptions I have to check a magazine that I've forgotten the exact name of, or magazines that might be active but are getting crowded out by more active magazines, or inactive magazines that I want to just post to. Is this hidden somewhere? [\#kbinMeta](https://kbin.social/tag/kbinMeta)