I’ve always liked the idea of the cap being an immediate loss of any legal property protection.

This would not be through any process, they simply instantly legally cease to have any property rights anytime they cannot prove their net worth is below the limit.

Any member of the public can reclaim any piexe of their ex-property, until the not-quite-billiomaire gets a court ruling confirming their not-a-billionaire status.

Then the not-yet-billionaires can figure out how to constantly stay comfortably below the limit.

Or…they can file an updated wealth disclosure every time they attempt to keep anyone from walking away with any piece of their former property.

If they want to avoid the inconvenience of their yachts, cars, pets, plants, fences, lamps, and television sets being repossessed, they can negotiate with their employees unions for collective ownership in good faith, instead.

It’ll be fun to see how many of them are too stupid to take a good deal, and lose their stupid toys.

“Sometimes when it’s not him, it’s still him!”

RIP Renee A. I can always hear his delivery of that final line when I read it.

It’s very eco-conscious. It’s actually made of recycled Jake Sisko vests.

But no, between Archer and Kirk Starfleet must have recruited just the worst of the worst.

All good points.

But I’ve done some mental gymnastics to make it work. We actually know:

And I assume that the same character in my spoiler tag recruited various dysfunctional crew, while Saru recruited those crew that actually perform like Starfleet officers.

So basically, with enough mental hoops, I can assume that only Discovery, itself, is crewed unusually for Starfleet.

Edit: I also feel that Archer’s bring-my-dog-to-work leadership should also shoulder some blame. And Kirk is still a low ranking officer at this point, so we haven’t reached Starfleets prime.

It was such a relief, to me. He was interesting and compelling, but his achieving a rank of Captain in Starfleet, and then throwing it away to Mary sue with Burnam, felt silly to me.

The reveal fixes this. Although they could have been more explicit that

Yeah. If you didn’t care for mirror episodes,

Discovery took everything that made Star Trek Star Trek and told it to go fuck itself. I don’t understand how people can like it.

Have you watched past the reveal of Captain Lorca’s past?

The reveal makes many of the very not-Trek first season issues suddenly feel much Trek.

I can see how that reveal might not play well to some. But it worked for me, and helped me forgive a bunch of issues I had with Discovery season 1.

Eh, you can post, but people might just ignore it. So you’re screaming into the void for the most part.

I love this analogy, and I need to expand on it.

Lemmy is like taking a pleasant walk, with mostly chill fellow hikers, through a nature preserve, and then taking turns shouting into an empty canyon.

Sometimes a nice and/or informative discussion follows during the hike back to the lodge for some hot cocoa.

Why can’t you just use a butterfly to manipulate bits like a normal adult?

Sadly, I never learned, and C-x M-c M-butterfly, feels like cheating.

Debian and nano?

I think you might thave invented the Linux version of “straight edge”.

I choose to believe you also have no community package sources enabled, and use only the included Debian themed default desktop backgrounds.

Is openSUSE and Neovim ok?

Excellent choice. You’re going places!

We accept everyone here*

I like this better.

The threaded conversations allow a useful interesting discussion to continue, even after some random person’s comment details half the participants.

The albino, his throat cleared.

Good info, thanks!

I route my email through my domain names, and so I can reroute emails at the DNS level, but I can see this being important to some folks.

Tuta deletes free accounts that have not been logged into for 6 months.

This, and I heard that some legitimate newly registered free accounts have been wiped a couple days later by anti-bot automation. So I guess one would want to age their Tuta account (or you know, just pay for it) before they trust it with too much.

I’ve had a free Tuta account for some time without any issues.

I see Proton and Tuta recommended here, often.

I also see complaints about both (Proton’s politics and Tuta’s tendency to lock and clean free accounts).

Both seem better than Google, who seem to be tightening their grip on those unable to walk away.

This…might be canon now. There’s a few conversations in Strange New Worlds that feel like the Universal Translator reached its limit of making Vulcans not-rude.

Ensign is a perfectly cromulent rank to achieve during a Starfleet career.