I like to think he never dies, he’s just kept alive by a confluence of sci-fi anomalies and technobabble (some of it his own making) alternating between suffering/torment and respite where he gets to solve interesting engineering problems. In the end, he solves all remaining engineering problems, which ends the universe and replaces it with something new, different and even stranger, and he ends up being God for that new iteration.

I need a CPAP to sleep, so naps are basically impossible for me

But at a past job doing tech support at a web hosting company, where I was still new and assigned to the night shift, it was just me and another guy who was supposed to support me, and be the acting manager.

At night we’d be lucky to get more than one or two calls, and maybe a handful of live chats, so we’d mostly do tickets all night.

Well, I would. He would curl up at his desk and sleep for 7 hours, then speed through a bunch of really easy tickets (that he’d botch) in order to have respectable metrics.

There were others in a different department who knew about this, so on at least one occasion, they drew a penis on his forehead while he slept. Even though our boss saw this, the slacker wasn’t fired, as he was one of the few who actively wanted the night shift.

Have all those self-driving cars passed the driving tests that human drivers are required to pass? Shouldn’t that be a requirement? Like, not a simulation, but a literal test, with the examiner in the car, giving the same directions they would give to a person. And every software update would need to pass such a test.

I hope they come back with something more optimistic and upbeat than the needlessly edgy SG:U. I get that drama and conflict are needed, but a main cast that’s constantly fighting gets tiresome really quickly.

Remember, this happened some years ago.

Practice makes perfect! If you don’t succeed, try, try again!

That’s another good choice!

I don’t think that’s K’Ehleyr. Looks like one of the Duras sisters.

One of the points Picard made (with regards to Data’s violin playing) was that, in choosing two reference performers with radically different styles as his basis, he made a creative choice and created something new.

Unfortunately, we can see how this argument falls apart now in the way that AI slop gets produced.

Kinda surprised no one here has mentioned the Barney Miller theme, even though it’s pretty old. It’s a banging jazz fusion tune.

Frog has long been a slur for French people. I leave it as an exercise for the reader to work out the rest.

That’s not realistic. They’d never use real names like “Bobby”.

When you see how Riker sits down, you have to concede that so-called “normal” chairs just don’t cut it.

What’s the point of smartphone colors that will get completely covered by the phone case? And don’t tell me phone cases are not necessary, I’ve accidentally dropped my phone enough times!

(I’m on my 4th smartphone in about 12 years, and I’ve never scratched or cracked a screen)

Users have somehow been trained to ignore and dismiss error messages. Probably from getting too many ad pop-ups.

I heard countertop banana stand owners tend to also own banana hammocks.

Can we get Huey Lewis’s take on this?

Check out Gandahar. Anyone who thinks Star Trek has the most messed up time travel plotlines needs to watch this.

I love Bakshi’s LotR and Wizards but I think his best movie is American Pop. Not as WTF as Wizards, but it’s so epic!

Missed opportunity: the body in the picture should have been for an arch-top guitar.