Yup. The “Thirty Mile Zone” is used in union contracts to define local shoots versus location shoots. Basically, if you stay in the TMZ everybody has to drive to work and buy their own food.

It’s hard to tell from the article whether the professor was protesting the Chinese government or intentionally getting the page blocked specifically so no Chinese students would apply.

Yeah, but it’s only ever senior staff who gets to that, and the federation ships have an Enterprise rent-a-car full of Warp-4 minivans that apparently need very little skill to pilot or resources to operate over long distances. None of that is much of a match for the tenders, lifeboats, and helicopters on your average Navy ship.

Yeah, this is exactly what Trademark was made for. Same market category, same size, same art style, same font on the Latin characters, and same location and box for the Kanji. At a glance, I would absolutely assume Tokyo Banana was branching out. For me personally, that would mean I’d avoid them, because Tokyo Banana is overpriced “meh,” but the berry one is obviously intended to cause confusion and poach sales.

Too bad, because whatever the hell the Korean company was making was probably better than the upjumped twinkies that are Tokyo Bananas.

While I don’t want to presume that science that feels intuitive is bad science, I’m not entirely sure how newsworthy it is to talk about how getting used to heat helps one deal with heat. People did live in hot places before AC.

It starts to feel like instructions and socialization rather than simple science journalism…

If both people come away with the same understanding, what difference does it make?

You’re not wrong, but this statement is doing a LOT of heavy lifting. By the time I am paying close enough attention to something on audio for there to be no difference, reading would have been more efficient.

Fair. Still, the modern cinema seats are generally better than the stained and overly absorbent folding auditorium seat monstrosities we used to endure.

No, that’s Dave Thomas. You’re thinking of the former gridiron footballer for the Jacksonville Jaguars.

Pros: Sound, projection, and seats are all better. Assigned seating is a godsend.

Cons: Prices, people on cell phones, prices, previews/ads push actual start to 20 + (d20 roll) minutes after the listed start, and prices.

You know how in sporting events, they shut it down for 30 minutes if there is lightning near the stadium, and every single bolt of lightning resets that clock?

America’s “allies” need to do the same thing, except switch sporting event to “meaningful international commitments,” minutes to “years,” and bolt of lightning to “any GOP Administration.”

This is just how you (slightly) expand the gene pool of Archaic era Ithacan elites. We’re gonna King Ralph everybody except Odysseus!

1. Important context: he’s talking to Laura Loomer, so trying to communicate to a skeptical White House that supporting Ukraine is supporting the values of Trump’s base. Ukrainian propaganda is real and I don’t judge them for deploying it, but we also don’t want to presume that statements like this are not calculated. That said…

2. I mean, he’s not wrong. You can (and I’d argue should) stop well short of confiscation when trying to keep religion from being a toxic voice in a country’s political discourse. However, raising it in this conversation, when Putin seems more interested in co-opting religion rather than suppressing it, and that in a way that MAGAs would frankly find to be a useful model, makes me think of it more as a hail mary (LOL) than anything else.

3. The last line of the article gave me pause, so in investigating this source, it appears to be an arm of the UOC-Moscow Patriarchate, and while I am concerned by any curtailment of the free exercise of religion, the Russian Orthodox church has been largely co-opted by the Putin government, leading the ecumenical patriarch in Istanbul to cut the Ukraininan church free from Moscow, and now the UOC-MP seems to be trying to have its cake and eat it to with regard to respecting Moscow without fully toeing the line on the ROC’s pro-war rhetoric. The argument would come down to whether the Russian Church is de facto an arm of the Russian state. At any rate, the site definitely has an agenda here.

Yeah, it seems almost like a perverse point of pride that the weirdos who join Starfleet don’t really participate fully in planetside culture, and getting retired from it would almost like a kind of death or imprisonment. Now, why Picard and O’Brien don’t get assigned to a cushy Starbase gig in Sol is beyond me. Those two are, mentally, hundreds of (very traumatic) years old each.

This is me. I use it just often enough that I’ll occasionally embarrass myself smudging the screen of a non-TS laptop trying to zoom a map or tap a shutdown icon.

There is a line you see quoted from time to time the ST:TMP novelization, which I understand Gene Roddenberry had a real hand in crafting.:

We are a highly conservative and strongly individualistic group. The old customs die hard with us. We submit ourselves to starship discipline because we know it is made necessary by the realities of deep-space exploration.

He seems to have struggled with what his vision for a future society would be, versus the realities of making a sellable media property in the late 20th century. He posits that our Starfleet friends are actually socially conservative space cowboys by the standards of the UFP, which makes it easier for the audience to identify with them without compromising the rest of his post-scarcity utopian vision (e.g. that same passage indicates that James Kirk was partially named after his mother’s first “love instructor”). However, it also means we’re seeing a bizarre subculture of quasi-exiled psychological luddites who take on the eldritch horrors of service in Starfleet in return for not being slapped down into conformity.

It’s clearly not a guiding principle for how Starfleet is generally portrayed in ST media, but it’s interesting to think of them in terms of being distinctly apart from the rest of humanity while dedicating themselves to protecting it and expanding its understanding of the universe.

That said, for a small overall community, I think the example of Reddit did the Threadiverse a disservice. Ideally, I think specialized communities should arise out of generalized ones, forking off when they start to clutter the general community or at least become self-sustaining conversations. Instead, a non-trivial percentage of subreddits was just plopped down with the welcome sign put out, but that caused users to assume that they shouldn’t post a certain question in a general community, and made them not want to post it in the desert community that had been set up but had no traffic.

Fortunately, !malefashionadvice@lemmy.world seems to be doing okay, but I know I in particular wouldn’t be annoyed to see questions outside my usual interests posted here.

“He tasks me. He tasks me and I shall have him! I’ll chase him 'round the islands of French Guiana and 'round the Suriname Maelstrom and 'round perdition’s flames before I give him up!”

It glosses over the “science-ing the shit out of things,” to use a Weir-ism, favoring the emotional connection , and compacts some other plot points, but everything that must be there is there, and done well. IMHO it’s pretty close to perfect as an adaptation to complement and revisit the book in a dramatic way, but it wouldn’t replace reading it.

For the record, I think project Hail Mary is a much better book than the Martian is, but the two films are roughly equivalent in quality. Damon is a little better than Gosling as the author stand-in, but r the Rocky dynamic makes PHM a more compelling story.

Yeah. I don’t think this is too hard to parse, nor is it likely to be some cogent political protest.

1. New flat surface attracts graffiti.
2. Within a short time, someone else breaks the glass to get access to the balls because they can’t or won’t use the app.

There could easily be an element of “fuck that app,” but the “reward” here is access to a basketball while at the park. I think Occam’s razor is an appropriate initial framework.

It also looks like the city was prudent and avoided a major investment of tax money.