Picard falls over because what should be left as a character study has clumsy attempts to jam ‘action trek’ up it, often derailing it.  DISC tells us the universe is dark and full of terrors.   Both tell us we fucked up and that we should fear.

PIC and DISC remain trapped in the time and political and emotional states of their making.  Jihadists and racism, the same political and bigoted circles over and over.   SNW and LD - and yes The Orville - like classic trek show us a version of this - but then reach past to show we could have something better.  To normalise that something better.

And it’s in the normalisation where Trek’s REAL power has always lain. You can tell a thousand aesops, clumsy or skilled on the fool who oppressed his equal, but they don’t hold a single candle to the simple fact Uhura is a bridge officer. To McCoy yielding without second thought to M’Benga as a more skilled MO. To former enemies in the crew, women in command, loving single black fathers, genderqueer species, Autistic ciphers, queer couples,  trans children.    All of them normalised.  All of them not begging, demanding, fighting for respect - but simply receiving it.   The disrespectful are the denormalised, and they must be fought. A better life is not a dream to strive for held out of reach, it’s simply the base state of existence.

Picard and disc forgot that, and its a real fuckin’ shame.

No it wasn’t

I just gave picard another go and knocked it off but jeeeeeesus. So much nonsensical bullshit and how can you faff about so much with so few episodes.

Picard? The series literally laser focused on and named after the cis white man?

You can walk a klick in 10 mins

A ruler is 30cm. Roughly a third of a meter.

Four cups to a litre.

shut up dude your AI can’t even conjugate italian are verbs properly

Top: the bard’s song

Bottom : valhalla

Not even that, m$ likes to pretend it makes cinema equipment. If it angers the studios it’s beyond fucked

What i would like an ai to do:

"Go through this mega dump of ROM files, if there are any that are (g) (j) (f) (s), delete them. If there are multiples, find the ! and delete all other copies.

What they attempt to give me: “we fucked up notepad with clippy mk II!”

Was arranging a completely unrelated service with a client today and apropos of absolutely nothing he went full jaw-foamingly off his tits about how shite win11 was.

As opposed to everyone else when they have to click the US flag to get English language options

The point of the 4am code is to grasp a concept. You can clean it up later, but getting a firm grasp on what you want it to do is a solid dragon slaying win

There’s some of that, but there is also a huge chunk of egotism and misogyny.

Source: ASD tech married to an ADHD dev.

Hahahha reminds of a particular work arsehole who tried to lecture me on a technical task and told me to read a piece of documentation he found on the company intranet. I told him to look up who authored the fucking thing (me)

God that first paragraph hit me right in the gut

And then you have David Tennant who is just a twee little Scottish presbyterian who likes to act

Pants / Tshirt but once I’m actually in bed the top goes flying and if i’m too warm the pants do too.

…yes? That was why i quoted naked now?

(And archer but that was just gravy for me)

(Per aspera)

He’s learning