“Direct File provides a free, secure option for taxpayers with simple tax situations in 12 states to file their taxes directly with the IRS,” the Treasury Department said. “Direct File is easy to use, with no hidden junk fees, and works as well on a smartphone as it does on a laptop, tablet, or desktop computer. Direct...
transporters are hard enough to build and run that most non-critical transport is still done with conventional shuttles to save resources
When was this mentioned? I basically figured that Trek’s post-scarcity civilization would make the energy expenditures trivial.
OTOH – Mars is at least a day’s travel from Earth at Warp 1. I’m not sure what a reasonable range for the transporter is, but “multiple light-days” does seem a bit much.
I work for a large company that issues Windows laptops or MacBooks to employees depending on the work requirements. Most developers I know there use Macs, and I’ve only heard of 1-2 cases where programmers needed to get a Windows machine because they were working on a particular project.
Individually doing atmospheric analysis for every planet in the galaxy is probably an impossible task for a civilisation confined to a single solar system. Listening for signals is something our civilisation already does. If we discover radio signals from a primitive civilisation in the next star system over there’s a non-zero...
Yeah, that’s a fair point about using a larger meteor. Unless the alien assigned to the task screwed up? Unlikely, yes, but that’s the problem with this kind of speculation. There isn’t really any evidence to examine. Maybe there weren’t any aliens. Maybe there were, and they screwed up! Maybe there were, and they thought what they used would be enough, but a quirk of Earth biology let small mammals survive. Maybe there were two groups of aliens, and the second group interfered enough to prevent full overkill.
Alien shepherds could def be Option 6. These could all be fun sci-fi story prompts!
Screwed up the math, or made a typo when entering the parameters into their computer, or the being in charge was in a hurry and eyeballed it “eh…close enough, let’s do this and go home!”. We’re talking about hypothetical aliens with technology, not gods.
More likely is that there were no aliens, but that’s the boring theory.
Do people not call it porn mode anymore? When it first came out, there was a lot of chatter about people not getting busted for their porn tastes anymore.
After introducing a friend to The Dresden Files (literature.cafe)
Oh what I would give to have LCARS as a major well supported real OS (lemmy.world)
Turned my head to see my cat just staring at me. Am I safe? (toast.ooo)
IRS has launched its free tax filing service, Direct File, in 12 states (arstechnica.com)
“Direct File provides a free, secure option for taxpayers with simple tax situations in 12 states to file their taxes directly with the IRS,” the Treasury Department said. “Direct File is easy to use, with no hidden junk fees, and works as well on a smartphone as it does on a laptop, tablet, or desktop computer. Direct...
Can you say shibboleth (lemmy.world)
I bet the Vulcans never tried to "Save Daylight" by changing the clocks twice a year (i.imgflip.com)
Am I in the wrong for not visiting my brother regulary?
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Helldivers 2 boss apologizes for 'horrible' dev comments, says Arrowhead has 'taken action internally to educate our developers' (www.pcgamer.com)
Do any of you get into a feeding rut at times? Do you particularly enjoy/hate it?
As stated above. I can go months without eating an egg, for example, and suddenly crave eggs benedict for breakfast everyday....
Don't have this problem to be honest, I'm the sysadmin 😁 (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
What software you consider so bad it made you happy when you left your job?
I’ve worked with some pretty rotten software, but management software is easily the most user unfriendly, so my vote goes to HPSM.
Poor Walter (sh.itjust.works)
Welcome. You have now entered Minnesota. (lemmy.world)
[ADHDinos] Yeah this is about right (lemmy.world)
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New York man sentenced to 25 years to life for fatally shooting woman who pulled into wrong driveway (abcnews.go.com)
Why does our civilization send signals and our location into space?
Individually doing atmospheric analysis for every planet in the galaxy is probably an impossible task for a civilisation confined to a single solar system. Listening for signals is something our civilisation already does. If we discover radio signals from a primitive civilisation in the next star system over there’s a non-zero...
me_irl (lemmy.world)
What normies see when someone posts here claiming Discovery isn't canon (startrek.website)