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FOD from the time when there was no Drunk Shimoda and the term FOD hadn't been coined. (he/him)

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42402dot7, to random
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We interrupt this program for an important message from Hoshi's slug.

42402dot7,
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@mikey you correctly predicted the drop😉

42402dot7, to random
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Does anybody (eg @GreatestTrek) know if Ben and Adam will watch ENT's Broken Bow as one episode or (snickers) broken apart into two?

(I have it as two eps recorded and that means I would have to skip the damn song twice... )

42402dot7,
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@mikey One can only hope that I don't have to suffer this indignity twice in a weekend - in vain! @GreatestTrek

42402dot7, to random
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This is why we cannot have nice things.

https://www.euronews.com/travel/2024/05/14/dublin-and-new-york-are-now-connected-by-a-portal-and-locals-are-using-it-to-flirt-with-st?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

jon, to random
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Absolute jaw drop

Go to SNCF Grandes Lignes ticket office and ask why SNCF Connect cannot sell me tickets to Berlin any more

“C’est la faute de Deutsche Bahn!” the employee tells me

This is a flat lie

Deutsche Bahn provides this data still. The fault is with SNCF’s IT. And employees here are blaming Deutsche Bahn

42402dot7,
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@jon but can you blame them? Can you think of an easier scapegoat?

42402dot7,
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@jon I was not serious - in case that didn't come across.

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Hailing frequencies are open! In preparation for Enterprise, we’re taking FoD suggestions for new squares on the revamped Game Of Buttholes board.

What’s your best idea for a new Enterprise inspired square?

video/mp4

42402dot7,
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@GreatestTrek

Portho's square - all available dogs must take part in the recording (on purpose)

It's been a long way square - Ben and Adam just find some royalty free country music and record some bad lyrics over it. Like one stanza and a chorus about the episode.

Measure of a Vulcan square - they flip a coin and one host is just a humorless dick to the other the whole episode long.

Caretaker square renamed as Temporal Cold War square

Delta flyer should be replaced with a pic of Porthos.

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To all FoD's, everywhere! Ben and Adam are recording the Voyager retrospective episode tomorrow and want to see if you have any suggestions for Voyager topics and questions for them to discuss on the episode.

What questions do you want them to discuss on the episode?

42402dot7,
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@GreatestTrek I would like to hear an oral retrospective of Janeway hair through the seasons and a supercut of all the There Is Coffee In drops as a post credits treat!

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Right

Now the map is ready as well! 💪

Now over 470 towers mapped

Full zoomable map
https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/eiffel-towers-derivatives-and-replicas_1006050#3/22.35/11.87

Can you help me confirm the status of the ones with the ? icons? Can you send me a picture to use for the ones without one? Any towers I am missing?

Next: update the blog post about this (not today!)

42402dot7,
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@jon what's the minimum height for an Eiffel Tower lookalike to make the map? I spotted an about 2m tall Lego replica of Tokyo Tower at Legoland in Nagoya that isn't on your map.

42402dot7, to random
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Ah, yes, the three pillars of news.

42402dot7,
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@mikey it's a big deal in Japan🌸

42402dot7, to random
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@pixelfed Thanks for the Android app update! Single tap to view an image is great to have back. Images are still cropped in the feed view.

42402dot7, to random
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This is what the pod did to me. It made me draw this. I also don't know why.

I'll leave the syrup bit to the imagination.

42402dot7, to random
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@Bridgemakes you code47ed?

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Maybe a controversial opinion, considering how popular shipping is, but I prefer stories where the main characters are friends and don't get together in the end.

cf, Janeway and Chakotay

42402dot7,
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@Bridgemakes I dread the absolutely insane curve ball they throw at us at the end of S7 double u slash are slash tee Chakotay's love interest ...

42402dot7,
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@mikey @Bridgemakes I wish I didn't know that detail either ...

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Okay. After.... way longer than expected. The Hood is again underway. I only got half way into rebuilding the whole damn ship somewhere else... But you know... Maybe I'll look at doing that anyway given what today was like. (Kitty for upload verification)

42402dot7, (edited )
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@mikey I wrongly read "glory details" and expected a tale worthy of a Klingon opera. Was slightly disappointed that it was just internet gremlins. But I'm glad everything is sorted in Engineering. If new problems show up, maybe depolarize the Heisenberg collectors and funnel the extra anti protons into the deflector. Just a thought.

And on a more serious note: thank you very much for dealing with the gremlins, captain!

Bridgemakes, to random
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Fun fact: Peter Cushing had big feet and his costume for star wars had boots that were too small for him. The result being that after one day of filming his feet were in agony. After that first day, Cushing asked George Lucas to only film him from the waist up for the rest of the movie, so that he could forgo the painful footwear, which Lucas agreed to.

So when Grand Moff Tarkin gives the order to have Alderaan destroyed by the death star just know that he is in fact wearing fluffy slippers.

42402dot7,
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@Bridgemakes "after that fist day" made me spill my strawberry milk lol

42402dot7,
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@Bridgemakes so Lucas is no longer f***ing Cushing? That's a relief. It was multiple days before, by the sound of it.

I think you may have inadvertently taken the Picard/Wesley narrative into Star Wars here. Maybe there was another reason why they only filmed him from the waist up ....

42402dot7,
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@mikey a sensible precaution. Anything you say may be used against you in a measure of a man.

(I don't think you have to watch SW. I also don't think you would hate it if you only saw the OG trilogy.)

@Bridgemakes

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of the week:

Is it 'fair use' for tech companies to use copyrighted materials by authors to train AI models? Comment below why either way! If we have enough responses, it will be added to an article.

42402dot7,
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@suswatibasu Other: "Fair use" is considered the right to hire a lawyer. It's not a thing or process that will not pass through the bench of a court at some point. Ex.: YouTubers self-censor for fear of getting dinged even though what they do should be covered under fair use. But they don't want to hire an expensive attorney to plead their case down the line. So fair use is murky at best. We should not apply this vague legal concept to these models, which are then hard to inspect for abuse.

42402dot7,
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@suswatibasu And just to add: I don't have a better solution that will be less admin for everyone involved. It's going to be very messy unless you say anything I, a not robot, can legally see and read with my own eyes is okay to use. But that will make people post less stuff online. And the Disneys are not going to like that. There is no good answer/plan and I fear there will never be.

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Watching Stephen Fry host the UK version of Jeopardy and his Uncle Stephen warm voice and unironic interactions make me feel like it’s a long Fry & Laurie sketch. The pacing is bizarre: 46-minute programme instead of a 22-minute show. Very little noise, too: when you buzz in, no sound!

42402dot7,
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@glennf that's a hallmark of British game shows though. You win a plastic trophy or a cheap teapot. Until Millionaire there was very little in terms of high amounts to be won. You win for the sport, not the gains.

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    @briandunaway I would say don't learn more. None of it is good! Sorry for ruining the mood! A happier 2024 to you and yours and go beat @scottjohnson in 😉

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