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"Don't Be Weak and Gay," a Missouri GOP Candidate Tells Voters in a New Campaign Ad (www.them.us)
"Labyrinths" — Star Trek: Discovery Episode Discussion
Episode Information...
What linguistic constructions do you hate that no one else seems to mind?
It bugs me when people say “the thing is is that” (if you listen for it, you’ll start hearing it… or maybe that’s something that people only do in my area.) (“What the thing is is that…” is fine. But “the thing is is that…” bugs me.)...
U.S. University Did Something Crazy: Listened to Student Protesters Instead of Calling the Cops on Them (www.jezebel.com)
"Don't call me that. I'm a member of Parliament, not your favorite Risian stripper." (tesseract.dubvee.org)
Offscreen is Amos hitting on Lwaxana who just kind of materialized on the Roci. Holden blamed the Protomolecule, and Amos named her “Pumpkins”.
What are you up to instead of what you wish you were doing?
Panera says it's phasing out its controversial Charged Lemonade nationwide (www.nbcnews.com)
Lawsuits have blamed the highly caffeinated drink for at least two deaths....
New Orleans man and woman accused of killing witness in insurance scheme (www.theguardian.com)
‘Red’ Harris and Jovanna Gardne allegedly involved in murder of person cooperating in inquiry into over 100 staged truck accidents...
Rant: Star Trek writers really need to be more careful about what living scientists they choose to reference. (www.thestand.org)
If this is the wrong place for this, I apologize in advance and it’s okay if it gets removed....
So now what distro are we running for LTS desktops?
Ubuntu has too many problems for me to want to run it. However, it has occurred to me that there aren’t a lot of distros that are like the Ubuntu LTS....
American Privacy Rights Act (APRA) passes House, headed to Senate. Overshadowed by TikTok ban but arguably much more important. (www.whitecase.com)
What others are saying about the APRA www.commerce.senate.gov/…/what-others-are-saying#…...
Louisiana Lawmakers Move to Criminalize Possession of Abortion Pills (www.rollingstone.com)
Just can't get that jingle out of my head (lemmy.world)
American Airlines keeps mistaking 101-year-old passenger for baby (www.bbc.com)
A 101-year-old woman keeps getting mistaken for a baby because of an error with an airline’s booking system....
TikTok Ban Bill Becomes Law, Gives TikTok 9 Months To Sell (www.entrepreneur.com)
[TNG] What did you think of the Dixon Hill stuff?
Personally I wasn’t a fan of them, so was glad they didn’t continue on.
Setup ideas with an old AV receiver
The house I live in has integrated speakers and they are all hooked up to an old AV receiver (Marantz NR1604). Currently it is annoying to play music through the receiver because essentially I have to plug my phone directly to the receiver. I am looking at other options....
May I present to you: The Wikipedia Star Trek Into Darkness Debate (en.wikipedia.org)
From December 1, 2012, until January 31, 2013, a stylistic disagreement unfolded between editors on the English-language Wikipedia as to whether the word “into” in the title of the Wikipedia article for the 2013 film Star Trek Into Darkness should be capitalized. More than 40,000 words were written on the article’s talk...
Dolphin found dead on beach riddled with bullets, NOAA offers $20k reward to find killer (www.usatoday.com)
Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Discovery | 5x05 "Mirrors"
LoglineCaptain Burnham and Book journey into extradimensional space in search of the next clue to the location of the Progenitors’ power. Meanwhile, Rayner navigates his first mission in command of the U.S.S. Discovery, and Culber opens up to Tilly....
Don’t wanna bash on Discovery … but is there notable disengagement around the final season?
I’m personally not watching it (you could call me a bit of a disco “hater” and s4 really kinda bummed me out) … but thought I’d see how people are enjoying it and think about getting a paramount subscription....
Ukraine is ignoring US warnings to end drone operations inside Russia (www.economist.com)
I don’t blame them. Ukraine needs to take the war to Russia to win.