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There are good prime directive episodes, but on a whole they just aren't good intros to the shows.

For example, Pen Pals from TNG has some great moments. The crew indulging Data, everyone knowing Data has an emotional connection with the little alien girl, except Data. Good discussion about the morality of intervention. And a large chunk is Wes being whiny also pretty goofy make up on alien girls hands. It's good, but not an intro to Trek good.

A quick rundown of what is out there:

TOS - the original series - I don't think it holds up too well, only watch if you get into Trek.

Suggested episodes - trouble with tribbles and balance of terror

TNG - the next generation - the basis of modern Trek. Probably what most people think of with star Trek

Eps - measure of a man, darmok, inner light and cause and effect

DS9 - deep space nine - my favorite, the story of the dominion war and the fate of cardasaia. It has a slow start but really picks up

Eps - duet and in the pale moonlight

VOY - voyager - I'm not a fan but it's popular, jerri Ryan and Robert Picardo are the best parts of the show

Eps - year of hell pts 1&2

ENT - enterprise - it's been a long road getting from there to here, but your time is finally here. It's campy and bad, but I love it. Go in with low expectations and come out with a love of Shran.

Eps - not going up suggest any, quality tends to trend upwards over the course of the show, but there isn't any one episode that highlights anything good about the show.

DISCO - discovery - the start of nutrek. It isn't as bad as some people say, but it isn't great. There are some good characters, I like Tilly, some neat twists and callbacks (Lorka) but on a whole it's just meh.

Eps - none for DISCO every episode builds towards a season arc pretty directly, so it's not good to watch out of order

Picard - it's bad. Season 3 is better if you are a big fan of TNG, DS9 and VOY, as an entry point it's awful.

Eps - I didn't enjoy any enough to recommend

LD - lower decks - funny animated star Trek. I think it's great, but very referential to old series. Not a good jumping on point.

Eps - wej Duj and much ado about Boimler

SNW - strange new worlds - still running and great. An excellent jumping on point, pretty and well acted

Eps - ad astra per aspera and the Elysian Kingdom

there is no real upside to picking Gecko apart from Google = bad.

AdBlock works better on Firefox. Firefox takes fewer resources. Firefox is open source. And that's just off the top of my head.

Absolutely!

MC is a great tool for internal accounting that can help a company extrapolate the "true" cost of every item. In this pancake scenario it's important to remember that the majority of costs are fixed costs, that do not change based on whether they sell pancakes or not.

There are some accounting methods that spread the fixed costs across all items, but that doesn't actually change the profitability of the company on the whole, just the expected margin of that particular item.

The post office.

You can send a letter to anywhere in the US for less than a dollar and it gets there quickly. You don't even need to leave your house to do it. Now people complain about lines and that it isn't profitable.

Nonsense is a bit of a stretch.

The IHOP exists and is staffed whether or not you are there gorging yourself on pancakes. The rent and staffing is already being spent by IHOP. The factors that can contribute is if the amount of dishes you create make them run the washer an extra time and if the pancakes cool the griddle down enough to increase the cost of heating the griddle. Both of which are negligible.

The only extra cost is the batter itself.

I swapped to Firefox about a year ago on my desktop. I used chrome the other day and am stunned by how much worse it is. Ads everywhere even with AdBlock, slow and unresponsive.

I'm relatively new, and I've gotten a lot better over the course of a couple months.

My top tips:

1. The journey is the destination.

It's trite, but true. You aren't painting for anyone else. Paint a model then move on, improvement is slow and perfection is unattainable.

2. No matter how "bad" you think your paint job is it looks better than a bare mini.

If you doubt me, just slap some paints on a mini and put it on a table with a handful of unpainted minis. You'll see how much better the painted one looks and how many more details you can see.

3. Don't worry about mistakes.

No one will see that tiny bit of blue on wrong spot. Realistically you'll only really see the top and back of the mini.

4. Highlight one more time than you think you need.

When you get to the point of "should I push this orange more yellow" or "is pure white too much here"? The answer is always one more highlight.

5. Try new things.

You'll see different painting techniques, try them, worst case you don't like it, in which case look at tips 1-3

6. Equipment you want

A #1, #0 and #00 brush. You can do fine with just a #1, the other two are bonuses.

Brush soap. It saves your brushes.

A wet pallet.

Paint, but specially a cheap artists white and black in addition to any mini paints. If you want to go crazy a mixing white is good too.

That's it. Remember it's fun and looks way cooler than an grey blob on the table. You'll get better with practice.

I don't blame them.

I'm guessing traditional content looks worse on the vision than a screen.

This means a completely new app, that pretty much needs new content to be better than a screen. And there is a lack of cheap and easy content and app development implies to me a lack of wide scale adoption.

Also they look pretty goofy. I know people said earpods looked goofy, but this is another level.

12 hours is a great time frame.

I only made sourdough once because of the 36ish hour time frame was too much for me. I bake bread regularly with a poolish because it fits my schedule more, if I could use a perpetual starter and not have to buy yeast that'd be great.

I think these are good recommendations, just not for OP.