[-] charonn0@startrek.website 4 points 2 days ago

Weird premise aside, Kirk's speech at the end about how it "must apply to everyone or it means nothing" is actually pretty stirring, IMHO.

[-] charonn0@startrek.website 92 points 3 days ago

So instead of an illegal lottery it's just fraud.

[-] charonn0@startrek.website 26 points 6 days ago

I skimmed the complaint. It's (obviously) utter nonsense that will be dismissed with prejudice. But if not, then I look forward to joining the class action against Fox News, et al.

[-] charonn0@startrek.website 8 points 6 days ago

I want Roland Emmerich to make a movie out of the short story A Pail of Air.

tl;dr/spoiler: ~20 years ago, a black hole passed through the solar system and captured the Earth, dragging it inexorably away from the Sun. This causes great earthquakes, tsunami, and other immediate civilization-ending catastrophes, but the real disaster comes when the atmosphere freezes and falls like snow to the ground. The original story follows a young boy born after the cataclysm whose chores include collecting buckets of frozen air.

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An elderly Catholic priest dies one night peacefully in his sleep after a long life of serving God, and finds himself standing at the pearly gates.

"You were such a pious and holy man in life," began St. Peter, "that as a reward you can make one request of me before leaving behind your worldly cares and entering heaven."

"Well," says the priest, "I'd like to read the original manuscript of the Bible."

Even more impressed now than before, St. Peter grants the request and takes the priest to God's own private library, before leaving him to his studies.

Shortly afterward, the priest lets out an unholy shriek. St. Peter rushes into the library and asks, "what is it? What's wrong?!"

And through gritted teeth and streams of tears the priest cried out: "Celebrate! It says celebrate, not celibate!"

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Taxonomy (mander.xyz)
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Odd that they never re-filled the whale tank

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[-] charonn0@startrek.website 185 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

The Verge reported that CEO Sundar Pichai defended the layoffs and claimed that workers sometimes reach out to express gratitude for the cuts. “And I just want to clarify that, through these changes, people feel it on the ground and sometimes people write back and say, ‘Thank you for simplifying.’ Sometimes we have a complicated, duplicative structure,” he said, per the Verge.

Chalmers: People send thank you's for lay offs?

Pichai: Yes.

Chalmers: May I see one?

Pichai: No.

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It would have included loops of Star Trek sound effects, but Paramount lawyers said no.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Satriani#Musical_themes

Thank you for your attention, Bajoran workers. This mandatory cultural appreciation moment has been noted on your time cards and will be deducted from your food ration.

[-] charonn0@startrek.website 183 points 9 months ago

Of all the things you could reasonably criticize the US over, wheelchair accessibility ain't one of them. Especially compared to Europe.

[-] charonn0@startrek.website 196 points 10 months ago

If your business can't survive without paying slave wages then your business shouldn't survive.

[-] charonn0@startrek.website 269 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Just don't buy stuff you don't need. 100% savings every time.

[-] charonn0@startrek.website 195 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Littlejohn is charged with one count of unauthorized disclosure of tax returns and return information and faces up to five years in prison if convicted.

He should have violently stormed Congress instead. You only get like 3 months for that.

[-] charonn0@startrek.website 177 points 1 year ago

It may be a violation of the Logan Act, which makes it illegal for private citizens to interfere with foreign relations.

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[-] charonn0@startrek.website 227 points 1 year ago

I have no sympathy. Companies that require class action waivers and mandatory arbitration clauses don't get to complain when thousands of people file arbitration claims simultaneously.

[-] charonn0@startrek.website 195 points 1 year ago

When my paid Paramount+ subscription included unskippable ads.

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