charonn0

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submitted 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) by charonn0@startrek.website to c/dull_mens_club@lemmy.world
 

I cleaned out the junk drawer and found a bunch of Starbucks gift cards that I've received for various reasons over the past 15 years. I used one from 2015 today and the barista was mildly surprised and asked where I got such an old-style card. So I told him about the junk drawer.

[–] charonn0@startrek.website 1 points 4 hours ago

To be fair, there are important differences between open source and closed source software.

[–] charonn0@startrek.website 25 points 4 days ago (4 children)

I once blew a coworker's mind with Alt-Tab.

[–] charonn0@startrek.website 1 points 5 days ago

Are the mashed potatoes buttered, or plain?

[–] charonn0@startrek.website 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

I started using a white noise machine and fans on high when I lived down the block from a hospital emergency room. It sounded like a jet engine in my bedroom, but my brain learned to interpret the white noise as profound silence. I moved away from the hospital zone but still use the white noise to sleep.

[–] charonn0@startrek.website 9 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Everyone knows that foods are extended along the axis with a circular cross section.

i.e., burgers stack higher, hot dogs grow longer.

[–] charonn0@startrek.website 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

You are technically correct. The best kind of correct.

[–] charonn0@startrek.website 17 points 1 week ago (4 children)

They do pay for their power. The bill would require them to pay for grid upgrades that their usage makes necessary.

[–] charonn0@startrek.website 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I'm curious how it's considered a "layoff" if it's based on performance rather than the job itself being eliminated.

[–] charonn0@startrek.website 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Insurrection is weird because it's a Star Trek movie whose message is apparently anti-tech and anti-exploration. They should have called it Star Trek: The Amish Country.

[–] charonn0@startrek.website 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Scotty: This is the commander of the U.S.S. Enterprise. All cities and installations on Eminiar VII have been located, identified, and fed into our fire control system. In one hour and forty-five minutes, the entire inhabited surface of your planet will be destroyed. You have that long to surrender your hostages. [dramatic music]


Bonus moment, DS9:

unnamed extra: The Federation fleet has surrounded the planet.

Random one-episode extra got the best line in the whole fricken franchise.

 
 

This is the one at MedTek, not the one in Nuka World that always works. Only took 2,555.6 hours of playtime over 11 years.

 
 

I've been listening to X-Minus-One episodes for the last few days and am really starting to appreciate the radio play format. Some of the stories are pretty dated, being from the 40's and 50's, but a lot of them still hold up if you're a little forgiving on the science details.

 
 
 
 
 
 

Odd that they never re-filled the whale tank

 
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