jmcs

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[–] jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 3 months ago

By picking TOS, I'm making the point that "Vulcans Never Lie" was always intended as a lie, not something that got introduced by later Trek.

[–] jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 21 points 3 months ago (7 children)

Vulcans lie all the time, even Spock explicitly lies in TOS (for example, in the "Enterprise Incident").

[–] jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 3 months ago (15 children)

Why is VAT so hard to understand for otherwise literate Americans?

[–] jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

China just needs to do what Trump wants and refuse to export things to the US for a week or two. That should be enough for the people bankrolling Trump to get rid of him.

[–] jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 3 months ago

Just for reference in case someone needs it, Nintendo is "offering" free joycon replacements in North and South America, most of Europe (EU+EFTA+UK), Australia, and New Zealand.

[–] jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 3 months ago

It's inevitable for ads supported social media.

They need to keep you "engaged" to show you more ads, and the most effective way to do it is to foster conflict.

[–] jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 3 months ago

Sounds like starfleet chief of engineering material to me.

[–] jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 33 points 3 months ago

How's the leopard treating you, Bill?

[–] jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 80 points 3 months ago (15 children)

You underestimate how much interface and algorithms impact how people interact with eachother.

[–] jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 28 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The real joke here are American labour laws.

[–] jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 3 months ago

The problem is that this is screwing the restaurants too, either through reputation damage or through empty tables if the scalpers don't manage to sell the reservation on time.

[–] jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

So, what's he going to do about it?

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