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    I know someone who got infected

    Luckily, nobody I directly know has it yet. But I know people who have friends/family with it and suffered losses.
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    The Logic of Panic Buying

    There was TP in HEB today, albeit 4 packs. Limit 2 packs. There was a decent stack, so I grabbed 2. I'm debating installing a bidet, but I'm dubious on its ability to remove peanut butter from between two buns and I'm not looking forward to a cold surprise in the attempt. I've seen...
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    D&D and the rising pandemic

    These two things are not the same. 20 people in a room singing and flinging vocal spray at each other is not the same as a lonely ride in a truck to Home Despot, a quiet walk down the aisles to get a rug and boxed grill to a checkout counter with a plexiglass barrier and a zap gun to read the...
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    The Logic of Panic Buying

    Before the scarcity panic started, I bought a jug of sanitizer because I was fixing the plumbing that weekend and the water was out. That stuff will last forever because once I fixed the pipe, we wash our hands like normal people. My wife's got a friend in Australia, which is about a week...
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    Star Trek Picard SPOILERS thread

    Isn't Zardnaar the one who's writes long posts about what's wrong with Star Wars and maybe kinda doesn't like it anymore. aka, a toxic fan. I think the rest of us may have quibbles about various iterations of the show, but when it comes on, we watch and usually enjoy it. That's healthy...
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    D&D and the rising pandemic

    In the bucket of crazy ideas I have: Companies in non-essential markets could furlough their employees, donate their pay to a charity that pays those employees, and write the entire thing off on their taxes (kinda like what Amazon did). They could pay those employees and order them to do...
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    Star Trek Picard SPOILERS thread

    they're the guys CBS hired to make star trek. Truthseeker pimps a conspiracy theory that Secret Hideout has to pay licensing fees everytime they show anything from "old trek" which I see no evidence of, and in fact, the Memory Core article says the Star Trek merchandising and licensing office...
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    Star Trek Picard SPOILERS thread

    And another thing. Narissa. She got dogpiled by borg and I thought I saw a transporter flash. She should have died, captured or been back with the fleet. None of this skulking around crap. Are the XB's so disconnected from the tech that they don't have sensors throughout the cube to detect...
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    Star Trek Picard SPOILERS thread

    I liked it. The sad scenes made me sad, especially for the young romulan. Yes, many of us smelled that Picard would end up in that body template once they started playing up his illness. Quibbles: they never once refer to his illness by what they called it in All Good Things Mass quantities...
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    Star Trek Picard SPOILERS thread

    Hopefully they've read John Scalzi's Red Shirts (for research...). Which might be free right now on kindle
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    Star Trek Picard SPOILERS thread

    that's a good reason I'd buy.
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    Star Trek Picard SPOILERS thread

    there might be some confusion. Soji's system is not the 8-star system with the Admonition thingy. I'm talking about that system specifically because it's something astronomers of StarTrek tech level would have seen from anywhere in the galaxy during mapping.
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    Star Trek Picard SPOILERS thread

    the new worlds required a ship to go visit and see who's on them. Finding a 8-star system requires a sci-fi telescope. Given how much of our galaxy is mapped already (enough to populate a video game), they probably KNOW where every star is, they just don't know who lives there. thus, the...
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    Star Trek Picard SPOILERS thread

    How is there an 8 star system that only the Romulans know about? Space and star mapping isn't this kind of thing where you have to go right up to it to find it. Does the "call us and we'll kill all the meatbags" for you sound too convenient? Kind of like a test of moral character. Like the...
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    I Am Not Okay With This (spoilers)

    Might I refer you to the title of the show.
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    I Am Not Okay With This (spoilers)

    this seems to bother you more than us. I'm making stuff up, but here in America, our narrative is "it's good to kill the naughty word." It's doesn't hold up in court as often as we'd like (too many women are wrongly convicted in their self defense cases). But you can bet her lawyer is going to...
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    I Am Not Okay With This (spoilers)

    A drunken bully teen took the microphone, pushed back an adult and then proceeded to verbally abuse somebody and violate their privacy to the entire group. No adult stepped in. She did not have better tools to disable him, and only one person tried to stop him first. The real villainy is...
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    How to tell the good/bad guys apart: look who's using Apple phones

    that makes me want a move where the villain is really cool, and then get permission to use the coolest looking non-iPhone. Then watch sales of that phone soar and make Apple wonder if their marketing plan was all that.... The hero of course would be Martin Freeman who would drop his phones in...
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    Star Trek Picard SPOILERS thread

    This point stuck in my mind and then I ran across one of Steve Shrive's videos. This one about how seven of nine was more than eye candy. Among many points, about midway in the video, he talks about the Voyager episode where Seven discovers that the crew wiped a memory from the Doctor because...
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    What are you reading this year 2020?

    I started book 1 of The Expanse a couple days ago. it's good.
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