Fair enough. I was suggesting that Michael Okuda didn’t have utility in mind when he made it because that’s not what he was hired for.

Edit: In fact, I just read that he was under directive by Roddenberry to make something minimalist to suggest technological advancement. In that sense, it was prescient.

It was enough of a Nazi salute for the head of France’s far-right party, who are Nazis, to cancel his planned speech.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/21/steve-bannon-jordan-bardella-nazi-salute-cpac

LCARS is very pretty, but it’s also really poor as a GUI. It was designed for form over function because of course it was.

If you want ceiling tits, you better pull yourself up by your ceiling bootstraps.

Sorry. Can’t pay attention to this thread. Too busy typing 5318008 into my calculator.

Hey, it’s the door of our bathroom!

Just don’t let it near Porthos.

I have no real comment on the aggressiveness of pitbulls. I have a dog we think is a dalmatian/pitbull mix and she’s terrified of pretty much any humans other than us and a handful of others (she is especially afraid of men), which might look like aggression from a distance, but she would run away the second they got closer to her.

On the other hand, she’s a serial killer of small animals and she recently got in a fight with our other dog (she’s 11 and grumpy and in pain from bad arthritis) and tore his ear. So she certainly can be aggressive.

On the other other hand, we used to have a roommate with a purebred dalmation and she was super aggressive.

So is the aggression she does show because of the pitbull part of the mix? The dalmatian part? Is it just her? I have no idea.

I do know I found a dog at the shelter who needed a loving home and I gave it to her. Which is the only way anyone should get a dog at this point.

“What if we abandon siding with one authoritarian and side with a different authoritarian” is not the good argument you seem to think it is.

Murica, land of the free, was founded by people who owned slaves. While speaking about the evils of slavery.

So the madness was always there.

“Waiting” should have been left in the meme. It would be even funnier.

That is a very poor argument. Non-profit organizations lie about their statistics and their so-called facts all the time.

PETA is non-profit. Autism Speaks is non-profit. Anti-vax groups are non-profit. All sorts of groups dedicated to promoting authoritarian regimes are non-profit. And they all push a lot of bullshit that they claim to be facts and statistics.

Dogs should stop being bred for certain features period. Beyond aggressiveness, it’s just cruel. It gives them years of health problems. Some of the breeds all have the exact same health problem (sometimes it’s an inability to breathe properly because of their head shape).

Purebred dogs should be illegal to intentionally breed.

Do you think those people who feel the need to have a certain type of dog to look tough might also treat that dog a certain way to make it aggressive?

Even more of a reason then… but it’s not true, so it’s moot.

Gotcha.

I could totally believe Microsoft did some kind of stupid deal with LinkedIn.

It was news to me. But then I haven’t used Windows more than trivially in years.

Gives me even less of a reason now.

Gen-X here. We had to figure out acoustic modems and we didn’t have internet, we had local BBSes.

We also had to figure out the C-64.

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I know no such thing. My daughter isn’t even in danger from Trump.