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One of the things that's stuck with me during my time on Lemmy is someone remarking that the only difference between a battery and a bomb is how controlled the release of energy is. Having seen what happens when you puncture a LiPo battery, I believe it 😰

Good sci-fi usually treats this on par with using nuclear weapons (which it kinda is?). In Babylon 5, mass drivers are banned by intergalactic treaty, and when one race uses them anyway it literally bombs their victims back into the stone age, and it's treated as a horrifying event --one of the character's defining moments in the show is just him looking on silently in horror.

For better or worse, the "FUCK YOUUUUU! FUCK YOUUUUUUUUUUU!" cutscene doomed it, it was impossible to treat the game as a legitimate entity after that point

I really don't want to rely on security through obscurity... MS-DOS was written back when every programmer trusted everything that ran on the computer, security wasn't even an afterthought, and encryption was the sole domain of math nerds, conspiracy theorists, and the nerd equivalent of doomsday preppers because it was "too computationally expensive." Its sole saving grace in terms of security is that it doesn't support multitasking so malware can't run in the background, but you can just target whatever software it's running, instead.

Take solace in the fact that the justices are likely to uphold this law!

... and somewhat less solace in the fact that one of the justices (I think it was Jackson?) said this was the easy case and they have much hornier Bruen cases in the pipeline.

... and even less solace in the fact that a supposedly "easy" case like this one still made it to the supreme court because of how much a shitshow the Bruen decision is.

🎶These horrible mooks, so different in looks, were nonetheless equally memed!🎶

I keep NoScript around because there's been a few times where I clicked a bad link and NoScript blocking JS by default has saved my bacon. Plus, a lot of services like twitch serve ads through separate domains that I can block from running entirely with NoScript--the entire time people were complaining about Twitch trying to bypass adblockers, I never once saw a single ad.

Same happened to me. I even checked that autopay was on the week before payment was due, and it said I'd get charged on the 22nd. On the 24th I checked and there wasn't any charges on my bank account, so I logged in, turned autopay off and back on, and when it said that enabling autopay wouldn't pay my past due monthly bill, I made a manual payment. A few days later, I checked again because I noticed my balance was way lower than it should be, and sure enough, I got charged twice.

Fucking assholes.

The one time they purposely "backed up" a human via the transporter it took up so much space they had to dump the backup into the holosuite and it still nearly brought the entire station's computer to its knees.

Most of the civilians present on the Enterprise fall into one of three categories:

• A non-Starfleet staff member, relative, or passenger, who would already know and respect etiquette regarding ship's comms.

• A non-hostile foreign diplomat, envoy, or similar passenger, who doesn't want to potentially cause a diplomatic incident by being rude.

I also recall lots of times where civilians used ship's comms for various purposes, but it was to contact the person directly attending to them, or a friend/relative, not the ship's captain. (It's been years since my last rewatch though so I could be wrong here...)

As for hostile parties, IIRC it's implied that the computer locks them out automatically, and in emergencies the captain can lock down the entire ship, which is how Data hijacked the Enterprise when he went rogue, and why it was such a big deal.

To say nothing of how Crusher looks like a RealDoll in a bad way

God yes. I'm basically incapable of maintaining an exercise regimen without relying on a partner to keep me on track. When I lived with my sister, I was consistent enough with running that I eventually ran an entire 5K, and it was one of the proudest moments in my life. Now that I've moved out, I can't stick to a regimen for more than 3 weeks. It also really doesn't help matters that I loathe how I feel when I get super wet (especially when it's because I'm sweating, which makes me super sticky too), and so all the endorphins and good feelings you're supposed to get from exercising are immediately overwhelmed by disgust at how gross I feel and how much I hate the feeling of my clothes sticking to my skin and how much I need a shower and annoyance at how long it'll take to dry off after the shower so I finally stop feeling wrong.

I've basically given up all hope of losing weight and maintaining that weight loss in any permanent capacity, and I fucking hate it. No diet, no exercise plan, no amount of fasting, no amount of self motivation, no medication can overcome my fucking ADHD brain deciding that sitting idle and playing with my distraction box is better than actually taking care of myself.

My only remaining hope is that a combination of Adderall suppressing my appetite, combined with converting the fidgeting I do into just enough activity to qualify as "exercise" if you squint funny enough can help at least maintain my current weight.