Shades of Gray was such a bad episode it made Pulaski abandon ship.

The helmets look like the 1930’s-era leather (American) football helmets.

“…And even though Morn goes on a 10 minute rant every time he hears us say it, this is UFBC.”

Except this boy band is from the early 00’s.

Looks like some former USSR countries in Eastern Europe, like Ukraine or Lithuania, use +3 country codes. Was this always the case or was it changed after the dissolution of the USSR?

As did Captain von Trapp from the Sound Of Music movie.

There’s that word again. “Heavy.” Why are things so heavy on DS9? Is there a problem with the station’s grav plating?

Jack Daniels Distillery is located in Moore County, Tennessee. 84% of voters in the county voted for Trump.

I wouldn’t mind going back to a System 7 era UI. There’s a little bit of color, but it’s not all gradients and reflections.

I’m assuming it’s non-alcoholic? Alcohol’s freezing point is -10F / -23C, which sounds uncomfortably cold to eat.

They’re very distinctive calls. It stands out whenever some sound designer adds one of them to a jungle scene or somewhere else it doesn’t belong just to make it sound “wild.”

The one on the right is very secure in his self-worth.

It’s a PC, essentially, so the hardware is always evolving, they could upgrade whenever they choose to. The advantage of any console, the Steam Deck included, is it offers a very consistent set of specs the developers can target for years. If Valve iterates too quickly, then two problems arise: One, there’s one performance goal for devs interested in making a portable game to work towards, there’s many. In addition, the Steam Deck Verified program gets a lot harder to maintain if there are too many flavors of Deck to manage. I think Valve is planing on a lifecycle similar to the major consoles.

The upside is it is all PC hardware, and there are other handheld manufacturers out there, some even running SteamOS, so if you want a higher performance rig before Valve’s ready for the SD2, you can certainly find what you’re looking for.

I remember reading an interview with René Auberjonois where he considered the makeup process important to getting into character and doing the Odo voice. I wonder if Dorn is the same way.

I’ve used the right trackpad as a mouse. I haven’t tried it for an FPS, but it works well for menus, inventory management, or for lower stress mouse games like city builders.

In Valhiem, at least, I’ve configured the left track pad as an 8 position radial menu to quickly activate to any hotbar slot.

OK, but by the same token, Russia has no right to tell Ukraine who they can ally with.

“Push the button, Kronk!”

Mushroom cloud

“Wrong button!”

Apple is generally allowed to do business, or not to do business, with whomever they want. If they were promoting their own AI over an outside competitor’s, they may be subject to an anti competition lawsuit, but if you’re saying OpenAI is paying Apple to promote ChatGPT, then your complaint would be against OpenAI. If you’re saying Apple is recommending ChatGPT on their own volition, well, then, that’s their First Amendment right.

Can’t believe I’m defending Apple promoting ChatGPT, but, really, I’m saying Musk probably has a baseless case that’s going to do nothing but make the lawyers rich.

It’s not just the House, the Senate and the President also need to be on board. The House passing a resolution would at least illustrate who’s holding things up, though.