What the hell is this talking about? A “bet over the phone about the outcome of the show?” McCartney “called during the live broadcast” and this was “the last time the two ex-Beatles communicated?” Says who?
The real story of April 24, 1976 exists, but the above words bear no resemblance to what actually happened. The story is here, complete with the SNL video here.
I thought Honeycomb.
And Tiny Glazed Grains = Rice Krispies or maybe Smacks.
Nobody:
Russia: Imma turn every government in the world fascist!
What could go wrong?
I went there too. I think you’re underselling the transporter. They acted like you were about to get on like a motion sim or something, lined everybody up on those rows in front of the doors, then everything went black, sparkles coming from everywhere, a giant rush of wind upward is what it felt like - very confusing - and then BAM, the lights came on and you were on the bridge of the Enterprise-D.
Hell of an effect and something I’ll never forget.
And Quark’s bar man. It was so cool.
I don’t honestly know if I’ve commented it before, but it sounds like something I would do! :) I’ve been a fan of them for a long time. 👍
Well, it’s certainly not to say that an air fryer is as good as deep frying in all circumstances, that’s definitely not the case.
But as far as these hash browns go - and I swear, I’m not being glib here - I literally cannot tell the difference between these things air fried and McDs. Like I have specifically gone and gotten McDs just to test the theory and I just can’t say that I find them any better at all.
Not to mention, even if there was a perceptible difference in flavor or texture or any of it - air frying is definitely marginally healthier, so in my book: a win for air frying.
But if you just plain disagree, I don’t mean to call you a liar. It’s just how I feel about it.
The difference is these patties aren’t just raw potato. They’re filled with oil and because of this, when you air fry them, the final product is damn close to McDonalds, I honestly can’t tell the difference.
You can buy 10 of them for less than McDonalds’ price for 1 ($3.42 versus $3.49).
Put one in an air fryer for 12 minutes at 350. What comes out is indistinguishable from the McDonalds version.
If you don’t have an air fryer, they can be had at Goodwill all day every day for around ten bucks.
You ignore my question as to why you’re even in this thread, naturally.
Or maybe they had a point, I’m not the only one calling you out.
Or maybe they fucking don’t. The top comment in this particular thread is “Na fuck discovery specifically,” and it has 6 upvotes. Second-most upvoted comment in this entire thread (currently 34 upvotes) is someone who says “No,” followed by “You have been banned from the community: Risa@startrek.website.”
So, my opinion about the practice of banning people for stating their opinions - as with my opinion about Discovery being dogshit - seems to be in a very comfortable majority, thanks.
Also, if it makes you feel better to call that a “personal attack” - as if that has anything at all to do with anything I have said - then by all means, knock yourself out.
This is the kind of thing that kept me out of the fandom for years. I have zero interest in hearing how bad you think Discovery or Enterprise or whatever is, but by God you and everyone else will be sure to explain it to everyone repeatedly.
Only when asked. It’s a legitimate point for discussion and it comes up from time to time and so what? Can’t you read the subject line or look at the meme (see: OP) and just avoid clicking on the discussion? Why are you even here to read this? You knew what it was going to be!
The only thing that’s wrong around all of this is that when I give my perfectly reasonable and widely-held opinion, I’m liable to be fucking banned for it in certain places because people like you are wielding the hammer.
This keeps you out of the fandom? Jesus H. Christmas, maybe you need to spend your days in a room lit only by candlelight wearing earplugs and doing nothing but reading actual paper books? This is every fandom in existence on the Internet without exception.
On /r/startrek? No, you can’t. You can be as reasonable as you please laying out your well-considered opinion and it won’t matter for fuck-all. The banhammer will have you.
And it’s always Discovery when these posts are made, isn’t it. Because Discovery never tried to be Star Trek in anything but name and when fans backlash, it’s always the fans’ fault, not the show’s fault (Paramount/CBS astroturf the shit out of this online, imo). Picard sucks too for similar reasons, and I just said so on an internet forum. So what?
Maybe I wish these shows hadn’t got made because they were a giant waste of resources, but at the end of the day, I’m still enjoying LD and SNW. But no, I can’t tell the world what a pile of dogshit Discovery is, oh no, that makes me a shitty fan who deserves to be banned.
Speaking of which, let me tell you about /r/startrek - those assholes can fuck themselves and if startrek.website is infected with that particular mind virus, it can fuck itself too. Being intolerant of opinions about a stupid tv show is far worse than any particular opinion could possibly be.
Scotch and soda.
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Can you put tobacco in it? Then you will be lying!
Yep and this happens more than the situation in the OP. Just… shit won’t work. No reason why? Well fuck, let me try Chrome. Yep, that works.
It’s just lazy devs. They program for Chrome and don’t even test in anything else because that’s 90% of the market. On the desktop.
This is hilariously not the case on mobile, where everything is programmed for Safari.
Solaris? The OS that shipped with nothing installed, not even a compiler? Yeah, it was like, so great.
I’ll try to give an ELI5 kind of answer here.
Before the Internet, “networks” were mostly one-offs you would dial into with a modem. Big or small, users would dial into the systems to enjoy whatever content was available on them.
The Internet was created as a way to connect multiple, disparate network nodes like these. Now, instead of just letting people access your content, you could now let them access other people’s content as well.
There were lots of programs made to do this. IRC for chatting, Archie and Gopher for searching FTP sites for downloads you might want. There was also Usenet - a threaded discussion forum. The discussions looked a lot like Lemmy - there were subject lines and when you clicked on them there was threaded discussion you could read and participate in.
When this was all initially going on the Internet was mostly text-based. We may have been accessing Usenet from our Windows 3.1 laptops (I used a program called Agent), but all these programs were doing was trading text. Slowly though, bandwidth started creeping up.
As bandwidth began to creep up, people realized that huge text posts to Usenet could be used to post things like photos encoded to text. And thus was uuencoding born - and it didn’t stop at photos. But because Usenet posts are limited in size, big files would get posted as multiple parchives - in multiple sections/posts that could be stitched back together into a whole again.
It was in this way that Usenet - a system designed for conversation - became a way to trade files.
Meanwhile the web happened. Discussion quickly moved to the web because you didn’t have to download a separate program to view web forums. At the time, web forums were inherently inferior (they couldn’t do threaded discussion) but they were also inherently superior (they could be moderated). Yeah, Usenet was unmoderated and because of this it was basically a huge pile of dogshit by the time the web got huge.
Usenet did continue to flourish though - as this sort of Frankenstein file-sharing system. The problem is that most Usenet servers were hosted by ISPs because they wanted to host discussions - not file-sharing. So they shut their Usenet servers down. But the file sharing was just too useful to die, so dedicated Usenet providers popped up and picked up the slack where the local ISPs left off. It wasn’t hard. Usenet is just a protocol - anybody can adhere to it and create a node.
And clients changed too - from the readers I used like Agent, to new readers that recognized that people using Usenet aren’t looking for discussion anymore. They’re looking for an easy way to find the files they want and a program that will seamlessly stitch together all those PAR files behind the scenes for them to get it.
This was the purpose behind Newzbin, which was an elaborate way to access the remaining Federation of (now mostly dedicated, paid) Usenet servers and easily find and download all they had to offer. It was super easy and worked very well, so naturally, it was fucked into oblivion by Hollywood in 2010.
The great thing about Usenet though, is you can’t kill it by killing off one node. The other great thing is that it’s pretty stupidly complicated by today’s standards, so it still exists because it’s been largely forgotten while Hollywood focuses on stuff like torrenting.
If you want to access Usenet, you will need to purchase access to a company that runs a Usenet server and get client software that can help you find and stitch together those PAR files. I am out of the loop, so I am afraid I cannot help you any further with that. But hopefully if you know the history of it and how it works in theory, it should help.
That’s because Christian apologists constantly brigade those articles.
Edit: lol, and downvote lemmy comments I guess