IMHO it could use some fonts imitating lightning.

Check out The Lounge or Convos if you are willing to use a web client. They display history, images on channels, allow uploads, preview URLs and have push notifications.

They’re still killing a few billion other animals yearly, just that those are “accidents” instead of being on purpose.

Very large numbers of mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians and invertebrates are killed on the world’s roads every day. A Humane Society volunteer survey conducted over three Memorial Day weekends in the 1960s estimated that one million vertebrate animals are killed by vehicular traffic daily in the United States. A 2008 Federal Highway Administration report estimates that 1 to 2 million accidents occur each year between large animals and vehicles. Extrapolating globally based on total length of roads, roughly 5.5 million vertebrates are killed per day, or over 2 billion annually.

I was wondering about the instances when she borrowed a runabout and when the terrorism happened but someone’s gonna have to remind me.

Once she brought back a few Bajorans that were still prisoners since the war, including Li Nalas.

Another time she kidnapped a single Barojan scientist to force him find a cure against a terrorist bioweapon.

What am I missing?

No, but since you’re mentioning it I might try. I’ve been so disappointed by the franchise that I didn’t bother looking into SNW, but just having someone that seems to be on the same page suggest it makes me want to at least give it a try.

Thanks for the suggestion, and the detailed rant!

I’m on the same boat. Apart from Lower Decks, I can’t watch the new shows. I keep hoping a new show might fix it, and be for me, but the longer it goes, the less I’m interested in Star Trek.

Lately I’ve been thinking about unsubscribing from all the Star Trek communities, as all the discussions and hype about the new shows is making me think I’m no longer a trekkie. I loved TNG, DS9, VOY and tolerated ENT, but the new shows are clearly not made for me.

I still use IRC. There are now modern web clients like The Lounge or Convos that can display/share images in the channels, keep history and push notifications. Apparently Convos can do video chat but I never tried it. Unfortunately I’m not aware of screen sharing features for any of these.

So on a very simple setup, you need an IRC server, then install and connect one of those clients to your server, and use them through a web browser, either on a computer or on a phone.

It’s obviously not entirely Discord-like, but it is a simple way to chat and share images.

My city does it for raccoons because tourists find them so attractive that they approach and feed them.

In fact the southern regions of Quebec are frequently doing it for raccoons, skunks and foxes, in localized areas.

There’s articles in the news on this subject but most people don’t pay attention to this.

I hope this is only to put things in perspectives because cars suck for a multitude of other reasons, however we power them.

We can use solar energy to move a box that weighs 1/2 tons around, for every individual on the planet. The cars will still shed microplastics. The cars will still require paved parking lots that are not permeable, worsening floods, and generate heat islands. The cars will still kill one or two billion animals every year. The cars will still kill about a million people worldwide every year; one every 30 seconds.

It would be nice to have this energy used for something else than powering deadly inefficient cars.

Some of the adults that have lived in my tower for many years also don’t seem to know, or learn, how the elevators work.

They’re going down but push both buttons, making people going up stop at their floor for no reason.

They’re going up but the elevator is going down, they get in anyway and can’t select higher floors until it goes to the basement.

Although some old elevators can be confusing. An old building where I lived had an elevator with hinged doors that you had to pull, then a metal accordion gate that you had to slide. Once the floor was selected an arm would push the gate shut and hold it until destination was reached, then release it. You still had to pull the gate manually then push the door to exit. Friends made jokes about the Titanic era elevator when they visited that place.

Anyway as a city dweller I find them ordinary but I have to remind myself that some people don’t encounter them very often.

The one from the picture seems simple enough but if there’s a sign, someone got tired of explaining it.

The company, which is today back under the ownership of its original founder, Kevin Rose, along with Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian, is launching its open beta to the public

Huh. I assumed Rose would still be behind stuff like this, but didn’t expect Ohanian.

I’m a ‘Digg refugee’ that fled to Reddit around 2009, I think? I knew Digg from Rose, because I was watching Tech TV and The Screen Savers, around 2002.

Anyway I turned my back on Digg when Rose sold out and I’m also going to avoid his new attempt at money making with an AI thingy.

Digg is dead and is gonna stay dead to me. I don’t want its rotting dug up reanimated corpse with a sticker saying “now powered by AI!”

EDIT: Coming to think about it, Tech TV turning into G4 might have been an early form of enshittificarion.

Don’t forget to add some claims about weapons of mass destruction to help the case.

They are UNIX systems, they don’t need an entire team to be managed once installed and running.

I’m only half joking. It’s not UNIX but I’ve been working with “legacy” systems like IBM i mainframes, and those things don’t need much to run. Sure, you have to update the system and the software once every few months, manage backups, role switches, etc., but it can mostly be done by a few people. But yeah, systems like this were (are) insanely expensive so most of his budget probably went there.

We as a society need to figure out how to use it ethically.

We can’t even restrain ourselves on the usage of weapons, the extraction of natural resources, the usage of energy, consumerism, or cars. The way our societies are working will not give much chance to ethics.

However I’m pretty sure that a standard transit system not made up of single cars that can only transport one or two person at a time and spy on them is also much safer.

Not that odd. Death by car is easily accepted by society. They are “accidents” and a “necessary evil” for society to function.

There’s around a million people dying from cars every year and we just shrug and normalize them. Human or not, we just have to have cars and “accidents” are just that.

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), road traffic injuries caused an estimated 1.35 million deaths worldwide in 2016. That is, one person is killed every 26 seconds on average.

Nobody cares about cars killing people and animals. So she’s probably right.

I wonder if those are more popular with men.

Maybe they could also give copies of the song Benzin by Ramstein, to listen while you sniff your nostalgic gasoline scented air “freshener”.

And as a Canadian, I’m even envious of the trains in the US. Pretty much the only thing but here we are.

Anecdote time: I was visiting Europe, sitting in Liège and arrived there from Aachen with a train ticket I bought the day before. My next step was Brussels or Ghent but I wasn’t decided yet and didn’t have a ticket, so I just bought one on the spot for the next train, in an hour. While eating fast food and waiting for that train, I was trying to book a train in Canada next week when I’d return, to go from Montréal to Drummondville. However I was already too late. There was still available tickets but there were over $100 CAD for a trip that would normally cost about $32 CAD if I would have booked it a month in advance. And the next departure was 3 hours later, still overpriced. So, no train in Canada for me, even a week in advance.

In short, in Canada, there’s only 5 trains a day between major cities, and you have to book weeks in advance otherwise the prices can triple if you’re last minute. And they don’t take bikes. And they weigh your bagage.

So I was in Europe, taking trains last minute here and there, while unable to book a train ticket at a reasonable price for the next week in Canada. VIA Rail sucks so much.

Something similar happens every time I order from AliExpress.

I order some cheap crap and the driver goes out of his way to call me and let me know he’s there.

I order a pricey piece of electronics, the driver will mark it as delivered and I will never find the package.

“If you see ducks, ducklings or wildlife attempting to cross a freeway or road, stay in your car and call for assistance.”

Huh. At least it’s minor injuries.

Where I live a woman was sent to jail for 90 days for stopping her car for ducks on an expressway and killing a motorcyclist and its passenger when they slammed into the back of her car.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/emma-czornobaj-loses-appeal-1.4152387