FYI if you decide to dual boot at some point you can set Windows to use UTC. It’s even less intuitive than how systemd can be set to local time.
Also if you can, if you decide to dual boot I recommend separate drives. Windows has gotten nicer but it still doesn’t play well with others because, let’s be honestly, most of the time it doesn’t have to. So if you run recovery if Windows doesn’t boot, it’s not unusual for it to nuke EFI like it’s still the 90s and Win98 just nuked LILO.
I went a few years with just a single boot system at home and you definitely learn a lot that way lol
I want to see Indiana Jones but I’ve had stuff to do every day since it came out. I might bite the bullet and go tomorrow.
I don’t want to be thought of as rude, but it’s incredibly insulting to use the word “genocide” to describe, say, cochlear implants.
During the 1930s and 1940s, Hitler and Stalin didn’t force Jews, gay people, etc. to convert to Christianity; they were killed for being “wrong”. An entire people were nearly wiped out via mass murder.
That’s what genocide is. MASS MURDER.
You’re comparing possible genetic therapy to allow people to blend in, to !!!MASS MURDER!!!
EDIT: I thought of a better analogy: people who are paraplegic due to spinal injury, and stem cell research. There’s promising research into curing some spinal injuries previously untreatable, which would allow people to walk again. The argument many disabled communities make, is that doing so deprives that person, and the world, of a different life experience where they can live a meaningful life in a wheelchair, and that treating their injury is no different than throwing them into an oven at a Nazi mercy center. It leaves out entirely the wishes of the individual, suggesting it’s more important to be a visible disabled person than their personal wishes.
Suggesting that, say, your child could avoid having to learn coping mechanisms to deal with ADHD by never having ADHD in the first place, isn’t murder. Now, testing your fetus and aborting it because it’s going to be disabled, on the other hand…
Oh no, permabanned out of nowhere for interacting with a subreddit at some point in the past, that must suck.
I’ve totally had that happen in the last year, more than once. In one case it was a sub I never visit, for visiting a sub they consider dangerous, three years ago.
I don’t know that I fully agree. I think a lot of people who get upset about attempts to cure autism are people who are able to function in society independently, along with people who get upset on behalf of people with autism and/or are self diagnosed because they do things that fit the profile.
Contrast this with some people I know who have a now-adult child who is, to be clear, very intelligent, but he’s nonverbal, will probably never drive, will probably have great difficulty holding down a job, all things that make life in current society difficult. Add the message of last night’s SNW’s episode in. Not everyone is an angelic, understanding soul. These folks I’m thinking of have had a lot of problems with prejudice. Add in that they’re probably on board with having their child at home for life and having to worry about who takes over for them when they’re not able to.
As far as I know I’m not on the spectrum even though honestly I should probably be checked. I do know about other, diagnosed problems that get in the way of what people would call “normal”, and honestly if someone said I could get an mRNA injection to change that, I would. If they’d come to me 20 years ago and said, we can’t cure you but we can make sure this ends with your generation, absolutely, no question.
I personally honestly think the line should be disease and disorders, full stop. Gattaca, in other words. I know we won’t be able to stop rich people from ordering pretty and athletic kids eventually but the line should be drawn nonetheless.
You know, I can’t argue with most of this. I think other than TAS, Discovery S1 is about the only Trek I’ve never rewatched. It doesn’t really fit in with the era it’s meant to be set in, it brings back a lot of things I don’t really care for in Trek (Mirror Universe, Section 31, etc) but it mostly knows what it is and where it’s going.
Season 2 might be, but I’m not sure. The Enterprise was revealed at the end of S1 of course and by golly it sure seems like Anson Mount hit the ground running as Pike.
I seriously wish the beginning of S3 had been Rod Roddenberry doing a soft reboot of Andromeda. He’s talked about how one of his “jobs” is taking his dad’s ideas and pitching them as new shows, and I feel like Andromeda could have been an interesting direction for Star Trek to go. I’d love for more resolution on Calypso. I’d love more talk about how the ship’s computer got taken over by an alien AI and they’re just sort of letting it do its thing as a part of the crew. But at a certain point the show just…sorta…trailed off.
And despite liking that it felt like a soft Andromeda reboot, it simultaneously felt like they used the time shift to not deal with why Discovery looked nothing like any of the other ships of the era, and to ignore the “black ops” nature of the ship.
This whole thread feels so familiar and yet I’m not from the UK, either.
But yeah OP, do they have smoked knackwurst in UK Aldi and can you just use a couple of ice blocks in a cooler for an international flight?
I gave up on it because I’ve tried logging in via Jeroba, Connect, and Voyager on my phone, and no bueno. I don’t mind putting in some effort but eventually I give up.