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There are few theoretically possible technologies as overwhelmingly powerful as time machines. Even an extraordinarily weak time machine, for example, one that could only move you a few minutes back and forth, would be enough to make me insanely wealthy, assuming that it wasn’t cost prohibitive to run.

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Vampires can’t cross running water, and they don’t seem to do well on the ocean, either. Their options for meeting dolphins are relatively limited.

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Yes, the intended target audience is desperate addicts who can be tricked into committing a crime that doesn’t actually benefit them at all.

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pouch protectors

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This does look like it was printed on the kumquat. I don’t know whether it’s the case here, but this sort of thing sometimes happens when there is something printed on a bag or the plastic that food is wrapped in, and the ink can get transferred to the food.

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TNG’s first season can just be skipped IMO. The first time I watched TNG on streaming, I was… surprised… at the quality of season 1.

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I love character-driven narratives, so DS9 is easily the best Star Trek for me that I’ve seen. I think the only series that I haven’t seen is Lower Decks.

I would claim that Voyager is objectively worse than DS9, though. A big part of it is how many terrible episodes come from each series. With DS9, there are only a few episodes sprinkled here and there that are terrible. With Voyager, it had to be at least 1 out of every 3 episodes that were terrible.

Of course, these two series have completely different standards. Both standards are about whether they deliver an episode that is fulfilling and makes sense.

DS9 is completely serial. A good show has character development and progresses the main plot due to some event or other intrigue that happens. If you don’t like Star Treks where they “boldly stay home”, then all of the Vic Fontaine episodes would be terrible, but Vic was like this perfect tool to try to round out all of the character development at the series end.

On the other hand, a good Voyager episode is a sort of alien of the week. That’s what would make sense, because they were traveling in a straight line home. Yet they nonsensically had all sorts of recurring characters that they came across. Recurring races is fine. In fact, you’d almost expect to have like one or two major races that are the villains per season… but recurring characters? Really??

Voyager could have been the perfection of Roddenberry’s ideal Star Trek. Almost purely episodic. Heroic cast solving problems every episode. They even have the best excuse for taking the ship into the most stupidly dangerous situations. They were desperate for supplies to get home. I don’t know that any Star Trek had such an easy set up. How did they have so many bad episodes??

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I wouldn’t be surprised if the increased blood pressure could cause a brain aneurysm to rupture. So, that’s similar to your head exploding.

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Jokes aside, I wonder what would actually happen if your addiction led to your finding your son’s drugs.

Because usually, an addiction means you’re going to try to hide it. So my guess is you’d pretend you didn’t find drugs rather than out yourself.

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This is unlike Garak at all. He would never close for the week. What about all his customers?!

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When I read your comment, my monocle popped right off!

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How about 4D Venn diagrams?

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Groundhog Day every February 2nd

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If you zoom in on the helmet, you can see a face in there.

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I almost didn’t get it. I guess because of my weird brain, my first reaction was to wonder why the items you find in the shower would be upset that an item not in the shower would think that cartoonists get most of their ideas in the shower. Surely, they’d be proud that they inspired the creativity.

But that’s got nothing to do with the joke.

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If he spawned a new time line then he wouldn’t have to disappear.

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What timing! I am so pissed at my smartwatch right now.

I got a smart watch because I was having some sleep problems, and I found that some Apple watches can monitor your oxygen levels while sleeping. I suspected it was related to other things like stress, but I wanted to be a bit more comfortable and say that it’s probably not sleep apnea.

So, the point is that I must wear it when I’m sleeping. Also, like any reasonable person, I have my phone set up not to disturb me at night. But at least on Apple watches, this means that my alarm goes off only on my watch. I can’t figure out any way for it to not go off on my watch, and only go off on my phone, unless I simply take off the watch.

It’s the MOST ANNOYING THING. First, because it means that you can’t have your alarm go off across the room. You can always turn it off on your watch, which means that you can even turn it off without waking up. And then, you have no alarm at all. So, if I absolutely have to wake up for some meeting or airplane or something, I can’t wear my watch to bed.

Also, maybe this is just me, but I hate when my watch vibrates on my wrist. I hate the feeling. Every time it vibrates, I have the urge to smash the thing. If I had to choose a set up, I’d have my phone always vibrate, and my watch never vibrate. But I can’t figure out how to make that work on Apple.

This morning was an absolute nightmare, though. Now, I’m used to turning off my alarm on my watch, but when I went to turn it off this morning, the watch was deep in some shitty menu. I couldn’t figure out how to turn it off. And it was just vibrating on my wrist non-stop. Obviously, this was made much more difficult because I was just waking up.

I eventually figured it out, but the point is that the UI is obviously less refined than, for example, the phone UI, where this sort of alarm hiding has never happened in all of my years owning a smart phone.

Anyways, to answer your question, I prefer to wear a smart watch, because a regular watch doesn’t do anything for me. But goddamn do I hate my smart watch right now!

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This reminds me of how Stephen Jay Gould concluded that there’s no such thing as a fish.

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Why would you be “just walking on moss”? That’s not a thing.

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Yes, because I’d be spending even more time explaining them to simpletons.

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They didn’t say occasionally walking on it. They said just walking on it.

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“Walking” is a continuous action. They didn’t say “just stepping”.

By the way, it doesn’t matter to me whether other people get my jokes.

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What the hell were they trying to do with those lines that are impossible to park between?

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When people say “no pun intended,” it is always right after they’ve made a completely intentional pun.

When a person says “no offense [intended], but,” it is always right before they say something intentionally offensive.

What I’m saying is that maybe this grammar “no X intended” doesn’t actually mean that literally they don’t intend X, but instead that they want to lessen their culpability for exactly intending X.

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I don’t often personally identify with this comic, because I don’t have ADHD, but I feel this one deeply.

I have found that putting things by the door doesn’t work as well as putting them with things that you will never forget to take. For example, I don’t wear shoes indoors, so I will put the thing I need to take inside my shoes. Or since I have a private garage, I can simply put it in my car ahead of time.

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