[-] charonn0@startrek.website 29 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

More like the military governor of a port city. Even if Starfleet isn't a military organization, the Bajoran Militia most definitely is one. And by means of the Bajoran soldiers under his direct (even divine) command, Sisko exercises legislative, executive, and judicial power at the equivalent of a municipal level, even extending over the civilian population of the station.

I want to see the timeline where Sisko declares DS9 an independent state.

[-] charonn0@startrek.website 29 points 2 years ago

AAAAAA(h)... now I get it.

[-] charonn0@startrek.website 30 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Unpopular opinion: The Windows Registry, a centralized, strongly typed key:value database for application settings, is actually superior to hundreds of individual dotfiles, each one written in its own janky customized DSL, with its own idea of where it should live in the file system, etc.

[-] charonn0@startrek.website 28 points 2 years ago

Without looking at the article, guess what party she's a member of.

[-] charonn0@startrek.website 28 points 2 years ago

This sort of empty rhetoric is what OP is talking about.

[-] charonn0@startrek.website 29 points 2 years ago

Fucking spam has ruined another communications medium.

[-] charonn0@startrek.website 28 points 2 years ago

I refuse to use the Brave browser, and I was prepared to abandon Firefox, over then-CEO Brendan Eich's $1000 donation in support of California's proposition 8 (banning same-sex marriage). I will never forgive the supporters of that proposition. I will not knowingly support their businesses.

I've lost all respect for Scott Adams (of the Dilbert comic strip) and Kelsey Grammar (Frasier actor). Their continued support for Donald Trump is damning.

[-] charonn0@startrek.website 29 points 2 years ago

If Putin invaded hell, I'd sympathize with the Devil.

[-] charonn0@startrek.website 29 points 2 years ago

They don't want a "have you no sense of decency?" moment.

[-] charonn0@startrek.website 29 points 2 years ago

In other words, the threats worked. All he did was invite worse the next time.

[-] charonn0@startrek.website 28 points 2 years ago

Apartment superintendent.

Best: Free rent and utilities on top of a full time wage.

Worst: Finding people dead.

[-] charonn0@startrek.website 28 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I am an apartment building manager. Once, years ago, I was brought in to clean up after another manager who had quit/been fired for... let's just call it incompetence.

Anyway, there was a unit in the building that was occupied by a guy I never met or even saw, and the rent was months overdue. So I followed the required legal procedure to declare the unit abandoned. I spoke to neighbors. I posted notices, etc. Eventually, the unit was legally declared abandoned and I started the task of clearing out any property left behind.

The unit was very neat and tidy and full of nice stuff. Not the usual state of a rental that someone abandoned, and this should have tipped me off. But it didn't, and so I had everything hauled away. Furniture, electronics, clothes, the lot.

Then after 6 months I moved on to a different building. Later, I learned that the person who lived there was on active duty in the military, and that's why no one had seen them for months. Apparently, a neighbor had been entrusted to pay the rent but they had just kept the money for themselves, and lied to me when I inquired about the neighbor's whereabouts.

So, this poor guy comes back from overseas military service to discover that not only has he lost his apartment but also everything in it. And since I had followed the legal procedure, no law was broken (by me.)

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