You can only boot from the C Drive these days because a modern BIOS AI has such a small model it can only read at a first grade level. The first commands it understands are C Drive "the discovery command", C Drive Run "initial boot", Run Drive Run "OS handover".

Fair but depressing take. I'd say one of the critical parts of diversity in Star Trek is showing how different personalities and backgrounds working together can accomplish more. I just wish it sometimes worked against the Federation as well.

The lack of racial diversity for the empires outside of the Federation makes it feel like somehow only the Federation ever figured out how to work with others. Even problematic caste style situations do not come up enough, let alone just simple variations of races.

The most "diverse" other empire is somehow the Dominion. We know the other empires have other races in them as well. It's such a Federation centric view of the universe and I feel that it reinforced my America centric mindset because the parallels seem so direct to me. We are diverse, everyone else is easily groupable into divided others. Only we are Free. Only we are willing to work together.

The fact that they have made terrible business choices doesn't mean it is impossible to make good one.

The subscription model is not for driving positive revenue it is to smooth out investor concerns. You have steady revenue streams to reassure that your market is stable so you don't suffer as hard when you drop a Redfall.

The big issue is massive failure of handling day 1 releases. They made it TOO good of a deal. It probably is a corporate structure issue where the division owning game pass was able to sacrifice a neighboring divisions revenue so they could get good metrics.

Microsoft GamePass was serious competition and they ruined it, for now. They had managed to build a system where there was no reason for folks not to buy in, people got nearly unlimited games and then often paid for DLC and cash shop items for games they didn't even own. It was converting the average gaming market to an a la cart style cash shop which as much as 2010 me would consider this offensive, today it is often better for gamers without money.

The only other thing that would seriously compete with Steam would be a marketplace that had tradeable games but I think the game makers don't want this so no developer would sign up for it.

Itch.io exists and it does a fantastic niche gaming distribution job so I don't see how a new competitor can do better than what is already out there.

I don't feel like we make it better by also trying to fear women. I also don't want to make it so folks are just giving up on vigilance because everyone is bad.

Some people have a very good sense of when people or situations are dangerous and other folks do not have that. I think what I'd ideally want is to help figure out how to identify that and maybe even improve it for folks in safe and healthy ways?

Stuff like this disappointing. It is frustrating to feel that how I was born makes me something to be feared.

Are we better to live in a society where women fear all men? Is it even possible to change society in a way where even some men are considered "safe"?

There was a law a few years back that prevented giving water to people standing in line to vote. Lines in places where your vote matters can take hours. You also do not get time off work so you have to use a personal day or just get paid less that week.

The primary issue for Stargate has been budget. WandaVision had 5 times the budget of The Expanse.

They need a show runner that can manage to get this done in the around or under 2milly an episode budget range for me to get any hope of this happening and sticking.

Hulu is the only one I wish they would keep because logging in to Disney to watch Alien and ESPN still seems really wrong to me. I would prefer the Disney app be 100% kid friendly and Hulu be for everything else.

In theory if we tied the salary of congress to the minimum wage the minimum wage would go up.

In practice the income of a congressperson is tied to their morality. Not their salary.

Not everyone has good role models. Would you rather people get advice from Andrew Tates or Grok? Because you might want it to be someone other than those options but right now that is what a lot of people are picking between and we have no way of reaching and stopping them from picking poorly. As awful as Grok is, it manages to be somehow better than the other options.