Human stupidty and arrogance.

Even when I share the purported beliefs of someone, the vast majority of people are so fucking smug and insistent on being right, that discussing politics ain’t likely with me.

Then, you run into the fact that people tend to treat it like an identity and just mouth what they think they’re supposed to believe without ever actually thinking about it. It isn’t even just the people that are raised in one party/bloc/whatever and stick with it. Even the ones that change allegiance tend to treat it as some kind of granfaloon, but not the harmless kind. Shit, that’s that case with unaffiliated people too, it isn’t limited to party members.

Like, yeah, we all think we’re right, but when that turns into smug self aggrandizement, fuck that.

That’s the shit that bothers me about politics, that people can’t just fucking chill and vote their conscience, they gotta be right, and feel superior about it.

That may not seem to be the kind of thing you’re asking about, but it’s one of the sessions those abysmal laws happen.

So it goes

That’s difficult, and the answer would change over time because picking a “favorite” is as much a product of what the mind is like at the time of asking as it is from an objective internal perception of favorite.

That being said, narrowing it down some helps.

First, ima wipe out anything generated by a streaming service. That narrows the field a lot, and it’s no more arbitrary than any other criteria to do so.

Then, ima wipe out any serial shows that didn’t get a finish of a reasonable kind as part of the original run. That’s because I can’t genuinely highly rate a show that isn’t over. The story is “pending” for me, and that always makes a show a disappointment. It does, unfortunately, eliminate firefly since its “ending” wasn’t aired. By aired, I mean shown on a network of some kind, be it cable or actual broadcast over the air. I also exclude anything not yet finished because how a show ends matters.

This eliminates thousands of shows, so I can maybe process things.

As contenders, there’s wide range. Winnowing those, I have to factor in repeatability. If the show suffers over repeated viewings for me, that’s a major loss. Something like Bones as an example, that I liked well enough when it was being aired, but has killed almost all enjoyment of it when watched one episode after another over a few weeks.

So, I have to decide if I want to include or exclude shows that aren’t serial. Now, I can automatically eliminate sitcoms because even the ones that are properly serial can’t hold up for me. But there’s sketch comedy ala snl and madtv. There’s stuff like the Twilight zone as well. Because of the quality of sketch shows and anthologies, I gotta leave them in. But they’re usually prone to more full on bad episodes than other types, so it leaves gaps.

All of which, nobody but me really cares about, but I’m bored and wanting to think this through in writing.

It does lead me to a few finalists though. Buffy has to be in there, though its ending was barely an ending, but counts enough. Monty Python has to be as well; even the weakest episodes still make me laugh. Trek has to be a possibility, but which iteration? Then there’s quantum leap that manages to be nostalgic without feeling super dated (unlike a show like knight rider that’s still fun, but really feels less enjoyable than it did in its era).

Since narrowing Trek down is nigh impossible for me, I think that disqualifies any individual series from making the grade. Tos and tng are just too closely tied to pick one.

Quantum leap though, damn. I’ve seen it front to back a dozen plus times and still enjoy it, even with the era’s proclivity towards cheese.

However, Buffy manages to be cheesy and it not (for me) trigger the rueful chuckle, so I guess that bumps leap down a notch.

That essentially leaves me picking between Buffy and Python.

Which one I’d cue up first isn’t certain on any given day. That being said, I think the fact that I could always just shrug and default to Python if I didn’t know what I was in the mood for bumps it into favorite status for me.

Yeah, that’s as good an answer as any other.

I will say that some shows, like the walking dead as a perfect example, could push those down if the overall series hadn’t been mismanaged.

Then there’s shows like Dr Who that I’ve spent more years and hours watching, but suffer from a ton of bad sections that make it hard to weed out; I’d have to pick a favorite doctor to be honest with myself about the show’s overall enjoyment factor. Like, Tom Baker era, or the Tennant/Smith era, they top Buffy for sure, but those are small segments of the show as a whole. Plus, the show technically hasn’t ended only individual eras have.

Loooota caveats in there though lol

I mean, is it really a good idea to call a movie about a bunch of girls holes?

It’s just asking for horrible jokes

It’s the astroturfing that’s objectionable.

That’s a new one to me! Thanks, I really do love discovering new words :)

I’ve used all of those except wheeliebin, which I’ve never run across before.

Ain’t no shame in borrowing good slang, and that’s something brits do extremely well imo. It’s usually easy to use, rolls off the tongue, and sounds just silly enough.

I’m right chuffed about it

Kinda depends on what features in sync made you like it.

Overall, boost, connect, thunder and summit each get close to parity, but only close. But, you could say that in reverse, (that sync only gets close to parity with any of them) it isn’t a slight against any of them.

Eternity is another one that I’ve had good use of, but development on that seems to be stopped as well, so I dunno if that’s a useful option.

Past those, you get less similarity in ux and ui than would make sense to compare. Like, the apps that mimic voyager (or whatever the popular iOS reddit app was called), things are laid out so different that if you used sync as a primary, you aren’t likely to enjoy that ui.

On a phone, I kinda favor connect over sync, despite it looking very unlike it compared to boost or eternity. But on a tablet, nothing else does double columns in portrait worth a damn for me, and aren’t great in landscape either. But boost and eternity come the closest to the visual ease sync has.

that’s sync

I was going to include screen shots of the ones I have on this tablet, but uploads shit the bed and are being weird after that one. So no promises that I can do them all

boost

eternity

connect

and interstellar since it does piefed better than anything else I’ve tried, and still does lemmy just fine.

Decided to install thunder and summit long enough to give a visual

thunder

annnd summit

As you can tell, everyone has a slightly different approach to the UI. But they’re even more variable in what settings are available, little niceties, etc. Theming is all over the place from a bare bones light/dark/oled to the relative broad visual options of boost and sync. None of them are bad at all. They’re reliable, work even on older devices without bogging them down, and are all easy enough to get going with.

That was my thought exactly, with the addition of something along the lines of: “gee, it must have flown through Thanksgiving dinner”

Lack of core function, and no sign of future updates in this case.

I’d also apply the term to other situations, such as a github page being taken down without any word from development about it, or similar.

Or, if an app is otherwise functional, but can’t be installed/accessed via apk/app store (like the keyboard app swype that works fine, but you have to jump through hoops to install on newer android versions and is no longer listed in any store)

Aight, a few suggestions so you can have something approaching a decent cup.

Assuming you’re stuck with bags, which isn’t the best tea, how you heat the water only matters a little and you can get a fairly similar state with a microwave.

Nuke the water twice. It’s going to vary depending on the microwave, obviously, but this the low powered stuff in most hotel rooms, go with 1:30 twice. The water should be just under boiling after the second zap. Stir in between, then stir before dunking bags. This also assumes a “coffee mug” sized vessel, which is usually about 8oz (y’all brits still use those liquid measures? I’m not sure, but I can calculate the CCs if you don’t have access to an app for that). If the cups are smaller, maybe do two one-minute zaps and check the temp.

Now, if you’ve got loose tea and your own steeper, it’s about the same, but you can go a little hotter (more hot? My brain can’t parse the right grammar) since the steeper will suck up some of the heat, and do so quickly.

Tbh though, the difference in nuked tea and more properly steeped is likely moot if you’re using the bags the hotel provides. Most of those are utter crap even by US hot tea standards.

That’s also assuming the front desk doesn’t have kettles. They aren’t usually in rooms, but some places do have them available on request, particularly in cities, and even moreso in cities they have a lot of European/British visitors.

You’ll likely need to warm the cuppa

As others have said, it isn’t dead, but don’t expect any future support or updates.

Ahhhh, iirc, it’s one he built himself.

It’s actually come up in comics before, more than once if my mind isn’t playing tricks.

I don’t doubt that he would have at least taken lessons from open source type projects if Linux doesn’t directly exist in the comic universe.

One problem

Batteries.

I’ve used old devices as many things: security cameras, a form of intercom, digital picture frames, etc. The real problem is that the batteries eventually go bad, and become dangerous.

For the few devices that have realistically replaceable batteries, that’s no big deal, but how many of those are left now?

No thanks to the potential fire, I’ll pass. The few devices I have left that I can swap batteries out are becoming harder to find new batteries for as well, so that’s an issue beyond their anemic hardware (I’m talking really old tablets at this point)

It was a horrible trek movie. It was, however an okay sci-fi movie, if you pretend it wasn’t set in the trek universe.

Basically a variation on a heist movie imo. That kind of vibe. But it completely failed to fit Trek in any way other than terminology.

It’s not as enjoyable as Galaxy Quest in terms of being an homage to trek, and definitely not as enjoyable as the Orville in that regard. But there’s been way worse sci-fi movies made for sure. I’d rate it around 3 stars out of five, maybe 3.5. There’s sections and characters that bring it down a good bit, but the overall flow is decent

My thing is that if I’m outside relaxing, I want the birds and bugs and wind. If I can’t have those, headphones aren’t an acceptable replacement, so I’ll fuck off back inside.

If I’m outside as in going about town, I don’t want my hearing compromised. It’s a fate safety issue. Even bone conduction gear is a distraction that I’m not okay with. Like, it isn’t even about being hit by a car or whatever, it could be something as simple as a shopping cart that’s loose banging into me. My crippled ass would be in the floor.

My brain is enough stimulation for me. If I’m out in the world, my brain is going to be going a mile a minute scoping everything out. Doesn’t matter how many times I’ve been in a given location.

It’s already an ER spin-off

I prefer car hole too, but don’t tell me wife.

That’s true, but I would argue that the player owned definition of it came so quickly on the heels of the typo that both could count as valid, with the caveat that the first usage being a typo would have to be considered a mistake, rather than the coining of the slang term itself.

Which is stretching things a bit, but still fun to think about.