I didn’t feel that way about DS9, tbh. Voyager, yeah - but again, it was mostly episodic and you don’t need to watch the shit in order to enjoy the good stuff.

If you skip any Disco episodes then you are missing story and/or character development.

Very cool, this was the result for me, so at least on android it seems to work as advertised.

While I get what you’re saying here,

By the 10th episode,

That’s an ask. That’s a bit over 4 hours, and to me exemplifies one of the biggest problems of modern T.V. - you can’t jump into it where it gets good without missing important stuff.

When I introduced my partner to TNG, we started with season 3, and they LOVED it.

Later on I was doing a rewatch and was part way through season one or two and they sat down on our couch “oh, nextgen. Nice.” And was silent for about 15m and then said “what is this shit and why don’t I remember it?” And later after another early episode and discussion “good thing you didn’t try to get me to watch season 1, I would have noped out of the show before they got good.”

I don’t want to slog through 10 episodes of shit to get to the good stuff…and, for me anyway, discovery would do exactly that over and over. 8 episodes of shit and 2 or 3 good ones…and for me, needing to invest that much time into a show for such a poor reward is very… disenfranchising.

Maybe they need to look at haiku. :-p

I don’t know who is down voting you, but yeah, you’re right, split pea soup doesn’t require blending. Maybe people use whole dried peas instead of split peas blend it?

Yep. Rewatched it, the enterprise ‘wiring’ had to be changed according to the chief engineer, which would take too long… I guess they decided from that point on that they could just flip between those configurations at will. Not that it helped when Frasier Crane left cheers and drove straight into their nacelle.

I seem to recall that the enterprise needed more time to restart the engines and they used Wesley’s concepts to turn the tractor beam into a ‘repulser beam’ to gain a few more seconds from…a comet strike? Or something like that? I’ll check later tonight.

In the naked now didn’t Wesley ‘invent’ the pushing tractor beam?

Yes, I agree. I’m saying that the article posted here provides actual evidence that they already have the tools they need, therefore…

Pentium II introduced the cartridge, then for the P2 celerons they went back to socket 370. P3 offered both slot and socket CPUs.

Yeah, what I’m saying is that this proves there’s no need for chat control. Law enforcement can already get what they want by being sneaky.

Almost. More like they asked to use the bathroom then unlatched the bathroom window, left, and returned later through that window when the homeowner wasn’t paying attention

That’s not MITM done by the signal foundation.

To me, this proves that the police can still get the information they need without us handing over our encryption keys and requiring ‘service providers’ to MITM for them.

It’s not. In theory they should be able to quickly deploy a replacement - towers can be easily and quickly destroyed but not quickly replaced. Aerostats can be replaced as quickly as they can inflate replacements & deploy (if needed) new ground equipment.

They can also be deployed from a ship, not as easily done is putting a tower on a ship.

There are a ton of good reasons to use an aerostat instead of a tower.

That’s part of the problem. You’ve come to accept so many small compromises on your rights that you have the situation that you have now.

They did. After world war 2 ended, VW continued and GM reabsorbed Opel with no penalties.

well we do it here in America, so you know it’s the right thing to do

…how’s that going for you these days?

They made adaptors from what you’ve got to rj11.

https://youtu.be/bTQQ5idTDjo

Yeah, I mean people still drive VW and GM cars despite the respective manufacturers both benefiting from Nazi Germany during world war 2.