I was around almost at the beginning of Eternal September. In December of 1994, I posted to a newsgroup that google eventually archived on the web. Beyond that, my eBay account predates y2k. The first purchase I recall was a parallel port ethernet adapter so I could use Arachne for DOS on my 386SLC33 laptop in the university library. I mailed out a money order and hoped this “buying shit on the internet” thing wasn’t going to be a scam.
No worries. I actually liked seeing a take with fresh eyes. The co-authors were deeply involved with writing the show, and frankly they wrote the books with an eye towards suitability for TV, so the threads that you’re trying to follow now will come together in a pretty satisfying way, I think.
When they do eventually indulge in ship combat, that too comes off surprisingly solid as a spectacle.
Starfleet Academy, which has improved over the first season. I still maintain that the Galactic situation is actually insanely stable for it to be 900 years after Voyager, like to the point where it should imply a subtext about cultural and technological stagnation, but I don’t think that’s what they’re going for.
Ghosts (US) is a guilty pleasure. My wife thought I was subtly trying to get her to try it when I would say as much, but I was not. It’s my Ortolan Bunting. Andor is the show I try to get her to watch, as yet unsuccessfully.
Shrinking has settled into being wish fulfillment emotional comfort food, but it’s doing it way better than Ted Lasso season 3 did. I’m here for it.
Knight of the Seven Kingdoms is solid, mostly because the casting and chemistry is spot on. The story itself is pretty by-the-numbers.
Mighty Nein had a promising first season, and could end up better than Vox Machina.
Finally, when I really want to just watch something soothing before bed, an episode of Frieren does the trick.
I literally love hearing somebody talk about watching The Expanse for the first time. Glad you’re enjoying it, and stick with it. It’s probably the best space sci-fi series of the last 20 years, and I’m saying that trying not to exaggerate.
I’m not trapped in here with you. You’re trapped in here with me!
I liked the way they’d introduce non-dinosaurs (and sneakily, the main pterosaur family are not technically dinosaurs either) from the fossil record, like the giant snake. There were definitely WAY worse things that I sat through, but PBS kids of that era had a ton of good shows (and now too? I dunno because it doesn’t have Hatsune Miku and friends so therefore my daughter doesn’t care). She actually still has an “Odd Squad” lore book in her backpack.
I’m not sure if it’s close enough to work without mucking about, but I understand the Keychron Launcher is just a fork of VIA, which has an Electron app that basically containerizes the web app and makes it easier to have the right permissions.
I’d also suggest that if you’re not looking for any new features or having any issues or just an incorrigible tinkerer (guilty of this one myself), just leave the firmware be. As mentioned elsewhere though, if it’s QMK, the Linux QMK environment should have all the commands you need to flash the board.
This. The QMK environment flashing tools are generic and bundled for convenience, so they will work fine even with firmware files that aren’t QMK at all, so long as they’re for your keyboard or chipset. I use them to flash Soarer’s style firmwares on Tuxedo OS.
Matt Groening is his former brother-in-law. Dinosaur Train was in the rotation when mine was little. It’s not a top-tier “parents will notice the layers” one, but it’s very tolerable and a good show for the littles.
It really kicks the llama’s gnu’s ass
I received a metric fuckton of texts that were like, “ZOMG YOU GUYS WE ARE SO REPUBLICAN AND CROCKETT HATES ICE CAN YOU BELIEVE IT-ZORZ?!?!?!?” They seem to trace back to a shady republican group. Apart from a couple of milquetoast Cornyn ones, everything else I got was for various Dem candidates despite my living in a very red zip code.
The campaigns have excellent lists, and somebody on the right wanted blue voters to know how very “terrified” they were of her. The only reasonable alternative is that she ran them herself as a low-grade false-flag, and in either case it made me go ahead and decide on Talarico, though I’d have happily voted for either in the general. I think he’s made such a brand of being a blue christian that he’d probably feel obligated to make separation of church and state an important part of his brand, and he’s speaking very explicitly to the wealth divide in a way she hasn’t.
I do tend to think the dust-up over the Talarico’s Allred comment has at least some truth to it, but while I assume he’s much more calculating than his public persona, even in the worst case the story hit my (admittedly white) ears like someone who assumed that his allyship exempted him from micro-aggressions, rather than his being some cackling hypocrite. He’s got his work cut out for him, but if he can energize the base, recover Trump 2024 Hispanics, and get a couple of percentage points’ worth of red voters to flip or even just say, “meh” and stay home, he’s got a chance.
Realistically, I think the most likely scenario is that we’re looking at a pre-guns Beto campaign that comes close but can’t get over the hump versus an unpopular Republican, but I think he’s the best chance we’ve had since then to flip a seat. All of which is incumbent on elections happening semi-normally.
Imagine if that one fire were the series finale. All-time great show if you end it there.
Even in the heyday of Rotten Tomatoes, this only means that everyone agrees it’s not bad. Is it good, though? Seems like the answer is “yes, quite, but the bar has been lowered.”
Always grimly funny when you can basically suss out the lazy-ass prompt: “Now do the same message, but Spanish.”
Rubio’s gonna get fired anyway. He made a speech that that didn’t terrify people in Munich as badly as MAGA speeches usually do, so he got a standing ovation, and Trump HAAAAATES that.
The actual ad, if one is feeling like a fuddy duddy.
I think they’ve both had their issues with where their money comes from, her corporate PACs, him with the Adelson family that’s trying to somehow get gambling legalized in Texas without any Native American reservations and with a Christofascist state government. That said, neither one is a Schumer-style appeaser. He wears a brand of class-conscious social justice theology on his sleeve, throwing the Christian Nationalists’ so-called faith into clear focus, but because of that he’s also very much pitching “electability,” which in Texas right now means “I’m a cishet white guy so maybe some of the racists will stay home on election day.”
She is a firebrand who has made calling out Trump and the gang her full-time job, but her campaign seems to revel more in the idea of pissing off Donald Trump than in letting us know what she’ll do. There is a zeitgeisty element to that, and I think she’d be a more prominent and powerful advocate in Congress, but I think either would slot more into the Progressive wing. Ultimately, either would also be an insane improvement over Cornyn or (gag) Paxton.
Would be remiss of course without mentioning the dustup where a Tiktoker left the Talarico camp for the Crockett camp, saying that Talarico told her he was expecting to run against a mediocre black guy, not a talented black woman. He’s admitted to using the word mediocre about Colin Allred’s prior campaign, and TBF it was extremely mediocre (like Allred knew from day one he had no chance, so why knock yourself out?), but if Talarico did try to add in Allred’s race as (one would hope) a rhetorical flourish, then it was a tone-deaf moment that harmed his credibility in promising to advocate for the black community. “Electability” with white people doesn’t help if you simultaneously depress the vote of the usual 4/9 of Texans who vote blue. I’m as white as Talarico is, but it really gave me pause.
“I got phone calls from our customers, from our lenders because we board against our line of credit, and from our shareholders that we reduce distributions on during this period waiting to settle on the tariffs,” he said.
While O’Leary is rightfully eating shit for a stupid trump-simping accelerationist take that everyone knew was garbage, I mostly want to point out how what somebody’s transcription software did to his accent, because I’m a dork.
I particularly did this when I was in the UK or Japan, but that’s more because I have no faith that I will remember to pick the correct way.