I wish we had a culture of driving that respected rules like speed limits. Instead, we have a culture where enforcing basic useful rules about how fast you can operate a multi-ton machine is considered “unfair” or a “cash grab”. Doug Ford to outlaw municipal speed cameras in Ontario.

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I want a Star Trek series about a mission outside the galaxy aboard a huge mobile HQ ship w/ a variety of scout ships. Starfleet & civilians on board would number in the thousands with classic Trek aliens represented. But stories would be driven by the new aliens they encounter on their journey.

Good lord this made me laugh until I was wheezing. www.tiktok.com/@thebnoth/vi...

I hope all the Rogan-sphere cancel culture warrior comedians are happy with themselves.

there's a weird feedback loop where the media's reaction to kirk's death pushes you to speak more ill of the dead than you otherwise would because it's the only reasonable response to the simpering praise they're heaping on him

This Mattie Lubchansky comic seems topical again.

Thinking about a tweet I saw when Rush Limbaugh died that was something along the lines of: "If quoting things you said in life tarnishes your memory in death, guess whos problem that is"

How do you answer your phone?

absolutely nobody forced Ezra Klein to actively and loudly approve of Charlie Kirk's career. Klein has looked at every single gram of vicious black bile, acid hate and aggression that poured out of Kirk and thought "shit, I wish I could do that"

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Yes I'm cultured. The Culture

I would very much bet that Dyson have not, in fact, solved vertical farming.

The thing I like about detachable warp sleds and the like is that surely not every planet is cool with having anti-matter casually enter their atmosphere and land on the planet.

Was looking at my cigarette lighter and thought it would make a pretty good warp nacelle design.

I'm mixed on the AppleTV Foundation series* but Lee Pace semi-channeling "The Dude" from The Big Lebowski for this season's version of his character is pretty great. *some of the choices are dicey in terms of staying true to the spirit of the books, I think... But willing to see how it plays out.

Hurontario LRT Finch LRT Eglinton LRT All delayed. Yet the premier wants us to believe his government can build a 3-tiered 50km tunnel under our busiest highway while blaming congestion on 3 bike lanes in Toronto contrary to his own experts? In the meantime enjoy your 5 day work week commute.

being bad at risk assessment combined with normalcy bias is how you get people freaking out about battery fires but never second-guessing that whole "endless supply of explosive gas" thing. bsky.app/profile/wapp...

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This legit just works as a Starfleet uniform?!

I don't know how we get there, but in my mind personal vehicles for around town errands should be glorified golf carts that you trade in for a car capable of highway speeds only when you have to travel long distances. It's truly stupid that we use such powerful machines for every use case.

Haven't had a chance to watch the new SNW yet, but talk of holodeck episodes has me thinking of which ones I like best. So here is my rough top 5: 5) Our Man Bashir (DS9) 4) Elementary, Dear Data (TNG) 3) Badda-Bing (DS9) 2) It's Only a Paper Moon (DS9) 1) Crisis Point (LDS)

I don't know or care how they would justify it, but Jo Martin should just be the next Doctor.

TLDR; Fuck that guy.

Star Trek's favourite grandma boning ghost also made a pretty dashing Zorro!

I'm 46 with pretty rapidly greying/thinning hair so I'm thinking of becoming one of these guys.

Not sure if I've ever seen this zoomed in view of the saucer shuttle bay on the E? I don't think I realized it was one large bay with what appears be 3 small bags on either side.

He’s trying to get the story killed because of how innocent he is.

"Toronto’s a single city when the suburbs “deserve” subways, but the suburbs are precious, delicate villages when a city of three million needs places for people to live."

Data should have just been Chief science officer on the Enterprise D. It is strait up ludicrous that the Ent D didn't have a chief science officer... And putting Data in a blue uniform with that job title wouldn't have changed much at all, continuity wise.

The review embargo has ended on James Gunn's new "Superman" film, so I can finally say what I've been holding back for weeks: I was beaten in the darkness of the theater by an unidentified assailant!!

Trekkies: if you see this post your first experience with Star Trek The 1st Trek thing I ever laid eyes on was the TOS ep Shore Leave. But the Trekkie in me didn't get activated until I saw a preview of TNG on Entertainment Tonight... youtu.be/GkayCwdXqMg?...

Setting aside how good the movie may or may not be, I hope the folks at the prestigious "Cosmic Book News" have come to realize that "nail in the grave" is not the expression and they look very stupid having written it.

Okay so Star Trek Voyager never lived up to its own premise so I know this is something that NEVER would have happened, but: imagine if at the end of the pilot it was Voyager that got destroyed and the series then took place on the Maquis ship.

Happy Canada Day to everyone, even the snowbirds and hosers

This is so cool. The Canadian equivalent would maybe be Tatiana Maslany performing with Metric.

The TLDR here is that yes, it's too good to be true... But if the breakthrough could lead to 1800 mile range EVs *someday*, I wish people would think of it more as a 300 mile range EV with a battery 1/6th the size & weight of today's EVs.

This ship from the most recent Rick & Morty definitely has some Starfleet vibes. Deflector, nacelles... The upper part of the hull even looks a lot like a bridge module.

Just wanna shout into the void that I found an online auction for a bunch of rare-ish Star Trek books, but I left it to the last minute to place my bids, only to be foiled by credit card/website shenanigans.

Extremely random, but was watching the DS9 2-parter with the Dominion prison, and the Vorta in charge looks like Scott Auckerman.

A short 🧵 about car models available in North America. One car I really love, at least in principle, is the Mazda5. It really seems eminently practical for a family with two children.

On the streets of Toronto I've exchanged eye contact/smiles with both Iman Vellani and Sonequa Martin-Green & her husband Kenric Green.

“I was happy to work with a man I knew was pedophile until he cut my EV credit” is such a hilarious rich person sentiment

Thinking humanoid robots will be revolutionary for society is some basic bitch ass futurism. It's like an "automatic dishwasher" in an old cartoon being robotic arms that wash your dishes at the sink, rather than just a box that sprays your dishes.

Nooope.

Fascinating. The Greater Golden Horseshoe (the area in green) ranks between Switzerland and Belgium in land area and population density.

Watching this vid on Frank Lloyd Wright and learned that Louis Sullivan, the "The Father of Modernism" and early influence on Wright, looked a lot like YouTuber Steve Shives. youtu.be/Pl-C5_RqJZg?...

I know reboots are controversial in Star Trek fandom, but the idea of an animated adaptation of DS9 is quite appealing to me. Maybe 'Emissary' starts out as a fairly faithful recreation, just with updated visuals & designs. But then as the series progresses it diverges more to be its own thing.

One. One! ONE lawsuit from Children’s Television Workshop, ah ah ah!