Aaron lot of out infrastructure still uses floppy discs.

It’s that they are treating it as something weird. Uhura’s race and sex weren’t treated as weird because why would it be? There wasn’t anything especially special about Geordi being a blind helmsman when TNG premiered, because making accommodations wasn’t anything special - it was normal.

What Discovery did was performative inclusivity, which is a more subtle form of bigotry. It’s pointing at someone and calling them weird and claiming moral superiority for tolerating their presence.

Don’t spend 5 episodes uses feminine pronouns for the character then have them “come out” as non-binary. Just establish their pronouns from the outset, and don’t make a big deal outside the show about how brave they are for having an NB Trek character.

You don’t normalize something by pointing out that it’s strange.

But that’s not what they did with Uhura. They never hung a lantern on her being black or a woman. She was just there and it was such a normal thing it didn’t need to be addressed in-universe.

Having a character “come out” means the world is one in which people are hiding in the closet because of a social stigma. A world in which that stigma doesn’t exist doesn’t require a character to come out.

You’re about to have 48 more kids?

They also made amazing computerized wire rigs for the actors they used in conjunction with motion-controlled cameras. The production of the show was super impressive.

Also - everyone should read the books. They’re fantastic.

Ty Frank, one of the authors and the Amos actor Wes Chatham had a really fun podcast (“Ty and That Guy”) that did lots of fun deep dives on genre stuff.

The best progressive writing Trek did was when they addressed a social issue by having the actors pretend it wasn’t an issue at all.

Uhura was a bridge officer who was a black woman, and nobody cared or even noticed because in-universe there was nothing special about that.

I do lots of very spicy food. I think my tongue has literally been damaged over time by all the heat, so stuff I don’t register as being even the slightest bit spicy are unbearably hot to others and I have to really ratchet it up to taste anything.

But what I’ve found at lots of Asian restaurants is that the staff assumes my pale, white ass can’t take real heat. I ask for “5-peppers” hot and they’re like “We’ll start you with a 2.” It’s annoying. I’ve never been served food that’s “too hot” in a restaurant, so I kinda understand these exaggerated descriptions people give on food orders.

But meeting the US’s requirements doesn’t prevent products from being sold in Europe.

It’s the same reason film studios started pandering to China and why frying pans sold in Florida have a cancerous materials warning label that’s only required in California.

Companies cater to restrictive regulations in major markets because those products are still legal in less-restrictive territories.

Yes, but the US is a huge, profitable market. And companies will bend over backwards to appease Nazis so long as it’s more profitable to do so than not.

Within the US we have issues with all the US History books being written to comply with Texas’s “slavery was actually good for black people” bullshit because Texas is such a big market and everybody wants in on it.

If the US government bans Graphene, Motorola will drop them in 1/1000th of a heartbeat.

So are people wanting a Linux phone.

The people who are sharing photos from their phone on social media are running them through filters anyway. All the “smart” shit in the photos are essentially just built-in Instagram filters. And for that you can just download one of 3 million camera apps.

I don’t need fancy processing on my photos as longs as it lets me capture some kind of raw format. For photos that I actually care about the quality, a raw is better anyway.

Most people won’t give 2 shits or even be aware of the change.

I didn’t fully understand the glory of working from home until I did it on a snow day.

Removing the commute was an obvious, expected benefit. But turning off the camera and doing laundry or cooking lunch while in one of my multiple daily conference calls was amazing. I just had the meeting in my headphones and chimed in when needed. And it annoys me that can’t be my regular routine.

I drive 3-4 hours a day in traffic to sit in a (very nice) office where 95% of my work is remote work using cloud-based software and attending Teams meetings.

But because once a week or so someone may walk into city hall and ask for me instead of sending an email or making a phone call I’m expected to be in the office. Which is doubly annoying since most of the time they get turned away because I’m already in a separate online meeting when they show up.

I do legitimately have to attend public meetings a few evenings a month. I’d be so happy to compromise and go into the office on days with public hearings or when I need to visit a site, but work remote the remaining 80-90% of the time. Hell - I’d even trade working an extra hour a day while remote to do it. It’ll still save me time versus driving.

I got injured at work in 2019 where I was a mid-level retail manager. The injury left a scar that was gonna need minor cosmetic surgery, but I needed to wait a year for the scar to fully develop and stabilize before the surgery, which made sense.

In 2020 I left the job because one of the upper-level managers was toxic and I was tired of losing my staff because of her. But I was still covered for the injury and was gonna get my surgery a few weeks after leaving, even though the scar ended up being very minor and was hidden by my mustache anyway.

Then Covid hit right before my surgery and lockdowns closed the cosmetic surgery offices the insurance company used for a year. The thing is - the insurance required the operation to be done within 2 years of the injury, and that wasn’t going to be possible.

Since the insurance wasn’t gonna pay out, the company offered me a pretty generous settlement to make the issue go away. The scar was mostly healed, so I took it.

Then the store opened back up following lockdowns, and they begged me to come back because my department was floundering. Before I took over the department, it had the 3rd worst performance in the corporation for thay department (out of about 200 locations), and within 18 months of me taking over we’d jumped to number 2 in the company. When I left they dropped down to dead-last.

I pointed out that the corporation only agreed to the settlement if it had a condition that I could never work with the corporation again.

Within a few months the entire department was dissolved in that store.

First inpressions matter. The thing most people want operating systems to do is get out of the way. And while using Linux is great (so long as your software supports it), setting it up is not seamless. If you want to install Linux, new users have to spend 8 hours surfing 20 boards to be told 30 different answers about which distro to use. And that’s before you even get started.

If you want to install Windows, you just fucking install Windows.

Your company is an outlier.

Windows is the PC operating system used by almost every organization. If you aren’t willing to work with it, you really need to be clear about that up front.

It’s like trying to get a job as a mechanic at an auto shop and telling them after the interview you refuse to work on Toyotas.

Between this and Dex, there’s little reason left for me to keep using Samsung.