This is amazing.

Not if you modulate the warp field dynamics with an inverted neutrino beam. Hmph someone clearly didn’t pay attention in Professor O’Brien’s Warp Field Theory class at the academy.

Pffft. Who needs an owners manual when you have red shirts to sacrifice while you learn?

I don’t even want to imagine the environmental studies and hurdles they’ll have to jump through to artificially alter an areas day/night cycle. There’s a laundry list of environmental concerns that I’m sure any homeowner or eco-activist worth their salt would jump on. Not to mention glare and impacts to air traffic, on and on.

Would make my solar panels pretty darn effective though. Would probably be great for SAD in winter too. Clever idea. Not sure I can get behind it though.

as a pre-schooler non-social media parent, this is fucking hilarious.

Well…his path is one of great sorrow, y’know?

Having just rewatched DS9 for the Nth time (wife’s first), it still really pisses me off how they offed her. Man I missed Jadzia in S7.

I was going to binge purchase off Temu at one point - inexpensive junk stuff to tickle my fancy. But in good conscience, I just couldn’t. It’s wasted money on stuff I don’t trust made by exploited workers or knocked off patents that ends up in a landfill.

Would I confidently let my kids play with the toys and tchotchkes? I don’t even buy stuff for them from Amazon cause of all the counterfeit and toxic crap. I know some consumers have to be extra price conscious. It sucks that they’re relegated to crap quality products that are less durable and essentially more disposable (not to say that better quality junk isn’t disposable junk in modern times).

**long neglected because of monetary incentivization (aka corporate greed), a bias towards subscriptions and microtransactions.

As long as it’s before his 8 pm curfew! You never know though…he could end up ranting at an empty chair.

We’re really bringing the most dystopian science fiction to life, aren’t we? Does art imitate life or…?

Oh this is curious! Cause the solution would be for those services to be privatized. I wonder how many would pay for those services.

“No, Jimmy. You don’t need to go to skool. Now go change bale the hay.”

Now that I think about it, it’s like The Matrix but way before The Matrix.

Had a seizure trying to read it.

My immediate first thought. In the short term, I’d be thrilled with any relief because we’re hurting but the bill doesn’t come close to addressing the root causes of runaway costs.

Never mind the quality of childcare in low and mid-income neighborhoods. You couldn’t pay for a month of quality care with the extra $500/year (800? depending on the additional tax credit) of refundable credit.

Love this! There are a couple of extensions that do similar around the web but something similar for social circles was missing. Great solution.

My child needs this. We haven’t found a space yet that they can’t outzoom.

Pffft food coupons. It’s $5 off the purchase of your next device within 15 days of issue.

Felt the deep pit in my stomach seeing “Elena Kagan.” Then read the rest and went back to being sleepy eyed.

At least, if it were to happen, Dems still have the Senate and Presidency this time around.

Took me a few reads but I fixed my error. This clearly wouldn’t happen if I were Vulcan or Romulan.

Come to think of it, an episode about a typo would be onpoint for Lower Decks and Boimler.