Alternatively: We can remember for you, whole-Dick

I feel like anyone saying ‘there is a third?’ Hasn’t followed anything about Dune -both book or movie. If you know the books, you know Paul has a story arc that continues past the first book. If you were following the movie, Denis Villeneuve was loud and clear when making the first movie that he wanted it to be a trilogy that followed the main story arc of Paul (through Messiah. Not counting the preacher Paul of Children).

Are the movies worth it? Fuck yeah. Is this the last movie? Denis Villeneuve was clear about not wanting to adapt beyond the second book. So if it did happen, it wouldn’t be with him, and he is the real talent and driver behind these movies. So most likely this is the last movie. It was never going to be some Marvel 30 movie slop fest or Avatar shoot-plot-from-the-hip saga.

No effort was put into this beyond data entry. But in my opinion, for an info graphic I like the boxes. For data, I like the bars.

It looks like a data scientist was like “yeah, a pie graph makes the most sense to use” and sent it up. Then the marketing manager was like “we need to make this sexy. How about something like a soccer ball.”

I have a clinical doctorate and can make about 110k. I have also chosen to work on a PhD for research in my field. When i finish at the end of the year, my additional doctorate and an entry research job should bring my earning potential to… 110k. Or I can do a post-doc and earn 65k. I can also go into industry and make about 170k. I did my clinical fellowship at NIH and saw the research first hand and know how needed amd impactful it is. Science in this country was already getting strained, under trump it has become a joke.

No one else has -yet.

Disagree. You and so many others throw around the word communism as if it is a specific type, rather than a general type. Not only that, communism and capitalism as not mutually exclusive. We have communism in capitalist societies and there was capitalism inside the USSR’s communism.

We have fully functioning communes within the USA. Those are communists living happily inside a communist community, with communist leadership, and communist ideals, all as a sub community within normal American cities. And it is successful.

The US has communism/socialism even within its own government. We have communist firefighters. There was a time all fire brigades were private and sold memberships and private insurance. It was communism that made it a public service. Even the socialist healthcare in the military was not always that way. Up until the Civil War it was private healthcare and the medics were for the battlefield only. All after care was out of pocket. Even for a time after the Civil War large amounts were not covered by the military.

And even looking at the previous poster’s comment about not seeing true communism- that is a category- are they referring to Lennonist communism? Maoist? Marxist? It’s like saying all capitalist governments are the same, as if the EU and the US, and Nigeria are all the same types of government.

My biggest complaint about academy is the same as everyone, poor writing. But since everyone also wants to bring up the ‘woke’ panic as well being why it’s so bad, I disagree. It isn’t the package that is bad, it’s the packaging.

Don’t give ‘the Gay™ character’. Give me a good character who is gay.

Why are you forcing me to care about a character because they are gay? What a wasted opportunity. You had a not so subtle anti-archetype klingon who had the heavy handed writing of being into science, medicine, and openly gay and intentionally written to be anything a klingon is not. What shitty writing. They had all the opportunities to make me love the character for who they were, their personality, their true choices and internal struggles, and make me care about them as a whole person that happened to be gay because that is who they are. Make me love their choices about being gay, not tell me I should love them because they are gay.

More than that, previous iterations of trek knew how to do it right. Most people bring up DS9 because it was done so well. We loved the characters for who they were, and who they were happened to be gay. Academy told us to love them because they were gay, and just happened to also be a character.

Edit: lol. Getting downvoted because people think this is some anti-gay post?? It’s about bad writing and forced caring.

In my opinion, for recent shows The Orville did it best. Bortis is easily my favorite character. So well written and so much fun. And the whole arc with his kid was some of the best scifi tv trans writing out there. That is where academy could take a lesson from on what I mean about loving the character who happens to be gay rather the telling me to love the character because they are gay.

Reaver Cleaning Company: putting spears through the Wash since 2005!

Amazing meme choice. Sounds like a fun read.

“An improved analysis method of Phrenology”

Congratulations. I hope your edits are few and potential publications are plentiful. What was the topic?

Did you read it?? It showed statistical significance with an 8 point difference on the outcome measure test. And then for you so say this drug needs a double blind controlled trial? It was. That is literally the first sentence in the methods section! Also, the article went into details about the outcomes measures and quality of life impacts.

Just going to throw this out there, you had to follow the doi link, then download the pdf to read the actual article. It sounds like you just glazed over the summary paragraphs.

Committee members for supervising thesis and dissertations are normally locked once you submit the committee form. There are no changing them unless it is under extreme circumstances. We are talking circumstances like death, retirement, and pending legal issues. Otherwise, things like scheduling, professional conflicts, and personality differences are not acceptable reasons. Sucks for OOP for being stuck with a shitty person.

I knew it looked photoshopped but wanted it to be real, so I looked up the isbn. Sadly, it is not this book. Weirdly, it is a different scifi book that sounds half decent and actually won an award.

Brute Orbits by Goerge Zebrowski. He was (just died in Dec of 2024) a scifi machine and churned out several of the star trek books as well as a shit load of original works all through the 70’s till about 2000. And this one happens to be one of his highest rated works.

Also in this rabbit hole: he worked/lived with (possible partner of?) Pamela Sargent who wrote Earthseed. A huge scifi book for those who are into it.

I like to play a colony for about a week. I want to get just into late game with a challenge then collapse. If it is too easy for me, then late game just drags out forever. If it is too hard then I don’t get the same fun from mid game. I really like the thrill of starting a new colony, but just past the slog of early game. Starting around hour 3-5 it starts to hit a lot of fun up till about hour 25-30 or so. I want a good mid game with a bit of struggle, but not constant verge of death.

For mods I play with some basic quality of life add ons, but nothing extensive. The expansions have taken care of most of what I was adding in the past. I like dev mode for the one extra speed, but don’t normally cheat with it. I do keep iron man mode on.

So, medium? Medium-hard? But definitely not hard or extreme.

The really crazy part is when you look at it as a percentage of the budget and compare it to pre war levels. It isn’t what you think. In 2000 the budget was $304 billion, a total of 16.7% of the federal budget. Then 2 wars later of ballooning costs and it grew all the way up to $962 billion (the 2025 approved budget. Not counting the random $500 billion he is trying to add in). But this is now only 13.7% of thr total budget. Somehow the percentage has gone down.

Now, if you know numbers you should know that percentages get messy and are misleading to look at. The real question is what the fuck is going on with the giant ballooning budget that has gotten spending so out of control that this monstrous defense spending is now somehow a lower percentage than pre-war spending??? And the real kicker is that we are ballooning on spending, but none of it is going to actually helping the people paying the taxes! None of it is helping built up infrastructure, invest in education, build communities -nothing that helps build this country.

Trump is blowing through money and we doing even get anything out of it.

The HPV virus is also slowely being implicated in causing some throat, neck, and tonsillar cancers in men. The vaccine in men helps prevent those too. It is argued that everyone should get it, and the younger the better (younger as in around 14, not 20’s or 30’s).

The crowd you see in the first pic, to the left of the stage, is symmetric to the other side, just not shown in the pictures I put in the post. The crowd behind the sight line of the camera is the big question. But if you go by normal venue layouts and make an educated guess based off the width you can see, I would put it at maybe 3x deeper then the stage, plus wings. So maybe 200? No more than 300. So, like I said it would be about a large club or medium rock lounge. Think slightly smaller than your standard House of Blues venue.

This is not from the TP USA halftime show. Easily verifiable not. The real halftime show pictures look like this.

https://share.google/images/uK1RQ4gxBgmvRVBng

https://share.google/images/MdKlpr495TlLIDzaW

You can see the venue isn’t that deep on the sides though. And all the pictures are intentionally not showing the crowd (180 view from pictures). The venue isn’t that big. A large club or mid size rock lounge is about the same size. Still laughable, but we don’t need to miss-attribute pictures and lie about their context.