No now I want to see Deanna Troi, ship’s diplomatic officer as portrayed by Marina Sirtis deliver the “Furthermore, pursuant to statute 135(a)(2)” diatribe.

You might argue that the dairy and sugar dessert beverages served at Starbucks often don’t count as real coffee, much the way Android has very little in common with the rest of the Linux ecosystem. It technically has Linux/coffee in it.

She was in uniform as early as the pilot episode. The cheerleader minidress thing that I guess was supposed to be the 80’s version of the TOS gogo dress was apparently Starfleet issue, and crewmembers of both sexes can be seen in the background wearing it.

made, by someone who isn’t you, who works for a large and terrible corporation doing god knows what harm around the world.

I definitely dig the idea of the Enterprise carrying a therapist, as a recurring character, possibly a civilian contractor so they can wear something other than a standard uniform so we can have some visual variety, and occasionally show up at planning meetings or whatever when psychology is at play.

But Gene Roddenberry wanted a pair of legs in the center of the frame so she wore a minidress and sat next to the Captain with nothing to do. She wasn’t occasionally called up to the bridge the way Dr. Crusher or Geordi were, she was just always sitting there.

Meanwhile Guinan the bartender was hell and gone a better counselor than Troi ever was.

I think in this graphic I would replace the Fedora pour-over thing with a French Press because they already did pour-over with Arch.

And then Android is a Starbucks cup.

Percolator: Mandrake user. Holy god someone’s still using that old thing.

No, that center pic is Tudor. Mordor would be a door that’s wider and/or taller.

A peak detector that resets a timer is within the realm of possibility, maybe combine it with the moisture sensor so that you start listening for the pops to slow down after you detect the burst of steam.

Want to go half on the patent?

Businesses are greedy. They’re going to squeeze the turnip from every angle they can think of to get every drop of blood out they can.

Consumers are rock chewing stupid. They will choose fancy branding and ease of setup every single time because most of them are allergic to learning how the things in their houses work. People will sign their rights away in EULAs they don’t even bother to read because it’s too boring, they’re not going to stop watching Longmire or Stranger Things just because they added commercials.

We live in a world where fascism is on the rise. The Republicans want to jail or kill women who have abortions or miscarriages. Here in the smart phone age, women often use apps to track, record and predict their periods. These apps upload this data to a server somewhere and store it in a database. Wouldn’t the Republicans love to get their hands on that database to see if they can find women they can jail or kill? The solution: Get on Tumblr and ask men to download these apps and start uploading junk data to them, because getting women to switch to FOSS software that doesn’t upload their data to devices they don’t control is considered too much to ask. They won’t learn how to manage their own software and data to literally save their lives. They’re absolutely not giving up Netflix.

I’m sure others have linked to Technology Connections’ video on the subject below, but there are two general ways it works:

1. There is a humidity sensor in the microwave that will sense when food is done. In the case of popcorn, it senses when there’s a burst of steam inside when the bag inflates enough to open the vent, and then given how long that took it calculates how big the bag of popcorn is and thus how long to keep running the microwave for. The other sensor cook buttons look for trends in humidity that have to do with other foods. The microwave will likely indicate that it has this feature with the word “Sensor” or similar branding on the control panel, and when you press the Popcorn button, it just starts running because it can figure out everything it needs to know for itself.

2. Small, cheap microwaves probably just use a timer. If it asks you if the bag of popcorn is small, medium or large at the beginning, it’s just a timer and you should just go with the instructions on the bag instead.

If you want there to be a lot of your species, the best thing to do is become delicious to humans.

I like his two co-conspirators back there. Ocean’s Three.

I’ve always heard it pronounced “MAY-jul.” Shatner says it around 30 seconds into this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIxXHbjSQos

It’s a majel disaster.

There is a cat fancy, purebred cats exist, but there is a population of normal cats in the world that haven’t had their genes mangled, where there really isn’t with dogs. Every single dog in the world is a something something mix, whereas my cat is “a grey one.”

I think the relevant context here is it’s a recognizable shot of the cast of Stargate SG-1, as the text over both images contrasts the two shows’ attitudes.

I was kind of wondering how long that project would last.

I’m gonna guess because there haven’t been any meaningful opportunities for young people in 40 years.

someone in the comments on youtube pointed out that many purpose built air fryers exhaust the air so the interior stays drier, where convection ovens recirculate air and hang onto humidity.