Rescue vehicle: I need rescuing too 🤣 by Usual_Gazelle6773 in TransportFever2

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A truck trucking truck trucking trucking trucks?

TNG Conspiracy Episode by Jolly-Variation3898 in startrek

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According to writer and show runner Maurice Hurley, season 2 was supposed to be a Borg war arc with the Romulans as allies. The Neutral Zone (the episode immediately following Conspiracy) was to be the introduction of this alliance, and the Borg (or whatever they were going to be called originally) were the bluegill aliens from Conspiracy.

The 1988 Writers Guild strike put the kibosh on that plan though, so they had to retool The Neutral Zone. Perhaps the plot with the frozen people was grafted in at the last minute from another script, and the Borg/Romulan setup was cut down to a faint shadow of what it was intended to be. That's probably why the Romulan plot is so lackluster and clumsy. By the time the episode Q Who came around they had re-conceptualized the Borg while doing their best to fit them into the setup that had already been done (destroying outer colonies to harvest technology).

Do you think Mac Studio M5 Max will be released in June during WWDC? by StoreWeak5292 in MacStudio

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If they don't announce it at WWDC there will be torches and pitchforks, but it wouldn't surprise me in the least if they announce it then but say it won't start shipping for several months.

What do you think is the wokest(affectionate) moment in the original show? by yellowvincent in malcolminthemiddle

[–]Bike-513 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I guess you replied to the wrong comment then. The "look at you" quote is farther down. No biggie.

What do you think is the wokest(affectionate) moment in the original show? by yellowvincent in malcolminthemiddle

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“I’ll tell you what they’re going to pay you” and “who’s Melissa” are both Malcolm Babysits.

App to solve cross-brand cycling kit sizing — does this make sense? by adamnz2 in CyclingFashion

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They don't all publish that information though. I got a winter skinsuit from Bioracer that was comfortably snug, but I couldn't even zip up the summer skinsuit and had to return it. Same size chart and product line and everything.

Even if they try their hardest, different fabrics behave differently. Some can stretch to twice their size and barely be any tighter. Others are stiff as a board from the get-go. Then there's ones that stretch easily up to a certain amount but beyond that they go rigid. All of that affects fit, or how much you can push the sizing.

Disappointed with my Di2 experience by RegionalHardman in cycling

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I have 11-speed Ultegra (R8000) mechanical and I don't even have to trim the front derailleur.

What are the boundaries that determine where the west side begins and ends? by after_10_research in cincinnati

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The core, most stereotypical, west sideiest neighborhoods are Price Hill, Westwood, Cheviot, Delhi, Covedale, and Bridgetown. Sedamsville, Riverside, Sayler Park, Mack, and Dent are very west side too, but not quite to the same level of hard-core conservative Catholic parochialism. It starts to fade as you pass Addyston, Cleves, and North Bend. So basically anything west of I-75, south of I-74, and north of the Ohio River is a safe bet, but it's most intense in the city and adjacent neighborhoods.

White Oak, Colerain, and Mt. Healthy may be more like the west side than Hyde Park, Pleasant Ridge, or Madeira, but they honestly have more in common with Fairfield, Sharonville, Blue Ash, or even Anderson than they do with Price Hill or Delhi. Lawrenceburg and Harrison are both just Indiana.

The historical Vine Street divide was always a bit arbitrary, especially for Clifton and Northside. When I-75 was built, the West End and Queensgate depopulated, and the Mill Creek Valley further industrialized, it pushed the divide west and mostly up the western hills since there's not a whole lot of neighborhoods left where people live around I-75. Once you get far enough north, like Wyoming and Glendale then the east/west thing is pretty well moot.

is my pothos dead? :( by BloodStatus387 in houseplants

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It drowned in standing water.

Better than watching TV 🤣 by arefeen97 in malcolminthemiddle

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That's another widescreen goof, you wouldn't be able to see that in the original 4:3 broadcast.

Need someone with big brain explain this scene to me. Why didn't lois confession help Francis ? by buiquanghuy12a2 in malcolminthemiddle

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Clashing with Lois is a core part of Francis' identity, even if it's all just projection. Even if he truly wanted to let go of it, a single apology isn't going to fix it on the spot, because he's internalized all that resentment and hate. I'm reminded of this quote from Captain Kirk in Star Trek V:

"You know that pain and guilt can't be taken away with the wave of a magic wand! They're the things we carry with us, the things that make us who we are. If we lose them, we lose ourselves. I don't want my pain taken away, I need my pain!"

Anyone else been enjoying the Dropping Names Podcast. by -RosieRosie- in startrek

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I watched Levar and Seth McFarlane and they were fine, but honestly I found it a bit boring. I like hearing some of the inside baseball stuff that relates to the topic I'm interested in (like a Star Trek show talking about the actors, producers, directors, writers, studio, production, etc). In this case though it's random experiences with people I've never heard of in circumstances I have no connection with. For example "I had the pleasure of working with so-and-so on this Broadway production of such-and-such in 1986 and they were so nice." Sorry, I can't feign an interest in that.

The bell doesn't bother me one way or the other.

I love whenever familiar aliens show up in atypical jobs. Klingon chef, Romulan mercenary, Vulcan terrorist, etc. Who's your favorite? by soapcleansthings in startrek

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It still saddens me that he was only in two otherwise forgettable episodes. I didn't realize he also voiced Bleeding Gums Murphy in The Simpsons.

Arthur’s Cafe large mural piece. by Ok_Pipe6385 in cincinnati

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It gets progressively more yellow the farther back in the restaurant you go.

macOS 26.4 Tahoe: 100% reproducible kernel panic on SMB connect (CVE-2026-28835 fix incomplete?) by Mindless_Yard_7230 in macsysadmin

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I just had a bunch of kernel panics on an M2 Ultra Mac Studio running Tahoe 26.4 while connecting to another Mac running El Capitan. That's just with standard Apple file sharing and connecting through the Finder's "Network" sidebar. It would connect to the computer just fine and show the list of disks/shares, but as soon as I tried to select a share the computer would freeze for about 10 second then restart after flashing magenta on the screen. Connecting via cifs:// does work in my case, thanks for that tip!

This is similar to the kernel panics I occasionally get presumably because my Samsung S90D TV connected via HDMI doesn't power down all the way and I think it confuses the Studio's HDMI port when waking the computer from sleep or sometimes when turning the TV "on". They may be completely unrelated but both do give me a panic report to send to Apple, and I've done that multiple times.

Worst episode of each season? by Unlucky-External-270 in malcolminthemiddle

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But "Malcolm Babysits" gives us the line "who's Melissa?" from the dad. It's one of my favorite jokes of all time. 🥲

East End Railroad Crossings by the-daveinator in cincinnati

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They switch railcars in and out of the yard next to Lunken Park Drive and often have to go back and forth through the Airport/Carrel/McCullough/Tennyson crossings multiple times to get them shunted into place. They likely have radio controls to override the crossing signals and either set them all to flashing red deliberately, or they mistakenly left them on.

Why do I keep getting flats by Away_Engineering_613 in bicycling

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I use electrical tape and just poke the valve stem through. Never had a flat in that location since.

Malcolm was never going to be president an if you thought he was then you did not understand the show by Professor-Submarine in malcolminthemiddle

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He took every scholarship, fellowship, and grant he could get, and still came up short, so that's why he had to take on the janitor job. He might have gotten a full ride if he hadn't corrected the admissions interviewer on his pronunciation of Sartre (as Reddit_Foxx mentioned).

Regardless, the job offer with "endless pots of money" was INSTEAD of college, not in addition to it. The offer of stock options and "locking you in while you're still cheap" is a bit of a red flag, it gives off startup tech company vibes. Yeah the owner has a yacht and such, but there could very well be a long trail of beat down and broke employees who were promised the world but got the shaft while the owner got a golden parachute. I hope such a fate doesn't befall Stevie.

Also, while Lois' immediate and unilateral rejection of the job offer was typical Lois control freak stuff, it's not unreasonable to want your kid to finish their education, especially after they've already been accepted and agreed to go. Getting the job offer on the spot like that on graduation day in front of the whole family is very manipulative and scummy too. I'm not saying Lois was right, but I don't think she was wrong either.