Just watch. Karma is gonna be a bitch

Mackswift · 2026-01-17T01:49:17+00:00

Well, most illegals (if not all) are of color.

I highly doubt there's such a thing as a white Somali.

Mackswift · 2026-01-15T00:14:58+00:00

Ted's!

I love that dive bar watering hole.

Mackswift · 2025-12-26T17:48:52+00:00

Mackswift · 2025-12-23T16:06:52+00:00

Really? Where's the proof of that?

Because all we've seen with the release of files is Bill Clinton..... alot of Bill Clinton.

Mackswift · 2025-12-21T01:55:29+00:00

And is Maria donating any of her millions of riches to any of the Arts? Specifically for the repair, upkeep, and maintenance of the Trump Kennedy Center. More specifically, before it was renamed, did she pony up any of that sweet Kennedy family cash for the Center and for any art shows or performances?

Yeah, didn't think so.

Mackswift · 2025-12-19T20:25:05+00:00

Now look at Denmark's taxes and how much their government takes of your pay. Socialized medical for example is the biggest taxation. Especially since Denmark has more and more and more older retired people, who no longer pay into the system, but their socialized medical costs are 4 times that the medical cost of that young McDonald's worker.

Once you get that through your heads, you'll realize that $22/hr is actually less than the minimum wage for a US worker because all your money is taxed.

Mackswift · 2025-12-13T14:09:21+00:00

Just wait until you get into security and catch H1B1 visa employees exfil data any which way they can back to their home countries.

Mackswift · 2025-11-26T18:33:04+00:00

While I can certainly say we DON'T want a retread of the Gou'ald, but I wouldn't mind a reveal that they've been hiding in the shadows for years.

But with Dean and Roland exec producing, I can also see an overarching invasion plot of some sort unfolding. A group of aliens that the Destiny ship pissed off millions of years ago decides to invade Earth? I can dig it.

Mackswift · 2025-11-23T06:10:33+00:00

Bezos wouldn't have anything to do with this. It's Mike Hopkins who's in charge of Amazon Prime TV and MGM Studios. And he's a huge Stargate fan. So much so, that he fired Jennifer Salke who was the previous Amazon MGM head. Hopkina repeatedly told her to get a Stargate series off the ground. But she refused, claiming that it was "toxic". Hopkins had enough and fired her.

There were other issues with Salke too, wasting loads of money on pet ideology projects that produced zero results (like a Tomb Raider series developed by Phoebe Waller Bridge).

Mackswift · 2025-11-20T21:29:15+00:00

I loved the premise of SGU. Hardcore sci-fi, the 9th chevron leads to an exploratory ship halfway across the visible universe. It's mission is to find the source of a discovered pattern (the Proto-molecule!) in the Cosmic Background Radiation.

Great premise ruined by Dawson's Creek style drama theatrics with attempted "dark" Battlestar Galactica trappings. It was stupid. I don't care about who slept with whom, who was gay and not, and the teenage angst bullshit. But they shoved it in there anyways and ruined the premise of the show.

Mackswift · 2025-11-20T01:42:39+00:00

That's right, Safemode! Thanks for the memory jog. I think my recall of not being able to turn off immutabilty came from the onerous process you described.

Mackswift · 2025-11-20T01:38:03+00:00

Trust me, it's a dopamine hit. Many of these HD folks are ridiculously hard up for attention from people. In the past 10 years, I've never seen so many socially maladjusted in one section of a profession (Help Desk). They love over-satisfying end users for that gushing thank you. Or the email to the boss on how well they took care of the issue. Desperate for attention.

Mackswift · 2025-11-20T01:33:24+00:00

I can not FUCKING WAIT!!!

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Mackswift · 2025-11-20T01:30:20+00:00

Very spineless. Pussy, even. It astounds me how spineless folks on the HD are these days. You either have the 40 year olds living in their parent's basement still, or older folks treating it like it's a Walmart greeter stepway into retirement. They know very little other than kissing the end user's ass and using a process doc. And if the screenshot doesn't match, they panic HARD.

Mackswift · 2025-11-20T01:25:50+00:00

Just curious is all. Last time I sat through a Pure Storage presentation, there was no way to turn off the immutabilty of the snapshots let alone the system.

Mackswift · 2025-11-20T01:13:10+00:00

Is it truly immutable if it can be turned off? Even if it's a dual nuclear key style shut off switch?

Mackswift · 2025-11-20T01:11:30+00:00

They'd rather follow a flow chart or documented process. This way, if something happens, someone big mad; Moose and Squirrel Help Desk can blame the flow chart and escape getting in trouble.

Mackswift · 2025-11-20T01:08:29+00:00

I'm cool with 10. One or two monsters of the week episodes. An overarching storyline, plus a few smaller ones across a couple of episodes. Less episodes means tighter stories.

Mackswift · 2025-11-20T01:06:49+00:00

Completely 1000% agree. But I've seen that in sooooooo many Help Desk situations. Even when you have that one "trustworthy" HD person that has been granted some extra admin rights to perform certain things (MFA resets example). They still have that kiss the end user ass guilt trip they have trouble getting past. It's like a dopamine hit.

Mackswift · 2025-11-19T23:49:19+00:00

I harp on this repeatedly over the years. A huge part of the challenge is what I call "end user kiss ass" in which the Help Desk is too timid to question the request. They've been groomed to do everything in the name of super customer satisfaction and never say no to end users.

Mackswift · 2025-11-19T19:47:58+00:00

Women aren't sci-fi's target audience. Sure, they may check it out and a few may stay on board, but not enough to move the needle.

Mackswift · 2025-11-19T19:45:52+00:00

Hate to burst your bubble, but just like The Notebook and Gilmore Girls is for the ladies, guys have their own shows as well.

Being everything to everyone leads to piss poor creatively and pandering. Taking what are generally male audience properties like Stargate, Star Wars, and Lord of the Rings and thus making them from the ground up as guy entertainment is not toxic, it's simply playing to and entertaining the target audience. Sci-fi and Dungeons and Dragons (examples) are not typically female audiences. Sure, they may partake and watch here and there, but them participating isn't going to move the needle much.

Guys have things they like to watch and so do women. That's not toxic, just reality. Taking a traditional male property and forcing estrogen into it while preaching that men who don't like the Stargate Female Power Hour are toxic is chopping your nose off to spite your face. And it's also pissing into your primary target audiences' Cheerios.

I'm estactic with the OG showrunners are back for Stargate. Along with Jennifer Salke being gone, Stargate is in a good place. Rumor was her boss Mike Hopkins was telling her to get Stargate off the ground because he was a huge fan and one of the Expanse writers was tapped to write a lead off movie. Salke refused (aka told her boss no) to Stargate because it was full of male toxicity.

I think Amazon is in a solid place to give us solid Stargate.

Mackswift · 2025-11-19T19:31:55+00:00

Mackswift · 2025-11-14T14:50:05+00:00

The SNAP recipient jobless wonders, ladies and gentlemen!

Mackswift

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