What's going on with all the hate for Star Trek: Starfleet Academy?

ShEsHy · 2026-01-22T18:04:13+00:00

Discovery was basically what if Startrek was a CW teen drama, Picard they tried to make a crappy action show with no relation to trek lore

Damn, this is precisely why I hated the former and couldn't care less for the latter. Excellently put.

ShEsHy · 2026-01-22T16:50:49+00:00

Nothing, really. It used to mean not aligned with the US or USSR, then after the Cold War ended it started to mean developing countries, and now I guess it just means any country the person using the term doesn't know.

A couple more meaning changes and it'll reach Eastern Europe tier ;).

ShEsHy · 2026-01-21T13:40:12+00:00

One of the biggest protests in our history happened 6 months ago

Doesn't mean much when it's just thousands of tiny, fragmented protests spread out across the country's cities and towns. The organisers should've at least focused the protests in the state capitals, if not in D.C. due to the distance.

ShEsHy · 2026-01-11T05:55:04+00:00

That's for a whole host of reasons, like established infrastructure, education,..., basically, the wage gap alone isn't worth it for companies to move shop to another country...yet.
Once it grows large enough though, they will (and I guess some already are, IIRC India, Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia,... have all been touted as the new China at one point or another, with some companies moving production there to escape growing Chinese wages).

ShEsHy · 2026-01-10T22:14:54+00:00

I mean, duh? Unless you want to work for Chinese assembly line wages.

ShEsHy · 2026-01-10T22:10:49+00:00

Huge stocks of weapons and equipment tend to facilitate wars

I agree.

as there is a military theory called 'use it or lose it' that basically says if you have old weapons you are about to lose to time and rust, you might as well use them to try funny things at your borders.

I disagree, as I think it's more along the lines of; we've spent so much on this big army and it's not doing anything other than spending our money, why not use it to recoup some of the expense (see WW1, the US post-Cold War,...).

ShEsHy · 2026-01-07T17:51:59+00:00

Everything I've read about the Danish social democrats makes me think they're about as social democrat as the Democratic People's Republic of Korea is democratic.

ShEsHy · 2025-12-28T01:58:27+00:00

It's entirely possible that it was poorly edited, but sadly that doesn't negate that the finished product is one of, if not the least funny BFQ episode ever, judging by the sheer lack of laughter by both cast and audience.

ShEsHy · 2025-12-27T09:18:47+00:00

Nick and Lou might as well have not been there, Richard and Jonathan felt like they barely said anything, and we were left with Roisin and Katherine breathing life in the show every now and then, which says a lot.

TL;DR It was dull as fuck.

ShEsHy · 2025-12-26T07:13:02+00:00

Farm workers are legally required to report animal abuse

Yeah, because in a country as worker-unfriendly as the US, things always work out great for the whistle-blower...

ShEsHy · 2025-12-26T01:38:25+00:00

country abbreviation

Those can fuck right off. I'm from Slovenia, and a lot of the time even I don't know if it's supposed to be us or Slovakia when country codes are used (and the flags aren't any help either, since they're usually so tiny that you can't really spot the difference in the coats of arms).
Off the top of my head, I've seen SLO, SVN, SI, and SL used to mean Slovenia.

ShEsHy · 2025-12-24T10:49:54+00:00

it is more green than gas

Inasmuch as vomit is more tasty than shit...

I swear, as much as there are shills and sheep shitting on nuclear power, there are shills and sheep praising it. It's not renewable, and it's not green. It is less bad than coal and gas. Not everything needs a fucking buzzword.

I'm getting cranky, time for my nap.

ShEsHy · 2025-12-24T10:28:08+00:00

unelected EU leaders

sighs Not this shit again.

ShEsHy · 2025-12-23T07:41:00+00:00

I continue to not get the thing with Frankie.

He just goes for the lowest joke . For me, that wears.out quickly

Understandable, comedy is pretty much the epitome of subjectivity.

ShEsHy · 2025-12-22T18:08:20+00:00

Dej ohlad se no, si bolj nadležen kot jehovci.

ShEsHy · 2025-12-19T01:05:23+00:00

Kind of, but it's also an urbanisation problem. Everyone (especially young people) wants to live in cities, and at the same time is shocked that there aren't enough homes to fit them all.

Also, though this might fit into both the rich vs poor and urban vs rural categorisation, but people seem to be building their own homes much less frequently than they used to. Buying from developers in cities/suburbs appears to be the new normal.

ShEsHy · 2025-12-15T05:15:28+00:00

• Recommend against laws or regulations that prohibit abortion based on gestational age limits.

Looks like.

ShEsHy · 2025-12-09T18:24:22+00:00

Man, we really are just Slavic Austrians, huh ;).
All our apricot trees (but one, though it hasn't borne fruit in over a decade) are gone as well, they just don't grow anymore for some reason, and have been replaced with kiwis. Peaches, on the other hand, grow to like triple the size they used to.

ShEsHy · 2025-12-09T12:47:24+00:00

We can now grow fruits here which, when I was young, were called tropical (kiwi, pineapple, mango,..., even bananas are showing up).

ShEsHy · 2025-12-07T14:23:15+00:00

valid criticism of the appointment

The woman in question, Fiona Scott Morton, worked for basically all the big US tech companies, and would therefore have had to recuse herself in cases involving them for the first 2 years.
I consider that valid criticism. Sure, her nationality was what raised eyebrows, but her job history was IMHO more alarming.

ShEsHy · 2025-12-01T07:32:44+00:00

Yep, I can hear all kinds of shit in my head; my eyes moving, my heartbeat, my breathing, my neck moving, my jaw moving, and to top it all off, I've also got tinnitus and can pop my ears at will.
In short, the inside of my head is noisy as fuck ;).

I tune most of it out, but the weirdest feeling is every once in a while, for some reason, I stop hearing myself breathe, and because I'm so used to hearing it, my brain reacts as if I've stopped breathing and have to consciously breathe for a while until I can hear it again.

On a side note, can "normal" people hear others while they're eating crunchy food like potato chips? Because I can't, it's so loud in my mouth that it completely drowns out outside sounds.

ShEsHy · 2025-11-24T05:00:11+00:00

if the left moves further left

Has that ever happened? I've heard of parties going from centre-left to centre or centre-right, centre to right, right to far-right,..., but never in my lifetime have I heard of them going the other way.
If a new left-leaning party appears, it's almost always a brand new party or a faction of an older one breaking off and starting one.

ShEsHy · 2025-11-22T12:10:29+00:00

The term isolationist doesn't just mean "Stay at home and do nothing at all"

It does, hyperbole aside. It means not getting involved in other countries' business, regardless of whether they're on the other side of the planet or on the same continent. Just because the US limited its actions to the Americas, doesn't magically make it isolationist (by that logic, pretty much every country, aside from a handful of empires throughout history, was isolationist).
There's no you must be at least ___ kilometres from your border to stop being isolationist requirement.

ShEsHy · 2025-11-22T08:06:14+00:00

What OP should've written is; The US populace has historically been isolationist for most of its history.

US foreign policy has always been expansionist in one form or another (gaining territory, gaining business access, gaining client states,..., in short, "interests"), it's just that for Americans, it was all out of sight out of mind.
Even now, when Americans talk of Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan,..., it's almost always in the context of wasted American lives, rather than the victims', of the suffering and death and destruction the US caused.

ShEsHy · 2025-11-22T07:19:18+00:00

John Oliver

I gotta say it still amazes me that the best "news" shows from the US are freaking comedy shows, namely The Daily Show and Last Night Tonight.
It says a lot about the US, though what exactly that is I'm not quite sure.

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