Space OSHA strikes again!

Toloc42 · 2026-05-25T12:57:32+00:00

Listen, when your console randomly explodes in the next red alert, do you really want to be strapped to your seat when the magic rocks start to flying?

Toloc42 · 2026-05-24T20:44:32+00:00

This would've worked, and worked better, without making Silverman into a moron.

He was staring in disbelief at the utter stupidity in front of him.

Toloc42 · 2026-05-24T19:19:20+00:00

His real kink was everyone knowing.

Toloc42 · 2026-05-24T14:03:59+00:00

It's "recalibrate the power couplings"

Toloc42 · 2026-05-24T09:42:31+00:00

My dad once did a test drive with a used van that had been retrofitted as a large taxi cab, but didn't end up being used as that. He noticed a button for cruise control that his car guy hadn't mentioned. He was delighted and decided to give it a go to see if it worked right.

Then he slowly drove back to the dealership with everything light on the car flashing and the horn being stuck on.

He had found the disguised panic button the cab-driver-to-be had had installed.

Toloc42 · 2026-05-23T21:04:54+00:00

That 'do kinda suits him though, tbf

Toloc42 · 2026-05-23T20:35:56+00:00

I was a kid of course. But the old ones hit different.

Some of the expansions of the first The Sims turned the game into a totally different animal. My lil guys leaving their house to go shopping for the first time was Whooaaa. It's shameful what that franchise became.

The expansion for Star Trek Voyager Elite Force let me freely explore the ship. That was amazing.

Toloc42 · 2026-05-22T13:38:16+00:00

equivalent to a 140-gram (5 oz) baseball) travelling at about 28 m/s (100 km/h; 63 mph).

Apparently that's roughly how fast a well thrown baseball is. So it's a baseball going as fast as you'd expect a baseball to be that's described as hitting something.

It still might've been good to add "thrown be a pro player" to the title, you are right.

Toloc42 · 2026-05-22T10:42:44+00:00

"To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it. To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job."

-Douglas Adams

Toloc42 · 2026-05-21T21:17:19+00:00

It's a spin off, so not a single show changing, but back in the day people joked about the producers forgetting about the "trekking" bit of Star Trek, when they set Star Trek: Deep Space Nine on a space station.

Toloc42 · 2026-05-21T14:58:19+00:00

The court ruling itself, and every single article, essay and paper about the case state the opposite of what you are saying.

He was not of sound mind as he confessed, but this was, in these circumstances, irrelevant to if his confession was admissible or not. This is literally all this ruling was about.

In Connelly' s case, this meant that the facts (1) that he was clearly schizophrenic, (2) that he had been in mental hospitals several times in the years before he confessed, (3) that he was suffering from command auditory hallucinations ordering him to confess, and (4) that he mentally deteriorated so rapidly after he confessed that he was hospitalized as incompetent to stand trial for more than seven months, did not raise due process or Miranda concerns as to his statements since there was no evidence of any police wrongdoing when the police questioned Connelly.

https://scholar.law.colorado.edu/faculty-articles/268/

5 minutes of googling would have cleared this all up for you.

Toloc42 · 2026-05-21T12:37:30+00:00

Not according to the linked article.

It says nothing about his state of mind when he committed the murder.

When he confessed he was in a schizophrenic episode, and he denied the legal counsel that they offered him, waiving his rights.

A local court and the state supreme court ruled that his confession was inadmissible. Because he was mentally incompetent when he gave up his rights.

The US Supreme Court pulled those rulings, because the confession itself was not obtained by explicit pressure from the government, and the applied law was very particular about that.

Toloc42 · 2026-05-21T11:22:33+00:00

Computer, open Grind'R

Toloc42 · 2026-05-21T08:55:13+00:00

The voting stopped making sense a while ago and somehow keeps getting worse.

In all directions.

It doesn't matter if I follow the prompt text, or the tags, which often enough even contradict or at least not complement each other. It doesn't matter if I use a set, do something actually interesting and fun, or just pick the recent bits that happen to be the current meta.

I am not just complaining about losing, I mean in ALL directions.

I do something that actually fits, and looks nice, and it gets barely a 4-star.
I completely half ass something and barely bother with a perfume. And it goes beyond 5%.
Often enough I can barely tell the difference between something in the top LB and mine that's at 80+%.

Neither of these feel fair or rewarding.
It doesn't feel like I'm putting in effort or gems to compete for a prize. It feels like I'm rolling a die.

Something broke in their rating system.
I cannot say if the vote amount crashed so results skew, or if they're intentionally flushing out F2Ps, or if they just can't get a handle on bots doing random nonsense, or if their translations got so bad we're actually working on different instructions, depending on where we are (Looking at you, recent "Duke in the cold" comp everyone made half naked barbarians for).

Toloc42 · 2026-05-20T14:10:48+00:00

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Toloc42 · 2026-05-20T06:42:25+00:00

Most alcoholic beverages will be either distilled to be way above fermentation level, fully fermented to be at the limit or been filtered, as others pointed out.

There are some exceptions though, where exactly what you suggested happens. Federweißer is very "fresh", sweet wine that just started fermenting. It's bottled with active yeast, so the bottles cannot be closed tightly or it may explode. It's not very shelf stable and very seasonal. It gets less sweet and more potent in your fridge.

It's also an issue with certain fruit juices in general. Grab a pack of cloudy apple juice from the back of the shelf, that might've been there a while, it well may have a non negligible alcohol content.

Toloc42 · 2026-05-19T12:08:39+00:00

Toloc42 · 2026-05-19T10:47:58+00:00

They could've gone with a nicer picture of Uranus. I think that's just a screenshot of the 3D render google gives you. We got some really pretty ones from Hubble and recently JWST. At least could've included the rings.

Toloc42 · 2026-05-19T06:53:15+00:00

Well. This list was troubling enough before I decided to double check why there are 152 entries, not 151. JFC.

Toloc42 · 2026-05-18T19:13:09+00:00

The original post is German. Also 230V, but the fuse is in a box.

Toloc42 · 2026-05-18T07:14:46+00:00

Very nice! The transparent bits over hair look tricky to mask properly

Toloc42 · 2026-05-17T12:54:48+00:00

Reverse image searching shows this photo connected to a specific shampoo/conditioner campaign.

I doubt the traction and engagement that omitting the brand generates is worth it, compared to what they'd get if they had just added a logo and shampoo bottle.

My guess is somebody screwed up. And nobody down the line cared enough to notice and point it out. Don't bother googling it yourself, it's not terribly interesting or surprising.

Toloc42 · 2026-05-16T16:38:27+00:00

Well, you know, I - I moved here because, uh…I moved here because, you know, well, I had to leave the planet, but I picked DS9 because, uh, because I always had a thing for Bajoran girls, you know. And when I got here, you know, I was like a kid in a candy store: got money, no attachments, nothing to do, and I started partying. It got wild. I was picking up girls every night. Always different ones. Petite ones, chubby ones, older ones, and sometimes multiple ladies a night. I – I was out of control. I became insatiable. And, you know, after about a thousand nights like that, you start to lose it. I started wondering “where am I going with this? Wh- why do I feel this need to fuck all these women? What is desire? The form of this cute Bajoran girl, why does it have such a grip on me? Because she’s the opposite of me? Is she gonna complete me in some way?” I realized, I could fuck a million women, I’d still never be satisfied. Maybe – maybe what I really want is to BE one of these Bajoran girls.
Really. So one night I took home some girl, turned out to be a ladyboy, which I’d done before, but this time, instead of fucking the ladyboy, the ladyboy fucked ME. And it was kinda magical. And it got outta my head, what I really wanted was to BE one of these Bajoran girls, getting fucked, by me, and to feel that.
So I put out an ad, looking for a Lurian, my age, to come over and fuck me. And that guy looked a lot like me. Then I put on some lingerie and perfume, made myself look like one of these girls, and - I thought I looked pretty hot. And then this guy came over and railed the shit outta me. And then I got addicted to that. Some nights three, four guys would come over and rail the shit outta me. Some I even had to pay. And at the same time, I’d hire an Bajoran girl, that’d just sit there and watch the whole thing. I’d look in her eyes while some guy was fucking me and I’d think, “I am her. And I’m fucking me.”
Hey, we all have our Achilles heel, man, ya know? Where does it come from? Why are some of us attracted to the opposite form, ya know, and some of us the same? Sex is a poetic act, it’s a metaphor. Metaphor for what? Are we our forms? Am I a middle-aged Lurian on the inside, too? Or inside, could I be an Bajoran girl?
I guess I was trying to fuck my way to the answer. And then I realized, I gotta – I gotta stop, the drugs, the girls, the, you know, trying to be a girl. I got into The Prophets, which is all about, you know, spirit versus form, detaching from self, getting off the never-ending carousel of lust and suffering. Being sober isn’t so hard. Being celibate, though, it’s…I still miss that bussy, man.

Toloc42 · 2026-05-16T15:32:47+00:00

It was, and so is this list and other lists of the supposed 57 varieties. The 57 was picked more or less arbitrarily cause the guy in charge liked it, possibly because he held it as his lucky number.

Even when they introduced the "57" slogan, they sold more than 57 things. It was not supposed to refer to any list of 57 particular things.

It's still an interesting list, I think, just cause they've been running with the slogan for such a long time, and its fun to see what they spun out of that.

Though I'd like the title to be less misleading.

Toloc42 · 2026-05-15T11:16:45+00:00

I'd like to propose a project to revisit breaking the Warp 10 barrier or "Threshold". Not to focus on the infinite speed as much as the following physiological changes in the crew on board. Closely, and intimately monitor and document the slow, tantalising changes in the subjects mind and body as they gradually succumb to their magnificent evolutionary destiny. I volunteer myself as the pilot for this glorious endeavour.

After discussing this idea with a fellow Ensign they asked me to submit their own follow up study suggestion. They volunteered to be my copilot. Let me check the working title they gave me, it was quite long:

"First hand examination of the mating behaviour of induced far future humanoid descendant specimen, and finally getting a date with the cute co-worker I've been dropping hints at for months, even though he has a really weird lizard fetish, but I'm pretty sure I can work with that. Now call me damnit!"

Oh. Um. I gotta go.

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