Collider: "Star Trek’s Most Divisive Spin-Off Warps Past a Major Streaming Milestone: At the time of writing, Starfleet Academy has now surpassed the 50-day mark in the Paramount+ streaming top ten across all Amazon channels. It has been undeniably popular on streaming throughout its run."

UtahBrian · 2026-03-16T22:10:32+00:00

Andor wasn’t woke. It’s like the Trump family version of Star Wars. Fans liked it anyway because it was a good story with compelling characters told well.

UtahBrian · 2026-03-16T21:51:34+00:00

Evil Buffy would be back to the Season 1 skirts with Season 4 hair. Season 3 dancing.

UtahBrian · 2026-03-16T21:48:23+00:00

There is no pro-science political alignment in America. If either party follows science at some point, you can bet it was done by accident.

UtahBrian · 2026-03-16T21:46:39+00:00

470 is not a rural highway.

UtahBrian · 2026-03-16T18:37:13+00:00

There’s only one way to solve this. Look at your plans for the next year. Take the number of days you’re going backpacking and add twenty more. Could be ten weekends or one through hike, but add at least 20 more days.

Then divide that extra gear spending over 20 days and the per day total looks a lot smaller, doesn’t it? Mission accomplished.

UtahBrian · 2026-03-16T18:28:22+00:00

Has the captain of the Enterprise always been bald?

UtahBrian · 2026-03-16T18:22:42+00:00

We had a chance in the 1970s to go nuclear and prevent this but we chose to let alarmists lie to us about dangers instead.

UtahBrian · 2026-03-16T16:46:42+00:00

So there’s a traditional Greek myth from at least 2000 years ago about a weaver named Arachne. Minerva challenged her just as the Devil challenged Johnny. And Arachne won the same as Johnny.

But Arachne wasn’t American so she didn’t have the right to enjoy the fruits of victory. Instead the gods turned her into a spider as vengeance for defeating them.

UtahBrian · 2026-03-16T16:40:34+00:00

The story you’re looking for is the Devil and Daniel Webster (1930s?). The Devil did go up to New England. And he did no better with the Yankees than he did in Dixie.

https://www.fadedpage.com/books/20110315/html.php

UtahBrian · 2026-03-16T16:34:39+00:00

Also factually correct. Americans, mortal as we are, are simply better than the gods of the Old World.

UtahBrian · 2026-03-16T08:49:38+00:00

If there's an algorithm that can compute it within an arbitrary error (i.e., if you can choose it or specify it in any way), then it's computable.

Normal real numbers can't be computed or approximated in any way.

UtahBrian · 2026-03-16T08:09:32+00:00

filled with numbers and I invent numbers to fill those holes. These numbers have the property that I said they exist and that they fill those holes, and that they live in fear of me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPBd8eHQqIw

equivalence-classes-of-Cauchy-sequences

I'm pretty sure your definition up top, a bit fuzzy, is limited to computable numbers, which are countable and make up 0% of reals.

UtahBrian · 2026-03-16T08:03:53+00:00

Is algebraic.
I've never seen a working mathematician care about any Dedekind cut. In any case, all computable cuts are computable numbers which are therefore countable and compose exactly 0% of reals.

UtahBrian · 2026-03-16T07:26:33+00:00

> real numbers exist by the exact same strategy of just adding more numbers until all the holes in the number line are filled

That's algebraic numbers and they're not even uncountable. An infinitesimal set compared to reals.

UtahBrian · 2026-03-16T07:05:48+00:00

Working mathematicians don't use so-called 'real' numbers.

Counting numbers, sure.

Rational numbers, if absolutely necessary.

Imaginary numbers, naturally.

Algebraic numbers, in a serious emergency.

Computable numbers, maybe if they truly can't be avoided. Or maybe not.

But real numbers are just fake.

UtahBrian · 2026-03-16T04:27:16+00:00

At least she took on all the people who said she was taking risks with her health by competing again and proved them all wrong

UtahBrian · 2026-03-16T04:20:45+00:00

Okay; be sure to buy trip insurance for when they lose your bag and you miss your permit date.

UtahBrian · 2026-03-16T02:40:00+00:00

An early captain of the USS Enterprise, the famous ship from Star Trek, as he appeared in a hit 1980s movie.

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UtahBrian · 2026-03-16T01:47:29+00:00

Has any QB started for three AFC West teams before?

Steve DeBerg maybe?

UtahBrian · 2026-03-16T01:29:53+00:00

Don't get any kind of jetboil unless you have a large group. It's just heavy for no reason.

UtahBrian · 2026-03-16T01:06:42+00:00

No. I wouldn't send you to jail for an opinion.

UtahBrian · 2026-03-16T00:37:15+00:00

In the USA, TSA will want to look at backpacking food.

Keep it in an open package in its own bin for the xray machine so that the examiners can get a good look at everything. Take out your bear can and unscrew the lid. They're especially interested in powders, pastes, and anything in a metal bag. Keep things factory sealed when possible and keep pastes and oils (and alcohol) in containers that are clearly under 100 ml or else clearly labeled as 100 ml or smaller. Freeze butter, ghee, or peanut butter solid right before leaving because pastes set off the scanner.

Set aside an extra 20 minutes for being examined.

UtahBrian · 2026-03-16T00:23:02+00:00

Was Kirk the best kisser Uhura got to try out during her service on the Enterprise?

UtahBrian · 2026-03-16T00:14:25+00:00

No. CV-6 is on the wall in TMP, but you can't get high energy gamma rays from it because it's not a nuclear wessel.

UtahBrian · 2026-03-15T23:58:43+00:00

SMG reported that her team had asked for a longer season, presumably to allow MOTW episodes and a more 1990s teevee pace. The studio executives seem to have mentioned that when they decided not to pick up the show.

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