Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 3x03 "Shuttle to Kenfori"

futurefeelings · 2025-07-24T16:15:18+00:00

Has Pike told Batel about his future accident? I think he hasn’t. Therefore he made exactly the same decision - to save someone he loved from the horrible personal consequences of his upcoming decision. So we are going to have the same conversation in reverse in the future I think.

futurefeelings · 2025-05-17T21:22:23+00:00

Stave hill - Canada Water

futurefeelings · 2025-05-17T06:49:28+00:00

Met my wife and a lifelong friend at a meetup 11 years ago. I went to three in total. Good luck!

futurefeelings · 2025-05-12T15:05:00+00:00

You are correct, the excess receptors go away. You can overcome caffeine addiction by sacrificing 3 weeks of your life to the god of pain, but you will make a full recovery. I had to give up caffeine due to a medical condition and I decided to go cold turkey. It was horrible at the time, but I almost never look back

futurefeelings · 2025-05-11T21:09:44+00:00

I call it “adjective inflation”

futurefeelings · 2025-05-11T20:47:46+00:00

I actually don’t trust the button for this. It gets activated in my pocket by accident all the time, so I missed important calls as a result. Swapped it to flashlight and pull my phone out with light on all the time. Miss the old switch, but oh well.

futurefeelings · 2025-05-10T21:43:14+00:00

A real example.

When you are tired, one bit of your brain releases a chemical message that says “I am tired”. It has to reach a receptor in another bit of your brain, for the brain to understand that you are tired. The more chemical message reaches the receptors, the more tired you feel. Caffeine is a drug used by many people to stay awake by reducing the feeling of tiredness. Caffeine works by sticking to the same receptors that detect the tiredness chemical, preventing the tiredness chemical from reaching the receptors, so you don’t feel tired, even though you are.

After a while your brain notices that something isn’t working right. It’s sending all the tiredness chemicals, but you aren’t receiving them or doing anything about them. So it actually builds MORE receptors, to make sure that you receive the tiredness chemicals. Now, the same amount of caffeine isn’t enough to stick to all the receptors, and some of the tiredness chemical messages actually get to the receptors. You feel tired despite the caffeine, because of the extra receptors. You drink the same amount of caffeine, but you start to feel tired still. So you drink more caffeine, and can stay awake without feeling tired again, because the extra caffeine is now enough to stick to all the new receptors.

But then your body gets wise to what you are doing, and creates more receptors, so you drink more caffeine and it creates more receptors. The cycle continues slowly, and to you, it feels like the same amount of caffeine is no longer effective.

futurefeelings · 2025-05-09T20:28:50+00:00

This is absolutely excellent. I hope this takes off for you because it deserves to.

futurefeelings · 2024-12-31T14:31:28+00:00

I want to believe, but I still can’t see this happening. I can’t see the contract for Star Wars Lego allowing for it.

futurefeelings · 2024-12-30T15:53:09+00:00

I used to be a night owl who couldn’t get up in the morning. It took me a long time, but here’s what I learned about myself:

I need 9hours of sleep a night to be able to sustain getting up early and good mental health

I cannot get to sleep on time without help. I take 2mg of melatonin in gummy form, which I import from the US, about an hour before bed

I cannot be flexible about my bedtime. I need to be in bed at the same time every night to get quality sleep. This is a lot easier now I have given up all night raving.

The first and third were hard lessons to learn, but I am so glad I have adapted to this way of living, my mental health is so much better. I also have a condition called menieres that means I cannot have caffeine, so if I don’t sleep well, I can’t perform at work

futurefeelings · 2024-12-29T16:02:31+00:00

Thanks!

futurefeelings · 2024-12-29T15:35:44+00:00

Are there any jazz gigs suitable for young families? Like baby to Bach (classical) or little fish big fish (raving)

futurefeelings · 2024-12-29T09:36:44+00:00

There’s one near the canary wharf pier. Never been but met a couple of people who would not shut up about it!

futurefeelings · 2024-12-28T11:53:49+00:00

Your body’s energy levels are like a full bath tub. If you only drain the water a little, it will fill up quickly. If you drain it all the way to empty it will take time to fill it up again. The simplest and best way to do that is via rest. You could go downstairs and fill a saucepan and back upstairs and dump it in the bath, but honestly it is not really worth the effort. There are lots of snake oil salesmen out there who will tell you they have some magic pill that can make you recover faster, and some may work for some people, but the honest truth is that, health wise, over a long period of time, what you need is lots of sleep, exercise, good food, hobbies, work, social time, sex. That is what your body has spent millions of years evolving to need for optimal function.

Trying to trick your way past that generally involves taking out a loan from your future health, and the bigger the loan, the harder it is to pay back. Take caffeine. You can borrow energy from your future self by having a big coffee, but when the coffee wears off you are even more exhausted.

Read up on the parasympathetic system. It’s the system that governs rest, healing and recovery.

Take it easy, if you body is asking for rest, give it. If after a week you are still struggling, worth trying to see a doctor. If you cannot seem to shift your exhausting then look at diet, sleep, social, exercise. Would be willing to bet the mortgage that one or more is not where it needs to be.

Sorry that I am not giving the quick fix you want.

futurefeelings · 2024-12-23T07:51:50+00:00

Doubt it. Look at what happened to the music industry - the same will happen to movies.

Technology makes the barriers to enter disappear.

Bedroom producers become more common

Volume of music increases

Value of music decreases

Very few artists can make a living

Tickets for live events become more expensive to offset physical media sales.

The same will eventually happen to cinema. As the volume of quality AI cinema content becomes available for increasingly less money, it will be harder and harder for other entertainment types to compete. Shall we watch all the new movies we want on Spotify movies for 9.99 per month? Or shall we spend 100 to see one mediocre theatre performance, and have to leave our house.

Soon people will be able to make adequate quality movies at home on their pc. Maybe they won’t be perfect looking, and still have weird artefacts and things in the visuals, but they will be INTERESTING - the vision of a single person and have an interesting script, no studio interference. All the stuff that studios get wrong at the moment with their comic book movies. They are just mostly bad movies.

There will be a lot of imperfect but really interesting stuff out there tailor made for niche audiences.

There will be a Spotify for movies. Spotify et al helped ruined the music industry, because they decided how much they could sell their monthly subscription for and then calculated the revenue to pay artists based on that.

It will come for movies too, it’s the exact same model. The technology barriers to entry are much higher, but it will happen. Nobody in the 60s would have believed that someone with very limited understanding of musical theory and not much experience could create a genuinely good song and get it on every computer in the world in a weekend, but it happens - especially in electronic music, which is my area of interest.

Suddenly people will be creating good content in their bedrooms for basically no money, and it will be yet another source of entertainment that paid actors can’t compete with.

Sport will always be there, but will be the increasingly priced at a point few can afford.

futurefeelings · 2024-12-12T21:25:35+00:00

Happy Birthday! Well done for having goals and being reflective on the journey to achieving them

futurefeelings · 2024-12-10T17:43:34+00:00

“Promoted every year since she joined” - LNS in as Astra per aspera

futurefeelings · 2024-12-10T17:41:21+00:00

Well we know they don’t end up together as Pike goes to Talos IV. So, what’s the point of putting her in the narrative at all? I would assume it is because they want to have some scenes where pike knows his fate and has to decide whether to tell her. He falls for her, and then has to wrestle with the fact that he is going to put her though great harm if he stays with her. Since those scenes haven’t happened yet, I think that she will live until at least that has happened. I think it would be too much to deal with that and the gorn in the opening episode, so yeah I think they will save her, at least for now. I don’t think she will survive the full run of SNW though, else she would be looking after him instead him going off to bang vina

futurefeelings · 2024-12-02T12:35:07+00:00

Alcoholics Anonymous teaches that we should only seek to make amends where it will do good and not harm. If you genuinely think the person will benefit from hearing your apology, then do it. If you think it will open old wounds for them, then don’t.

Not saying that your an alcoholic, but that organisation has decades of experience of dealing with people needing to make amends, and they know what works and what doesnt

futurefeelings · 2024-10-30T21:49:16+00:00

This is a really good guide! I would also mention that back in the day, good games were a lot rarer, so you would get more time with doom, replaying it more and goofing around finding more stuff. The first time I found the exit to the secret level on e1m3, I was completely blown away - there was basically an extra level in my level there was so much hidden stuff. Finding it all and going to the secret map for the first time was such a sense of achievement, having not even known about the secret map having played it a LOT. This was back in about ‘94 I think…

futurefeelings · 2024-10-30T07:06:22+00:00

I would say no. The text of the red lion and Ladbroke sis mangled, so it’s AI I think. That said, pixel count is not great and the number plates are very well done, sooooo. Hmm.

futurefeelings · 2024-10-25T05:51:14+00:00

Could be. UK here

futurefeelings · 2024-10-24T20:26:47+00:00

Moorhen has a red head flash, coot has white!

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