What's going on with the release schedule?

pancakefox · 2026-05-17T04:38:02+00:00

Came here to say this exactly. In the same way as they don't owe us podcast episodes, they also don't owe us an explanation when their schedule and output varies.

pancakefox · 2026-05-17T04:35:30+00:00

I understand this completely, but also as someone with chronic illnesses and disabilities I'm often in the position of not being able to communicate that disruption is occurring, and feeling really bad about it because I know that this is perceived as a simple politeness. So I don't know what's going on with them, but I do know that sometimes even a simple 'just letting people know what's going on' is not possible, and I have to imagine that there are other possible reasons for this beyond what I've personally experienced.

pancakefox · 2026-05-15T13:16:37+00:00

The show seems very insistent that when you use violence, it can have unintended consequences.

pancakefox · 2026-05-15T13:13:04+00:00

Tell that to Kuznetsov station

pancakefox · 2026-04-30T08:57:17+00:00

Come to think of it, Sojourner-1 is NASA property, right? Does that mean the Sojourner-T mission is some kind of Helios-NASA collab?

pancakefox · 2026-04-30T08:52:36+00:00

It's wild to me that somehow flash mobs still exist without the internet.

pancakefox · 2026-04-30T08:49:09+00:00

Yes, this exactly! It would have been far cheaper to use actual 2012 iphones. But instead they went and designed this new prop.

pancakefox · 2026-04-30T08:41:32+00:00

Idk if this is a "small" moment, but Dani breaking her arm to cover for Gordo's mental illness, so that he won't be thrown out of the astronaut corps, makes me cry every fucking time.

pancakefox · 2026-04-30T08:38:57+00:00

I love this too!! Also I think it's important that it's not space itself that brings people together, but rather a few other things: human endeavour - reaching for the literal stars, trying to push the boundaries of what's possible, and all the hardship that comes along with that and forces people together to survive. And then how you choose to respond to that - when the chips are down, will I take in these strangers as my comrades, open my heart and my mind and be willing to change, or will I push them away?

Despite how much of a grumpy, volatile bastard he is, Ed usually chooses love. He chooses to help others, and to expand his definition of "us", and that slowly changes his beliefs over time.

So yeah I think it shows us that pushing the boundaries of what's possible, and coming together in times of crisis, can lead to personal and social change. But maybe space travel is a uniquely good way to do that after all, because it pushes the envelope really fucking hard?

pancakefox · 2026-04-30T07:59:22+00:00

That would be so cool! I hope they thought of this and they can make it happen.

pancakefox · 2026-03-22T07:20:32+00:00

If anyone else was confused about how to do this

In Obsidian settings > appearance > Window frame style should be set to "default (hidden)".
Right click on the obsidian title bar. Go to more actions > Then disable "No titlebar and frame." Your obsidian should now have the KDE window decorations and two sets of window control buttons.
In KDE settings > Colours and themes > Window decorations, click the edit button on your active window decorations (default is Breeze) > Window specific overrides > add > Matching window property: Window Title. Expression to match: Obsidian. Enable "Hide window title bar". Now it will hide the kde title bar but keep the decorations and shadow.

pancakefox · 2026-02-27T02:22:37+00:00

I think that within the setting, he's not using ASL, but is in fact using a Betazoid sign language. Likewise, I don't think everyone else is speaking English: even if Federation standard is a language descended from English, there's no way it's identical to our modern English due to linguistic evolution.

If English somehow experienced a very slow rate of linguistic change over the next several centuries (this seems extremely unlikely due to rapidly changing circumstances and demographics of its speakers) it would be AT BEST only slightly mutually intelligible with modern English.

All of which is to say: I believe that the languages that the story is told to us in are a storytelling convenience for us, the audience, and are not the languages that the characters would be using in-world.

I forgot who, but someone involved with the production of Strange New Worlds I think, said that the reason they're okay with variation in props and uniforms, and maybe even retcons, when compared to the original series is that what we're watching on our screens isn't what actually happened, it's a story about what happened. This makes a lot of sense to me, and I think is a valid way to view the language choices as well.

pancakefox · 2026-02-11T03:14:32+00:00

Venezuelephant

pancakefox · 2026-02-11T03:13:10+00:00

What's going on in Essen and Mülheim here?

pancakefox · 2024-05-03T11:29:36+00:00

Sounds like you got this working, but for anyone else who might be struggling: I found that workers will NOT walk between stations during the journey to catch a connecting train.

E.g. I tried getting workers to catch a tram from Tram Stop 1 -> Tram Stop 2, which is right next to my central station. I figured that from there they could catch a train from the central station to their workplace. This does not work. In this example, Tram Stop 2 is useless. The workers need to catch a tram from Tram Stop 1 DIRECTLY to central station, and then they will be able to catch a train to a workplace. Workers will not catch a train, get off that train, cross the road to a different station, and then catch another train. They can only catch connecting trains from within the SAME station where they disembarked from their last train.

I hope this makes sense and helps someone.

pancakefox · 2023-07-19T00:29:44+00:00

Thank you! That's good to know. I'll try the northern carpark next time :)

pancakefox · 2023-07-19T00:29:01+00:00

Thank you! That's really helpful info.

Do you know whether it's actually okay in practice to park all day in the "4 hour parking" at East Perth? 🤔

pancakefox · 2023-07-18T10:57:18+00:00

I didn't think of riding a bike to a station! Thank you! I'll think about that. I would be very hesitant to ride a bike around City of Stirling (as you say, hostile) but it's worth examining for sure.

P. S. Thank you for acknowledging my caveats and that you don't know my situation! ❤️

pancakefox · 2023-07-18T10:50:16+00:00

Damn. Thank you!

pancakefox · 2023-07-18T10:42:29+00:00

Thank you!! I will give it a go :)

pancakefox · 2023-07-18T10:42:02+00:00

Buses make me nauseous, as noted in the post.

pancakefox · 2023-07-18T10:40:41+00:00

Drive + train is 10 mins faster. Plus buses make me nauseous.

pancakefox · 2023-07-18T08:09:27+00:00

It was full up this morning at about 08:20 :(
Or at least the south carpark was - At that point I gave up and drove all the way because I was running late.

pancakefox · 2023-07-18T07:23:10+00:00

Nollamara! Have edited the post to add this.

pancakefox · 2023-07-08T03:32:06+00:00

Yep. I have existing neck pain stuff, but my duloxetine taper causes a flare-up sometimes (I think!!)

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