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  • Might have been useful on a number of occasions

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  • It annoyed me so much that Discovery basically wrote off all the propulsion technologies that didn't quite work in the 24th century, just so the spore drive could be special in the 32nd century.

  • Stephen Colbert Follows CBS Finale 24 Hours Later With Hilarious Hour of Michigan Public Access TV, Featuring Jack White, Jeff Daniels, Eminem, Steve Buscemi and Byron Allen

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  • Yes, not just on the Late Show, but he was in front of an audience on The Colbert Report and The Daily Show too. That's almost 30 years delivering jokes to an audience for TV.

  • Trump’s Endgame Is Surrender. He seems to hope to slip away without Americans noticing the magnitude of this defeat.

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  • The article also speculates that Trump's surrender in Iran could be very bad for Israel, thanks to Iran's control of the Straight of Hormuz:

    In a phone call with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday, Trump reportedly explained that the United States was negotiating a “letter of intent” with Iran that would “formally end the war and launch a 30-day period of negotiations” on Iran’s nuclear program and the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz. The purpose and effect of such an agreement should be clear: The United States is walking away from the crisis.

    According to one U.S. official, Netanyahu’s “hair was on fire” after the call with Trump—for good reason. The Iran war may end up as the single most devastating blow to Israel’s security in its brief history. On the present trajectory, Iran will emerge from the conflict many times stronger and more influential than it was before the war. It will exercise leverage with dozens of the richest nations in the world, all of which will have an acute interest in keeping Iran happy. They will be unlikely to take Israel’s side in any conflict that it has with Tehran or with its proxies in Lebanon and Gaza, because Iran will have the means to punish them if they do. Israel will emerge more isolated than it has been at any time in its history—and not least from its only reliable protector, the United States. When Trump turns his back on Israel, as he must do to implement this policy, MAGA will gladly follow. The bipartisan anti-Israel consensus in the United States will grow and harden.

  • There's plenty to like from season three, if you can see it on the screen

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  • PIC season 3 is good, season 1 has stuff that matters for season 3, and season 2... happened. It's so weird to me that seasons 2 and 3 were shot back-to-back but 3 totally ignored 2's loose ends.

  • First Auction Of Set Pieces From ‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ Coming This Friday

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  • Same rules as the Starfleet Academy auctions:

    The rules for the new auction remain the same as the previous ones, requiring bidders to be residents of Ontario or place a deposit with a Canadian bank. Bids can be placed online, but you need to pick up items in person as 403 auctions is not shipping anything.

  • Carney says the world is facing an 'energy crisis' and Canada must help solve it

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  • "In a rapidly changing world, Canada must become the source of our own affordable, clean, reliable power because when we master energy, we master our destiny," Carney said.

    Maybe he could try announcing some clean energy developments once in a while instead of a stream of fossil fuel announcements.

  • US stocks fall further from their records after bond markets crank up the pressure

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  • The people who use "plummet" to describe a 1% drop.

  • Montreal F1 stripper strike part of fight to legitimize and decriminalize sex work

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  • They're pushing to be employees instead of independent contractors, which may be relatable for gig workers:

    That's why Montreal sex worker Adore Goldman is organizing another strike, this time in the midst of F1 weekend — one of the busiest times of the year for the city's clubs — to demand greater labour protections and push for the decriminalization of sex work.

    She says strippers' employment status as independent contractors, which is now an industry-wide norm, has for too long shielded club owners from ensuring safe working conditions.

    "Being recognized as an employee, your employers have to guarantee your safety and ... your mental health at work," she said. "Like sexual violence that happened in the clubs in the past, if we were employees, the person could get compensated if it was a work accident because it is a work accident."

  • Jury rules against Elon Musk in his feud with OpenAI, saying he filed his lawsuit too late

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  • The nine-person jury found that Musk waited too long to file his lawsuit and missed the deadline for the statute of limitations.

    Why did there even need to be a trial? Couldn't the statue of limitations have been applied before it got that far?

  • I still have a bunch of them

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  • When I was in the market for one a few years ago, an internal drive and a USB enclosure was a safer bet for making backups than a USB drive. It's usually not too hard to find out the recommended drives for the backup software.

  • The Real World Transportation Secretary Finally Reminds America What He’s Really Doing Here -- Who’s paying for Sean Duffy to go down waterslides?

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  • Both NPR and the New York Times did the legwork to find that Duffy’s reality show isn’t funded by public money—it’s being underwritten by a nonprofit chartered in 2025 called, you guessed it, The Great American Road Trip Inc. Who are its sponsors? A ton of corporations subject to Duffy’s regulations, like Toyota, United Airlines, and Boeing. (A Toyota logo is given a conspicuous glamour shot in the trailer, something I clocked immediately.) Oh, also, the person behind the nonprofit is Tori Barnes, who previously lobbied for General Motors and the U.S. Travel Association, the latter of which is an organization that lobbies Duffy’s own department on behalf of the tourism industry.

    So, basically, a recently created nonprofit—bankrolled by a laundry list of corporate interests—has facilitated a reality show that doubles as a cross-country pleasure trip for a high-powered Trump Cabinet member and his family. When the Times asked Barnes about the naked potential for graft in this arrangement, she pointed to a memorandum signed by the Department of Transportation and The Great American Road Trip Inc. that reads, in part, that the nonprofit won’t be compensated with “any favorable consideration for any future federal financial assistance, action, contract, or other financial award” by the federal government. But as the paper points out, there is no language in the memorandum extending that agreement to any of the companies sponsoring the organization. (A few more, while we’re at it: Shell, Chase Travel, Yellowstone Vacations, and, tellingly, Royal Caribbean Group.)

    Basically it's just one more avenue for paying bribes.

  • Natural gas to play key role in strategy to double Canada’s electricity grid by 2050

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  • Other countries looked at what the mess in Iran did to fossil fuel prices and decided to accelerate their move away from them. But not Canada, where fossil fuel extraction is a higher priority than clean air and a livable environment. Ugh.

  • Kickstarter Is Forced to Ban Adult Content by Payment Processors

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  • If the US had a federally controlled payment processor they'd just end up with Republicans trying to limit what it could be used for. No porn, no abortions, etc.

  • Attributes include: miracle worker, union rep, expert in suffering, and sage

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  • It probably wasn't that many takes, he'd had plenty of practice delivering technobabble by that point.

  • What is a big internal debate within a fandom or hobby you are a part of that outsiders probably wouldn't care about?

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  • You left out one important piece of the Timeless Child plotline: Time Lords were supposed to have a limited number of regenerations, and the writers kept having to find excuses for the Doctor to go past the limit, but the Timeless Child plotline made it so the Time Lords have the limit because they got the regeneration ability from the Doctor, while the Doctor has the ability naturally and has no limit on regenerations. Makes it much easier to keep changing actors, which was probably the point of the whole thing.

  • The Iran War May Be the Best Argument Against Buying US Weapons | The Walrus

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  • The article mostly focuses on the effectiveness of US weapons in the war, but the war has also shown that when the US gets low on munitions, it's "America first", with allies being left to wait:

    Estonia's Minister of Defense Hanno Pevkur on Monday said the U.S. has paused Estonia's deliveries until the end of the war in Iran, at least. If the conflict lasts for a long time, Estonia may start to reconsider its previous decisions about weapons purchases, he added.

  • Kevin O’Leary’s proposed 9GW "hyperscale" AI data center in Utah will consume double the state's entire electricity usage and generate the waste heat of 23 atom bombs a day.

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  • There's also a description in real units:

    All the heat the Stratos Project emits will add up to another 7 to 8 gigawatts of energy in the form of waste heat.

  • Klingons must have been absolutely riddled with STDs in their history

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  • "Blood-borne diseases" would make more sense, given that you're talking about blood and not sex.

  • Parent company of Truth Social reports $400M loss

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  • A Trump company losing lots of money makes a good headline, but this is mostly because crypto is down, not because they're spending more than they're making:

    TMTG is also active in financial services, and the company announced US$2.5 billion in funding a year ago to invest in cryptocurrencies, one of Trump’s recent passions.

    But the plunge in digital currencies hit this part of the business hard as the price of Bitcoin tumbled from over US$126,000 in early October to below US$70,000 in March.

    It has since rebounded somewhat to over US$80,000.

    Because the company is required to reveal the value of its investments, even if it hasn’t sold them, it recorded a loss of US$406 million for the first quarter.

    “The vast bulk” of the loss was due to digital assets, the company stated.