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  • I wish they had left the 32nd century as a “Discovery - only”. After the jump to the future it felt like the show had no stakes. Everything felt disconnected.

    It feels like an easy excuse for the writers to pull just about anything out of their asses, “because it has been so long” and “tech has evolved exponentially”.

    SNW proved that there was a lot more to explore even in the 23rd century. So much could have been done with the fallout of the Dominion War in the 24th.

    But it’s all up to the writers. If they’re good the show can be good.





  • Finnish legislation strictly forbids storing nukes inside our borders, even transporting them via our territory is a no-no. But laws can be changed.

    Putin’s whining about nuking Finland is ridiculous. Most of the time the prevailing winds here blow to the general eastern direction, detonating a nuke or few above our capital would nicely contaminate both St.Petersburg and the Finnish Gulf right in front of it. And using tactical/strategic nukes against our defences would happen near the Karelian border, which would irradiate Putin’s and his cronies precious dachas located in the stolen Karelia.

    So they most likely won’t be doing that. But on the other hand Russia has clearly demonstrated that their actions are not based on rational thinking, so it remains to be seen.




  • Galadriel also has a pretty impressive list of horrors.

    • saw the Two Trees die
    • grandfather murdered by one of the gods before murder even was a thing
    • witnessed the massacre of her mother’s kin
    • cursed by the Valar
    • walked across the Helcaraxë
    • saw the rise and fall of the Noldorin kingdoms of Beleriand
    • escaped the sack of Menegroth
    • present in the War of Wrath and the following ruin of Beleriand
    • rules Eregion with Celeborn until Sauron’s attack destroys the realm, escapes to Lothlórien
    • daughter captured and tortured by orcs, leaves to the West heavily traumatized
    • high royalty born into literal paradise, ends up holding the last pieces of elven civilization in Middle-Earth together and ruling over a forest






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    7 months ago

    Few days ago I was talking with my wife about groceries, reminded her about buying more cat food. My daughter was sitting next to me, playing some game on her Android phone. Then she chirped “I got a cat food ad! I’ve never gotten a cat food ad before, ever! It’s like the phone heard what you just said, dad!”

    Yep. VPN and Adguard are now installed to every single mobile device in my household.


  • One definitely should use solid structures, metal or wooden. The damned thing cost ~10$ and I didn’t have time to build a proper support structure at the moment. I meant to use it only as a temporary solution, which I forgot when everything was fine.

    The design of the arch itself wasn’t the problem. The interconnecting pipes were only 1-2mm thick, so there was no way it could possibly support the weight of a flourishing grape vine.

    It was marketed as a “rose arch”. I guess it could’ve handled this purpose without any problems.

    Buy wrong stuff, suffer the consequences.