Yep, I got a series of those recently claiming that I had unpaid paid tolls. Each messagr came through as a group text with two or three random numbers, which were immediately removed from the group after the text arrived. I’ve been wondering why they started doing this. I assume they’re trying to exploit some kind of loophole in the carriers spam filtering.
Fun fact: Victorinox has been operating since 1884 and has never had to lay off an employee.
To avoid this they set aside profits during boom periods to supplement recessionary periods
What a novel idea.
Huh, I was under the impression that they used their own index. I just did a quick search found a blog post they publisted back in 2023. Here are some relevant excerpts:
At the time of publication, Qwant has in its servers 20 billion indexed web pages
Qwant uses Bing to supplement search results on which we do not have sufficient relevance, and on images where storage capacities are very important. On the rest, the main SEO logics are often the same which explains why you often find the same search results, ranked slightly differently according to the weight given to one or the other.
Of course, that’s the company pushing their own preferred narrative, so take it with a grain of salt. But assuming it’s not an outright lie, then they’re definitely more independent than a lot of other search engines.
I think I can answer that, although I’ve never actually seen it explained, so it’ll be interesting to see if anyone else has a different take.
The Lemmy posts with “rule” in the title are all made to the 196 community. Per the sidebar, rule #1 of 196 is “you must post something before you leave.”
Putting “rule” in the title is basically shorthand for “I don’t have anything specific to say, but I have to post, so here’s some random shit I find funny.”
At least, that’s how it started. At this point, it’s evolved into a bit of a meme in its own right.
Theres actually a similar story with the fish. From Memory Alpha:
According to Ronny Cox, Patrick Stewart hated Livingston’s presence in the ready room, and constantly petitioned the producers to remove the fish. Stewart, a strong animal rights advocate who opposes many forms of pet ownership, felt that using a captive animal in an ornamental display was “immoral” and inconsistent with TNG’s core theme of exploring the inherent dignity of different species across the galaxy. Cox, who called Stewart’s point “well taken”, stated that Livingston’s temporary removal in “Chain of Command” was thus a “sort of a bone they threw to Patrick”.
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Sorry in advance for what will probably be a long reply, but I was actually thinking about this recently and I’m taking the excuse to type out my thoughts.
The fact is that Lower Decks does have certain similarities to Rick and Morty, but they’re mostly superficial and the show is different where it counts. Aside from the obvious similarities in animation style and the characters’ penchant for wacky hijinks, Lower Decks also features frequent bleeped out swearing and occasional jokes based on sexual innuendo or censored nudity. Some people really don’t like that stuff in their entertainment. If you’re one of those people then it isn’t a show for you.
But there’s one big way in which Lower Decks is the exact opposite of Rick and Morty. The difference is the thesis of the series. Rick and Morty is at its core very cynical. Morty said it best himself: “Nobody exists on purpose. Nobody belongs anywhere. Everybody’s gonna die. Come watch TV” I don’t know if it was by accident or on purpose, but I think that line is really the whole show in a nutshell.
Lower decks is not a cynical show. Lower decks is a joyous show. Sure, the characters fight, but they always end the episode as friends. They make mistakes, but they learn from them. They have problems, but, over time, they mature.
I remember seeing an interview with the show creator in which he said that he conceived of it as a story about a group of young adults maturing and figuring out who they really are. I think that’s his thesis, and he delivers on it.
So yeah. I guess bottom line is, if adult oriented animation in general turns you off then Lower Decks probably isn’t going to change your mind. It inherits a lot of its sensibilities (and a few bad habits) from its predecessors. But if you’re mainly concerned that it’ll be a Trek skinned Rick and Morty then I would encourage you to look past the superficial similarities and give it a try.
Oh no! It’s a 1 2 3 4 5 6 ………………… ICOSAHEDRON!
Every episode seems to have one joke that really gets me. In this one it was Mariner stopping mid exclamation to make sure she correctly named the platonic solid that’s about to eat her.
Helpful tip: there’s a setting in Firefox to block all notification requests. It’s under Settings > Privacy & Security, then scroll down to the Permissions heading. Click the “Settings…” button next to the the Notifications entry and tick the box for “Block new requests asking to allow notifications”.
I assume there’s an equivalent in Chrome, but I don’t know what it is off the top of my head.
Ninja edit: Removed my attempt to hyperlink directly to the relevant Firefox settings page because it wasn’t working.
After explaining the destructive force of a single raindrop over a kilometer in diameter:
Fear reigns supreme as the world fears rain supreme
Poetry. True poetry.
I second weawow. It’s got everything I want in a weather app: clean UI, customizable homescreen widget, and you can pick which provider it uses for the weather data.
Relevant XKCD
I agree that Mariner’s role in the episode was nothing but a running gag, but I have to point out what an exceptionally well written running gag it was, both in terms of her character and her character development over the course of the series.
Mariner’s behavior in this episode tells us two things about her. First, she’s the type of person who can get stabbed three times in a single day and (mostly) shrug it off. This isn’t really a surprise. She’s has always been both tough and resourceful, but she’s also impulsive and emotional which too often results in her messing things up. Not this time though, and that’s the second thing the episode tells us. Mariner is maturing. In past seasons a knife in her shoulder would have resulted in either a fight or a great deal of grandstanding about what a badass she is for not caring that she got stabbed, but not this time. This time Mariner knows that she’s only here to support her friend.
Mariner is the running gag in this episode because now, perhaps for the first time, she can handle being the running gag. She knows that this adventure is about Tendi, and she’s not going to derail it over a little thing like getting stabbed three times.
I seem to recall that this has to be accounted for when designing the support towers on particularly long bridges. According to a quick Google search, the most extreme example is the Akashi-Kaikyō bridge in Japan. The support towers are almost 3.5 inches farther apart at the top than they are at the bottom.
Also FYI, the word “level” generally refers to things laying perfectly flat. The word “plumb” refers to thing standing perfectly upright, which is why some jokers in the comments are giving you a hard time, despite what you meant being fairly obvious.
I got 8 in the span of about five hours today. Absolutely insane.