Thomas Dickerson @elfprince13@mumak.app

@chrisoffner3d @steve you basically have to make it to the end of S1 for the switch from “slow space procedural” to “interplanetary political thriller”, which weirdly also coincides with the switch away from anything that could plausibly be called hard sci-fi

@steve @Migueldeicaza don't ask @moyix about his venture into figuring out which PyPI modules were compiled with fast math and would break numpy just by being imported

@normative I grew up in an evangelical household in the 90s/00s, so I am **well** acquainted with the real-world inspiration, but the Bajoran v Federation political situation and Vedek Winn's tactics actually come closer to the hypothetical you describe (although of course unsuccessfully).

@normative this is close to the plot of DS9 1x20 "In the Hands of the Prophets"

@Meyerweb is that.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azEvfD4C6ow

@Sunfishstanford this is a thoroughly delightful comparison

@ricci my 16oz jars of homebrew fruit wines + ciders are definitely north of that and hoo boy gotta think carefully about serving size

@mekkaokereke the decline in Arnold Schwarzenegger's level of INSANE jackedness is visible even between Terminator 1 and Terminator 2.

@annaleen @charliejane plot twist: it's the same guy, but after he moved to a swamp.