Too many silly episodes this season. Except for the one very reminiscent of Event Horizon.

Only watch the last season of Picard. It's mostly fan service but seeing the old crew together was nice.

Off you go now ...

But for the couple of ones I've had explained to me where some AI discovered some amazing math thing when you looked into it and had it explained by somebody who understood it what it came down to is it solved the problem nobody was bothering to look into because they had more important things to be doing and we don't fund basic science all that much so people have to be very careful with where they spend their time.

Sir I have it on good authority from baby boomers that millennials are all hip young avocado toast eating 20 somethings that don't respect their elders! And they are destroying every single industry.

What the fuck are you talking about? Nevermind. If there is one thing you have proven it is that you have no idea what you read, if you actually read it at all.

By your argument education isn't possible, since 80% of all kids don't like to put in the effort to learn. You are also assuming a false equivalence. Reading what you enjoy doesn't always, and often doesn't, result in a good educational experience. It matters far more what you read, than that you read. That's literally why anti-social media is creating a now just under-educated, but miseducated society. Reading matters, but only if you are reading the right words.

So you can't let the public at large know that we could transition to wind and solar and power everything we've got for basically free (before all the dipshits pile in free in the sense that the value generated by the electricity far out strips the cost, if I spend $1 to make $10 that $1 is effectively free)

We can't have that because it'll start the discussion of publicly available electricity instead of private ownership of electricity. And we can't have that because we have to have the Epstein class ruling over us and taking some of our children off to an island to do terrible things to them. I haven't quite figured out why we have to have the Epstein class but about 40% of the country thinks it's essential.

Also starting up an old nuclear power plant has the advantage that it's dirt cheap to do as long as you don't care about safety which they don't.

That's what really scares me. Fukushima happened not because nuclear plants can't be safe but because private companies are run to be profitable for the next quarter and the next quarter but they could care less about disasters 20 years from now and you can always put off maintenance.

The CEOs who caused the Fukushima disaster and caused the city to be evacuated for 10 years went on television and cried a little bit and got away with it. They were repeatedly told they needed to build a large water break and they were repeatedly told they needed to buy expensive portable generators and have them ready to go off site. These things would have cost millions so they pocketed the money and when the inevitable happened did a public relations campaign blitz instead which was much much cheaper.

And I cannot emphasize this enough, when it was over the public blamed the engineers.

Private companies learned from Fukushima that they can skip maintenance pocket the money and let a disaster happen and we will blame the workers instead of the Epstein class psychopaths who made it happen.

100% bullshit.

My goto example is the Barakah plant over in the UAE. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

You think there were leftists and environmental protesters slowing construction over there? Plus it was joint effort with South Korea.

As with every nuclear plant it was years late and ended up costing $32 billion instead of the projected $20 billion.

Bring up a decommissioned plant will take years. Don't forget about the thousands of smaller systems that have to be tested and re-certified. Pumps that haven't spun in years. Seals and gaskets, wiring, the control computers. You can't just plop in a raspberry pi and write a pid loop. Everything inside that plant has to be audited and signed off. As the for sale listings like to say ran when parked.

For the sake of argument, let's just pretend that is true. It doesn't explain the sudden drop, does it? Yes, most kids aren't very big on learning, because it requires effort. That is a universal truth. Those same kids become adults, who also aren't very educated. So what? You don't solve the problem by removing learning opportunities from the few that remain. You can't just let every student read whatever they want, because the teacher needs to be able to teach lessons from the content, and they can't read 30 books each semester. Furthermore, none of the other students can contribute to discussions between the teacher and the student, since they haven't read the book either. The classics are the common ground because they are well written and make good material that affords a common ground for discussion.

That begs the question: did it works for decades?

The Anglo-American tradition of slogging through "classics" has certainly been going for decades, but then people have been complaining about the literacy rates for as long as I can remember too. So I put it to you that it has not been working well for a very long time.

Star Trek has always been a socialist utopia. Money is no longer needed because technology has taken care of everyone's needs. The federation is all about inclusivity and embracing differences between species. Pretty woke stuff if you ask me.

Why do republicans think about trans people so much?

You're admitting that the country hasn't changed and is still racist as ever. I agree.