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Republicans think children with cancer who are US citizens should be deported.

"party of family values"

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And we are going back to segregation. Disappointed but not surprised.

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"United Airlines will cancel 35 roundtrip flights a day from its schedule at Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey after thousands of passengers faced hourslong delays this week, CEO Scott Kirby said Friday, blaming the disruptions on air traffic controller staffing shortages and the Federal Aviation Administration’s technology problems.

The flight cuts amount to about 10% of United’s daily schedule at its Newark hub."

How's that "efficiency" going for everyone?

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Literally it’s insane how the laundry never stops. There is always laundry

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Is he in Hong Kong? Its too smoggy for me to see the buildings clearly enough.

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A man who is part of the branch that is wildly exceeding its powers should not be pushing people to think about why certain branches have the power they do.

JD Vance asks who gives these justices that Presidents appoint and the Senate confirms the right to hold us from doing obviously illegal things?

The feigned indignation is appalling.

JD Vance is the least genuine person, a friendless resentful asshole.

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As a note, a lot of above seems to be pulling from very limited information given on replicators vs what we were actually given.

Tom Paris tried to order tomato soup and was slammed in the face with options. The replicator is therefor far more like those silly "customize your own soda" coke machines we have. Choose base, select options on file, choose temp, choose add ins, etc. He lost his temper, so would we, and our now frustrated mood would definitely make us enjoy the food less. Picard spews his order out like a man ordering at a coffee shop for the same reason, he knows what he has to say to get good enough fast enough to not be frustrated (the only difference from us is he doesn't have to wait on a barista who may have missed what we said or is working in a PoS system that uses a different order of options).

Counselor Troi bemoaned at least one, maybe twice, to foreign diplomats about how the replicator ruins the taste of chocolate/ice cream because it spits out everything as a nutritionally balanced product. Everything. That is impossible with actual foods with specific molecules that cause specific taste and smell profiles. Nutritional balance would, by definition, have to change the core elements of the food. So of course replicated food tastes different, it isn't producing the same taste and smell molecules for our systems to process, just close. (As a note I personally believe part of the benefit of going to 10 Forward for a drink even when a character doesn't feel like socializing, something we see happen a lot in TNG, is because the 10 Forward drink replicators have the "nutritonal balance" feature turned off. The place's function is stress relief and relaxation as much as socialization, and that works better with not nutritionally balanced synthehol.)

So yes, one could tweak a replicator recipe to specific specifications, I believe we actually see this with like (and this is just an example) Matzo Ball Soup Worf recipe 3 in one ep, I vaguely recall someone ordering a custom variant in one of the pre-Enterprise shows. But even then that pesky nutritional balance thing would mean it is closer but still not right.

All of which is to say, yes it will always taste not as good, and this is why we see people choosing to cook from replicated ingredients several times. Even if the ingredients come out of the machine not quite right, during the process of cooking you can adust for these "wrong" taste and smell profiles of your ingredients the way we do for a store bought out of season tomato vs a farmer's market bought in season tomato.

ETA: there are probably replicator programmers at Starfleet who, like holonovels still need writers to make them engaging (something we see comparing computer generated in TNG vs written in VOY), scan in popular recipes of certain things, like roasted carrots, and then have the replicator spit out the nutritionally balanced version and the tweak the pattern from there to adjust for the nutritonally balanced mandate so the replicator spits out something closer to it than the system would do automatically.

As a side note… I am really annoyed by one thing about Star Trek.

“Replicated food is not as good as real food.”

That’s ridiculous.  In Star Trek, replicator technology is part of the same tech tree as transporters.  Replicated food would be identical to the food it was based on, down to the subatomic level. 

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…Not good. (And not legal, if I read the situation correctly.) 😡

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The hero Catwoman needs

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https://www.euronews.com/green/2024/12/29/the-japanese-micro-forest-method-is-transforming-cities

The Japanese ‘micro-forest’ method is transforming cities

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If you, like me, had a sewing machine and patterns and just could not: for basics like jeans and loungewear, ladies buy men's.

Not only can you find options with shorter and taller people in mind easily available everywhere, but men's basics are likely to be natural fibers WAY more often than women's basics. It is pulling teeth to find a women's top in linen, men's tops I can pop into just about anywhere and find a 100% linen (or cotton) shirt in the first minute. Same with knit wool winter tops.

So my sister wants to start sewing more, because

a. She’s 5′ 11″ and can never find pants long enough for her legs or shirts long enough for her arms.

b. She hates synthetic fibers as much as I do and it’s difficult to find natural fiber clothes that aren’t made of cotton

c. She’s a biologist and would physically fistfight microplastics if given half a chance

So her gift from mom and dad for her birthday was a sewing machine. Not a super expensive one but a good solid serviceable one.

And recently she asked “So where do I GET wool or linen and thread that isn’t polyester” and mom was like ‘go ask your sister’

And I, of course, crashed into the group text like “GET A PEN I HAVE WEBSITES FOR U” and honestly I’m thrilled about this

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"Just killed a man

Put a gun against his head, pulled my trigger

Now he's dead"

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"President Donald Trump said Thursday that he is nominating national security adviser Mike Waltz as United Nations ambassador while Secretary of State Marco Rubio would take over Waltz’s duties on an interim role.

He announced the major shake-up of his national security team shortly after news broke that Waltz and his deputy are leaving the administration. Waltz has been under scrutiny for weeks after reporting from The Atlantic that he had mistakenly added the magazine’s editor-in-chief to a Signal chat being used to discuss military plans.

“I am pleased to announce that I will be nominating Mike Waltz to be the next United States Ambassador to the United Nations. From his time in uniform on the battlefield, in Congress and, as my National Security Advisor, Mike Waltz has worked hard to put our Nation’s Interests first,” Trump wrote on social media."

Sorry United Nations. Just ... sorry.

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