I like to imagine he has everyone’s patterns stored and they only miraculously transport when he receives then from a backup

Like the episode when Riker was on trial for murder and he didn’t transport in until well after the station exploded

Maybe O’Brien filled in their memories with old and new pattern buffet info, but the original Riker exploded on the station.

That’s not entirely true

Polls still predict how people will behave, but there is a lot of room for events to happen.

If you properly weight your polls with probability of outcomes, it’s useful. That’s not easy though.

That’s the biggest thing they could do

Singh just isn’t a winner. He doesn’t get good media spots, he doesn’t push the message of what he can do, he is less negative than Mulcair was, but he’s not inspiring and hopeful like Layton.

Actually the current situation is very similar to Layton’s time before the NDP exploded in popularity.

If you’re worried about upsetting Wil Wheaton, I loved the character and he did an excellent job acting as Wesley

But I enjoy making fun of him because I love the show, and Picard saying Wesley was so out of character that it’s a very funny moment.

If the NDP don’t prop up the liberals they’ll lose all their power and they’re not forecast to gain any seats in the election.

They gain nothing by forcing an election, it will actually result in a huge conservative majority that will probably last a decade.

https://338canada.com/federal.htm

The teleporter is a fun scifi device in Trek, it’s both philosophically interesting, and the ambiguity around how it works and what it can do creates some interesting plots and discussions online.

Without spoiling anything, in The Next Generation there’s a character who refuses to use it, in a prequel (Enterprise) there’s a general fear of teleportation. In DS9 there’s an episode where it gets used as a weapon. In Voyager and TNG there are episodes where malfunctions result in some pretty intense moral dilemmas.

The writers of Trek use it to good effect and that’s what makes it my favourite scifi.

This is why Q never took the transporter when he was on the Enterprise. Not even in human form.

He knew OBrien would trap him in the buffer.

Even the other Q blocked the Enterprise from transporting the shuttle Q was in when he left the Enterprise as a human.

Run a sandy beach program and don’t dig any holes.

Rom will get to cleaning them after his shift.

Which is also jeans

I miss so much my community I had on Twitter

Now it’s gone. People left for a mix of substack, blue sky, and different mastodon instances. Some people just left entirely.

McGonagall staring at realtors and venture capitalists

Why is it whenever something threatens the country it’s always you two?

Oh sure, a generation of bajoran slaves forced to live on the station and nobody bats an eye. But one ad runs over the stations Comms and that’s enshittification!

Maybe you guys should calm down with some time in Quark’s holodecks.

That’s because of all the snowbirds

The backside of Arizona looks similar

Shakes 8 ball

ooh, sorry it says “program hazy, vote again later”

Wait… It turns out businesses always want to be more efficient, and whether they pay a tax they have no control over makes no difference?

This is perfect, just in time for him to cancel them again when he calls the next snap election!

He’ll be the greenest premiere ever and the least environmentally friendly, he’s got both sides wrapped up!

It’s tilted because they wanted to take the picture and get their shuttle out of there as soon as possible.

No time to align!

I like to think the federation can synthesize latinum but keep it under wraps for fear of disrupting/inflating their trade agreements.

Edit: s/platinum/latinum

It is pretty wild how so much mass could be accelerated to that speed.

The idea that a 3 body system could cause it is really cool. Probably not useful to us, but still very cool

That’s 0.0015c