I feel that lore-wise, the doctor changing sex was a bigger test of suspension of disbelief. But they prepped for it by having the Master do it. The Master has previously spent time being a walking corpse, so that is a fairly straight line of baby steps to get there.
Once that's been established, changing race is nothing. And arguably the doctor has shown a not insignificant amount of racial diversity already to prove it's not impossible.
The show just sucks for a variety of other reasons.
All weight loss diet plans are just tricking you into eating less calories. Grapefruits don't have magical weight loss powers, it's just if you go on the grapefruit diet you can't physically bring yourself to eat more than one or two, so you eat less than you normally do.
Basic blender went bad (motor ran but spindle wasn't rotating). I wanted to disassemble to see if it could be repaired. Three of the four screws were Phillips head. I had to cut the casing open in order to discover why I couldn't unscrew the fourth. It was a slotted spanner.
The security bit is doing it's job. If this is a barrier for someone, then they aren't the kind of person who should be playing with the internals of a dangerous electronic device.
This is the same person that had to smash open the device like a caveman banging rocks together. Posting a rant online instead of just buying a security bit isn't a good second step either. OP may certainly be the exact type of person to keep out: bold enough to try to break open electronics, but stopped by a fairly standard security bit.
Maybe I'm ignorant, but by definition that seems non binary to me. Unless "non binary" no longer means non binary, and now it has some new trendy definition.
Isn't the idea of binary having two socially defined entities: man, woman. Having someone who defies either definition is non binary. Opposing the idea that you can only be one or the other.
Conchita dresses half way between man and woman. Dresses, skirts, long hair, make up, beard. Even the name Conchita Wurst is a wordplay for "vagina penis".
The example of a male presenting as female or somewhere between those two seems within the exact definition of non binary.
I'm afraid I don't understand what violating the binary means, and it still seems to me that presenting female with a beard does not fit what I thought the binary of gender was supposed to mean.
I'm not trying to imply anything. I've just never had a feeling about my gender so I don't really understand the concept. I was born a man, I present as a man, but I can't say that I feel like a man, I just feel like me.
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It's not about wanting it to stop, it's about getting it to maturity so we can get out of this phase of buzz words, misleading marketing, and then we can find out what the tech can actually be useful for.
I find that I have to do that now, because it seems the internet has been geared towards people that think you have to ask the computer a question instead of searching for key words like how it used to work.
I find it more difficult now because often the search results are what the search engine thinks I want, instead of what I actually asked for.
It's definitely a shame. The fact that they are essentially making a genre clone (Commandos/Desperados/Shadow Tactics) meant that they had so many successful examples to pull from. It really just feels unfinished, but I guess they were against the wall and needed to release something to keep the accountants happy.
The upsetting thing is that this and every other failure to make a Stargate game just makes it that much more unlikely for a good one to be made. The fan game Stargate Network was shaping up to be really good, but at the time that Timekeepers began MGM sent them a cease and desist. This game essentially killed a much better game that was in development.
Encrypted VPN tunnels are ubiquitous in many industries for remote connection to private clouds. They are used by virtually every high functioning company in the world, and getting more common for mid and lower tier companies as well.
Maybe you can explain what you actually mean then, because I don't understand your point.
I would say those dollar-store VPN products people use for geo-spoofing is the worst security risk when it comes to VPNs. You are sending your data through some other company that you have no control or insight into. You have no idea what network security they employ, or whether they are willing or obligated to release your data to other parties.
"We've almost got some of their telecommunications cracked; the front end even runs on a laptop!" The Mac that sunk a thousand ships could have been merely clunky product placement, not a bafflingly stupid tech-on-film moment....
I had a friend who was really annoyed that there was a Scottish accent in Force Awakens. I said that none of the characters are speaking English in-universe, so any and all accents are just analogies for how each character is heard. Nope. He was still annoyed because there's no Scotland in the star wars galaxy.
There are plenty of films where the language is translated to English for the audience, and then a third language is spoken by characters to show that the characters using the primary language wouldn't understand them.
I think basic would sound different from english, and then when we see characters speak in a different language it's to show that they are multi lingual and can speak in a way that other characters wouldn't be able to understand.
Again, plenty of films/TV just use substitution ciphers for alien languages that are definitely not english in canon. Stargate Atlantis has Ancient text that can be deciphered into english letters, but that's just an easter egg for the fans.
If the story is translating the spoken language for the benefit of the audience, there's no reason text can't have the same justification.
In Stargate "Ancient" is an old latin style language (the Ancients are connected to early human civilisation) and is spoken like a variant of actual Latin when it is shown to be not understood by characters that are present. When the scene is strictly Ancients in the past the actors speak english for the benefit of the audience. I think it's worth pointing out that in Stargate, most modern aliens speak actual english for no justifiable reason.
wouldn’t the signs be in the Latin alphabet as well?
They were in the original release of Star Wars (1977). Lucas changed them to an alien alphabet, I assume to help show that basic isn't just english, but allowing nerds like us to translate them for fun. I actually think the concept of basic didn't exist when he made the first film and, like the many other changes to the series, was retroactively applied as the non-english universal language for that galaxy.
The cartouche was a formal record hall, just like we see in real ancient Egypt. This is decal work, and I believe we have never seen the Stargate glyphs used as bling before.
After a series of delays and false starts, Stargate Timekeepers got a partial release in January 2024 with part 1 of 2 containing the first 7 levels of the game. The second part was advertised to be released in April 2024....
The entire first season of The Expanse should have just been one episode. It took me multiple tries to get into that show because the first season is so boring.
This trend of drip feeding mysteries started with Lost back in the 2000s and I find it incredibly frustrating.
I barely knew what the story was until you learn about it in the last episode. The rest of the show then moves forward with the significant discovery of that episode.
There are comics and novels that go deeper into the Space Jockeys that aren't bad. Getting more isn't necessarily the problem, it's mainly that Prometheus Ave Covenant were genuinely terrible additions to the franchise.
Dear @firefox : Please stop saving images as webp when I drag them out of the browser. Forever stop that. Even if they are webp originally, just give me a setting to auto-convert them to JPEG. When I get a webp file the first thing I have to do is convert it manually if I'm going to do anything with it.
I use nextcloud cookbook but I would really love another or a federated alternative. It does its job but I don’t think other people I know would use it.
Paprika. I haven’t used anything else aside from having a folder of word documents.
Paprika allows you to copy/paste the URL of a recipe and it will download only the recipe. No more scrolling through a blog and a dozen ads looking for what you want. You can then create categories and tag recipes for any combination of categories.
It also has extra functions like meal planners, pantry inventory, and shopping list generators based on the meal plan and pantry, but I don’t use those.
It syncs between devices. The only real downside is you must purchase per platform type. If you bought the windows licence and you want it on your phone you must separately purchase the Android licence.
Instagram is profiting from several ads that invite people to create nonconsensual nude images with AI image generation apps, once again showing that some of the most harmful applications of AI tools are not hidden on the dark corners of the internet, but are actively promoted to users by social media companies unable or...
The Deepfake stuff is interesting from a legal standpoint, and that is essentially the topic of this thread. When Deepfake first became a thing, many companies (like Reddit) chose to ban the content; they did so voluntarily, perhaps a mix of morality and liability issues.
What I referred to regarding tabloids is that there have been many cases of paparazzi being fined for breaches of privacy, not libel. From my studies I recall a good example being “if you need a ladder to see over someone’s fence you are invading the expectation of privacy”. This was before drones were a thing so I don’t know how it applies these days.
I agree that you should have control of your likeness, but I don’t think it is as protected as your comment suggests.
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Obscure screw added so appliance cannot be disassembled ( lemmy.world )
Basic blender went bad (motor ran but spindle wasn't rotating). I wanted to disassemble to see if it could be repaired. Three of the four screws were Phillips head. I had to cut the casing open in order to discover why I couldn't unscrew the fourth. It was a slotted spanner.
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Hello GPT-4o ( openai.com )
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Raspberry Pi Smart TV?
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OpenAI plans to announce Google search competitor on Monday, sources say ( www.reuters.com )
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I've finished the first part of Stargate Timekeepers, and here are my thoughts... [spoilers] ( lemmy.world )
...about the quality of the game, my theories behind the development, and my predictions for the future....
Novel attack against virtually all VPN apps neuters their entire purpose ( arstechnica.com )
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If you were a a Goa'uld, would you cover your Hatak with Stargate glyphs? ( lemmy.world )
Screenshot from Timekeepers, looks like bad fan art....
What's the most fucked up movie you ever watched?
Stargate Timekeepers Part 2 not released on time, seemingly no word from publisher/developer
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what's your fav recipe manager?
I use nextcloud cookbook but I would really love another or a federated alternative. It does its job but I don’t think other people I know would use it.
Instagram Advertises Nonconsensual AI Nude Apps ( www.404media.co )
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