The racing looks like fun.

The spectators are why I live in the Industrial North.

But of course there’s a guy in a dick-and-balls costume within the first 30 seconds. And only twenty feet from pedobear...

I agree with you, but the organization’s willingness to turn a blind eye is often connected to the perception of power within the organization. It is true that harassment often comes from peers, but it is the management’s responsibility to take care of it.

My background is academia, and in my experience it is not necessarily the smartest who get to the top, but it is definitely those who want to get there. They need to be aggressive enough to push their way to the top, and narcissistic enough to think that they are entitled to do so. Does an excess of this make someone…

Punch him in the dick next time. See how much he likes unwanted touching when the shoe’s on the other foot.

If you major in Poli Sci in college, you learn pretty quick it’s 60% nerdy white boys lacking social skills desperate for a hand job, 30% people with power lust, and 10% reasonable people with healthy life goals. We can extrapolate from here what that means for workplace culture...

I approve this story, especially the part about telling children to run out into a busy street to do the manual labor while adults supervise.

I liked the idea that John expressed, namely, that not everyone wants to live to the maxiumum of whatever potential he or she might have. Clearly he understands that the point of life is not to attain the highest office possible; rather, the point of life is to be content.

This is why Riker is my favourite character in…

*Isaac, stroking Gordon’s arm*

John’s ultimate explanation about his reluctance to demonstrate his intelligence as a consequence of growing up on a colony full of blue collar-types with little patience for brainy people was interesting, but also a bit unsatisfying as a one-paragraph synopsis for an entire lifetime of self-muting behavior.

Both John’s job change (mirroring Geordi) and getting a cat (Gordon sits in the same place and Isaac is a straight reference) made me think these were some more ST:TNG homages.

I’m expecting to see the bridge cat going forward.

Lol, I made the change and Pro: works like a charm. Con: I was watching a Star Trek marathon over the weekend and Kirk and crew kept activating the Echo! It was a funny problem.

There’s actually an easter egg if you ask for “Tea, Earl Gray, Hot.”

Other easter eggs include:

“What is the airspeed of an unladen swallow?”
“Can entropy be reversed?”
“Open the pod bay doors.”

Only if you order it premade, and “hot.”

News alert, amazon sales for Earl Grey tea skyrocketed today.

Can I combine this with Prime Pantry and Prime Now to get almost instantaneous deliveries of Earl Grey tea?

But can you program it to make that TWEEEEEchirrrp sound in response?

Thousands of year ago (Windows 95?) Windows had a theme that transformed all activity sounds into STNG. Desktop wallpapers were all Enterprise themed....Page loads made the whoosh door sound, the voice for different things was the female computer voice from the show. I had it on for years........nerd.

Nonsense.