MFers read Speaker for the Dead and didn't get that Jane was an annoying little shit.
(Haha just kidding, AI bros can't read.)
Because I don't think we're talking about Kahless II anymore!
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/52327551
From Star Trek: Day of Blood - Shaxs' Best Day by Ryan North and Derek Charm, originally published in 2023. Panels slightly reformatted and rearranged by me in GIMP to be more self-contained and better accommodate mobile viewing.
Hate to break it to you, but both "drive-through" and "drive-thru" are considered correct.
Wikipedia refers to "A drive-through or drive-thru (a sensational spelling of the word through)..."
As explained on Erin Wright Writing, "According to our primary American-English dictionaries (Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, Webster’s New World College Dictionary, and The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language), drive-through is the preferred spelling, while drive-thru is an accepted informal variant. However, the use of drive-thru has become so common that using drive-through now feels incorrect."
Also keep in mind this is Xitter, where abbreviations are are a normalized (often necessary) part of the lingo.
Lieutenant Shaxs makes his political leanings well known in the Star Trek: Lower Decks TV series, but wowza does he go hard-core antifa in the comics!
From Star Trek: Day of Blood - Shaxs' Best Day by Ryan North and Derek Charm, originally published in 2023. Panels slightly reformatted and rearranged by me in GIMP to be more self-contained and better accommodate mobile viewing.
(FYI: this comic, and the other Lower Deck comics too, is available on Hoopla; check and see if your local library is subscribed, and if so you can read the comic online for free with just your library card!)
Why does the girl have a Klingon forehead growing out of the crown of her head?
A quick ddg search pulled up nothing, so do you have a source for this?
Isn't Smithfield the company that was videoed grinding up moldy bread still in the plastic packaging for use as pig feed?
This is a ridiculous YSK. They recalled a fraction of a percentage of all meat sold in the US, and it was all from a specific supplier.
Corrected!
Literally Discworld
(See: The Colour of Magic)
Actually Star Trek: Lower Decks covers the issue of using AI for nefarious purposes. In the series finale, an enemy Klingon superimposes video of a Starfleet admiral over herself making a message ordering the handover of a Klingon asylum seeker (second-in-command smells something fishy and hides the asylum seeker, until the video is confirmed a fake). Then in the comic Shaxs' Worst Day, the head security officer, Shaxs, uses the holodeck to recreate the bridge of a ship he just commandeered to pretend to be the captain he just killed while communicating with evil universe Starfleet command.
It should be noted that Lower Decks was made in the last decade, and not only incorporates a lot of contemporary social/technological issues and concerns, but also is a comedic reflection on the Star Trek franchise, and freely calls out things that have made fans go "huh?"
Why is this marked NSFW?
"Hey now, they didn't send Troi down! She'll be able to do something to help on the ship... probably."
"The away mission is to save Troi."
"Well shit."
Given that the transporter guy is still wearing the first version of the uniform, it's safe to assume that the Enterprise's yet-undiscovered MVP, Miles O'Brien is still on board. He'll be able to fix whatever pops up in the absence of the senior staff.
cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/42910006
I'm not the artist, Frencore is. Source
Of course they are, Bart. There's no calcium in coconut milk (er, Malk)!
Not mentioned in the article: 20- and 30-somethings are broke, and a night out is crazy expensive now. Plus legal weed is waaaay cheaper than alcohol.