Melllvar
Seer of the tapes! Knower of the episodes!
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Don’t leave us hanging. Who won the argument?
Our savior!
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Ask@piefed.social•How hard was it to access the internet in the 90s?English
10·3 天前The 90’s is the decade when the internet took off. Ease of access (and stuff worth accessing) increased dramatically over the course of a few years.
In 1990 if you didn’t have access through a university or your job then you would need a subscription service that connected over your home phone line. It wasn’t difficult, really, but it was a niche hobby thing that used expensive equipment, so most people didn’t even notice it. You had email, newsgroups, ftp servers, and bulletin boards, but not the modern concept of “the web”.
By around 1995 the web existed and was really taking off. Companies like Yahoo, Netscape, ebay, and Amazon were founded and high(er) speed dedicated connections started to become available to home users.
By 1999 you have mega sites like Google and Paypal, the first great browser war was raging, and high-speed DSL and cable connections were becoming standard in homes.
Let us, like Him, hold up one shoe and let the other be upon our foot, for this is His sign, that all who follow Him shall do likewise.
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Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.world•The UN Voted to Make Food A Human Right, Only Two Countries Voted No: Israel and USAEnglish
2·3 天前“Not do anything useful” would be more accurate than “do nothing”. But that’s just my tl;dr.
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Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.world•The UN Voted to Make Food A Human Right, Only Two Countries Voted No: Israel and USAEnglish
41·3 天前[…] the resolution also contains many unbalanced, inaccurate, and unwise provisions the United States cannot support. This resolution does not articulate meaningful solutions for preventing hunger and malnutrition or avoiding their devastating consequences.
The United States is concerned that the concept of “food sovereignty” could justify protectionism or other restrictive import or export policies […]
We also do not accept any reading of this resolution or related documents that would suggest that States have particular extraterritorial obligations arising from any concept of a “right to food,” which we do not recognize and has no definition in international law.
tl;dr:
- The USA doesn’t think the resolution actually does anything useful, even if it supports the intention
- The USA, the largest exporter of food, is concerned how the resolution might impact food exports
- The USA doesn’t recognize the imposition of legal obligations to act outside of its own territory
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Risa@startrek.website•Ever wonder if Lore replaced Data at the end of 'Descent, Part II'?English
13·4 天前As an audience member, no. We saw the final confrontation between them.
Picard and friends, on the other hand, have legitimate reason to be suspicious.
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Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.world•The UN Voted to Make Food A Human Right, Only Two Countries Voted No: Israel and USAEnglish
222·4 天前But the resolution passed anyway, which is why world hunger has disappeared.
You should cut diagonally. If it makes a sandwich better, imagine what it can do for a novel.
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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What movie am I thinking of(80s or 90s)?English
52·7 天前Tom Hanks in “Big”?
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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Can we see a photo you took recently?English
15·8 天前Here’s a rainbow that is close enough for the trees across the street to appear behind it.

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Risa@startrek.website•Wrong Answers Only: What do these metal desk boob things do?English
7·10 天前Wifi access point.
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Science Memes@mander.xyz•Why Kinder Surprise is banned in the USAEnglish
3·10 天前They made a movie that dramatized the accidents really well:
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TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name@lemmy.world•We need more cranksEnglish
2·10 天前When Tuvok is blinded in Voyager’s Year of Hell, he explicitly activates the tactile interface for his console. So it’s definitely something that LCARS supports.
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TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name@lemmy.world•We need more cranksEnglish
6·10 天前The alternate future in DS9’s The Visitor implies through dialog that they have 3-D controls on newer starships.
That’s what dihydrogen monoxide poisoning does to average IQs.











Each decade of age took me half as long as the previous one did.
0-10 took forever
10-20 took 20 years
20-30 took 10 years
30-40 took 5 years
And I fear it only gets worse.