[-] toast@retrolemmy.com 12 points 1 day ago

Villains or heroes isn't the issue. It's the argument that we need a group that doesn't play by the rules that apply to the rest of society that I find problematic.

Shouldn't we strive for a world in which the rules really do apply to all? Can't we hope to conceive of a set of laws standards by which we should all be judged? Isn't the world of Star Trek meant in some way to be aspirational, rather than just a reflection of what we have now?

[-] toast@retrolemmy.com 13 points 1 day ago

Yeah. Reading the article, Section 31 seems great if you just want to just shit on everything else in the franchise. Nope, not for me.

[-] toast@retrolemmy.com 78 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Unethical and counterproductive. Having a prosthetic limb would almost invariably lead to a less sedentary lifestyle, which is strongly correlated with better health. Paying for a prosthetic today has to be cheaper than paying for a heart attack or diabeties later.

[-] toast@retrolemmy.com 109 points 1 month ago

Situated several hundred feet above sea level, routes through the caves pass along steep cliff edges and over deep ravines like the one Andic tragically fell down.

Several areas include tricky terrain, like rocky pathways without proper fencing or support.

Might make a great location for a corporate retreat

[-] toast@retrolemmy.com 61 points 2 months ago

While a tool that extends your reach is useful, when dealing with a difficult to reach spider, your best asset is the element of surprise!

[-] toast@retrolemmy.com 66 points 5 months ago
[-] toast@retrolemmy.com 54 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Trump has been overcharging the secret service for years. Why wouldn't efforts to limit his grifting be in place?

[-] toast@retrolemmy.com 51 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Oh, yeah, his home life is a bit rough. Everett's wife was pretty big on domestic violence, at least over the course of the years of the comic that I have seen. Typically, Everett would make some remark that offended her, then BAM!

She was at least as violent as Maggie was with Jiggs in Bringing Up Father, and her self-righteousness made it all the worse

[-] toast@retrolemmy.com 229 points 8 months ago

And, frankly, the country doesn’t want to have to go through prosecuting a former president.

Yes, we do. We really, really do.

[-] toast@retrolemmy.com 83 points 10 months ago

Don't worry. The good folks at Boeing have assured us that it is all perfectly safe.

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submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by toast@retrolemmy.com to c/jerboa@lemmy.ml

I use Jerboa in list view, which gives me a nice, compact presentation of a number of posts on my phone screen. This is great, except now the list is full of left-right scrolling text whenever a community name is too long to display in the allotted space. This is very distracting, and I would love to turn off this scrolling

I looked through the settings, but I don't see a way to turn this off, or a way to simply not display the community name at all (not my preference, but I'd take it over the scrolling)

Can anyone help? My post listings look like they are on a web page from 1998

Edit: Now I see that the scrolling is also applied to long user names as well, and is used in areas other than post listings. This seems to have just started with the latest release. I really hope this can be turned off in settings. It feels like geo-cities in here

[-] toast@retrolemmy.com 185 points 1 year ago

So, wait a minute. This kid makes a private joke among friends, and his message is intercepted by security services and obviously taken out of context (in that they failed to realize he was privately joking among friends).

Seems to me that the security forces should eat the cost of this. This is the price you pay for spying on everyone and overreacting.

The kid didn't say this publicly

[-] toast@retrolemmy.com 47 points 1 year ago

You can too often see the same thing in LED car headlights and tail lights. The most obnoxious of these flicker noticeably all the time. Not much better are the ones that seem to be on continuously when viewed in the center of your vision, but flicker in your peripheral vision. The later I find really distracting

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