I would argue that Q doesn't deserve to be treated as a false god. If anything, Q truly is a god, considering he actually is an omnipotent being and all.
I think you may just be missing the joke in the word "Lore" there. Being capitalized like that is winking at Data's "brother" Lore.
Star Trek: The Next Generation S7E10 "Inheritance"
In case the joke is not obvious: While in universe, this is technically "AI art" in the sense that Data (who is an artificial being) had painted it, in reality, that episode came out in 1993, so that prop was undoubtedly painted by a human.
I understand these are effectively just acting as a clone/replacement of a series of previously-existing communities. I am just questioning why those previously-existing communities were needed in the first place. If anything, this seems to be a good opportunity to consolidate those fractured discussions into one community.
For what it's worth, that's an edit. This is the original:
I never actually used any of those communities. Was there really a need to have a different community for each decade of music? Is there that much activity? Knowing the size of the fediverse, I assume it would have been preferred to just focus on a single community called "/c/oldmusic" and require decade tags or something.
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The robot backpack?
If I wasn't familiar with all those stories about teachers trying to catch skimmers, I would absolutely do the same. But knowing that teachers often like to do that, if I saw such a wild nonsense instruction like that, I would probably just immediately think "Oh, its like that one trick question that Mr. Smith did last year" and just write about how Madagascar smells purple or whatever.
Watch the video. The text was "hidden" in the sense that it was the same color as the background. Meaning it would get caught by assistive devices like screen readers or anyone copy/pasting the instructions into a word processor in which they would actually construct their response. Too many possibilities for false positives without the students having any sort of evidence to back up their claims if they were to contest it.
I had just one test in my whole school career that had intentional nonsense like that. But I definitely heard all sorts of stories of tests like that. And I am sure kids these days are very familiar with those stories as well. If I read an instruction that told me so "Say some nonsense about Madagascar", I would assume the teacher is expecting the students who skimmed the instructions to not mention Madagascar, so you bet I'm going to say the weirdest thing I can come up with about Madagascar.
cross-posted from: https://quokk.au/c/chevron7/p/1059802/jack-vs-colonel-q
- Stargate SG-1 S6E11 "Prometheus"
- Star Trek: Deep Space Nine S1E6 "Q-Less"
This screenshot and the first two lines of text are taken from Stargate SG-1 S10E18 "Family Ties". The last two lines of text are from Harvey's infamous quote in Farscape S2E4 "Crackers Don't Matter" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suBUMKjA7JM
While the characters in early episodes of Stargate SG-1 often referred to a group of mysterious aliens by using terms like "the gate-builders", I believe the first time those aliens were referred to as "the Ancients" was in S2E16 "The Fifth Race" in 1998. As far as I can tell, the first time the Ancients were brought up on Farscape was S1E16 "A Human Reaction" in 1999. Even if you assume the idea was planned from the very beginning of Farscape, the first episode still aired in 1999, months after the Ancients had been established in Stargate.
cross-posted from: https://quokk.au/c/babylon5/p/1036860/prove-it
- Inspired by this Stargate meme: https://quokk.au/c/chevron7/p/1021412/i-m-a-stargate-fan
- I know this is definitely misusing the source, but this is usually how this is used as a meme template
- https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/thats-on-me-i-set-the-bar-too-low
Please let me know if there is a better community for me to request help for this.
I like to use scroll mode in ereaders instead of turning pages. When reading on a device with a screen, it makes sense to just read a book like it is one long web page or something.
On Android, I have mostly settled on Librera as my ereader app. Through its many customizations available, I can make it look and feel how I want except for one thing: seamless scrolling between pages.
As you can see in this screenshot, there is a small gap between pages. Not only is there some excess margin/padding, but there is also a faint horizontal line in that gap. Strangely, that horizontal line is not in the center of the gap; it is closer to the bottom of the gap (i.e. the margin at the bottom of the page is larger than the margin at the top of the page).
It's not necessarily all that distracting when just looking at a compressed screenshot like this online. Here, it does seem like something that can easily be dismissed/overlooked. But when reading page after page after page of a novel, it gets distracting and bothersome.
To contrast, here is that same passage in Readest:
In this app, you cannot see where one page ends and the next page begins. It is just seamless. This is how basically every other app (that offers scroll mode) works. It reads like the novel is just one long news article or web page, only broken up at the end of each chapter.
I have tried to achieve this same look with Librera, but have not been able to. I can reduce the top/bottom margins to zero under Preferences > Reading Settings > Page margins, but that leaves me with the gaps as seen in those screenshots above as well as having no effect on those faint horizontal page break lines. I have even messed with CSS a bit, but absolutely nothing I have tried in Librera gets me a truly seamless scrolling experience like other apps. There is always that excess gap and horizontal line at each page break. Any idea how I can make it seamless?
cross-posted from: https://quokk.au/c/chevron7/p/987676/they-wrote-the-same-episode-twice
- https://stargate.fandom.com/wiki/Emancipation
- https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Code_of_Honor_(episode)
Both episodes feature a female officer being abducted and later participating in a fight to the death, which both parties survive. In further coincidence, both episodes are the fourth episodes of their shows' first season.
