Pat @Pat@qoto.org

@icedquinn

Yeah, it's a silly premise -- "I'd rather die than be immmortal". Star Trek NG made the same mistake with Data, he always wanted to be more human. I guess it's just the bias of the writers (who I assume are human).

#science #fiction #ScienceFiction #SciFi #energy #film #movie

Retro SciFi Movie of the Week...

The Bicentennial Man (1999)

Starring Robin Williams, this is a great science fiction film that nobody under 30 has ever heard of.

https://tubitv.com/movies/650102/bicentennial-man

@johnabs

>"Get another one."

An additional one, for a companion.

@johnabs

Get another one.

@freeschool

I don't understand, but thank you for reading and commenting on my toot.

@trinsec

The tips from "Energy saving tip number 4" will save energy with any putt-putt car.

#germany #nordstream2 #russia #ukraine #oil #heat #fuel #gas #energy #science
#nato #eu #europe #driving #electic #car

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Energy saving tip number 6
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Use a clothesline...

Clothes dryers that run on gas or electricity waste a lot of energy, especially in the summer when the waste heat that they generate needs to be removed in order to cool the living space.

Clotheslines can be used year-round. When the weather is nice, clothes can dry outdoors faster than they do in a mechanical clothes dryer. When drying outdoors is not possible, a clothesline still works fine indoors, it just takes a little longer, but it saves a ton of energy.

(image https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Les_six_saisons_Atikamekw_681.jpg, CC-BY-SA-3.0)

#germany #nordstream2 #russia #ukraine #oil #death #fuel #gas #energy #science
#nato #eu #europe #driving #electic #car

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Energy saving tip number 4
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Avoid driving...

During the Syrian war, I dreaded having to drive my gas-guzzler. I knew that ever time I got into that old putt-putt car and turned that key, I was partially responsible for the deaths of all those Syrian babies who were poisoned during that oil war.

Every chance you get to avoid driving, you help save the life of someone who lives in the war zone of one these oil wars.

Instead of grocery shopping every week, go every two weeks or once a month and stock up. Car pool if you can do so safely during the pandemic. Work remotely. If your boss won't let you work remotely, find a new boss.

Hitchhike, ride a bike, walk... do whatever you can to avoid burning more fuel and contributing to all those deaths.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ignition_switch.JPG, CC-BY-3.0

#klingon #shakespeare #undiscovered #country

https://qoto.org/web/statuses/107925030259827697

more at...
https://shakespeareandbeyond.folger.edu/2016/09/16/shakespeare-klingon-star-trek/

@Acer

"erode their secrecy" = "erode their censprship"

@icedquinn

Doesn't play for me.

I'm not going to downlod the file to play locally because of the potential "re-percussions".

@freemo

>"You haven't read Gilgsmesh until you've read it in the original Klingon."

I think I need to explain this one...

There is a line in "Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country" -- the Klingon "Gorkon" says, “You have not experienced Shakespeare until you have read him in the original Klingon.”
(Which is a much funnier line, actually. It's become somewhat of an esoteric meme.)

Anyway, the phrase "undiscovered country" is from Shakespeare's Hamlet, a work that explores death; the "undiscovered country" being the place where we go when we die:

"The undiscovered country, from whose bourn
No traveller returns, puzzles the will..."

The Gilgamesh quote was about death, so...

(I thought that needed a little unpacking for folks.)

@Acer

Secrecy and privacy are joined at the hip.

The same technologies that China uses to invade privacy are used to erode their secrecy.

#merging #traffic #patterns

#ecology #funerals #nature #death #forest #animals #random

When I die, I want a natural funeral. Take my body deep into the forest and lie me down in the cool grass surrounded by the majestic pines. The next day, as the night mist gives way to the morning sun, birds will flutter down to my side. Then they'll peck at my eyeballs as a raccoon continues to gnaw on my intestines.

image: (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dülmen,_Rorup,_NSG_Roruper_Holz_--_2021_--_8187-91.jpg), „Dülmen, Rorup, NSG Roruper Holz -- 2021 -- 8187-91“, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode

#dyslexia

Spell-checker is on the fritz...

Turns out there's no "k" in "gnaw".

Who gnew?

@freemo

You haven't read Gilgsmesh until you've read it in the original Klingon.

@freemo

Sounds like someone wants to start a new religion.

(Welcome back,
I almost sent out an "Olly, olly, oxen free for you.)

@Kovaelin

Want to come up for a drink?

Do you like to dance?

Do you eat?

We need to talk.

Work is getting unbearable. (Said to a friend with lots of professional connections)

Well, it's getting late...