I just fiddled around with it and got it to work this way:

Open qwant in a new tab. Right-click in the empty search text field and click “add as search engine.” Then go to settings > search > default search engine etc. and make it a default. I don’t know if the qwant extension does anything tbh.

I came across a note that qwant isn’t available everywhere as a pre-set-up search engine. Who knows why that is so…

From the help pages:

"Change the default Search Engine You can set any of the search engines listed in Settings > Search Engines as the default Search Engine.

Option 1

Go to Settings > Search > Default Search Engine; Select your preferred Search Engine from the dropdown menu.

Option 2

Go to Settings > Search > Search Engines; Select the Search Engine you want to set as default; Tick the box for Set as Default Search."

Qwant is an option.

I think you can change the Klingon makeup as much as you want. Have one guy day Qapla and we’re golden. Recognizable enough. This Cardassian getup was too far from the one we’re used to - definitely what I was used to. Even the Fed president lady in Disco looked more Cardassian and she was only a quarter Cardassian. They went too far with the redesign. Which is sad because the choice of species wasn’t random.

I learned about her Cardassianess on this podcast. There is also a deeper meaning behind it because the Cardassians are great record keepers and that’s why she would be entrusted with keeping Jake’s unpublished book! A lovely touch that completely escaped me because I didn’t recognize her as a Cardassian until I heard Tawny talk about it with the Greatest Trek boys, subscribe today on the Maximum Fun network.

I was, initially, because I’m a fan, mad when it was revealed that Tawny Newsome’s character was supposed to be Dax. I later learned she was also supposed to be Cardassisn, which I totally missed as well. But I was mad in a “here we go again, new writers pulverize the canon of old, Trill synbionts can live a gazillion years now” way. But when I put the phone down before firing off a number of senseless hot take posts, I came to the conclusion that the Burn would have probably necessitated a system of hibernation or cryo storage for symbionts in need of a new host but unable to get back to Trill. In my head canon, the Dax symbiont was on ice for a couple of centuries.

I like the idea of the symbionts having an influence over their life span. And that Dax would cling to life no matter what for the off chance to meet The Sisko again makes sense to me too.

We’ll see which theory holds because I’m sure we’ll see Tawny in makeup again somehow.

Who writes headlines like that? “Japan” didn’t cancel anything. One out of 1500 mayors in the whole country (or thereabouts) made a decision.

One would hope all of “Spain” doesn’t write misleading headlines just because one jerk at El Pais does.

I frankly don’t believe that this guide alone would have solved as many issues for you as it would also cause. What is presented as universal wisdom is never that simple. The “nobody taught you” aspect is not universally true. I counted ten items in the list I was taught in school or by my parents. I’m not the center of the universe but we can extrapolate that some people have been taught some of these things in some setting. So there is already a mistake in the headline.

This “cool guide” is either redundant (letting people exit a place or the elevator first are roughly the same thing) or not specific enough (letting people exit buses and trains etc. before you enter is missing). You should also offer your chair or seat to those who need it more than you (e.g. pregnant, old, or injured people). You don’t have to offer a replacement date if you cancel an appointment if you canceled in the first place because you don’t want to hang out with an asshole. You don’t need to clean up a mess you made while running outside while the house is on fire. There will be instances where you don’t need to return a borrowed item in the same or better condition than when you borrowed it. If I lended you my dirty lawnmower I would not expect you to clean it or sharpen its blades before you returned it. The additional wear and tear is factored in already.

This poster gives the impression to contain simple, universal, virtuous truths. But none of them are always simple or always logical. They are at best a patchy guideline missing even more unarticulated conditions and exceptions that render them useless. And if you aren’t aware of the missing bits, you’ll still have awkward social interactions.

My suspicion is that somebody created a list of things they thought was the epitome of wisdom in general social interactions, in the US and not in a city with public transport options. They possibly used so-called AI to compile this list. It’s even more likely that they used it to design the poster and to draw the little pictures. And then posted it online to be praised for their effort (don’t aura farm ought to be a bullet point on this poster as well). It deserves to be criticized.

It’s not just the SS, the Wehrmacht also “suffered” from having to shoot all these people. Read up on Babij Jar, Ukraine. Even Himmler is on record expressing sympathy for his killers. That’s why the bullet based plan turns into a gas based one. Because it’s “easier” to flip a switch on a room full of people than to shoot naked people to fall on other corpses already in the ditch.

I think what’s standing between us today and the bottom of the genocidal slippery slope is the (relatively) free media. There are too many ways to check up on them today. Commercial satellites, FOIA requests, people with smartphones. If ICE were building a death camp or digging mass graves now, we probably would find out.

So it’s important to look at how CBS gave in and how the pentagon restricts coverage in exchange for accreditation - those are your first dead canaries in the news coalmine. When commercial satellites are suddenly forced to blur or not cover ICE camps …

I would be surprised if they hadn’t killed more people in detention already. The aim of ICE is to be state terror, their people are of questionable character, poorly trained or vetted. A duty of care is probably not first and foremost on their mind. There probably is a way to brush some cases under the carpet. Deaths by “natural causes,” “misplaced” death certificates, “corpses” on repatriation flights. The spotlight of public attention needs to be on these motherfuckers constantly.

No one taught you this? Even if nobody sits you down for a lesson, you are taught by example by the people around you when you grow up.

Also, the tipping and keeping doors open for people behind you are not universally applicable. In large swaths of Asia you’ll be met by ire or confusion respectively. So maybe this is missing a generated image for being culturally sensitive.

No, it isn’t.

Maybe I’m out of the loop but can you point me towards some western liberals advocating for a stronger China?

Trouble with Tribbles! Worf just says they don’t discuss it with outsiders. ENT does more of the heavy lifting if you ask me.

Spoilers galore for PIC

We are all confused. I feel they wrote themselves into a corner in PIC S2 and airlifted out of it without addressing the little unpainted corner they left behind. From a writers’ room perspective, it keeps their options open. From a fan POV it’s maddening. I don’t think it’s all that clear that the OG Borgs are dead after S3; they could return as well because they caused a subharmonic regression in the 500 Cochrane range that traveled back a transwarp corridor in time. Or something like that.

This is a Klingon makeup problem. For the longest time, it wasn’t addressed why the movie Klingons looked different from the TOS ones. Then ENT tried to fix this. And then DISCO came in and completely obliterated that fix. It doesn’t make sense. It cannot make sense. We mustn’t be so Vulcan about it.

I think it depends. I’m my experience, towels last longer if they get thrown in the dryer. Wouldn’t throw my cashmere sweater in there though, if I owned one. The quality of the clothes you own plays a part. And most of us tend to go for the bargain over quality.

I feel like this depends on your climate as well. If you have sufficient sunlight outside, why do you even have a dryer? If it’s humid and stuff takes forever to dry on its own, a dryer might prevent certain bacteria to build up in the fabric and thus expand longevity. Although any act of aggressively drenching the fabric in water and chemicals and then blow drying it ought to age it by default.

I know I deserve to burn in hell for stopping them. But I’m also not sure what was I supposed to do.

I’m not sure why you feel this way. It looks to me like you tried to do your best looking out in a reasonable way for a colleague in your group who was in a chemically altered state.

In the end, you’re not responsible for him. Don’t go partying with him again. If you end up in hell, it won’t be due to this stuff.

Background: it is already forbidden for members of the state parliament to display written or symbolic political messages on their clothing while working on the premises. There was a case where a member wore a shirt displaying something from the late Mr. Kirk - you may guess what side of the political spectrum he is on. He was reprimanded and fully covered the shirt under his suit jacket. But later images circulated from that day that showed the written message on the shirt while he was wearing his jacket on the premises; those images were apparently doctored by “AI.” As a result parliament will add wording to their house rules banning such manipulation, threatening to suspend MPs who are violating this new rule.

I initially suspected this state assembly banned this for the whole state but it just applies to MPs. Nevertheless they claim to be the first to introduce such rules.

Just to translate this headline: “State assembly in Baden-Wuerthemberg (Southwest Germany) prohibits any “AI” fakes in connection with what is taking place at its public meetings” (i.e. committees and plenar sessions)

(Annotations) by me; didn’t read the article yet. please see summary in the reply.

Oh the humanity!