Jenn Dolari @dolari@driveinsaturday.org

@socketwench - I WAS TOLD THERE WAS NO MATH ON THIS TEST.

...although that's actually neat way to calculate it I'd never thought of. However, I'd likely get the wrong answer of 68,000,000,000 on first glance.

Scientific notation like this actually confuses the hell out of my mathematically incapable brain. At least in long form, I have coping strategies.

I have no idea what 6.8x10^9 translates to. But 6,800,000,000 I know as 6 billion 800 million cause I can count the commas.

@StarTrekHour @JoeSondow - Q7: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONxp_lLXWGk

Joking mostly, but listen to the lyrics. :)

@StarTrekHour @Twerpy - A4: I didn't really find him "endearingly gruff" as most of my friends did. He sounded very unwilling to take chances and vindictive. His dead-naming Seven bothered the hell out of me as a transwoman. All this colored my view of him as Not A Good Captain.

Even at the end, when he tells Seven "The ship is yours" I interpreted that as "Are you happy now?"

There might be some bias there as his constant deadnaming is something that viscerally affected me, but I wasn't fond of him, right to the end.

@StarTrekHour @JoeSondow - A5: I always figured there was no money INSIDE the Federation, but they had a fund or reserve for OUTSIDE the Federation. With Raffi working intelligence outside of the Federation, she'd likely know what money was and could ask for more of it.

@StarTrekHour @Twerpy #StarTrekPicard #StarTrekHour - For me, the difference between homage and rip-off is "has the moment been earned." In TMP, that moment was earned by the ten years off the air.

If they'd gone the whole bombastic music, slow creep from spacedock with multiple shots, I'd consider it a rip-off as I don't think a moment like tht was earned by a ship we'd mostly never heard of before.

At the same time, I don't think there was a rip off when the Titan left spacedock, or even a nod to TMP. It didn't feel super special like TMP did, but wasn't a bad scene on it's own.

You are cursing your trans children into a lifetime of hurt by not allowing them access before puberty. Take it from someone living that hurt.

https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-news/missouri-clinic-halts-transgender-care-minors-wake-new-state-law-rcna104652

[More Thoughts Before Bed]

With all the problems with that grilled shrimp and running out of tortillas, my meal prep is allllll messed up, and its just Tuesday. Not that don't have food. Just not measured diabetic-friendly food....

[Thoughts Before Bed]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbgEvepjo8Q

@mpuckett259 - It's a twice in a lifetime event happening in my parents backyard. I'm not planning on missing it. That said, I also plan to keep my head down, not make waves, and generally stay out of view.

While I wished we could have moved from Jodie directly into Ncuti (or, frankly, just stayed with Jodie), I am glad to see Donna back with David Tennant. She's my fave companion of the new series, and those two were just amazing.