It’s unfortunate that MDZS isn’t mainstream enough to reference in casual offline conversation, because “this is what killed Nie Mingjue” is thee best possible way to describe an offensively grating piece of music and there is simply no normie equivalent.
People really need to take a wider view of this paranoia about age gaps and realise this is how we lose the ability to build communities. You need to be able to realise that people can have things in common with you even if they grew up in a different time/place/culture. You also need to realise you can build communities with people who don’t have obvious things in common with you, that people can have the same goals and needs as you even if in most ways they’re very unlike you. Now, more than ever, we need to be able to work together to have any chance to stand ip against the few who have so, so much more power, money and influence than any of us do individually. We need to form communities that reach across age (and class and race and sexuality and so on…).
Chef (voiceover): I'm a private chef for a famous billionaire and here's the average meal I cook. I start with chopping some green onions and shredding cabbage, and then I get it into that wok, then I keep chopping some -
Kaiba: Dammit. I lost to him again.
Chef: Oh Mr. Kaiba, welcome home s-
Kaiba: Quiet! Blue Eyes white Dragon nuggies. Now.
The senior crew of Starfleet's most controversial starship, the USS Normandy SR-1.
blurb and crew list under the cut!
I came up with a whole backstory for this AU, but I’ll just leave you with this blurb:
After the media circus around the Cerberus trials dies down and the rogue Section 31 cell has been thoroughly dealt with, no one expects to see key witness Shepard, ex-special forces commander, ever again. Not after she publicly disavowed Starfleet, and not with half the quadrant still questioning her involvement.
They especially don’t expect to see her captaining her own starship. And to hire a turian first officer only months after the Hierarchy’s sudden and inexplicable move to join the Federation?
It’s like she’s begging for negative attention.
The galaxy wants to know: what leverage does she hold against Starfleet brass to make them cater to her every whim? And how long until the crew cannibalizes itself under her rogue leadership?
4k video. It’s literally 4k video. Storing the 4k video, encoding 4k uploads, transcoding 4k streaming, indexing 4k video entries for search. Everyone wants to watch vertical videos while streaming Netflix at the same time and also while having a 4k video camera on their person at all times to record whatever. YouTube has 20 years of video and conservative estimates has their monthly active users at 1/4 of the planet. Oh and if YouTube goes down it’s on the news within seconds so the redundancy layers need their own redundancy layers. But yeah it’s 1984 or whatever
the amount of data being created and stored is absolutely enormous, and so much of it is video now, that's a big part of it. but also, we've had data centers for years, it's just that we have shiny new tech that needs more hardware and people are rushing to embrace it and build for it.
but also like. my entire online presence for a couple of years used to be a couple of megabytes, now it's probably a hundred gigabytes.
people adding 'do not use this work for any generative AI' in their AO3 summary, same energy as facebook moms posting 'i do not consent for facebook to use my personal data or photos'
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