The Picard Miniuver

…Jefferies tube!

Get out of the Jeffries tube and look out the viewing port, I could swear that’s a…

He’s adorable.

I appreciate that so much now as a parent, because when the kids are awake, I need to be able to stop what I’m doing at any moment. I’ve been playing a lot of turn-based games for that reason.

Wow, this game looks fun. This is what VR is for.

There’s a lesson here.

I’ve had this same thought. Like, if I ever had the opportunity to be as rich as Bezos or Musk, I don’t think I’d make it because I would’ve stopped so much earlier.

At a certain point, I’d just think “Sweet, we’re set for life, and I can spend all my time with my wife and kids.” Why would I sacrifice that kind of life just to see numbers on my bank accounts go up in a way that no longer meaningfully affects us?

It’s probably really comfortable if you’re Yoda-sized.

Same. It was surreal seeing early internet humor played on TV, because the separation between internet and “real life” was still the norm.

If I’d lived through that time, maybe I’d have a later-in-life obsession about fixing my health too. Hopefully I wouldn’t swear off vaccines and chug methylene blue though.

It’s sort of like how the worst decision streaming services can make is to be so inconvenient that they push people to learn how to torrent. You can’t undo that, and now you just have piracy savvy racoons consumers.

In its current state, it’s like one of those failed graffiti attempts at a swastika.

They put up a fake sky on the ceiling to create the illusion that it’s daytime and you’re outside all day.

I actually thought they had screens or projections, but now I’m not sure. Maybe I’m thinking of somewhere else.

Plato’s allegory of the cave. It’s a metaphor for the comfort we develop in (and often preference for) our less accurate concept of reality when faced with real discoveries that challenge our perspective.

In Plato’s metaphor, the shadows on the wall. In the meme, a representation of a window rather than the real thing.

My money’s on the heir to the Holy Rings of Betazed.

Absolutely. He can even interface with ship computers like R2.

You could do whatever they do at the Venetian in Vegas.