parapsyker

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[–] parapsyker@startrek.website 1 points 3 weeks ago

Nah, 99% sure that it wasn't multiplayer.

Thanks for trying though!

[–] parapsyker@startrek.website 11 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I live in a city where property values have increased by an order of magnitude over about 40 years.

Yes, we have a lot of speculators and wealthy landowners who need to be taxed out of existence.

But we also have a problem where seniors on fixed incomes who have owned their homes for 30 - 50 years cannot afford their property taxes because the land their homes are sitting on has exploded in value.

[–] parapsyker@startrek.website 2 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

I don't think so, but I do have very fond memories of playing a Trek game that I have not been able to identify despite quite a bit of searching.

Part of the problem was that I think my dad would get the game to a certain stage for me and then hand over the computer so I could fly around space and shoot things, so my memories are only of a very specific little bit of the game.

This would have been early to mid 90s, on a dual-boot machine, but I think I remember launching it in Linux?

If anybody has the faintest recollection of a 90s (or earlier) Trek game where you could fire phasers or photon torpedoes, and the photon torpedoes looked kind of like a pair of twinkling yellow stars, I would at least feel a little less crazy.

[–] parapsyker@startrek.website 16 points 1 month ago

As a selfish daughter, I think this is hilarious tbh.

But I also have a mother who understands and fully supports my and my partner's reproductive choices and I probably would not feel that way if circumstances were different.

[–] parapsyker@startrek.website 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

This is going to keep happening as long as governments keep outsourcing new "affordable" housing projects to developers.

It makes far more sense to me to administer the projects publicly and source materials and trades directly instead of through the obnoxious matryoshka middleman system that is public-private partnership.

Also we badly need to fucking build non-market housing.

[–] parapsyker@startrek.website 3 points 1 month ago

I'd call it negligent, tbh. Especially since CBC has reported on it.

[–] parapsyker@startrek.website 9 points 1 month ago

Analogous structures? I don't even know her!

[–] parapsyker@startrek.website 5 points 1 month ago

Nobody gets clean while sleeping rough.

https://homelesshub.ca/collection/programs-that-work/housing-first/

https://endhomelessness.org/resource/data-visualization-the-evidence-on-housing-first/

And here is a podcast by and about drug users where people speak about their experiences with the system in BC and elsewhere as is has been, is, and is becoming: https://www.crackdownpod.com/ Includes interviews with researchers and doctors.

I have found it extremely worthwhile and necessary listening, but it is heartwrenching.

Nothing about them without them.

[–] parapsyker@startrek.website 1 points 1 month ago

"Ideally these involuntary treatments include housing treated people and assisting them in getting their own housing and employment."

...yeah but they won't, will they?

[–] parapsyker@startrek.website 4 points 1 month ago

We needed one fifteen years ago, but better late than never.

 

One of my favourite performances from VOY (S05E10 Counterpoint).

Hats off to the makeup team for that prosthetic- and to actor Randy Lowell.

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