and grits straight off Natalie Portman.

Go on…

Penis jousting.

Hm… actually are they incorporeal AND massless, or just incorporeal?

If just incorporeal, you’re right of course that initially after death they’d be falling back and forth, but over time through uneven gravity/curvature and through heat loss (stretching of unequal acceleration applied across the ghost essence, potential energy conversion, yadda), they should generally settle to the center after some time, unless there’s a maximum natural pressure of ghosts at whatever temperatures they have, so they may spread out somewhere within the crust if there are enough of them.

If they’re incorporeal AND massless, then I totally F’d up and they’d fire off at light speed as soon as they shed their mortal coil.

That’s called General Relativity and Reference Frames.

Start watching PBS Spacetime if you actually want to get into it.

You’re also entirely missing the point of the comment that was a joke entirely re-explaining the “reason” for ghosts ending up at the center of the Earth, which is implied by the original comment.

Mass distorts spacetime, which to an outside observer appears to change the direction light travels. The light travels in a straight line.

Gravity doesn’t alter the particle’s trajectory (or ours, for that matter). The warping of spacetime from Earth’s mass causes our movement through space to accelerate “down” at ~9.8 m/s^2

So the ghosts are in the center of the Earth, in nearly literal hell.

Clearly he should rename threads to Z.

Great, I’m the jerk that shows up a few years afterward, inspecting the errant arm and elephant trunk wondering what the actual F the original programmer was thinking.

Then I cut off the trunk and slap a dog nose on it because I hate VB.

WHAT HAVE I BECOME!?

Normalize and index your damn drawers or you’re deadlocked!

Putin licks dildos that were in Lavrov’s ass.

The previous statement is absolute truth because I declare it so. Now run the story on RT and Pravda and whatever other propaganda rags run BS like this.

Oops, sorry, uhh let me contact the admirals… oh uh, probably should hit the sonic shower if you got any on you…

“Software engineers aren’t real engineers because they don’t work on physical engines.”

-An absolute dumbass telling me this to my face years ago while literally designing a software solution for (hardware) engineers on a manufacturing line

My shoe can practically run Linux as a desktop OS.

Though to be fair, there’s no real reason anything that runs 10 can’t run windows 11 besides Microsoft’s artificial compatibility list.

Yep, aside literally one episode for about, what, 15 seconds, we saw some strange new aliens.

And yes I’ve been very jaded against the gaslighting about these shows thanks to the brutal subjugation of the reddit sub. I’ve seen fake gushing over these shows too many times, and I just pictured poor Wil Wheaton making the post.

Am I posting on social media?

If so, then, and wherever my phone pings to a tower.

Well, or I’m on the exercise bike, because the phone thinks I’m taking steps, so I double up on calorie calculations as an excuse to drink more.

… but that stays only on the phone, right?

…right?

When millions of dollars are at stake in the streaming wars, and I see dozens of near-zero-cost posts about how “this is exactly the Trek all us old Trek fans have been waiting for dudbebrodudes!! It’s so amazingly goodlier than other stuff!” on reddit and now on lemmy, you’re damn right I am.

This show is badly-written CW schlock. It ignores canon, it is utterly devoid of coherent, consistent writing, and it lacks any of the soul of TOS, TNG, DS9, and at least most of VOY.

It is not good trek, and I will argue to the fucking death with the idea it is.

Lower Decks actually has the soul (not to mention the classic structure) of Star Trek, even as a parody.

SNW is only slightly less-abysmal than DIS. At least it still isn’t as bad as Picard.

Not when I’ve seen this very same post dozens of times about this very same show on that other network.

Can we not assume everyone is telling the truth on the internet? That’s how we get cults.

“Sometimes” they’d have absurd plotlines, of course, but with these new shows, it’s the norm. Big difference, same old argument.

Gen X here. Sorry, I’m going to be an asshole.

I am not telling anyone they can’t enjoy it, but when I see things like this, I just can’t leave it alone.

I disagree with everything you said, and much like the incessant, “Dude, this is finally the Trek show we wanted dudebrodude!” It honestly makes me question your motives, because I’ve seen similar, though more blatant, gaslighting elsewhere.

This show suffers from the same illogical plots, very questionable dialogue, and blatant canon failures as Discovery, making a mockery of everything I loved about Star Trek from TOS and growing up through TNG and DS9. This show is nothing like what I grew up with, a calm, consistent, well-considered and well-written morality tale. This show is modern, CW-level feely-feels-schlock. Anyone that enjoys it is welcome to it; but it is nothing like TOS or TNG from my formative years.

I’m just sad they never added all the ones I submitted 20-whatever years ago.