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Science 372

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Or: stuff 372 pages made me look up.

Is it easy to remove links from a watch band? How To Easily Remove a Watch Link.

This one I didn’t have to look up. Denmark has a group of Chinese, and they have restaurants. The thing here is, as a Chinese new to Denmark, you ask other Chinese, what kind of job can I get, and they teach you about restaurants. I’m sure it’s not only Chinese and not only Denmark. Why wouldn’t welders on the Moon all come from Saudi Arabia?

Is it easy to figure out how to pronounce names?

So. I like this podcast. I’m learning from it. It’s fun. But it’s also frustrating.

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Løber-åbning

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Anmeldelse af “Bishop’s Opening” (gratis), af R.S.A. Garcia.

Clarkesworld

Skitse: Et lille rumskib skal håndtere en brand. Et, æh, hierarki? Skal overleve intriger, mordforsøg og alt sådan noget.

Er det science fiction? Ja.

Temaer: Kærlighed. Det lille rumskib indeholder en lille familie af 3 personer, der elsker hinanden. En af disse bliver lynhurtigt forelsket i en fyr fra den anden gruppe. Der er også noget med at elske (eller svigte) kone og barn.

Der er noget med skak. Men det er vist bare, at i det der hierarki har kongen mere at sige end en løber.

Er det godt? Hm Mja. Jeg er ikke meget for “forelskelse ved første blik”. Eller intriger, mordforsøg osv. Eller en far, der af alle mulige åndssvage årsager ikke passer på sin datter. **

Note: Det her var den eneste Nebula-nominerede kortroman, der var gratis til rådighed i år.

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Star Trek, Picard, season 2

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This is sort of a review of Star Trek Picard, season 2. Sort of. It’s actually notes I took while watching Star Trek Picard Season 2: What the Hell Happened?. Spoilers.

Beats:

  • Episode 1 👍🏻
    • Answers some questions and critiques after season 1.
    • More positive Federation.
    • A lot of cool spaceships.
    • A mission: What’s up with the Borg?
    • Q! Looking older!
  • Episode 2 👍🏻
    • Skull Dukat.
    • What’s up with Q and Picard?
    • Goal: Go back and fix the timeline.
    • Picard being evil.
    • Theme introduced: trauma.
    • A society choosing darkness or not.
  • Once we get to 2024, we start meandering. 👎🏻 Running in place, going nowhere. 👎🏻
    • Climbing a tower to scan.
    • Rios being injured.
    • Rios in hospital.
    • Rios in jail.
    • Picard and Guinan in jail.
  • Actions without consequences. 👎🏻
    • Once Rios is away from ICE, nothing.
    • Rios falls in love, then nothing.
  • Guinan and the fight against fascism. 👍🏻
  • The gala is a heist, done wrong. 👎🏻
    • For a long time, we don’t know why Renée is important.
    • The right way: Clear expectations and goals, but then the original plan fails.
    • Rios smoking, Seven chatting, why?
    • The plan was for Picard to talk to Renée?
    • Jurati singing a song is a great distraction?
  • Are changes to 2024 important or not? 👎🏻
    • Butterflies.
    • Rios’ badge.
    • Borgified humans being killed.
    • An agent being fired.
    • A bar having to replace its window.
    • ICE detainees running away.
    • The bullet holes.
  • Soong runs over Picard and nothing more? 👎🏻
  • Supervisors. 👍🏻 But does Tallinn really do a lot? And does it make sense that she looks like Laris? 👎🏻
  • Easter eggs.
    • Guinan’s new bar’s name. 👍🏻
    • Mention of Janeway. 👍🏻
    • Prejudice against Seven. 👍🏻
    • Guinan’s 2024 bar’s name. 👎🏻
    • Project Khan. 👎🏻
    • Did “Time’s Arrow” happen? Did Voyage Home happen? 👎🏻
    • Renee living/dying hint. 👎🏻
  • A lot of smaller plot points are quickly resolved in the end, just because. 👎🏻
  • Looking at trauma. 👍🏻
    • The PTSD Seven suffered.
    • Jurati being suicidal.
    • The Borg queen experiencing genocide.

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