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Fun fact: Star Trek set designers don't typically build weird alien chairs. They just go buy them. Those are real products for humans!

https://www.ex-astris-scientia.org/database/chairs-trek.htm

1. Stokke Globe Garden, designed by Peter Opsvik
2. Organic Chair, designed by Luca and Paolo Giacomuzzi
3. Artifort F582 Ribbon Chair
4. Modesty Veiled Armchair, designed by Italo Rota for Driade

And he targeted Democrats.

Yeah, the machine translators I've tried are absolutely terrible -- I can't find one that can round-trip some text without turning it into absolute gibberish.

I'm only like halfway through unit 1 in Duolingo, but I did the translation myself and I think I did a better job (note: Klingon sentences are structured object-verb-subject):

nuq = what

jI- = indicates a command

jalIh = to say, to speak

-Qo' = again

thlIngan Hol = the Klingon language

petaQ = well-known generic expletive (I didn't try to find something that literally translated to "mother fucker")

Da- = can, able

-'a' = indicates a question

nuq jIjalIh = say "what" again!

thlIngan Hol petaQ DajalIh'a' = Klingon, motherfucker, do you speak it?!

I dunno, maybe $1000-$2000, give or take? However much it costs for a couple to, say, drive from Atlanta to a Florida panhandle beach town for a week, staying in a mid-priced hotel, eating mostly casual dining plus a few overpriced but not fancy seafood dinners, and budgeting for a few activities like mini golf or a dolphin tour or whatever.

(Even that is more modest than the example I gave about my parents: they were doing things like flying to Cancun and staying at all-inclusive resorts in their 20s and 30s.)

In contrast, the "vacations" I actually have taken have either been staycations, tagging along with my parents or the in-laws on their trips for free, traveling to attend somebody's wedding, or (if we're actually paying for it ourselves)... camping. Not "glamping," either -- in a tent at a National Forest backcountry campsite for $0/night.

To be clear, I'm not saying that I can't cover a $2000 expense if I have to. I'm just saying that I've never felt wealthy enough to be comfortable spending that much money on something that isn't a necessity or an investment.

If it relies on Chromium as a base in any way, it is still beholden to Google's design decisions.

All I know is that I'm allegedly "middle-class" and I've never felt like I've been able to "afford" a vacation in my entire adult life. Certainly nothing like what my Boomer parents talk about having done when they were my age.

Oklahoma

here in the south

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From my perspective here in GA, y'all are Southwest or Midwest or something. Or supposed to still belong to the Native Americans, for that matter.

Do real "middle-class" people have enough money to pay those exorbitant prices even for a few days, at this point? I mean, if the people being displaced by this stuff were themselves also going on vacation and inflicting the same issue on locals elsewhere that'd be one thing, but I'm not convinced that's the case.

I suppose you also have to be careful not to make your dirt roads too janky or else they become fun for the 4x4 folks and mountain bikers (and yes, I'm speaking for myself in both cases). It always sucks when a trail gets closed because too many users and/or inconsiderate users tore it up too much.

Having good wireless coverage (even cellular, let alone wi-fi) in national parks implies a level of development that such parks should not have. I mean, sure, they're not "wilderness" (in the US park taxonomy sense), but still...

I'm pretty sure it's current events and analysis of them from e.g. climate scientists, fascism experts and Legal Eagle on Youtube that are making it sound like the end is nigh to me. Lemmy is just where I discuss it.

I think the difference between "targeted" and "contextual" is an important one to make re: privacy. "Targeted" means they're tracking you and using your characteristics to customize the ads; "contextual" means they're just showing ads related to the search term.