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"Google Sheets does not use traditional files that sit on your phone's storage like a Word or Excel document. Instead, it is a cloud-based application, which means the actual file lives entirely on Google's internet servers."

This never occurred to me before.

Why is this ok, and why are people using Google?

Gary Cooper is talking to the heroine and she suddenly starts singing:

Fare the well my honey, fare the well

Which is "Dink's Song".

It's odd, because she is Italian and I think there is a reference to it being a 'country song'.

Jammers is great here. Don't always agree, but he really nails it here. The episode is really pointless as well as not funny. By not taking the premise seriously, there are no stakes either.

https://www.jammersreviews.com/st-snw/s4/level-five-transporter-accident.php

The Dungeons and Dragons movie with Chris Pine was a turn your brain off (or on simmer) action comedy bordering on farce. Couldn't the story be an episode of SNW? After all, it's about a mother father rescuing his daughter.

Bunch of people finding the tech to defeat the villain. People are injured for dramatic effect.

It seems to me this is the opposite of Trek - where you want science fiction allegory to have character driven stories about idea, morals or messages.

It left the Paramount Top 10 pretty early, after 5.

S1E4 Film Noir

# Dt W US
1 8/14 #8, #6
2 8/15 #9, #7
3 8/16 #8, #10
4
5 8/18 #10, 0
6 8/19 0 , 0

The hangover episode actually remained at the bottom all week, which was unprecedented.

Here is NitpickingNerds comparison. The arm, the car, the tattoo all came from the movie.

The newly restored version is like stepping into a time machine. I'm not sure how long you will last, but it is glorious. Beautiful color that no one can seem to do today. It is "free" on YouTube. Anyone who is interested in film should at least try and watch this. It is amazing.

The success of the Odyssey proves that the internet is powerless to stop people from seeing a good show.

Also, the success of seasons 1 and 2 of Strange New Worlds also shows that the internet is powerless to stop people from seeing a popular show.

We do not know why people dropped Strange New Worlds in season 3 and have not returned for season 4. If one could guess it would be it dropped it's traditional 'Star Trek' episodes and tried different genres. Maybe people got tired of the 'Spock sit-com' episodes, the Star Trek as Buck Rogers, Zombies, the musicals, the cartoon, the 'Supernatural' type episodes that lead us to the season finale.

Season 4 seems to take that trend and expand on it. We got Star Trek: Event Horizon, then Star Trek: the Hangover.

I mean, really? Here is Rting's frequency response of the mini-rig 4 - with tilt-EQ on, speaker facing the ceiling, and default EQ.

Rtings Frequency Response of Minirig 4

Every character in New Star Trek has backstory trauma. Many stories are written with these trauma. The same with soap operas and many different types of TV. However, none of them are good. Why? Because there there is no resolution other than either people fighting or people "facing" the trauma. Maybe you can tell it once (etc...), but certainly not more than that.

Our world is headed for catastrophe and we could write stories about people who either are leading that or preventing that from happening. Telling all these people it is because of trauma is not helpful. In fact, if everyone has one, we might say, 'what else do you have'?

Instead, one should write about ethical dilemmas themselves. When Pike is tempted to choose fantasy over reality, what should a writer do? Should we ask what his backstory trauma is? Of course not. Why? Because it is not helpful, and we want there to be a universal message. What if there are people who haven't shot their horse before (see What is Starfleet).

What we can do is show him being captain of the Enterprise, and be a inspirational leader. We want to be like him as we tune in ever week. So we want to choose reality. Not because he will fight someone and someone tells him 'you want to live in fantasy because everyone hated you when you were young'.

This is mainly how they used to write Star Trek (yes, I know there are some exceptions, which is fine).

In TOS he provided scientific information, but also the logical side of an argument. He wants to save the Horta and initially Kirk is more worried about the minors. It would be logical to fight in Return to Tomorrow, but Kirk says 'risk is why we are out here'. In Gallieo 7 he learns the limitations of logic in leadership. 

In SNW, Spock is shown in at least one episode of every season doing a romantic episode. He changes bodies with T'Pring is season 1, in 2 he becomes human to fool his mother-in-law, in a season 3 Chapel says she wants to marry him.

Spock would eventually have three girlfriends in the season. 

Why? Why change a character that was meant to be logical and scientific to one of romance

"Woke" is believeing in diversity, so people who say Star Trek is too woke can't be correct, since diversity has always been important to Star Trek.

However, the definition of the word "woke" has changed.

According to Webster's, it also includes:

1. often used in contexts that suggest someone's expressed beliefs about such matters are not backed with genuine concern or action.

2. politically liberal or progressive (as in matters of racial and social justice) especially in a way that is considered unreasonable or extreme

3)...eventually developed pejorative use describing people, policies, practices, etc., seen as too politically liberal or progressive.

I don't call this show 'woke' because the word has different meanings to different people. But certainly the show seems peformative in it's bragging about diversity when it really wants to write shows about people cutting their fingers off, firing phasers or Spock having three girlfriends.

These are FlixPatrol Paramount+ worldwide daily figures. Overall, its not looking great, but it is persistent. It don't think it fell out of the top 10 until the last day.

7/24 #8
7/25 #7
7/26 N/A
7/27 #9
7/28 N/A
7/30 Not in top 10

These are FlixPatrol Paramount+ worldwide daily figures. Overall, its not looking great, but it is persistent. It did not fall out of the top 10 until the last day.

7/24 #8
7/25 #7
7/26 N/A
7/27 #9
7/28 N/A
7/30 Not in top 10

N/A means I forget to collect that data for the day, if anyone has actual data for that day, please let me know.

Edit: had to repost, original had the wrong title.

On a lark I got another soundcore go boom 3i - the little one. They sound really nice - made me change my view of Bluetooth speakers in general.

To get an idea, I used Samsung's ability to play two dissimilar speakers at once (I played it along side my x600. not stereo but there is a bit of lag) and you immediately hear an improvement.

I wonder if two Soundcore Boom 2 is better than a plus or two Lavas better than a Stormbox blast

I want to sound intelligent when I respond, but reddit prevents me from reading other comments while loosing place.

I have tried a Soundcore x600, x500, boom go 3i. 300, Moton+, Tribit Xsound plus 2, , UE Wonderboom 3 don't sound really great.

My inexpensive ($150) wired Klipsch promedia 2.1 all sound better than these.

I don't even think frequency response is that important - I played around with the eq's. Increasing the bass makes it sound warmer, but then the actual bass is annoying with it's thud, thud, thud.

And I have a little sub with my Klipsch, and I can turn it up or down, but still, in most positions it has a more pleasant sound than the bluetooth speakers.

Is there something that sounds nice at low volumes - perhaps maybe with a more limited frequency response?