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  • I somewhat disagree with the ingenious GUI in Star Trek. After decades, I still look at these Star Trek Interfaces and do not understand how they work, what the information hirachy is or what a buttons is or what is just passive Elements. I give him the benefit of science-fiction and my weak 20th century brain is not ready to understand 2290s graphical user interfaces but for me it is just artwork and I bet GUI in Starfleets in the future will not look like that at all. I love the GUI asthetics of more modern sci-fi movies where I can actually understand why there is a CTA, why there is a diagramm on how to navigate it. But the gap between what Okuda did and what we see on phones, tablets and the general web today are worlds apart. He did a somewhat great artwork, but was not able to give a realistic outlook on how human-machine interaction in the future will look like. It also aged poorly and still feels like the orange-chic of the 70s and did not made the asthetic upgrade that the ship design and costume design did in the series. That man might be a legend, but his understanding of GUI is somewhat weak in comparison with other sci-fi artist. And I take the foaming downvotes for that but it has to be said at least once on the internet.











  • Year Top Marginal Tax Rate Congress President

    1980 70.00% 🟦 Jimmy Carter

    1981 69.13% (🟦🟥) Ronald Reagan

    1982 50.00% (🟦🟥) Ronald Reagan

    1983 50.00% (🟦🟥) Ronald Reagan

    1984 50.00% (🟦🟥) Ronald Reagan

    1985 50.00% (🟦🟥) Ronald Reagan

    1986 50.00% (🟦🟥) Ronald Reagan

    1987 38.50% 🟦 Ronald Reagan

    1988 28.00% 🟦 Ronald Reagan

    1989 28.00% 🟦 George H.W. Bush

    1990 28.00% 🟦 George H.W. Bush

    1991 31.00% 🟦 George H.W. Bush

    1992 31.00% 🟦 George H.W. Bush

    1993 39.60% 🟦 Bill Clinton

    1994 39.60% 🟦 Bill Clinton

    1995 39.60% 🟥 Bill Clinton

    1996 39.60% 🟥 Bill Clinton

    1997 39.60% 🟥 Bill Clinton

    1998 39.60% 🟥 Bill Clinton

    1999 39.60% 🟥 Bill Clinton

    2000 39.60% 🟥 Bill Clinton

    2001 39.10% 🟥 George W. Bush

    2002 38.60% 🟥 George W. Bush

    2003 35.00% 🟥 George W. Bush

    2004 35.00% 🟥 George W. Bush

    2005 35.00% 🟥 George W. Bush

    2006 35.00% 🟥 George W. Bush

    2007 35.00% 🟦 George W. Bush

    2008 35.00% 🟦 George W. Bush

    2009 35.00% 🟦 Barack Obama

    2010 35.00% 🟦 Barack Obama

    2011 35.00% (🟦🟥) Barack Obama

    2012 35.00% (🟦🟥) Barack Obama

    2013 39.60% (🟦🟥) Barack Obama

    2014 39.60% (🟦🟥) Barack Obama

    2015 39.60% 🟥 Barack Obama

    2016 39.60% 🟥 Barack Obama

    2017 39.60% 🟥 Donald Trump

    2018 37.00% 🟥 Donald Trump

    2019 37.00% (🟦🟥) Donald Trump

    2020 37.00% (🟦🟥) Donald Trump

    2021 37.00% (🟦🟥) Joe Biden

    2022 37.00% (🟦🟥) Joe Biden

    2023 37.00% (🟦🟥) Joe Biden

    KEY [Congressional Control: Democrat🟦 Republican🟥 Split(🟦🟥)] [President: Republican Democrat]

    shamelessly copied from a reddit comment - sue me



  • They must be so dumbfounded how professional the ukrainians are. They know how they would deal with POW themselfs. They know how they treat each others in the ranks. They know how they would deal with a Ukrainian POW. They would rough them up constantly and set an example on some of the POW not shying away from murder. But these ukrainians, they do not do these.

    If there are two braincells left in their propaganda rotten brains, and they somehow managed to rub these two braincells together to create something like a reflection or genuine thought, they must realize that they are the bad guys. After a week or two as a POW, their grudge cant hold up. They must realise that they get treated better than in their own company.

    Some might go back home one day and will struggle to connect the dots of what they experienced. Some will not speak about what happened, as it would make them “a ukraine brainwashed faggot” in the eyes of odinary russian citizens who can not comprehend a functioning society. Some will try to speak out, others will not dare. But they all bring back just another puzzle piece into a failed society and the faint idea, that the russian society doesnt have to be like that. The imprisonment as a POW might as well be the best time they ever had - and that gonna gnaw on some of them for the rest of their life. Deep down, some will realize their contraphobic society shaped their disenthral lifes. Some will stay hooked to the hate and harm and transfigure it as a part of the “russian soul”. Others will question yet again on why russia can never get better - and who is holding them back from better lifes.