@dgar Guess we won't open communications *arms tricobalt device*
@dgar @cstross A line must be drawn, and it must be drawn *here*!
@adamrice @dgar @cstross 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@adamrice @dgar @cstross Picard: There are four squares with traffic lights!

Data: I am not so sure, captain.

@dgar 😆 first page of my "Lower Decks" spec:
@dgar Yes, the Ferengi would absolutely do this.

@dgar I'm literally laughing out loud.

Thank you for this.

@dgar

Come to Quark's, Quark's is fun. Come right now, don't walk. Run!

@dgar it's more funny when it's false positive, like ...
disable what ad blocker?
@loganer @dgar "Oh, you mean this Bravissimo Screen Interface. Yes, it kills all known adverts. Fire at will, Number One."
@dgar when our own intrusive commercialization is exponentially worse than the fictitious alien civilization we invented to represent relentless commercialism

@dgar

"Oh. You need revenue? You'll get revenue."

I say that, as I pull out a singular quarter coin out of my back pocket, and load it into a device, similar to a handgun in its shape. I aim the device in the general direction of their ship and shoot. The coin, almost instantly being accelerated to near-light speeds, pierces their ship and severely damages their oxygen systems, one of the engines and the fuel tank, leaving them effectively stranded in space on a ship that will lose its air soon. Hey, at least they got their revenue, am i right?

"Im not disabling my ad blocker, you idiots. Never."

@dgar I never was comfortable with the Ferengi. For being such a progressive show, adding a thinly veiled stereotype was confusing to say the least
@csolisr @dgar
A cultural sub-text was part of the original show as well. The Klingons were the Russians, The Romulans were the Chinese, and The Vulcans were a small, but influential, commune in California.
@dgar "Ready torpedoes!"
@dgar target photo torpedoes, full spread.
@dgar Come to think of it, there were surprisingly few adverts in the promenade. Star Fleet make advertising illegal or something? Quarks surely should have had it all over the place.
@dgar Now that I think about it, it seems strange that Ferengi comms don't include preroll ads.
@dgar spoof the useragent and update the filterlists of the adblocker, then open another channel.

@dgar Much of that going round these days.

I run with uBlock origin and privacy badger.

And I have no intention of stop running them.

@dgar
Yours is good! I thought of another one...