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And the Doctors Without Borders hospital in Kunduz

The only newspaper worth reading is The Onion because it has the jester’s privilege to actually tell the truth.

You shouldn’t pirate the NYT

Because it’s a dogshit propaganda rag which uncritically repeats the US government line

Archived page to get past BI’s paywall

On the days I travel, I often have a full schedule of Social Security disability psychological assessments to conduct.

This person’s job is looking for excuses to cut people’s disability benefits.

Since the vehicle is technically for my business, it needed to be big enough for a specific tax code. The Cybertruck was the only one that fit the bill.

Picked the stupid thing as some kind of weird tax dodge?

Tesla’s Full Self-Driving significantly reduces the stress of driving all over Arizona.

Definitely driving without paying attention to the road

The pronouns are right there in his name. And he was obviously referring to Kamala’s promise to keep arming the genocidal zionist entity so it can continue its genocide against the Palestinian people.

That was Sisko, in “For the Cause”

It’s also dangerous to walk outdoors at all. I saw the aftermath of a drunk driver killing a pedestrian at 6 AM a few days ago. There was debris spread for at least a hundred meters down the road. The news said the driver was uninjured.

He should on no account be allowed within 500m of a child, ever. If that means beaming him into space without a suit since the Voyager is only 343 meters long, so much the better.

Is this giving Neelix credit for being less creepy after Kes wasn’t there for him to creep on anymore?

My mom’s home taped betamaxes of TOS

Star Trek should absolutely be gatekept from conservatives.

When the whole Cerritos crew was having an orgy in 2x08 (in a holodeck sim, but then you cited holodecks sims first) Billups was sitting there in the nude reading happily on his own.

I took his mother’s choice of who to send to him as more evidence of her trying anything and everything (other than just accepting his asexuality) than knowing his actual interests.

Also, aromantic and asexual are different things and do not necessarily go together, so showing romantic interest does not necessarily disprove asexuality.

Right. The only thing missing from this analysis, I think, is that it’s less about his desire to be a Starfleet engineer than his asexuality. I think if his mom would just stop trying to trick him into doing the weird sex ritual he’d be happy playing with dragonbreath instead of warp plasma.

Hysperia is an elaborate LARP and has no actual power over Billups beyond familial and social pressure.

It had exactly the opposite effect for me. I greatly disliked season 1 of Discovery but thought they wrapped it up well enough at the end of the season that they could move on. Georgiou showing back up in season 2 read to me as them having learned absolutely nothing and doubling down on the disaster rather than backpedaling from it.

It’s very good and only gets better as it goes on. Season 2 was fantastic.

Your wife has watched 3/4 of the good modern Trek series and should watch Prodigy. (and the TNG era Treks)

I like Strange New Worlds. Very much hoping they complicate the Gorn cliffhanger they left the last season off with though.

Discovery bringing Georgiou back in season 2 as a Section 31 agent felt to me like the show was doing this, and is what put me off that show specifically. I really like the majority of modern Trek shows, and even like 2 out of 3 of the Kelvin timeline movies.

Dictatorship, socialist, communist, liberal, rights, private property

Really pretty much all of the relevant terms here