And yet Discovery felt the need to have a scene explaining why Spock never mentioned his adopted sister.
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And yet Discovery felt the need to have a scene explaining why Spock never mentioned his adopted sister.
Kirk did not know that Spock was married; that Spock's father was the most famous living Vulcan; that Spock had a half brother; that Spock's godmother was the second most famous living Vulcan.
The man did not talk about family.
Love to loudly say “are you sure honey? Claude says you’re being hysterical again“ into my phone to see if anyone in the coffee shop has the manners to kill me
Any other Star Trek from TNG on would have made that the A plot of an episode, and the B plot of at least three more. But on TOS, it's completely unremarked. Every significant moment happens off camera.
It's a weird difference.
It occurs to me that Chekov being a proxy for teenage viewers probably means he's fresh out of the Academy. Most likely on his first posting.
On the bridge of the freaking flagship, under a captain who's already half-mythic.
I’m sorry, doing this in a baseball cap sold by your campaign store is deliberately disrespecting the dead.
And you know someone's taking steps to make sure they win.
If hunting deer is legal, why not hunting men?
they brought back fucking polio
youtu.be/KW2Uq3mOs48?...
Challenge for people who believe Claude *is* conscious and use it anyway: Explain how you’re not a slaver.
Which is how Xorblax managed to steal his identity.
But when he was a kid, they were big enough for him to use and now they've all shrunk!
A year long investigation into the Hyperloop found …
“The truth was far simpler, far dumber, and far more prescient: Musk and his lieutenants truly had no idea what they were doing.”
washingtonian.com/2026/02/12/h...
Challenge for those who are very confident that Mickey Mouse isn't conscious: Explain how human consciousness works.
Again, we have an entire economy built on propping up the worst of white peoples
The obvious wisdom and effectiveness of Housing First is obscured by the fact we've made "a tiny, no-frills apartment" an expensive status symbol in huge swathes of the country by creating an artificial housing shortage
Dear Russia,
Iran's fire is making oil prices spike.
Spiking oil prices makes economic problems for us, so we're making it easier for you to sell more oil.
In sum, Iranian military success against us reduces economic pressure on you.
Just, you know, FYI.
Sincerely,
The geniuses leading America
Even when Reagan was smuggling weapons to them.
right as many americans are figuring out what they owe in taxes for last year. feels like an effective opposition party could do something with that!
I thought it was because we empathize with the onion, knowing that its children are orphaned just so I can make my steak slightly tastier.
This really should be on every front page in America.
The fucking President, an adjudicated rapist and Epstein BFF, almost certainly assaulted a 13 year old child
hey i wrote about this yesterday and compared our tech oligarchs to the planter class of the South pre-civil war
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Love it!
Screenshot of an excerpt of a Bulwark article by Lt. Gen. (retired) Mark Hertling: *** This is why responsible national leadership requires two qualities at the same time: expertise and, in my view, a level of discomfort and anxiety. Expertise ensures decisions are grounded in strategy—clear thinking about ends, ways, and means. What is the political objective? What military action advances it? How do those individual tactical actions contribute to an operational plan? What risks follow? What happens the day after the strikes end? Discomfort serves as a moral and strategic guardrail. Leaders who feel the weight of ordering teenagers toward hardship, injury, and death are more likely to ask the necessary hard questions. They consult widely, think about escalation, and remember that war is not simply a tool of policy but a human undertaking with irreversible consequences. The paradox is that those who understand force best are rarely eager to use it. They prepare for it. They plan for it. They master it. But they never become comfortable with it. If a president is becoming more knowledgeable about military power, that is a good thing. If he is becoming “comfortable” ordering it, that should give all of us pause—because too much comfort with the desire to use force is rarely a sign of wisdom.
"The paradox is that those who understand force best are rarely eager to use it. They prepare for it. They plan for it. They master it. But they never become comfortable with it."
Really wise piece here from @markhertling.bsky.social.
www.thebulwark.com/i/190103369/...
Smoking two joints makes you forget how to fly an A10 Warthog, but as very few people could do that to begin with, it took a $20,000,000 research grant to figure it out.
Honestly, all presidents probably should be charged with war crimes.
Maybe William Henry Harrison gets a pass for not having had time to do war crimes.
All I know about the South Sea Bubble is from this: youtu.be/tYJ5_wqlQPg?...
This is a hard choice, but I think I'm going for Dog Day Afternoon.
Honorable Mentions to Picnic At Hanging Rock, Rollerball and Monty Python And The Holy Grail.
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The Eagle Huntress (2016)
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