Especially_the_lies @ Especially_the_lies @startrek.website Posts 7Comments 147Joined 2 yr. ago
Affecting 3rd of US Residents
Not 1/3 or 1/3rd or even a 3rd? I miss the days when news companies hired proofreaders.
I'm not going to say this is nothing--because as the ban on tobacco and liquor advertising showed us, it's not nothing --but is the best we can do banning firearm ads?????
Do I get to pick my mother?
This is the essential question. Like, if I could be born into a super-wealthy family, the actual time might be less important.
I hear "proton p--" and immediately start looking around for the Ghostbusters. Anyway, carry on.
But if you're living on a planet far from the fighting, sure there might be a slight change in your day-to-day, but you wouldn't be consumed by it. Even living in the Alpha Centauri system would be far from the fighting but close enough in to be a core world in the Federation.
I think it's interesting that Prince Harry was allowed to serve on the front lines in Afghanistan. Granted, he was a volunteer and not a conscript, but the fact that the queen even allowed it was surprising. When I heard he was joining up, I expected that he would be in some cushy back office, away from the fighting.
When I was at summer camp as a kid, we always referred to the water as either "milk water" or "carbonated water" because of that effect.
British vs. American spelling, that's all.
Self-sealing stembolts load letter? What does that even mean?
You know that's not a law, right? The ratings system is something movie theaters and movie production companies have all agreed to. Unless there is a specific law in your local jurisdiction, in the US at least, there's no national (or even state, I believe) law that says kids can't see rated R movies
If you could plant a single thought in the minds of everyone on Earth simultaneously, what thought would you choose to share?
If it is that I'm planting an idea in people's heads, then it's that I'm their king. World peace is only minutes away! Climate change addressed immediately! Corporations stripped of their power in the face of new labor laws!
If I'm just communicating, then it would have to be something absurd, like "bite my shiny, metal ass."
There’s no Burns and Hot Lips versus Hawkeye and Trapper kind of dynamic in Starfleet.
Although I see your point, I have to disagree with you here. Look at the Beta shift vs Alpha shift in Lower Decks. There's clearly room in Starfleet for both the serious and the goofy, even in a comedy show.
Q is what Hawkeye would be given the power of a god.
Well now I want to see that show!
Wow. Yeah, because if you read my post, that is exactly the part of MAS*H that I wanted to copy.
So maybe we don't see many phaser wounds, but saying that there's nothing there ignores all the other ways people can get injured in a battle (explosions, crashes, etc). There may not be analogs to bullet wounds, but I bet there are plenty of other ways.
I mean we follow a mobile hospital, similar to MAS*H. Different planets as the front moves. We've had a lot of the war on starships, and I'm sure that there would necessarily be some of that, too, but we have not seen a lot of the war "on the ground" in Star Trek. Correct me if I'm wrong, but this episode of SNW and "Seige of AR-558" (DS9 7x08) are really the only episodes of Trek that I can remember that have depictions of full-scale battles on planets (or maybe I need to do a series rewatch somewhere)
I honestly wasn't thinking I'd see my username corrupted, but I love the meme!
Wells Fargo makes BILLIONS of dollars per year. $125m is pocket change to them. Lock up some of the top executives--and not in one of those nice minimum security prisons, either--and see how quickly they change their tone.
9 year old was raped by her brother and forced to carry the baby to term. Those interviewed blamed the brother's access to porn, because clearly there's nowhere else but porn to point fingers. FTFY even more.
Never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line! Hahahaha----
Ok, 2 episodes or less? I'm going to go with The Dog from LD. Because who wouldn't love a cute, cuddly, all-powerful pet?