As one of the former enlisted you speak of, I say feel bad for the individual that didn’t see any other way out, but still call them the easily exploited idiot they are for agreeing to go die for the current regime.

They heavily police what enlisted personnel can watch and who they interact with when on base and everything, so it’s a little easier to understand why one of them who doesn’t have many left leaning friends might not see “the other side” of the conflict, but I would argue you cannot be an adult in modern day and see things the administration gleefully admits to, and then think any conflict they desire would be justified.

I would happily sit my ass in a prison cell for refusing to go to war in the middle east, but then again there’s a reason I didn’t last long in the military. Not even long enough for them to make an “honorable vs dishonorable” determination lmao.

So yeah, sorry for rambling a bit but to point :

Feel sorry the individual couldn’t see any other way out, but know they collectively had many opportunities to not be there.

I would have said “thanks for confirming with tons of long term ecological damage what you could have done in your head in 3 minutes, or checked on the built in calculator of whatever device you’re using and been done in less time than it took me to write this message that, while petty, I feel is necessary to mock the use of chatgpt.”

I uh… Don’t get along with dumb neighbors.

That’s what I’ve always heard, and though I can’t think of where I vaguely remember seeing an interview/BTS style video where he said they had to make some assumptions based only on the trailer, the poster, and things Lucas had said himself.

Spot on though, you’d think it was made after the prequels came out.

Police are modern. They came into existence after the United States did.

The first contracted law enforcement was in the early 1600s in Scotland, unless my random 2am fixation on the history of how shitty cops are is wrong.

And a quick search tells me 1611 in Edinburgh.

Cops have been bastards for longer than the US has been around.

I’ll be honest… I dislike it.

I am glad tons of people love it and have all kinds of fun with it!

It’s just not my cuppa.

Yeah, ALL cis males use dozens of filter apps to see what they look like as a woman and ask random strangers if they “think this girl is cute”

Totally normal cis thing to do. Right guys?

… Right?

Different state?

He’ll have to look maybe two counties over. Probably just gonna go to the county on the other side of the one he lives in.

5 seconds? You need your matter conversion matrix realigned if it’s taking that long.

I’ve been trying to get starfleet to approve mini-replicators in control panels for years but I always get the same “it’s just not worth the materials cost” but honestly when was the last time you saw an Admiral use a control panel themselves?

That’s okay, you can be wrong, I won’t judge you.

It certainly has its slow moments, but overall it’s a good movie, I think.

bone and muscle density is still different, and distributed differently

I think people who say things like this don’t actually know any post- or even mid-transition people.

I want more alt history retro-future style movies.

This one and Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow are neat.

I tried watching sky captain and she fell asleep. How can you fall asleep while watching a p51 mustang fight giant flying robots?

Being able to rearrange a control panel to individual people’s preferences means each station can be tailored for different needs, even different species and abilities. You give up the consistency, where someone can tell you exactly where the right button is, but it’s far more accommodating during day-to-day operations about the ship.

That said, I hate it. Give me dials and buttons any day of the week. I could do without the 10,000 indicator lights though. Engineering in old starship just looks like a Gik’tal concert.

This man single handedly answered the greatest question of our generation:

“How neat is that?”

Never watched it high, but I have a goal for this weekend now,!

I love this movie. It’s in my category of “I didn’t say it was high cinema, I said it was fun!” movies.

Sitting in whichever space I can fit it, usually tangled up with my wife’s bike.

Space isn’t abundant where we are and they’re bulky.

But hey, weather is off-and-on good enough to ride, so we get to use them plenty.

“Our glorious handling fees” vs “their barbaric tariffs”

Okay look, I have a large piece of old leather I’ve been meaning to make into pieces for my Renfaire outfit, I have dozens of pieces of steel that are waiting to become knives and other tools, there’s 20-something 3d projects in various states of unfinished on my laptop, and I’ve got 3 large woodworking projects on hold.

Of course I can start hyperfixating on a new project!

I want a two-part episode of Picard and Janeway with them co-captaining with a brand new crew and a mixture of series senior officers.

And at some point Picard tries to promote Kim, only for janeway to panic and try to stop Two Pip Kim from happening.

But I don’t want to date a White Anglo-Saxon Protestant.

Oh wait, that’s a different kind…