“Oh no, we told everyone that our national project is synonymous with the entirety of an ethnicity and some of them believed us :(“

The actor of captain Picard

Do you honestly not recognize Sir Patrick Stewart? No shade, it’s just wild to think there would be people who don’t recognize him at all, given the length and breadth of his career.

In answer to your question, I can’t speak for Patric Stewart, but my guess is that he chose to play the scene that way because it’s likely that very few people in the Federation smoke, and that’s probably doubly true for people who spend most of their time on a spaceship. My guess would be that Stewart was trying to indicate to the audience that smoking would be somewhat of an anachronism in the 23rd century.

I just don’t even know how you would argue that they aren’t making art. What purer form of artistic endeavor could you name than a child being creative for its own sake? Things like technical skill, novelty, complexity, etc. are qualities that art has, but they have nothing to do with the definition itself. If a child creates something with artistic intent, that’s art. Arguing otherwise is navel-gazing prescriptivism, the same basic argument as Roman statue fetishism and just as tedious.

Despite its AA+ credit rating

People do not make fun of the US for having their credit rating downgraded nearly enough. Imagine being the wealthiest country in history with control over the most ubiquitous reserve currency on the planet and the credit rating agencies are like “it’s not that we don’t trust you, but we have standards to maintain.”

“Living’ la vida loca” would translate roughly as “Ballin’ the crazy ball”, which sounds pretty fun, tbh

There is no evidence that belief in Santa is harmful to children, nor is telling them the truth. They only believe in Santa for like maybe three years, and they’ll figure it out on their own. The vast majority of kids figure it out by age ~7-8. You can tell them whatever you want, it won’t matter either way.

If you do tell them the truth, or they figure it out on their own, be sure to also tell them that even if they don’t believe, other kids do, and being a Santa-truther will not win them any prizes or make them any friends. It’s a good lesson about living in a society.

This is an incredibly embarrassing attempt at trolling. You should post it on Reddit, they’d love it over there.

He and Bashir should have hooked up at least once.

It rules that the Mirror Universe guy was a Musk fan. Possibly not an intentional dig, but it's pitch-perfect in retrospect. I love Lorca. What a fun character.

“Online” needs to be broken down into “dating app” and “met playing World of Warcraft”

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I’m no expert, but this looks pretty cut and dried.

I haven’t been following it closely, but my understanding is that it wasn’t just a feature that people wanted, it was something that Blizzard promised with their whole chest when they announced Overwatch 2, and was essentially the main justification for making a sequel instead of continuing to support and improve the original. Absolutely wild that they went “yeah, sorry, too much work, but be sure to buy a battle pass this season” several months after they released.