[-] Hallainzil@startrek.website 26 points 1 year ago

I love this video. The escalating insanity is wonderful. I once got the Harder Drives music stuck in my head for about 2 days straight.

[-] Hallainzil@startrek.website 62 points 1 year ago

That's like getting kicked out of the KKK for being too racist.

[-] Hallainzil@startrek.website 11 points 1 year ago

"Feared"? By who?

[-] Hallainzil@startrek.website 82 points 1 year ago

It crashed into a missile that was just looking at a cathedral.

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[-] Hallainzil@startrek.website 32 points 1 year ago

If the Democrats are like a flood of sewage that comes unbidden into your home, the Republicans are like you constructed a sluice specifically to pipe it in.

[-] Hallainzil@startrek.website 26 points 1 year ago

This isn't standard. Nothing about that vehicle is standard.

If it's for lugging tools, get a van. They're safer and better for the job.

If it's for camping, get a van.

These trucks make no sense, other than financially to car companies.

[-] Hallainzil@startrek.website 34 points 1 year ago

Not quite middle class people, but otherwise correct:

From Wikipedia

In 1900, there were fewer than 3,000 cars on the roads of France. To increase the demand for cars and, accordingly, car tyres, car tyre manufacturers and brothers Édouard and André Michelin published a guide for French motorists, the Michelin Guide.

[-] Hallainzil@startrek.website 14 points 1 year ago

That must be location-dependant. I worked for a non-profit for nearly 5 years, a good sized one. The pay was significantly below the for-profit sector, and the organisation was pretty toxic to boot. I have many friends who did similar, and my assessment is that mine was probably the best experience. Burnout is the norm. Toxic culture is the norm. Underpay is the norm. It's not an experience I'd be excited to repeat.

[-] Hallainzil@startrek.website 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Don't know if he's my absolute favourite, but I love Timicin from TNG's S04E22 "Half a Life". He's a good, dedicated and kind man who would have been a great long-term partner for Lwaxana Troy, but for the fact that he is about to commit ritual suicide as he's about to turn 60 as a part of a culturally enforced practice called The Resolution.

Played by David Ogden Stiers, he has great chemistry with Majel Barrett, and their relationship is a believable one. He's a man torn between challenging his society for the chance to keep living in order to save it (he's the lead scientist trying to stabilise their sun) while finding love with Lwaxana, and not rocking the boat and simply doing what's expected of him.

And of course, in the end, >!he chooses to die!<.

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