I always got death-cult vibes from beehaw. I expected their flame-out to be a lot more dramatig than this, though.

Great, I get to choose between two real estate developers for city council. Guess I'll vote for the one who doesn't have a history of domestic abuse.

I see that it's in Klingon, but I'm too lazy to transliterate and translate. What does it say?

Frontier medicine.

I found Captain Shaw highly relatable.

Don't forget, even in the Star Trek main timeline, Earth had to suffer through the Second American Civil War, the Eugenics Wars, World War III, and the post-atomic horror before her people were able to start building a utopia. We're right on track! ☢ 👽 🐬 🛸

This fact about the word rice is new to a lot of folks here, including me.

This is why we're in this thread trying to educate you, my child.

I am constantly amazed at how many people online seem to have fallen off of the turnip truck yesterday.

The rind is often used in cooking, as a source of umami for soups and so on.

So "massive local participation in the actual killing of Jews, usually by shooting at local pits rather than by deportation to faraway camps" is just an "oopsie woopsie fucky wucky" that can be brushed aside because... why, exactly?

If the shoe fits.

Within the mythology of East European nationalists, particularly but not exclusively in the Baltics and western Ukraine — where there was massive local participation in the actual killing of Jews, usually by shooting at local pits rather than by deportation to faraway camps — the Bogus moral equivalence of the Holocaust has been from the time of the actual massacres the myth that the Jews were all Communists and got what they deserved because Communism was every bit as genocidal as Nazism.

Incidentally, this is one reason many of us, while not condoning Russia's illegal invasion are not huge fans of Ukrainian nationalists.

Indeed, the US is still operating internment camps in this, the Year of Our Lord 2023.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-57561760

Story from 2021, but I have not heard of much changing.