I missed this but I’m glad you got it all sorted. Sometimes just talking to someone helpful and sympathetic is all you need to get priorities in order.

There are more people that are like you than not. I feel more connected to humankind remembering that my lived experience is more common than the lived experiences we’ve culturally raised up as desirable.

I don’t mean to imply there’s something noble or positive about growing up without, but it makes you so much more human than otherwise. Until society is a more equitable place, the shame you felt is unwarranted. You don’t know why you have this shame and it’s because it’s not naturalistic, it’s how you (and many others) interpret growing up in bourgeois society.

devastated they shoved one boy in a box and waterboarded the other boy but hasan managed to get away with simple spider exposure

Oh shoot, you this post reminded me to get off Vivaldi. Congratulations on moving over to Linux, I’m halfway there with my laptop running Mint. Transitioning my desktop is gonna be tough for me, though.

china should take down the great firewall so i can hang out with cool chinese people and they can piss off chuds in online games again

when the extent of your gaming hobby has turned into annual revisits of the same three or four games

It was probably a poor choice of words. It just put the challenges into perspective, and kills a little more of my idealism.

The book also put a lot of righteous anger in me.

Nerrel mentioned 🌚🌚

dedicated to the brave avatar animators

If I’m paying attention to something, it needs to be on a largish screen with me at attention on the couch. Otherwise, most content gets put on as background noise on my phone, tablet, whatever, while I do the dishes.

we forgot it was valentines until the next day

Kennedy said he planned to dedicate money generated from a sales tax on cannabis products to “creating wellness farms—drug rehabilitation farms, in rural areas all over this country.” He added, “I’m going to create these wellness farms where they can go to get off of illegal drugs, off of opiates, but also illegal drugs, other psychiatric drugs, if they want to, to get off of SSRIs, to get off of benzos, to get off of Adderall, and to spend time as much time as they need—three or four years if they need it—to learn to get reparented

Sounds like a replacement for the cheap agricultural labour immigrants presented.

Seriously think Dear Doctor was a terrible way to lay the foundations for the prime directive. Like, it actively did a poor job of justifying something like the prime directive, to the point where you feel it’s actually a rebuke of the whole concept.

As you correctly identified the premise is quite inhumane (Valakians have a right to life no matter how long they’ve been around) and in the end the Enterprise crew both intervened (provided Valakians with a temporary treatment) and avoided the conflict. So the Enterprise crew did not act in accordance to the not-yet-created prime directive, nor did they act in spite of it. They just kinda were there.

Archer’s speech at the end wraps it up, because it’s just stupid on the face of it, not for any deeper reason. “Hmm, yes, my people will surely come up with some kind of…doctrine? policy? perhaps a directive? on what to do here today…but until we do…umm…bye.”

I’m one of enterprise’s 12 fans btw so it’s not even like I hate the show. that was just a completely bungled plot.

always thought the movie was more of the same as the last one. musical aspect was kinda shitty

imagine being pardoned in a once-a-lifetime event by a newly re-elected president, only to bodge it a week later.

Addressing him as ‘Armed Gunman’ as if it were his name got me good, guys. Got me real good.

absolute chad acceptance from the wukong devs

Space race number two but the US isn’t even going to participate this time.

Oh, sweet, cause-and-effect in my assassination narratives.