Oh absolutely, and I’m going into it knowing I’m about to see the opposite of Picard, that’s why I see it as a palate cleanser lol. My expectation for Kirk is what if the Riker we see in season 1 was a captain, but less of a feminist. Like, I’m expecting him to be feminist by 60s standards, but Riker is over here being feminist by 90s standards. And that’s ok, I love Riker as a character as well.

See, that’s what I love about Picard. He’s a man who deeply believes in the value of morality and the difficulty of maintaining it and effective leadership. It shines through to every aspect of who he is. We see a man who was once a rambunctious youth, once was an overly ambitious officer, and now is tempered and weathered by mistakes and failures and knows that starfleet succeeds or fails on the behaviors of people like him. I find him incredibly relatable and eminently admirable in this struggle.

I haven’t gotten to ds9 or voyager yet, but this thread is making me glad I’m going to tos after I finish tng. It will serve as a palate cleanser

Yeah this is a fascinating phenomenon I’m noticing that people who experience it seem to keep using ai, even though it caused them to lose touch with reality

It also assumes the seller has options. It’s true when the field is equal but Amazon and Walmart both famously squeeze their suppliers to pain and everybody screws their laborers

If you’re gonna tell us how to eat depressingly cheap at least suggest rice and beans. It’s healthy, filling, cheap, vegan, and capable of tasting quite good. It’s just also something you’d be pissed if was all you could afford to eat.

Because Newsom doesn’t believe in anything except that he should have more political power

Yeah, Blaire White, a trans woman who used to be in the daily wire/tpusa circuit has talked about how some of the men kept sexually harassing her.

My favorite part is that I think it’s Eliott Page, but some trans person who was already famous before transitioning had already been targeted by them, but they had to maintain the story so they argued he was mtftm

That or the fact that Candice Owens being sued is in a defamation case against the first lady of France for accusing her of being trans. Like, she absolutely was a predator towards her husband when she was his teacher, why do you need to keep accusing her of something that shouldn’t be a problem.

If you learn to live on lentils you won’t have to serve the king

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Damn I wish I was that much of a little shit to teachers who bullied me. I just was a mild class clown and disassociating most of the time

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Yeah I’ve developed a distrust of those who overly rely on logical structures and debate style format. I’ve too often found people doing it to miss the point of what they’re trying to do. Logical analysis is a framework, but it’s one that leans towards myopia and is often prone to obscuring one’s actual thoughts and feelings behind a veneer of facts and logic.

Personally I emotionally can’t find a reason to call something art if it doesn’t come from an expression of a thinking feeling being. By acknowledging my emotions there and accepting that in something subjective they’re probably the main mental process deciding what I think I’m more in touch with what I think and feel than if I’d attempted to use a bunch of philosophy to understand my thinking.

Moxie is horrible but I respect that y’all like it. It’s like if malort was a soft drink

As someone who loves mushrooms, yeah they don’t do that to me

It was at least a decade, but he had been escalating over that time

So my father is the one who stopped speaking to me, but he’d have to reach out and gender me correctly. From there I’d maintain my distance, I’ve realized that he really fucked me up before disowning me as well, and my therapist said it’s fair for me to call him a narcissist. But that’s kinda why I’d take him reaching out first. It’s hard and it would show a growth that I don’t ever expect to happen. The rest of the family says he pretends I don’t exist and gets mad when I come up.

I’ll care when they’re Dvorak phones /s

Yeah I’ve been hugged by coworkers (manufacturing is weird), but unless your touching is work related you ask first, and even then it’s best practices

Flings but no relationships. Part of why I love my wife is how smart she is. I like intellectual stuff and much prefer partners who can keep up with me on it

Though as others have said, if she’s kind and open minded that’s different from dumb imo. I have bad memory, and I’ve respected people who are a bit slow, it’s a refusal to learn or think that I can’t handle