Courtney (she/her/they)

It’s been a while since I watched the movie but I never got the impression that her father needed extra caring for. He fell ill towards the middle of the movie but was healthy in the beginning IIRC.

Our introduction to him is an invention backfiring and harming him non life threateningly.

I get the impression that without Belle to mind him, he would be dead from an invention that went too wrong, though it is not explicitly stated.

He falls ill after the townsfolk imprison him without heat in winter. Their excuse for locking him up is “he’s crazy” when he tells them of the castle and it’s inhabitants.

Only an illiterate jock would be upset that someone wants more than an illiterate jock.

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https://xkcd.com/2347/

Can we get another one with the bee movie script?

Bonus points if it contains the whole script and the first words are legible but get smaller and smaller to fit them all.

Q isn’t confined by the passage of time as humans are.

Q is an energy being occupying a higher plane of existence (note: this does not require morality and I’m not sure why anyone thinks "higher plane* requires someone to be morally good)

Q was punched because Q allowed himself to be punched. Any other Q would certainly not take that kind of thing from a bug. When bugs bite, they get swatted, unless you want the bug alive.

Sisko may think he’s tough for standing up to Q and not indulging shenanigans. Sisko is tough for many reason, but not this one.

Sisko is lucky Q is fascinated by humanity so much or he would be shrunk to the size of a Proton and tossed into a neutron star to be squished for all time.

Someone filming minors is 100% grounds for a beat down, IMO. Of course you’d never get away with it in this case… Even if they were completely unassociated with the guy and he was doing it for personal shit, pigs gonna protect themselves.

I’m kind of surprised the guy didn’t try to arrest you when called out.

I love hitting obvious ones with “WHATS UP, OFFICER!” and usually they have no idea how to handle things from there. Although once one did threaten to arrest me if I didn’t leave. I had shit to do but I honestly wanted to test that just to see what bullshit he’d try to come up with to justify it.

No joke, I’ve actually been asked about drugs by a guy who ws CLEARLY wearing a stab vest, and had a super obvious glint of cuffs hanging out of his skinny jeans (to say nothing of the giant circle bulge on the pocket)

I gave him the address of a jackass I used to know who joined the marines so he “gets to kill people legally”

Otherwise there’s a town close by where Douchebags in lifted pickups like to gather in large numbers to Rev their engines and behave irresponsibly (watch me do this sick burnout Bro OH NO I hit a lamp post) around the local strip mall. I decided if I get asked again I will say to go there, basically everyone is holding and most are willing to share if you’ve got beer to spare.

I’ve known enough law enforcement to believe it’s 100% true for local establishments

The fbi and nsa are far more educated (usually), and while IDO believe they would have an easier time, I don’t believe they are as versed in theory as the average anarcho-syndicalist commune inhabitant.

I’m sure it’s not true 100% of the time, and probably not even 50%, but law enforcement certainly make themselves easier to filter out.

Weekly reminder that law enforcement finds it difficult to infiltrate leftist, communist, socialist, and anarchist groups because cops are too dumb and think there’s too much reading to fit in.

They also can’t disrupt funding for said groups because the groups are already poor and rely on each other rather than money from outside sources.

Holodeck nonsense? That’s at least one or two episodes per season.

I mean… They would have been right 5 years ago. But then they caught up and are showing some other manufacturers up.

Similarly here, Chinese manufacturers are making progress, and as usual they’re catching up quite well. In a few years I fully expect to see actual competition, and competition benefits everyone.

If you mean that’s where they got the name/premise for the show lower Decks from the titular TNG episode, they’re pretty open about that.

I WAS a little disappointed they didn’t have anyone except Sito referenced during the show. They could have shown all the lower deckers from the tng episode at one point or another, they had 5 seasons and brought back a ton of other people.

She played the part excellently though!

I always hate spouses in shows when they don’t get non-adversarial screen time.

Pretty much every time we see someone’s partner that isn’t on the main roster, it’s because there’s “trouble in paradise” and we are usually supposed to side with the main characters.

So they always get a bad reputation as a negative character, and even if they play their part beautifully, they aren’t being given proper development.

To answer the titular question, “one day at a time”

Life has no meaning. There is no fate but what we make for ourselves, to borrow a movie line.

I have no grand plan, I have no ultimate purpose. I just am here, and one day I will be gone. Hopefully I can make some other people’s lives better in the meantime, although I certainly wouldn’t say I’m living for other people.

All it does is make me think “wow, Samsung is really cheaping out with the logic staff, strike harder!”

Personally I’m a big fan of Antarctica.

Never seen their people or government do stupid shit.

Every time I see"court orders striking workers to go back to work" I always wonder yo myself why they think that will work.

Of course, I’m even MORE baffled when it works.

You guys had them so terrified that they got courts involved, and you think THEY Hold the power?

Protip: if you hold out long enough, fines will be dropped. If you hold out long enough, their resort is to put you in jail, in which you still won’t be working (for that company, anyway)

Also there’s a super secret move where you and your coworkers drag your employer out of their home in the middle of the night.

Even if it weren’t convenient and they were just pissed that day…

Lmao sure it was “the libs” and definitely not the government that actually did things.

I’ve seen plenty of different types of solar panels, some specifically for agriculture use that have small gaps between the solar cells to allow for more sun to reach plants.

I’m not sure how that affects solar panel output/longevity but it can’t be too much of a hit.