ApostleO

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[–] ApostleO@startrek.website 6 points 1 year ago

He is certainly "in command" there, at least of his audience's attention.

[–] ApostleO@startrek.website 5 points 1 year ago

So, yeah... children's books. Obviously.

[–] ApostleO@startrek.website 3 points 1 year ago

I did not recall that. Having Googled it, it seems they implied it was Spock, but never explicitly stated it, and never followed up in that later. The only details about it seem to be from a novel, Vulcan's Heart, where Spock had married Saavik.

[–] ApostleO@startrek.website 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

Spock breaking up with T'pring for Chapel makes me sad. They could have been so good for each other. And I just now realized: Spock never ends up getting married (that we know of).

Maybe I'm just projecting human emotion, but I feel like that explains some of the more morose/melancholy demeanor seen in his later years. Always put the needs of the many first, even to the very exclusion of his own needs.

[–] ApostleO@startrek.website 11 points 1 year ago

Google "lame duck". You used the term wrong.

[–] ApostleO@startrek.website 8 points 1 year ago

Funny how businesses always think you're replaceable or even irrelevant until you stop showing up to work.

[–] ApostleO@startrek.website 18 points 1 year ago (6 children)

I feel like if the House has no Speaker for over a year, shit would fall apart more than even Republicans could stand. We'll get within a week or two of the next shutdown deadline, and they'll finally put someone up there.

[–] ApostleO@startrek.website 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

UFO/UAP conspiracy theories aren't really an atheist topic.

EDIT: Oh, I see. It's a joke title. It's actually a skeptist perspective. Fair enough.

[–] ApostleO@startrek.website 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As far as I'm aware, Russian political statements are weaponized hypocrisy designed to mentally whiplash the listener until they can no longer reason logically. To listen to their own statements would be the equivalent of looking down your own gun barrel.

[–] ApostleO@startrek.website 30 points 1 year ago (9 children)

Wow, I legitimately never knew this. I thought all these civilizations were in the Alpha Quadrant. I only remembered the Beta Quadrant being mentioned once in TOS.

[–] ApostleO@startrek.website 1 points 1 year ago

Kinda, but with the later Southern Strategy, and the two parties kinda switching sides, that gets a bit muddy to follow a direct causal chain.

[–] ApostleO@startrek.website 38 points 1 year ago (4 children)

It's my strong opinion that the pardon of Nixon is directly responsible for the current state of partisan politics in the US.

If he had been held accountable then, we wouldn't be dealing with half of our politicians arguing that the president is above the law.

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