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GraniteM

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  • Vice Presidential Debate Megapost! Tue, 10/1/2024

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  • I counted at least twenty references to the "Harris administration," or "Harris' immigration policies," and one full-on "the Harris/Biden administration."

  • Paralyzed Man Unable to Walk After Maker of His Powered Exoskeleton Tells Him It's Now Obsolete

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  • Sorry

  • Donald Trump chased over unpaid debts for his rallies

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  • Jesus, he went to Burlington VT? Was he trying to generate so much psychic dissonance that he summoned the angry ghost of Ethan Allen?

  • Elon Musk declares ‘If Trump is not elected, this will be the last election’ — says voting Trump is the ‘only way’ to ‘save’ democracy

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  • Sweet Jesus, I wish that Democratic voters and politicians were unified enough that if we had a solid majority in this country that we could be considered a one-party state. Even if we somehow did manage to finagle things such that we won the next election 60-40 or more, it's obvious to anyone with a brain that we would immediately celebrate by turning on each other like dogs. The neolibs can't stand the hippies. The hippies can't stand the tech liberals. Most of the people pushed left by identifying with one oppressed minority group or another are in a coalition approximately as stable as the Balkans in 1913.

    Democrats' favorite activity is infighting. We like it more than winning elections. The times when we actually manage to get our shit together enough to win are the exception to the rule.

  • Mark Robinson may be on his way to a historic defeat in North Carolina

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  • When asked whether Vance believes Robinson’s denial that the comments were made by him, Vance said that the situation needed to “play out.”

    “I don’t not believe him, I don’t believe him — I just think that you have to let these things sometimes play out in the court of public opinion."

    Remember that for Republicans it's not a matter of how despicable a candidate is, it's only a matter of if they're popular or not. Vance came right out and said that the truth doesn't matter, just public opinion. If 50.1% of voters in North Carolina were going to vote for Robinson, the GOP wouldn't care what he said. If that number was 49.9%, it wouldn't matter if he was an amalgamation of Jesus Christ and Captain America, they'd throw him to the curb and claim they'd never heard of him.

    They have no principles. The only thing they believe in is power; getting it, and using it against the people they hate. That is their only true ideology.

  • What is one of your favorite Star Trek quotes?

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  • Capt. Picard:

    The first duty of every Starfleet officer is to the truth, whether it's scientific truth or historical truth or personal truth! It is the guiding principle on which Starfleet is based. And if you can't find it within yourself to stand up and tell the truth about what happened, you don't deserve to wear that uniform!

    —TNG, The First Duty

  • Movie(s) with best soundtrack?

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    • Reservoir Dogs / Pulp Fiction / Kill Bill
    • Stand By Me
    • Dirty Dancing
    • The Lost Boys

  • I'm watching DS9 for (mostly) the first time, and I have to say...

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  • Honestly, I think the biggest problem is that Colm Meaney and Rosalind Chao have negative chemistry. They probably cast her in TNG thinking that O'Brien was a second-tier supporting character, and that she had good "nervous bride" energy for her first appearance in "Data's Day," and that would probably be about it for the character. It's not the actor's fault that a fictional pairing that wasn't very well thought-out on the writers' and casting director's part didn't turn out to be strong enough to survive as a primary plot driver.

    That said... I would have loved to see Miles and Keiko go through an amicable divorce. They virtually did, between Keiko basically throwing Miles and Kira together during their pregnancy and Keiko's long-term journeys to Bajor. It wouldn't have been that much further to just have them realize that they'd grown apart and agree to separate, and it could be a way for Star Trek to explore a subject that a lot of people had real-life experience with. I don't suppose that mid- to late-90s Star Trek producers would have gone for it, but there was some real narrative potential there.

  • She suddenly discovers a great yawning well of hunger

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  • For the record, we do and have done all of those things. This isn't a story about my dog getting aggressive with the cats. If anything, we need to make a point of keeping the cats out of her food bowl because she will let them take her food away, all the while looking at us to please do something. It's just that she seems to sometimes get ambivalent about whether she is in fact hungry or not... but that ambiguity immediately disappears if a cat comes over and sniffs her bowl.

  • Sarah Huckabee Sanders throws dig at Harris for not having biological children

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  • What are the Top 3 TV Shows that define your (personal) youth?

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  • Star Trek: TNG

    Batman: The Animated Series

    Space Ghost Coast to Coast

  • Who did you hate the most?

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  • I think you mean his fake whistle-playing hands.

  • Who did you hate the most?

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  • I think they were trying to build a Pulaski-Data relationship that mirrored the McCoy-Spock relationship, where McCoy would say something shockingly racist like calling Spock a green-blooded hobgoblin, but then Spock would insult him right back and it was all in good fun so it was "okay." The problem was that Data wasn't able to give as good as he got, so it came across as Pulaski bullying the sweet autistic kid, which did not work as well as McCoy-Spock.

  • If the logic of copyright/trademark/IP law applied to everything, what's the most peculiar possible implication you can think of for it?

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  • Sexual positions are locked behind tiered paywalls. The most basic ones are free, but as they get more interesting, you have to pay increasing royalty fees.

  • If the logic of copyright/trademark/IP law applied to everything, what's the most peculiar possible implication you can think of for it?

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  • Chemtrail conspiracy theorists in absolute shambles.

  • If the logic of copyright/trademark/IP law applied to everything, what's the most peculiar possible implication you can think of for it?

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  • If the logic of copyright/trademark/IP law applied to everything, what's the most peculiar possible implication you can think of for it?

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  • You must never go there.

  • If the logic of copyright/trademark/IP law applied to everything, what's the most peculiar possible implication you can think of for it?

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  • That's basically a plot point in Heinlein's The Cat Who Walks Through Walls, where visitors have to pay for the amount of air they intend to breathe while visiting the moon.

    Also, Idea: invent a copyrightable method of filtering or otherwise treating air. Release your "specially modified" air into the atmosphere. Start charging for every time someone inhales one of your AyreMolecuulz™.

  • GOP senator tells Arab American witness at hate crimes hearing to 'hide your head in a bag'

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  • Granny Gazoot! Let's have a toot! And when I count three!