EnsignRedshirt [he/him]
Good idea. You could put the potato in the oven before bed and there’s a good chance it would be done cooking by the time you wake up.
Age gap discourse is incredibly stupid. The problem with age is when fully developed adults take advantage of children or young adults who are not yet fully developed and thus vulnerable to manipulation. Once everyone is over 25 or so, it’s just adults fucking other adults. It’s wildly infantilizing to assume a fully capable and independent 31-year-old woman isn’t mature enough to be responsible for making bad decisions.
This is not an endorsement of RFK in any way. I want to be clear that I would prefer that no one be having sex with RFK, and it would actually be really great if we never heard about him ever again.
I mean yeah.
No, I don’t want to. It’s raining. I’m just going to poop in the basement later when you’re not paying attention.
I’d tell all his kids that I love them and I’m proud of them. I feel like it would be fun to see how that plays out later.
You know they’re scary when people who live in the sticks and carry guns and think safety regulations are suggestions will see a polar bear and leave immediately, then phone the neighbors to make sure everyone knows to steer clear.
I’ve been slogging through the latest season of Discovery, mostly just so I get the references. I’m just finished 5x05 and I’m not really enjoying it.
It suffers from a lot of the problems with the prestige-ification of TV. Everything feels too serialized and too cinematic. The episodes don’t seem to have a unique identity, and the serialization means that you have to enjoy the commitment to that one serialized plotline (which I admit is not grabbing me). I prefer Star Trek when it’s episodic or has shorter story arcs within a larger season. The story itself is also very fast-paced, in that it’s a race against time/the enemy, which sucks because everything then has to happen inside of this very tight window of time. That’s fine for a movie, but I don’t know why it’s a good idea for a full season of a TV show (unless it’s something like 24 where that’s the whole gimmick). Star Trek is famous for using ticking clocks to keep the action moving, but they resolve at the end of the episode, and the next episode might not have a ticking clock, or the clock is caused by a fundamentally different thing with different stakes. In this season it’s like they’re doing laps around a racetrack. “Okay, we’re ahead now, let’s keep up our lead while we do basically the same thing next episode.” And we have to keep up the idea that it is a race despite having a ship that travels anywhere instantly. Incredibly boring.
Mostly I just hate Alex Kurtzman. I hope his next Trek show flops hard enough that they decide not to renew his deal and they go find someone who doesn’t have obvious contempt for the audience.
Apologies for the ranting. Short answer: DSC season 5, not great