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I don’t know much about politics but given the situation it sounds to me like he’s just hoping to get someone with a weaker hand into that already extremely tenuous position. Democrats shouldn’t be fooled thinking “but they’re more reasonable”. That person will automatically have a weaker position than McCarthy just because they are the second choice so it won’t matter much who the speaker is just the fact that they have zero room to maneuver. What might make it worthwhile despite this? I wonder whether Democrats can extract some binding commitments like non-reversible rule changes that survive at least for the session in order to secure their votes to oust McCarthy.

Which makes it extra funny because they’re on a space station not a ship like the other treks. I choose to believe it was foreshadowing that they were going to move the space station to the wormhole and there would be sloshing and turbulence when that happened. It’s just solid planning.

Pog mo thoin! I only remember the rude stuff. Literally read a bumper sticker like one time and it never left after over 20 years.

The obsolete skills they are learning are “prompt engineer”.

Let us know if you come up with a citation. Absent that I’ve read a bunch of articles regarding this topic and it seems highly implausible so I’m going to assume you’re remembering wrong.

Here’s what I love best: pretend the positions of the characters also line up between the two photos as well. Some of them work pretty well, and some work too well:

Zhaan/Crusher
Chiana/Troi - Yeah, I know you thought Zhaan should be with Troi but the neckline and also there’s probably no one in TNG crew you could make chaotic good but if you had to pick, it’d be Troi.
Crais/Riker - Facial hair, of course.
D’Argo/Worf - No, you’re wrong! It is actually Sun/Worf. She is clearly chief of security.
D’Argo/Data - Yes, good. I’m sure D’Argo loves cats.
Scorpius/Geordi - Biohackers.
Rygel/Picard - Most definitely in charge and acting like it. Don’t let anybody tell you different.
Crichton/Yar - You… you can’t see Tasha Yar in the TNG photo? She’s right there in the… weird. I mean she was in the show from the first episode to the last one and she held the whole group together. She flies the shuttle. That’s like… that’s Crichton’s whole thing. I don’t see how you can’t… you really can’t see her?

Some of these might be a little more like 8 than 5 because they have storybook-scary but still mentioning for you to have a look and decide.

Lost Words - Beyond the Page
Unpacking
Epistory - Typing Chronicles
One Step from Eden
Wargroove
Tsioque

Technically not female lead but kinda close and definitely age-appropriate:

Chicory - From creators on Wandersong + Celeste. Not positive your character is canonically female but let’s just call it very plausible and you are filling in for the titular character who is called “she”.
Donut County (technically the male racoon is the main character but the only human and next-most important character is female)
Journey (likely canonically no specific gender but great game, no dialog and could easily interpret as female if you choose)

Not what you asked for but maybe consider:

Beglitched - No human characters other than the player, puzzle game with pink and purple hacker aesthetic.
Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime - Androgynous animals and humans pilot a wacky ship in 4 player co-op lots of hearts.

Time itself stopped in stage 4. All existence was unmade and remade. The cat who entered the yawn is not the same cat who emerged. This was done for the protection of reality from stage 3. Ask no further questions about stage 4 just be grateful.

I like some of the other suggestions better than this but if you’ve already tried communicating about it and other things haven’t worked, I wonder if for some cases you could convince him to take a video or a picture. Like, if it’s a cool thing he wants you to see instead of interrupting you record it and share it when you’re available instead of right now, interrupting you. Again, I think the other proposals are better but I wonder… if you’re right about the motivation at least sometimes being just wanting to share something it might be worth attempting.