Ron Swanson

Jackson and Lincoln

I hope this is your highest voted comment on Lemmy.

Let me help you with the cis dude perspective. I’ll explain it to you in a way you can understand. I’m a guy, I know. . . . /s

Any situation with more than 2 people. I love the idea of groups or swinging, but IRL I am a very awkward human - couldn’t do it even if presented with the opportunity. And I have no interest in anyone besides my partner.

I’ll leave that one to fantasy-land.

Boy did they fix him in Prodigy.

Oh no. I don’t know how to explain it. It’s just my existence. It just streams out of my brain, through my fingers instantaneously. There is no first half second half.

Although I am a known terrible writer.

Worth noting, this is normal from my perspective. I think all of you are the weird ones.

Nope

I’m one of the people who doesn’t have a little voice. It weirds me out that other people do.

I want a dark post apocalyptic Logan style Bond with Pierce Brosnan. Take the franchise into a hard left turn for just one movie.

Dilution is the solution to this pollution

Couldn’t agree more brother. The concept of Riker’s Beard is well known in TV - although it is hard to implement in the age of streaming. But I want new and untried.

LD really broke the mold and is fantastic. DISCO’s issue is that it wasn’t different enough.

I want Horror in the ST universe. I want James Bond in ST (Section 31?). I want How I Met Your Mother in ST. I want Law and Order in ST. I want MASH in ST. I want Saved By The Bell in ST(Academy?) I want The Hurt Locker in ST. I want The Notebook in ST. That’s how the franchise moves on, not retreading old ground.

I’m doing a DISCO rewatch right now. It is much better on a second run than I remember it being when it first came out.

I guess I’m bi now???

That book is great.

This is a top tier Trek meme.

Now do the other series.

I’m a similarly aged and gendered human.

There is research out there somewhere that confirms the commenter’s memory. I can’t find it on a whim unfortunately, I’ll post if I can find it. From what I recall from the research (I’m sure I’m butchering it): In the 80s and 90s trans people were a lot more accepted. At some point when certain monied bigots saw the writing on the wall that they were losing the fight of gay and lesbian hate they started a campaign to vilify trans people.

Yes there were always assholes and prejudice, but it’s only in the past 20 years that trans hate became a calling card of demagogues. It really was more accepted in the 90s.

In no way do I want to minimize the awful way trans people are treated, regardless of age. I’m just trying to remember some research I read once.

I am libertarian-ish, but generally don’t like all the loud libertarian nuts (I register Dem and vote Dem because the things I care about aren’t represented anywhere on the ballot anymore).

For me, it comes to a very simple economics truism: Governments are pretty damn inefficient and tend to waste a lot of money because of the process and bureaucracy. Markets on the other hand, tend to be really efficient at allocating capital when left alone. The times a government should step in is when the market has created a form of externality that breaks things. The old economics example is the people downstream from a chemical plant are paying the price for the plant’s pollution.

From a libertarian lens:

• The government should negotiate SPH b.c. it’s obvious that markets failed and we’d all be better off (spend less money) if everyone had healthcare.
• The government should stay out of people’s bedrooms and love lives, it has no business there.
• The government should use UBI and then eliminate every other deduction, and tax break, and subsidy (Social Sec, . The office running UBI could be one guy sending checks out once a month (exaggerated obvi)

Unfortunately the things I’d like to see from a libertarian don’t actually show up.

PLOT TWIST: I have IBD. (really)