

Just rent a nice French bomb, and blow up Mar-a-Lago
Just rent a nice French bomb, and blow up Mar-a-Lago
I refer to it as Singles Awareness Day. For the obvious reason.
I guess even they can’t run Crysis on full.
Outside of the White House and Capitol (and maybe adjoining buildings) I would not want to do too much damage to the rest of Washington DC, as I think we could find lots of allies there.
Florida, on the other hand…
Are One Direction even still together?
Just an example: in its final years, Radio Shack fired most of its more experienced (higher paid) employees and kept/hired younger employees for less pay.
Usually, g is used to represent acceleration due to gravity, whereas G is used to represent the gravitational constant in the calculation of the gravitational attraction between any two bodies.
DS9 is the Star Trek series with the most (and best) character development. Rom is only a recurring secondary character, yet look at the discussion here! And wait until you get to Nog’s character development…
He was 57 when the book was published. I checked, because I was hoping he was 69, but alas…
Unlike some people here, I enjoyed seasons 3-5 more than seasons 1-2.
S1: the Mirrorverse section overstayed its welcome. Feels wrong that it would have so much influence over the prime universe. Also, it felt wrong for a Starfleet crew to have this much internal conflict. Some of the more standalone episodes were enjoyable, though.
S2: a recurring problem with most of the series begins crystallizing here: why does each season need a universe-ending threat to motivate the plot? It got tiresome in this season, but kept happening for every subsequent season. Felt too contrived. But the less extreme internal conflict made it more enjoyable, as did the addition of captain Pike.
S3: I read somewhere that one of the pitches for a new series before Discovery was made was basically what Discovery became in its third season. I loved the “rebuilding the Federation” aspect of this. Really helped bring into focus what the Federation and Starfleet meant. I didn’t enjoy the “universe-ending threat” aspect, and think the season would have been better without it.
S4: Another “universe-ending threat”? This season had some interesting individual episodes, and the final resolution is great Star Trek, but it would have been better if they had come up with a different way to get there. But there’s also more “rebuilding the Federation” that was enjoyable.
S5: slightly less universe-ending here, which gave us a little more room to breathe. Some enjoyable character interactions that were less common in previous seasons. Some really wonderful, quintessentially Star Trek episodes. The ending to the season arc was a bit disappointing. The series ending felt tacked-on (because it was).
I honestly think this series would have been better if it essentially started with the premise of season 3 and skipped seasons 1 and 2. And if they dropped the season-length universe-ending threats in favor of something more subtle, leaving more room for character-building.
And I honestly had more problems with Picard (especially season 2) than with Discovery, even though I found it harder to get into Discovery at the beginning.
Hard agree with everyone here that says SNW is a cut above Discovery and Picard. And Lower Decks and Prodigy are also really good (and really good Star Trek) in their own ways.
Programmed obsolescence?
I was reading about this in a book about Bill Murray just the other day. Apparently, Murray used some time off while he was filming Tootsie to appear in this.
"I was in the war, you know. Gunner in the air force. I shot down 27 enemy planes, but do they call me ‘Richard Gunner’? No…
"After the war I went into construction. Give some wood and nails, and I’ll build you the nicest of houses! But do they call me ‘Richard Carpenter’? No…
"Then I went into politics. Spent my time speaking truth to power, ruffled some feathers, and was well-liked, but do they call me 'Honest Richard? No…
“But sick one little cock, and…”
It insists upon itself?
(I haven’t seen it)
Children of the corn?
Where do I put in my request for that bluesky money I’m owed, then?
In a recent by-election I voted in, the ballots were 2-3 feet long with 91 candidates on them. This was in Canada, where we only have paper ballots. The majority of the candidates only registered as part of a protest to get the govt. to reconsider other voting methods than FPTP.
This is even funnier when you know that Bob Ross was a drill sergeant before he did The Joy of Painting.
Unlikely, but there’s always jury nullification. Which I just realized would be recorded as a “not guilty” verdict, though the implication is “he did it, but we think it’s OK”