No, that’s the 35th rule.

Rule 34 applies.

No, not that one. Rule of acquisition #34.

Distilling is dangerous is it goes wrong.

Making meth is dangerous even if everything goes right.

There is at least one tictoc lady I watch religiously, even though she is a MAGA nutter.

I hate to sound like this, but I’m not watching for her thoughts and opinions.

Right, but it takes longer than the usual delay to speak the words “the aliens want to talk. Ok, put them on.”

I’m curious to know why they are there. They can’t have much in the way of line of sight from there.

Maybe. Trump isn’t exactly motivated by trying to protect democracy.

A good question. It’s kind of like when crime happens to criminals. Yes, they are entitled to the same protection as everyone else, but there’s a side-eye there.

We all know Iran is governed by assholes. But it’s still wrong for us to invade them like this.

if Iran had a democracy there would be no war happening right now because the people of Iran CLEARLY wanted another government

Iran didn’t start the war. Our idiot in chief did. Maybe he wouldn’t have attacked a democratic Iran, but maybe he would have.

I think maybe someone should be worrying about it.

The only thing this makes me think is “May I, please?”

We can’t tell if it’s pointlessly gendered unless wet know what the questions are about. Seems likely to be a study of some kind, and knowing how men perceive other men, for example, might be valuable data.

Isn’t that the guy that played Unicron?

I got Councillor Troi for my ship computer. Good times.

Also, that one didn’t seem to leave any scars.

I think that refusing to hold her hand was unforgivable.

I mentioned to my wife, after Sam had asked, that the Doctor had, in fact, been in love at least once, and maybe three times, but I wasn’t sure one of them counted.

Seems I was wrong. That one did count.

I wonder why the old TOS fans like me are less impatient with fundamentals of human existence being presented through the growth of young adults?

I’m a TNG person myself. One thing that I very much liked about TNG, DS9, SNW, and to an extent VOY was the competency porn. (And then totally inverted in LDK)

This show doesn’t have much of that. It doesn’t even have what ENT had, which learning to be the professionals we want to see. This is still kids learning to be adults. That’s a different journey entirely.

Don’t get me wrong, I quite like it. But it has issues. But then, don’t they all?

I’ll stop picking nits when I’m cold and dead. We trekkies have a reputation to uphold, after all.

But I’ve go nothing of substance that I object to. It’s a bloody good show.

Sometimes I think it’s a backlash against what we see as stupid rules that are imposed on us for no reason. We legitimately do want to be able to dispense with the bullshit, and admire people who can.

Might have been. But there are dozens of us.