Star Wars … hyper-stereotypes every racial group on the earth to live in slums or ghettos … makes white people live in marvellous futuristic cities, lush gardens or beautiful architecture and lead entire galaxies

Who’s ASSimilating who?

Star Trek has a show with an Irishman … any show has an Irishman … any book has an Irishman … any short story has an Irishman … an Irishman tells a story of an Irishman … an Irishman tells a story about himself

You are sure to hear about the terrible, unfortunate things that happened to the Irishman

I had an old friend years ago who worked in a paper mill. He had been there for over 30 years in all kinds of positions and at the time he was on the verge of becoming a manager with a desk job and big responsibilities. We told him to avoid the management job and to just stick to whatever he was doing until retirement which wasn’t that far away from him at the time. Management would have meant more pay, more perks, more money … but also more responsibility and more opportunities for people to blame him if anything went wrong. Besides, he was making a ton of money in the position he had at the time. We all told him to just stay where he was and he did. He was fine, he had enough money, he had enough responsibilities and he was in a great team of people he had known all his life and he was a senior level worker that everyone looked up to anyway. Within five years of making that decision, he was diagnosed with cancer and he died shortly after. But during all that time, he was happy at work, made a fortune for his family and he got to spend his free time with his family and friends. If he had taken the management job, he would have gone through tons of stress, and probably been blamed for a dozen things and a high likelihood he would have been fired and lost his benefits. It was a company tactic to place long term workers in management positions, give them too much responsibility, and get the excuse to fire them so that the company wouldn’t have to pay into an expensive retirement package. It was a high risk position.

Moral of the story is … if you get to place in life where you get to have some measure of control and you are comfortable … stick with it because it might not get any better than that.

OH GREAT! … we made it to the surface … now you want to back into orbit again!

That monk has seen some shit

Always loved it … one of the most powerful beings in the Star Trek universe … is a black man.

I think it’s partly marketing … very clever marketing and brain hooks … I just went to the comic website and looked at a few comics and yes most of them show that number and the cleverly hidden objects. But some of the comics don’t have the same number of hidden objects (eg: some list 5 but you can only find 4) … unless I’m doing it wrong and I just can’t see it.

If the artist did purposefully list 5 things but only show 4 … it would drive viewers mad trying to find something that isn’t there. It would also become a very memorable comic because it would bug people so much they would keep going back to it again and again.

It’s like that old college/high school prank people used to pass around years ago … you release three big fat dirty pigs into a school and let them run wild. You spray paint each pig with a number … 1, 2 and 4. Chances are authorities or school workers will find the three pigs but they’ll take a bit of extra time looking for Pig #3 before realizing it didn’t exist.

It adds up but I’m divided because the negatives and positives just keep multiplying

The quote is also taken from Wayne Gretzky, one of the greatest hockey players in the National Hockey League and he is from Canada. He was great to watch and cheer for in the 1980s and 90s … but over the past decade he’s turned into a Trump loving moron that grovels at the president’s feet.

So he took the shot at becoming a MAGA idiot and he certainly didn’t miss in ruining his legacy.

Yeah let’s go down to the surface … we don’t know what our biology will do to the biology on the planet … but what the hell, let’s also take the dog.

Riker looks like just became head of the Enterprise Police Department

and Pickard looks like he became the head of the Enterprise Fire Department

I think its done by design to drive people away from using a browser where people have more control and the website has less control (of course depending on the skill and patience of the user)

Having a shitty service on browser and on certain devices just drives people to view Youtube more and more on self contained smart services like Smart TVs or dedicated viewing devices.

I use Linux, firefox and have ad blocking extensions … and sometimes Youtube just becomes unusable