I always loved the end of Star Trek VI.
the last scene just as the view screen w sulu and the excelsior crew shut off and the camera switches the enterprise crew at their stations plus the empty station that sulu would have been in if he were still on the enterprise does it for me and when kirk orders “second star to the right and straight on 'till morning” gives me goosebumps every single time.
vote blue no matter who. lol
However, history has shown
i think that this is the key part. i’m unaware of a leftist victory in the global north since the great depression and i suspect it’s because the hegemonic powers have gotten so good and so organized at mitigating possible class cohesion that we’re stuck in this pattern until something very drastic happens to society centuries/millennia from now; making a leftist victory a practical impossibility for any of us in ours or the next several generation’s lifetimes.
agreed and i’d like to suspect that my autism induced isolation enables me to have these views as a sort of silver lining to being on the spectrum.
i’m convince that liberals and conservatives alike only go by what their in-group says and they become leftists and independents once they spend more than the average amount of effort to scratch beyond the surface.
i love this; i think i’ll move back to california
this and macron creating a conservative government despite leftists winning the most votes in france makes me wonder if a leftist victory is ever possible.
they had “death panel” conspiracy theories when they tried to do the affordable care act and the brainwashing was so effective that private insurance still dominates and the affordable care act is likely to die out.
At least their “centrists” match our “centrists” so now we can have apples-to-apples comparisons
The hedge funds needs to show increased value for shareholders so quit complaining and remember to vote for one of the establishment candidates so that it’ll be 98° in 2030
The culinary workers union has tiered system where only very few get true union like benefits and it’s an open secret that they’re controlled by the casinos; they’re only technically a union and were created to prevent true unions from forming.
pizza hut in the small town i grew up in stayed like that until the 2018 when the sole owner died and his inheritors outsourced its management rather than returning to bfe to run it (i don’t blame them) and i feel like that’s how most older establishments enshittify.
there was no way he was making money, but he CLEARLY loved pizza & people and was happy doing it.
mine only had 4 pepperoni slices and never enough cheese so i had to spread it around more evenly to enjoy it and it was still 99% bread. lol
why did they hate him?
i wish i had advice to offer you, but i’m in a similar boat with my senior cat.
i was devastated when my senior dogs & cats passed away and i was able to weather it each time it happened thanks entirely to my other pets commiserating with me; my 16 year old cat is the last one left alive and he’s been by my side through all of those deaths.
the bar for approval to get another pet from the shelter is far too high; too long; and too invasive were i live for my attempts to be successful, so i’ve only adopted pets that i found on the streets and those that others wanted to surrender to the shelter.
i’m on the spectrum which makes human relationships very difficult to create and maintain, which means that my cat is my life.
i cannot express how much i dread the inevitable day that i have to see him suffering once he gets ill and i have to decide to it’s best to end his life.
i hope you’re better prepared than i am.
and you spend your entire tenure trying to convert it into another language while simultaneously adding to the pile.
switch to gen-x; they’re much trumpier than boomers.
and now he’s a “philanthropist”
emphasis on the quotes since he’s put his wealth into a charity; like most of the utlra wealth do; to avoid taxes so now he’s legally required to spent 5% of it in philanthropy.
Professionally/commercially they’re MILES ahead of Red hat, Oracle, or Suse.
Personally/free they do weird shit that usually doesn’t seem make sense on its surface if you’re not getting paid to learn it.
Take snaps for example: flatpak/app image/whatever makes more sense if you only care nothing beyond getting/running the software; but in a professional setting where you need third party info for something like an sbom or some sort of industry compliancy, snaps make it easy.