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*standing up on the plane* Star Trek: Deep Space Nine remains one of the best sci-fi shows because of its embrace of complicated characters, moral ambiguity under the surface of what others see as a utopian mission statement, and a standard twenty episode season giving the show a chance to breathe.

Lee Knox Ostertag@leeknoxostertag.bsky.social · last wk.

*standing up on the plane* okay so the first thing you need to consider when interrogating if Frodo and Sam from Lord of the Rings are an example of romantic love is to understand Tolkien's context; what did same sex love mean to an academic and a veteran of world war one in the middle of the 20th c

Sam Neill should have won an Oscar for this “help I’m being attacked by an invisible Chevy Chase” scene with a stupid looking plastic gun taped to the side of his head

my husband is doing fantasy baseball for the first time. he does not follow baseball. his team is run entirely by our 10yo neighbor, who gets a split of his winnings if she helps my husband defeat the rest of the league. they’re in 1st place! but now, a problem: today she left for sleepaway camp

this wouldn’t work legally because a President has no authority to remove a Supreme Court justice. however the President could instead simply drone strike them. it sounds like i’m being snarky but as a result of the immunity decision this is the actual law.

Mark Bechtel@markymark757.bsky.social · last mo.

If a Democrat becomes President in 2028, what's to stop them from removing 4 of the consrvative justices and replacing them with liberals who support democracy and the rule of law. Then declaring it a "presidential act". Trump hasn't done it because he has a comfortable 6 to 3 majority.

Seems to me if you are the leader of the nominally left party and keep staking out positions that are right/center right then your constituency is not going to like you very much. IDK. I am not paid six figures to gargle pig balls by the economist.

Stanley Pignal@spignal.bsky.social · last mo.

Seen from abroad it's hard to make sense of what happened to Starmer. Big majority, centrist, fairly united party, no obvious blunders -- and somehow it went off the rail in just a few years. Political scientists will have their work cut out on this one.