They’ve got nearly four more years left to completely screw something up.

They keep messing with things eventually they’ll cause catastrophe

That’s not fair because any contest that involves O’Brien automatically means that he has already lost.

He did not see that coming

Knowing Turnip the medals will probably be cheap gold colored metal with an image of himself on it.

Beautiful … the Darwin Awards are now coming to your grocery store

This is what I keep saying to my friends when we argue politics

We can no longer just say that Dumpster Don is an idiot

We can now say that the entire US is one giant collective idiot

The nation is dumb … so is it any wonder that they have a dumb leader?

It was always simple for me

Stars Wars is about war, fighting, conflict, heroes, villains, basically the Wild West but in space … and to upgrade the story a bit, the turned it into WWII in space … then to upgrade it even more Cold War conflict in space … basically its always about war and the always simplified message of ‘Good guys against bad evil guys’

Star Trek to me has always been about hope and change. A future where humanity goes out into the cosmos and runs into all kinds of situations (including war) and deals with everything in a civilization where everything and everyone is complicated but we learn to work and live with one another as a functional society. We also learn to admit everyone and anyone can take the roles of being ‘good’ or ‘bad’ depending on what is happening and nothing in society is ever simple or clear. Star Trek has also taken the position of constantly holding a mirror up to our current society and showing us how backward, undeveloped and uncivilized we can still be while also giving us hope that we could be much more.

Nice work … whenever anyone does work of these short little animations and video … most people have no idea how much time and effort it takes to create / recreate / manipulate / render / rerender / experiment in order to get the right combination of file size / quality / content.

Even if it isn’t OC and you went out of your way to do it … it’s still some work and knowledge.

Non-stop Glory!

I can hear these animations … in the first one I got all excited … and in the second the lights dimmed for some reason … I feel so relaxed

He’s telling people in the room about everything about buying oceans, what it mean, how great it is, he has all the evidence in this computer, he’s reading all this great stuff about buying oceans, he’ll get China to pay for it, yadda, yadda … and the computer hasn’t even been turned on or plugged into anything.

No … if people want to watch it live go ahead … if not they can read the news story.

I just thought it was a significant world news story of a fairly good person who was able to have some international influence and use it for good causes … a type of individual that we are sorely lacking in the world these days.

Thanks for that … like I mentioned to friends and associates in public and online … I thought it was just important to highlight the event as he was US President, and also most long lived US President at 100 years of age … and the fact that after his retirement, he did so much international aide organization work, either to support or to just lend his name and personality to it.

It’s becoming a rare thing to see a world leader honestly, publicly and through their own actions actually join in and take part in grass roots organizations and even get down and dirty to the point of working at an actual construction site, not just for a single photo op but on a regular basis whether cameras were rolling or not.

Rotated it and all I could see was this …

Fascism is on the match. The problem is not that they are on the move. The problem is that many of us just join the march but caring about what we are doing … or not doing.

And no I’m not calling for revolution… I’m just calling out everyone that participates in corporate social media and wonder why they are encouraging the spreading of lies and propaganda

It had everything to do with human greed.

As long as there is the suggestion or possibility, no matter how remote that anyone of us can become enormously wealthy, we won’t want to change the system.

(I’m having trouble responding to this post because my Lemmy instance at Lemmy.ca has been having problems for the past few days)

Thanks to people like you and everyone at c/tenforward for giving me the motivation and enthusiasm to get back into Star Trek. It’s people like yourself and especially @Stamets@lemmy.world that really got me back into Star Trek. @Stamets@lemmy.world was probably the first person I chatted with on Lemmy when I first got on this social media platform and he has always guided me to the right people and places which led me here to c/tenforward.

I watched Star Trek many times over the years but it was always a lonely experience. I’ve never known a group of people in real life in my circle of friends who enjoyed Star Trek. My wife is partial to it and only enjoys watching The Original Series and dismisses all the others. It’s fun to relive and rewatch these episodes because many of them are truly wonderful writing and acting. This episode of DS9 was particularly outstanding. I was thrown for a complete loop when everything blasted back to 1950 and again caught off guard when they introduced all the characters. I thought at first it was weird that they brought in new actors but then realized who they all were. The intro scene with the sidewalk paper boy had me totally confused, I knew the voice, I knew the character but didn’t realize until later who it was. The same for all the other alien characters. It was also thrilling to see Marc Alaimo and Jeffrey Combs - I really loved hating those two and its part of what makes the series so memorable. The only character I really missed in this episode was Garak (Andrew Robinson).

It is a really enjoyable show and it’s made even more fun because I’m able to share the experience with people like yourself and this online community at c/tenforward

I don’t know if I’ll live long (I hope I do) … but I’m definitely prospering.

Meegwetch Mina Doodem … it means ‘Thanks again my friend’ in my Native Ojbway/Cree language

Trust me the beginning is not easy … I think I started and stopped watching DS9 about five or six times over the years. I started it again last summer and the first season is a bit of slog, second season felt a lot better and by three and four, I was looking forward to it all. Once you get past those first few episodes, there are some definite jewels to see and you get to enjoy all the major cast members and characters that are part of the show. At times, the good guys become the bad and even the bad guys become the good and sometimes you can’t tell which makes you realize that this is what life and society is all about. You get to love the protagonists and you even grow to enjoy and appreciate the antagonists because there is so much great writing and acting in the series.