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

For who people would like to see as an all powerful, intelligent and genius billionaire … he sure has a thin skin

For anyone that didn’t notice … this is the power of journalists and why we should defend them, help them and support them.

Might have been true during the Roman era or even during the 1930s but in the age of mass communication, a generally informed or disinformed population (depending on how you want to see it), multi national corporations who really don’t care about nations and all mixed in with nuclear weapons … things will be much different. Whether or not that difference will be better or worse is anyone’s guess. But it will be something completely different.

Just aim it in the general direction of your target and if you don’t hit them at least you’ll permanently damage their hearing

And we laugh at the ancient Romans for flavoring their wine with lead or using lead products and slowly poisoning themselves.

Mr Rogers, Bob Ross, Steve Irwin

He did not see that coming

When this happens in a developing country we laugh at their politics.

When it happens in America, no one bats an eye

Are they just reviewing all the accusations they made about Democrats over the past few years and just using that as a template for what they want to do.

And if you really don’t want me to call you or call you back … text, email or send me a message that says

CALL ME

That is the single most disgusting uninteresting uninformative and ugliest thing that anyone can text me. You can text me a dick pick, ransom demands, blackmail images, racist crap or gore pictures of something and I wouldn’t complain and probably might even respond to you … but if you just text me ‘CALL ME’, I’m blocking your number or contact and never answering anything from you again.

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.

Enshitification? … at this point it’s all dissolving into that putrid liquid dumpster juice.

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.

Most carpenters I’ve ever known were more boobs men