Tango

@Tango@piefed.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 4x04 "A Case of Chiaroscuro"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure but in DS9 Kor is by far the goofiest of the three musketeers Dahar masters. Kang is far more serious and a better fit for this character, and even looks more like Demore Barnes. So making him Kor instead is an odd decision.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨success⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  See, this doesn’t really happen to me because doing the dishes is one of my favorite chores. It’s doing the bins that’s a pain in the hole.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Painful to recover from⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Should be word of the decade.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Housing prices⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I assume it’s mainly that the amount of people went up more quickly than the amount of homes. Demand goes up while supply stays low, and the result is predictable.

  I also assume that this is driven by perverse incentive: pre-existing homeowners want their property to appreciate in value, and so they will oppose attempts to build in order to drive scarcity. They will be particularly incentivized to do this if they bought the property as a speculative investment instead of as a home for themselves.

  This type of rampant speculation is driven by the market being largely unregulated. Everywhere in the world but especially in the USA, people are forced to seek reliable high-yield investment in order to fund non-state pensions and afford a decent retirement. Governments desperately need to aid this in order for society to not collapse, and so they are held hostage by their own economies, forced to clear a path for pension funds to seek as much profit as possible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Be a punk rocker⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  How would you know?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Be a punk rocker⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Hopefully this has been instructive in how you can’t trust the Internet, especially YouTube/TikTok. Since from your perspective I am also an anonymous Internet rando, I suggest that you distrust what I have claimed too, and see for yourself by looking up the movie’s wikipedia article or some other source that’s more trustworthy than an anonymous Internet rando. It’s important to develop that habit - to verify things for yourself, and to figure out which sources you can rely on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Be a punk rocker⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  In the Captain America movie we learn that the current [MCU] President was near the same blast that created the first Hulk. Yadda yadda, the President becomes the Red Hulk and ends up in jail. Harrison Ford plays the President and he’s sorrowful for what happened and Captain America is also sad.

  No, the president (a formerly retired US army general named Ross who had been hunting the Hulk for years) is revealed to have holding a character from the first Hulk movie in prison for years and forcing that character (Samuel Sterns, AKA The Leader) to use his incredible genius to do two things: 1 - help him with his heart condition (which was what had forced his retirement in the first place) and 2 - help him win the presidency. It is then revealed that The Leader, instead of simply curing his heart condition, has been seeking revenge by dosing him slowly with a substance that has turned him into another Hulk; this one red.

  The Leader then instigates a series of events which politically embarrass Ross and put him under increasing stress in the hopes of triggering a public hulkout which will ruin him. In this, he succeeds, and Captain America is forced to fight the Red Hulk without killing him. Cap eventually succeeds in calming him down, at which point he reverts to Ross and his promptly imprisoned in super-jail.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Be a punk rocker⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  What? Brave New World ends with Captain America putting the president in jail. I have no idea what would make you think the movie promotes an “obey no matter what” policy. That you would even suggest that it does leads me to suspect that you’re not being entirely honest here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the main goal of the Maquis was not to evoke sympathy for them, but to put the main characters in interesting moral/ethical quandaries. Both TNG and DS9 did “forced relocation” episodes where the narrative focus was on the fact that there were no “right” answers, only “less wrong” ones.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Languages⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Gaeilge: awww, you guys are adorable

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pikachu⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m pretty sure the Black Panthers only worked because MLK was doing a good/bad cop thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In tentacle monsterd we trust 🫡⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  for all de public

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨take their money and arrest those responsible⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Just do what you can, when you can. It’s all any of us can do.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨take their money and arrest those responsible⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Because I don’t trust anybody who tells me things I wanna hear like “you bear no responsibility; it’s somebody else’s fault”.

  Oil companies couldn’t sell if nobody was buying. The idea that the world can be fixed and I won’t need to sacrifice a thing is a little too good to be true.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨take their money and arrest those responsible⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  >>"Spoiler alert: it’s not you”

  >>proceeds to display a chart of companies who sell a fuel we all use

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lawyers ‘Scared’ to Do Their Jobs After Charges Against Palestine Action Barrister⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t disagree; I’m just pointing out that the judge was unlikely to be targeting the barrister for any political reason. Courts always discourage any overly obvious suggestion of jury nullification, regardless of the case being tried or whether it does or does not relate to Israel.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lawyers ‘Scared’ to Do Their Jobs After Charges Against Palestine Action Barrister⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The whole point of a jury system is that jurors aren’t morons.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lawyers ‘Scared’ to Do Their Jobs After Charges Against Palestine Action Barrister⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Given that even before his closing statement, the judge had already warned him not to encourage jury nullification, he can’t have been that subtle.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lawyers ‘Scared’ to Do Their Jobs After Charges Against Palestine Action Barrister⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  With an argument like that, it sounds like you have a lot of contempt for the court system. So if the barrister also argued in open court that “ignoring all law and evidence is the right thing to do”…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lawyers ‘Scared’ to Do Their Jobs After Charges Against Palestine Action Barrister⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Juries can practice jury nullification if they want and nobody can stop them, but barristers aren’t supposed to suggest it. Imagine if, say, a prosecutor told an Israeli jury that they didn’t technically need evidence to arrive at a “guilty” verdict for a Palestinian defendant, just “their conscience”. Jury nullification can’t become just another trial strategy, or the whole legal system becomes worthless.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨get a job you loser⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It really is hard to find a job where you can go home at the end of the day and feel like what you did that has benefitted the human race at all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Interesting⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  One could argue that capitalism only did that because it needed to compete with communism, and that the more that capitalism eliminates its communist competition, the less it seems inclined to care about the working class.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨As Xbox and PlayStation flounder, Steam is reportedly having another record year⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  How have Epic and GOG been faring?