frankPodmore
@frankPodmore@slrpnk.net
London-based writer. Often climbing.
- Comment on Annotations for *Star Trek: Lower Decks* 5x09: “Fissure Quest” (SPOILERS) 1 week ago:
The ship flying out of the rift reminds me of the XCV-330 Enteprise from the 22nd Century, first seen as part of the Enterprise lineage of ships in a painting in TMP. The ring structure might be a coleopteric warp drive which the XCV-330 used, also used by Vulcan starships.
I think a similar ring design was also an early concept for the Enterprise, before they settled on the familiar saucer + nacelles look.
- Comment on Pat McFadden vows to make the state "more like a start up" as he deploys reform teams across country 1 week ago:
What’s the five-year failure rate for start-ups, again?
- Comment on When you die, what do you want to be done with you? 3 weeks ago:
I’d like my corpse to be used to frame someone for murder. Obviously I can’t name names, because that would undermine the plot, but I trust my loved ones to frame up someone who has it coming.
- Comment on NBC created the perfect template for Star Trek to follow with future comedies 3 weeks ago:
Totally agree with you. One of the things that I love about LDS is that it’s not just by and for fans of the show - that’s more or less a given with any longstanding franchise - but that it’s about fans of the show.
[Spoiler tag here because I’m talking about the most recent episode and I know some people won’t be caught up yet!]
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My favourite scene in the most recent episode was Mariner geeking out over getting to hang out with Data. It worked because that’s how we’d all react if we got to hang out with Data. ‘Aw, respect. I’d go back for Geordi, too’ was a fantastic line because it was both funny and felt completely real to all the TNG fans.
- Comment on Annotations for *Star Trek: Lower Decks* 5x07: “Fully Dilated” (SPOILERS) 3 weeks ago:
Great notes, as always!
Freeman sends Purple Data back through the fissure in a photon torpedo tube, much like how Spock’s body was shot towards the Genesis Planet at the end of ST II.
Along with the use of the torpedo tube, I thought Mariner’s off-key flute playing in this scene was a homage to Scotty playing the bagpipes at Spock’s funeral.
- Comment on Kate Nash and Lily Allen on OnlyFans should be a wake-up call for the music industry 3 weeks ago:
A classic party game!
- Comment on Kate Nash and Lily Allen on OnlyFans should be a wake-up call for the music industry 3 weeks ago:
So you get a puzzle piece with a photo of a that might be a bit of boob, and after six months you have enough pieces to see that it is, in fact, a man’s very smooth knee?
- Comment on Interview: Nana Visitor On Star Trek Putting Actresses In The “Female Box” And Going Backwards In ‘Enterprise’ 4 weeks ago:
These interviews are really interesting! I’m going to have to go and read the book now.
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- Comment on Where to start? 4 weeks ago:
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- Comment on Where to start? 5 weeks ago:
If us Star Trek nerds can’t get our facts straight, what hope for humanity?
- Comment on Where to start? 5 weeks ago:
Measure of a Man is season 2!
- Comment on Where to start? 5 weeks ago:
I’d start with Strange New Worlds. It’s very classic Trek in terms of its themes and stories, but as it’s still being made it has contemporary audiences in mind. If you like it, I would then go to TNG.
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- Comment on Everybody who ever voted for trump is a cunt. 2 months ago:
I broadly agree with you that everyone who voted for Trump was in some sense wrong, but I don’t think your framing is helpful. Even honest people with good motivations make mistakes and I think that some percentage of Trump voters was essentially mistaken when they voted for Trump (and if they’re planning to vote for him again).
Specifically, the mistake they’re making is believing that the ends justify the means.
Let’s say a person holds some sort of conservative belief that’s not in itself evil, like that taxes should generally be as low as possible, that any fiscal headroom should primarily be taken as an opportunity for a tax cut rather than for more state spending. There’s nothing wrong per se with believing this (all tax policy is a matter of balance and there will always be some people who, on balance, think taxes should be lower). However, believing that this is so important that you should vote for a person like Trump is wrong: the ends (low taxes) don’t justify the means (Trump regaining the presidency).
NB: The question as to whether low taxes are actually good, or of whether Trump will actually deliver them, is irrelevant to this argument; the whole point I’m making is that these people are mistaken, so if they’re also mistaken about the merits of low taxes that’s a point in favour of my argument, not against it. For what it’s worth, Trump will raise taxes on all Americans because his tariff scheme is a tax that will be paid for by Americans.
- The Moment of Truth | The reelection of Donald Trump would mark the end of George Washington’s vision for the presidency—and the United States.www.theatlantic.com ↗Submitted 2 months ago to conservative@lemm.ee | 0 comments
- Comment on Keir Starmer pins economic growth hopes on British Hollywood with new tax relief 2 months ago:
Terrified this will now actually catch on.
- Comment on Keir Starmer pins economic growth hopes on British Hollywood with new tax relief 2 months ago:
Brollywood?
- Comment on Is Liz Cheney seriously Dick Cheney's daughter? Why is she so old? Isn't that impossible? 2 months ago:
Here are the Encyclopedia Britannica pages for Dick Cheney and Liz Cheney, which have the same dates of birth for both individuals as cited above.
- Comment on Is Liz Cheney seriously Dick Cheney's daughter? Why is she so old? Isn't that impossible? 2 months ago:
Yes.
Dick Cheney is 83 (born 1941).
83-58=25
So Dick Cheney was 25 when his daughter was born. This seems pretty normal and certainly not impossible.
- Rudy Giuliani’s Daughter: Trump Took My Dad From Me. Please Don’t Let Him Take Our Country Toowww.vanityfair.com ↗Submitted 2 months ago to conservative@lemm.ee | 0 comments
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- Comment on Ohio governor contradicts Democrat narrative with damning revelation about bomb threat 'hoaxes' in Springfield 2 months ago:
Oh, that’s okay, then.
- Former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales Will Support Kamala Harris: He views Trump’s reelection as a threat to the rule of law.www.politico.com ↗Submitted 3 months ago to conservative@lemm.ee | 0 comments
- Comment on Britain, Which Birthed American Ideas About Liberty, Has Embraced Despotism 3 months ago:
So, you’re saying there was a slight miscarriage of justice which, on appeal, was rectified? I’m sorry there was a problem but, by your own account, it was fixed.
The UK cannot be both Marxist and living under Sharia law; they’re diamatrically opposed. In fact, no where is Sharia law legally imposed, whatever you may have heard.
It is not true that you can’t be ‘proud’ of being ‘English’. There is a St. George’s Day parade in many towns and cities, including London, where it is led by Sadiq Khan, the mayor, who is both proudly Muslim and proudly English. Like most people, he sees no contradiction.
It is not true that talking about Anglo-Saxon culture is considered white supremacy. Schools and universities talk a great deal about figures from Shakespeare to Alan Turing to Millicent Fawcett (I’m picking three examples at random) all of whom were Anglo-Saxon. No one feels the need to point this out, because it would be fucking weird, but like all cultures everywhere, we mostly talk about people from our own culture. The idea this is banned or frowned upon is imaginary.
- Comment on Britain, Which Birthed American Ideas About Liberty, Has Embraced Despotism 3 months ago:
Yeah, as someone living here, this is nonsense. We put violent rioters in prison. Punishing criminals does not violate freedom; it’s a condition for it.
- Comment on Fact-checking night 2 of the Democratic National Convention | CNN Politics 3 months ago:
Is that the one that 'Trump campaign officials acknowledge aligns well’ with Project 2025? Loads of the policies are identical, not just well-aligned. It’s fair game to point up the links between the guy and the document when his ex-staffers wrote the document and his current staffers acknowledge the similarity of the document.
He (of his staff) needs to tell people the actual differences, rather than vague disavowals.
- Comment on Fact-checking night 2 of the Democratic National Convention | CNN Politics 3 months ago:
Little bit shocked that Bernie Sanders was responsible for two of the misleading claims. Fully half of the, uh, four headings in the article: a ‘day of lies’, producing four (4) lies? Guess they weren’t working too fast.
The Project 2025 stuff IMO is fair game till Trump explains what he’d do differently. As far as I can see, it’s at least consistent with his plans. If he wants Dems to shut up about it, he should say which parts and which authors he rejects. He can’t just vaguely say, ‘That document that says I should be a dictator? Nothing to do with my plans to be a dictator’ and expect people to go: okay, cool.