Edibles were so good, you weren't even standing in your own bathroom ...... and why is the lady behind the door screaming in some Eastern European language?
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And if we move just one percent of a full trip around the galaxy, about two million years would have gone by and none of this shit would even mean anything to be remembered.
We've only got one shot at this folks, let's make it count.
Electrifying
Not really, it takes about ten minutes and then your body realizes you're not going to eat so it switches to economy mode and forgets about hunger for a while. Coffee does the same thing.
It's only if you do this repeatedly for about a day that you'll turn into a raging animal, start breaking furniture and call your wife a whore as you try to solve your hunger.
Crazy orange senile politician says crazy things ... country accepts it as normal
What else is new America?
Don't feel bad, it took me a while to figure out for myself what it was all about. It's another one of those internet lore meme formats that went absolutely bonkers about ten years ago.
I'd ask for the stupid AI scanning system to scan my car before I agree to renting it. Once they sign off on the 'all clear' notification from their AI scanner before rental, then I'd consider renting it .... but after reading this headline, I'd probably just tell them, I'm spending a few hundred dollars more on renting a car from someone else.
I thought that was a sheep's stomach that was full of shit
"If"?
I always smile when someone starts a question about death with the word "if"
It's never a question of 'if' we die or when someone dies ..... it's a question of 'when'
Death .... it's the great equalizer for all of humanity, no matter how smart, dumb, young, old, rich, poor, intelligent, stupid, educated, illiterate you are, we always end up in the same place where we started .... the deep dark eternal sleep.
If you develop a society and infrastructure to the point where you are asking every pedestrian to wear a hi-vis jacket .... the pedestrians are not the problem ... your infrastructure, vehicles and mentality are the problem.
Yes .... it's called a James Brown concert
I've never been to one but I have several friends who said they did. There are also a bunch of videos that show it and if you watch them long enough (because the real life performances are really long) ... it's not an event, it's a spiritual.
Don't know how you all feel about Gene Roddenberry who kick started the whole Trek franchise and everything that came after it.
He is definitely someone that has affected a lot of lives beyond the work that he did and the life that he led.
For all his shortcomings, he is someone I look up to that has made humanity look at itself in the mirror and seriously think about what we all see in each other through all the shows and characters that he helped to create.
... btw ... this post is another Trek thing where in chatting with all you led me down to a page that noted that today is the memorial of Roddenberry's passing in 1991.
I thought I should take the responsibility to post this and remind everyone about what today is.
National Day For Truth And Reconciliation
Both my parents are survivors of the residential school era and my family have had to live with this horror all our lives ... whether we knew it or not.
For me the day is not to shame anyone or lay blame on those around me.
But rather to let everyone know about this history and never allow anything like it to ever happen again.
In The Original Series in the 60s, people had no idea what the future would look like or what technology would look like. In one of the early episodes, they had a paper print out machine on the bridge that looked like a fax machine, which was considered futuristic in the 1960s.
Like the example of the Enterprise fax machine, what technology or system do you think are we displaying in the current Star Trek shows that will show how dated we will become in the future?
I didn't see it posted so I thought I should.
I'm Indigenous, full blooded Ojibway/Cree from northern Ontario. Both my parents survived the residential school system in the 50s and I attended the last vestiges of Christianized schooling when I was growing up. We saw a lot of discrimination against us in my family and we were always made to feel less than every other Canadian we ever knew.
Even with all that ..... my dad always enjoyed celebrating this holiday because he just thought it was fun and a good time to celebrate with family and friends. Maybe he just didn't know but whenever this time of year comes around, all I can think of is how much he enjoyed just having a bit of fun today in the middle of summer.
In my own experience, I've travelled the world to 34 countries so I got see and compare how our country compares to the rest of the world. With all its shortcomings and blemishes .... this is still a great country and a prime example of decent democracy. It isn't perfect and it is very problematic and unequal in many ways ... but its on the top of the pile of mostly or more democratic places on the planet. I may be wrong on that but that is just my opinion.
So with all that said .... to all my Native, non-Native, nation born, immigrant, brown, white, black, and every shade in between ....
Happy Canada Day to all of you.
I didn't see any one mention it here but today is the 80th Anniversary of the D-Day landings in Normandy and what has become to be known as the beginning of the end of the Second World War.
James Doohan who famously played Scotty in The Original Series in the 1960s was a veteran of this famous battle. This was also the day he famously lost his finger which he always did his very best to hide from the camera.
Read about him at this webpage provided by the Juno Beach Centre.
https://www.junobeach.org/canada-in-wwii/articles/james-doohan/
For those who don't know Juno Beach refers to one of the five named beach areas of the D-Day landings. Juno Beach was the landing area for the Canadian Forces of which James Doohan was part. And also for those who don't know, James Doohan was a Canadian.
Give it another ten minutes ... it's amazing how long you can go without food. As long as you have something to drink, your stomach will rumble and grumble endlessly but you'll be able to function for a day or two without food. It's miserable yes, but it won't kill you.