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Mike Duncan's Revolutions podcast (especially series 3 covering the French Revolution) and his The History of Rome series.
Two hunters
Two hunters are out in the woods when one of them collapses. He doesn't seem to be breathing and his eyes are glazed.
The other guy whips out his phone and calls the emergency services. He gasps, "My friend is dead! What can I do?"
The operator says, "Calm down. I can help. First, let's make sure he's dead."
There is a silence; then a gun shot is heard. Back on the phone, the guy says, "OK, now what?"
Hyperbole to emphasize the importance of following orders in battle, even if you think it's a mistake.
Ours is not to reason why; Ours is but to do and die
White noise. I bought a white noise machine years ago when I lived near a large emergency room that had ambulances going by all day every day. It really helped with the sirens, and when I moved away I kept using the machine. My brain now interprets the white noise as profound silence, and I sleep so deeply that I don't know how I ever got by without it.
Inmate firefighters are indeed inmate labor, but the issue is whether inmate firefighters are slaves. I don't think that they are, and I also think that lumping them together with other forms of inmate labor (particularly those that benefit private interests) is misleading and hyperbolic when discussing that point.
I think you're conflating the general issue of inmate labor with the particular issue of inmate firefighters.
But in this case they are volunteers. They specifically applied to the firefighting program.
There's certainly cause for discussion about the ethics, etc. but calling it slavery or involuntary servitude is hyperbole.
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Citation needed.
Well, yes, just like me and my job, they can quit. What part of that suggests slavery?
It's not involuntary, though. They have to apply for the program, and can stop if they want.
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Ugly giant bags of mostly water.
Another nit about Riker's argument: at one point he detaches Data's arm to demonstrate that he's a machine. Four years later Riker's arm was amputated and reattached by the subspace aliens in Schisms.
The Dominion Did Nothing WrongTM
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Many different kinds of organizations are organized as corporations. Charities, newspapers, churches, etc. If the amendment was not carefully written, it could be construed to deny important rights, such as press freedom or religious freedom, to organizations that really ought to be protected. Similarly, the protections against unwarranted search and seizure or taking of property for pubic use without compensation should probably continue to cover corporations.
Really, the only problem I see WRT corporations having constitutional rights is the decision that political spending is protected speech. The other constitutional rights are generally not problematic.
So maybe something like this:
- No person, whether natural born human or legal fiction, shall spend, donate, or otherwise make valuable contributions to any candidate or campaign, if said person is not entitled to vote in the election for such candidate or campaign.
- Only natural born human beings shall be entitled to vote in any election.
From a national security standpoint of the government, it absolutely does matter who has the data.
TestDisk and PhotoRec. TestDisk can recover broken drive partitions, PhotoRec can recover deleted files even if the partition table is borked.
I respect it when I hear someone clearly attempting a word they've only seen written
Of Biblical Proportions
An elderly Catholic priest dies one night peacefully in his sleep after a long life of serving God, and finds himself standing at the pearly gates.
"You were such a pious and holy man in life," began St. Peter, "that as a reward you can make one request of me before leaving behind your worldly cares and entering heaven."
"Well," says the priest, "I'd like to read the original manuscript of the Bible."
Even more impressed now than before, St. Peter grants the request and takes the priest to God's own private library, before leaving him to his studies.
Shortly afterward, the priest lets out an unholy shriek. St. Peter rushes into the library and asks, "what is it? What's wrong?!"
And through gritted teeth and streams of tears the priest cried out: "Celebrate! It says celebrate, not celibate!"
Cetacean Institute, 1986 vs. 2024
Odd that they never re-filled the whale tank
TIL Joe Satriani's "Crowd Chant" was meant to be called "Party on the Enterprise"
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It would have included loops of Star Trek sound effects, but Paramount lawyers said no.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Satriani#Musical_themes
Thank you for your attention, Bajoran workers. This mandatory cultural appreciation moment has been noted on your time cards and will be deducted from your food ration.