ApostleO

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[–] ApostleO@startrek.website 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Holy shit... How can you rightly identify that the US military (and the US government's use of said military) is evil, and that killing people for their ideas just spreads those ideas, but then somehow come to the conclusion that public health mandates during a pandemic are unconstitutional and "billionaires in this country got rich by actually serving their fellow man"?

Fucking hell, the propaganda machines are in overdrive.

Appreciate a veteran telling kids not to join the military. (Assuming this was written by an actual veteran, and isn't just fictional propaganda.)

The rest is idiotic corpo bootlicking unrelated to the topic.

[–] ApostleO@startrek.website 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I haven't had my blood boil like reading that McConnell piece.

I can't even put the rage into words.

[–] ApostleO@startrek.website 1 points 5 months ago

I get the hate for those movies, but I honestly enjoyed them all.

They are what got me to watch TOS, finally. Then I did a full watch through of the series. They were great for revitalizing the fan base and making new fans.

I honestly love having the movies as a different universe/timeline. Saves us from tone whiplash, like Shakespeare TNG Picard vs Rambo Movie Picard.

[–] ApostleO@startrek.website 1 points 6 months ago

Horrible article title, obviously written to be misleading clickbait.

They didn't delete the pension fund.

They deleted the Google Cloud account running the management of said fund.

It was inaccessible for a week, but has been fixed.

Big fuck up, and big news. But on the level of "hurts Alphabet stock and panics people for a week" not "bankrupts countless people, maybe crushing a whole nation's economy."

[–] ApostleO@startrek.website 7 points 6 months ago

That, or she should be named "Mary" instead, I guess.

[–] ApostleO@startrek.website 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Yes! I've said for a while that any public statement by a politician should be treated as being "under oath", punishable as perjury as applicable.

[–] ApostleO@startrek.website 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

US billionaires hold a collective $4.5 Trillion. A 2% wealth tax would be $90 Billion. That's simultaneously a shitload of money that could do so much good, and also a drop in the bucket for the US budget and deficit.

We need to raise taxes on the wealthy so, so much to save this country.

[–] ApostleO@startrek.website 51 points 7 months ago (5 children)

As disappointing as it is to see it end, 5 seasons is a decent run, and I'd rather it end before they "jump the shark" or just fizzle out.

[–] ApostleO@startrek.website 2 points 7 months ago

Vulcans.

As a regularly stoic person (maybe on the autism spectrum), I often struggle to show appropriate emotion. Or, at least, it is exhausting.

Having a conversation with a Vulcan would be a breath of fresh air.

[–] ApostleO@startrek.website 3 points 8 months ago

Eww! No I don't! Take it back!

[–] ApostleO@startrek.website 1 points 8 months ago (4 children)

Prediction: Starbucks resolves the issue by raising all "milk" product prices to match the most expensive option.

[–] ApostleO@startrek.website 1 points 8 months ago

I'm here to collect.

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