TheKingBee

You don't have to be Nostrodamus to predict that the 80 year old man who really looks their age and has near monthly "routine" health checks and brags about passing the kinds of cognitive tests they only give when they think you have dementia is going to die soon...

Deborah Birx takes 67 points psychic damage

I'm honestly neutral with the change, it makes setting up a new phone a little more annoying, it will just be another step in the process and doesn't stop me from doing anything. However the small barrier will stop scammers pressuring people into installing things. It doesn't make it impossible, but will get rid of a lot of the low hanging fruit.

That allows us to have career politicians

I don't think politician should be a career... There's an old saying i've never much agreed with "those who can't do teach." I think that a more accurate saying would be "those who can't do go into politics."

Yes it is!

I didn't use that word because no one ever knows wtf it means lol

That movie was criticized because it was on the nose, but if there's one thing the last 20 years has thought me its that there may have been a time for subtle implications, subtext, and understatement, but it's long over.

If you aren't screaming it, they won't hear you and even if they hear you they won't do anything...

"we're all looking for the guy who did this"

Some of us are greedy fucks, we let them make the decisions for some reason.

I've always advocated for a system where people who are qualified but don't want to should lead...

I assume so, possibly because that's how old I am, but it seems right.

I'm so used to ignoring who tweets are from that I didn't notice till you mentioned it and scrolled back up, lol

As someone with a problematic relationship with alcohol, from a family of the same, i get addiction, but I don't get gambling. The way it's become normalized by society is so weird to me.

That's how I felt about half way through the pilot, I said to my partner "I don't think I can handle a grimdark trek," but then they started introducing the actual premise of the show, how starfleet had a dark time, but was now rebuilding and reaffirming it's ideals.

I personally liked the vibe, it felt hopeful. Dark times don't last forever and things do get better, but still leave an impact.

There is still a utopia though, it has just been tested and they failed some of the tests and now they're trying to rebuild.

It's back to basics hopeful, a society trying to live up to it's ideals again.