people always focus on the mormon thing, but really its Space Americans pretending to be Greek running away from mega-9/11 while West Wing LARPing who just happen to be space mormons.

Kneecap are Northern Irish, so they could definitely be prosecuted under those laws. This is also why there was all that stuff about them getting art grants from the UK and the south.

The complete inability of any Star Wars media to veer from the centre means its "revolution" much more resembles the multi-polar fights for national sovereignty, which inevitably end in the financial backers and middle class elements betraying the rest so that they can be the new landlords of their freed land. By aping so many real world examples Andor has brief flashes of realism but its completely aesthetic and surface level.

Interesting that he actually used the term townland. Many people out in the country still use the names of townlands from generational memory, but apart from local historians I've never heard of anyone actually calling them townlands.

SP500 drops 10%

The UK wouldn't survive even something as mild as a return of national service IMO. If they ever did try and bring it back it would probably be for England only, because anything else would just speed up the glacial breakup of the UK that is already occurring. I've stopped trying to predict when reunification would happen ever since Brexit, but I wouldn't be surprised if there was a referendum 10 years from now. Once NI goes then Scotland is only a matter of time, potentially a very long matter of time, but still inevitable.

I never really understood how the same people who made DS9 then went on to create such boring character ensembles. You went from having shapeshifting goo, Ferengi, Lizard Spies, Jadzia, Clone Gene-warriors and Weyouns to Humans and the most boring species ever (TM) Vulcans. Why do they always go back to Vulcans when they are so uninteresting. Discovery should have started with the very first test jump sending them into the future, wiping the slate and going back to a space opera of the week.

Enterprise is so unintentionally hilarious because of things like the sex airlock, especially the fact that Dr Phlox is banned from it for not being hot enough, so he gets a little window to do his scenes for it. The funniest moment in the entire show is the bit where Hoshi's shirt gets fully ripped off while crawling around in vents for zero reason, or the reveal in the mirror universe episodes with the womens uniforms just having no torso? It really does it to such a severe degree that it makes a rather forgettable show about Star Trek dealing with 9/11 endlessly rewatchable in "So bad its good" way.

Sidenote I always thought the funniest thing in DS9 was Jake motherfucking Sisko running around in the background being a smooth-talking Dom-Jot hustler poet who immediately goes from getting a Dabo Girl girlfriend at like 16 to hitting on Kira the next episode because of Mrs Rodenberry's psychic pheromones.

The bait worked, its like chum in the water

But will we ever get the mythical third pronoun slot? "All" is not the same as he/she/them and I got a lot of pushback on it back when the lemmy was new.

Successful runs of Maxed Workers and Resources should get you a city planning degree automatically