TheLepidopterists

Yeah, if you look at it from the out of character point of view that the legal system in the federation is like that as a a vehicle for Captain Picard to make a passionate speech that being like that is bad and the federation can and should do better it makes a lot more sense.

I still hate Commander Maddox though

I don't know if this part is also part of the bit, but while Republicans are successful at getting into national government via Kentucky, they historically have Democrats for governor. There were a couple recent Republicans but honestly they were the flukes and both were single term (you gave to go back to the late 60s before you get to another successful GOP gubernatorial race in Kentucky, although that dude's term did extend to the early 70s).

Part of our normal grocery routine, I'm not buying anything from a different grocery store if I can get it from Aldi.

It's pretty shocking how big the price difference is, at least the last time I checked it was.

He has a positronic brain!

My great grandmother actually did survive the Great Depression as a young kid (I'm pretty sure her parents were first gen immigrants too, egg on their face lol, shouldn't have moved to the US in the early 1900s for economic opportunity) and some of her stories were pretty off the wall.

It definitely made her value feeding people, every time I visited she'd try to get me to eat like a half a watermelon.

EDIT: I know this doesn't really fit the vibe of the thread but Grannie was great.

Gonna have to watch out for this, watch funny animal videos with my kid on my phone sometimes before bedtime.

Well first take every single dollar that you were going to give to the Democrats, who are genocidal fascists remember, and give that to their victims instead. Next take every single second that you were going to spend trying to convince people to vote for genocidal war, criminal Kamala Harris, and use that time to convince people that genocide is an unacceptable line to cross.

Next pray for the success of Hamas, the rest of the Palestinian resistance, Iran, Hezbollah and Ansarallah in their fight against genocide.

Finally, consider the question of what options were open to a morally upstanding citizen in Nazi Germany during the Holocaust. Those are your morally upstanding options.

If that all sounds bleak, I'm sorry it is bleak, the government that you currently support is committing genocide.

Yeah Israel, which has been talking about building beachfront properties in Gaza this entire time, is definitely going to be okay with using nuclear weapons there.

For a liberal it is axiomatically true that Donald Trump is worse than everyone else on the planet. No matter what atrocity someone else commits when in power, he would find a way to do that but even more evil.

At a certain point, it's almost a religious belief.

Gonna summon this silly little dude to teach me everything about herbs and plants so I can be hella good in the kitchen.

When I was younger I worked for a small business (I mean, it was a McDonald's franchise, but it's not like I talked to corporate ever) and calling in was like pulling teeth.

One time I called in and my manager asked about sending another employee to pick me up. It was unreal.

Now I work for a company that has frequently got 1000 people all doing the same job simultaneously and while they're not cool with people calling in literally every other day, they know the average amount of days a person calls in and if you're under that they don't give a shit because with 1000 people you are forced to recognize that as a cost of doing business. You just hire 8% more employees than you expect to need or whatever.

Nobody at this company has ever asked if I was really sure I couldn't come in, nobody wants to know how exactly I'm sick, etc etc.

Not that there aren't downsides, but I never want the person who owns the entity I work for to say a word to me. I don't want that motherfucker to know I exist. They belong 7 rungs higher than me on an org chart minimum, and hopefully in a different state.

It's certainly not a hearty protein but I really like these little peppers, in the US I've only ever seen them sold as "Peppadew" but that apparently a brand name and they're technically called Juanita peppers.

They're pickled and sweet and tangy and really good on a veggie sandwich with hummus or avocado or the like to give a creamy savory flavor.

I originally became aware of them as "the weird sweet tangy peppers on the Mediterranean veggie sandwich at Panera" and spent a couple of years trying to figure out what they were called.

I actually just now found out that Peppadew was a brand and not a pepper variety.