[-] charonn0@startrek.website 27 points 1 month ago

Reminds me of the old trick on HTML forms where you use CSS to make one of the form fields invisible to humans and reject any submission that filled in that field.

[-] charonn0@startrek.website 27 points 3 months ago

Sorry, I lost the world's smallest violin. This is the best I can do: 🖕

[-] charonn0@startrek.website 27 points 2 years ago

He sold a property for more than its estimated market value.

Nice try.

[-] charonn0@startrek.website 27 points 2 years ago

According to the best current understanding of physics, atoms didn't come into existence until several hundred thousand years after the Big Bang. That would seem to rule out an atom-based creator.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recombination_(cosmology)

[-] charonn0@startrek.website 28 points 2 years ago

Without looking at the article, guess what party she's a member of.

[-] charonn0@startrek.website 28 points 2 years ago

This sort of empty rhetoric is what OP is talking about.

[-] charonn0@startrek.website 28 points 2 years ago

McConnell, now nearing his 82nd birthday, is determined to fund the Ukrainian war effort, a push his allies have depicted as legacy-defining.

Sorry, Mitch, but that ship has sailed. Your legacy as "Trump's penis butler" is cemented for all time. Nothing else you do, or did, counts. Nothing you accomplished matters. If you're remembered at all it will be as a craven traitor.

c.f. Benedict Arnold

[-] charonn0@startrek.website 27 points 2 years ago

Sounds an awful lot like levying war against the United States, or adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort.

[-] charonn0@startrek.website 28 points 2 years ago

Which is a real thing in canon. Bajor's application was put in jeopardy when they briefly reinstated a caste system, which violated Federation equality rules.

[-] charonn0@startrek.website 27 points 2 years ago

While culture and genetics are not inextricably linked, they are nonetheless linked.

[-] charonn0@startrek.website 27 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

As a gay Californian, I took prop 8 personally. I spurn its supporters as I would spurn a rabid dog.

[-] charonn0@startrek.website 28 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I am an apartment building manager. Once, years ago, I was brought in to clean up after another manager who had quit/been fired for... let's just call it incompetence.

Anyway, there was a unit in the building that was occupied by a guy I never met or even saw, and the rent was months overdue. So I followed the required legal procedure to declare the unit abandoned. I spoke to neighbors. I posted notices, etc. Eventually, the unit was legally declared abandoned and I started the task of clearing out any property left behind.

The unit was very neat and tidy and full of nice stuff. Not the usual state of a rental that someone abandoned, and this should have tipped me off. But it didn't, and so I had everything hauled away. Furniture, electronics, clothes, the lot.

Then after 6 months I moved on to a different building. Later, I learned that the person who lived there was on active duty in the military, and that's why no one had seen them for months. Apparently, a neighbor had been entrusted to pay the rent but they had just kept the money for themselves, and lied to me when I inquired about the neighbor's whereabouts.

So, this poor guy comes back from overseas military service to discover that not only has he lost his apartment but also everything in it. And since I had followed the legal procedure, no law was broken (by me.)

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