to be fair its hard for me to think of another author who i hold in greater contempt than james patterson.

and thats another issue with organised religion, for far too many its a job, and/or a outright grift.

said in music some 50 years ago, you dont have to wind up god on sunday, either there is a god and by definition they are always with you, or there is no god, neither requires you to go to church and be lectured by a man very likely possessing no better understanding than you, especially not now in a time when it…

the best bit about the landmines was the chicken power

but hes not exactly wrong, a little simplistic at worst.

yeah oddly those who most desire to excercise such power tend to be those least suited to do so.

there is at this moment in time zero evidence he commited any crime.

while its use is almost certainly predominantly racist, its likely a holdover from common/english law where the same power has been a thing for hundreds of years, with certain limitations - you have to witness the crime happening or near enough- and you must make every effort to hand them over to lawful authority as…

sometimes hot people can also act

given that with rare exceptions holodeck characters arent sentient, they probably and quite correctly view it as essentially nothing more than a form of masturbation, ethically a non issue

to be fair there are different versions of the gaia story, some have the sex with athena consensual, but pushing him off at orgasm.

hephastus was the best of them, largely cause he just made stuff and tried to stay out of trouble, not perfect by modern standards, but less rapey than most male greek gods, and not petty either

i like jonathan Frakes, but he has a somewhat mixed bag of star trek movies, First Contact, was head and shoulders the best of the TNG movies, and ranks with II and VI for best overall, insurrection was shit, mildly amusing inoffensive shit, but shit, i wonder how much was script and how much was his own choices?

thing is leaving aside the religious bias, Alfred was pretty much correct about the vikings, they werent known for sparing children, were big fans of raiding and looting and tried to extract tribute from the saxons, there is a reason why Alfred is ‘Alfred the Great’ 

the axes are all fairly fucking horrible from a historical accuracy perspective, blades are all thickish wedges, which would weigh 3-4 times as much as the thin blades the axes actually had, its a common thing but whereas warcraft can get away with it because its all fairly cartoony in its proportion it really doesnt…

I too am enraged at the historical inaccuracy of this game.

its funny, i wouldnt really call the situation in the UK ‘rising transphobia’ so much as the government/courts trying to decide precedent and apparently in this instance going with a attitude of ‘if you give birth you are a mother’ largely because the law goes often for the simplest definition to avoid future confusion

added bonus of being a handy source of protein mostly coming from various things you batter to death with it.

how is ‘the sound of her voice’ not on the list, one of the simplest yet most poignant episodes.

pretty much, we had the argument at work which captain was best, conclusions were kirk was a dick, but the others were all good officers, with janeway and sisko being the favourites in terms of officers to actually serve under, Sisko because he gets shit done, janeway more or less ditto, Picard was liked, just not as…