Over half of USA’s population voted for this.

False. Just over half of the voting population voted for this guy (and not necessarily any of what he’s done for the last year).

The orange turd won with 77,302,580 votes. I don’t have the number of registered voters in 2024 handy, but using the population of 348,320,255, that’s 22% of the total population who supported this guy. And even some of that 22% is starting to sour because things have gone so far off the rails, so I’d further estimate that 19% of the population are the true die hards who will follow him to the end.

This isn’t even factoring in those who would have voted one way or the other but were ineligible to vote or didn’t bother to vote. It also doesn’t factor in the Electoral College or people who didn’t understand how the Electoral College works and threw their vote away on a 3rd party or abstained.

You’re judge and jurying us all over the actions/behavior of maybe 19% of the population. If discovered a new species of bird and 1 out of 5 were red while the other 4 were brown, we wouldn’t classify the species as red birds.

Clarification: The government/administration is stirring the pot, but most/nearly all of the population is not. People need to distinguish / recognize the difference between the actions of a country’s government and those of its everyday citizens who are often powerless.

That distinction is the difference between a valid opinion and xenophobia.

Edit: Removed the example since on a second read sounded like I was trying to “say something without saying it” which wasn’t my intent. I just don’t have time to wordsmith it better right now.

lemmy.ml should just be blocked by default. World, eh, should at least be split up. And I wouldn’t be surprised that a lot of the ml and hexbear folks have alts on world just to stir the pot.

I feel ya. The anti-US xenophobia has really been rising here lately and I’ve just been blocking and blocking and blocking. I’m fine and on board with criticizing what the current regime is doing, but the way they lump you (presumably?), me, and everyone together as if we all have cabinet level positions and personally signed off on each and every thing in the news is just straight-up ignorant xenophobia.

Why that gets a pass is beyond me. Moderation failures all around, IMO.

Do Klingons have two Gul bladders, and is the second one just a statue of the first one?

Good catch. Fixed!

What do you call Jeffrey Combs standing around by himself?

“A Star Trek convention”

And also Secretary of Treasury

Star Trek but without the show’s lessons…isn’t that basically just the Dominion from DS9?

The only reason I haven’t printed one yet is because I just cannot get a coat of paint to look good on PLA. Someone suggested acrylic paint, so I bought a set, and it just doesn’t look good no matter how many coats I apply.

Though this is big enough I might be able to get by with a can of spray paint.

if you have any inappropriate comments you’ve always wanted to make, now is the time to risk making them because they might not get caught in the backup!

https://www.printables.com/model/744653-horgahn-idol-from-star-trek-composite-for-tall-pri

Some assembly required :P

Loudly saying “Computer, end program” is basically part of my morning routine now. So far it hasn’t worked, but I keep hoping

Nice. I’ll look into that one.

My ultimate goal is getting a decent-sized touchscreen, putting an LCARS-themed HomeAssistant UI on it, and hanging it up as a functional MSD for my house.

Oh no offense taken at all, haha. Was just making a confession and trying to be funny about it.

Ah. I’ll admit, my TOS lore is lacking. Was trying to deflect with a smile and nod, but you caught me lol.

Yes!

And Worf tells this highly embellished story of honor and victory, everyone reacts in awe, and he folds.

Right? I feel like it would be a high quality, low budget, low stress series. No CGI, minimal costume and make up, the writers may just have to give them some in-character stuff to work into their otherwise ad-libbed banter. The cast’s age wouldn’t be a concern since they’d be comfortably seated the whole time.

The framing device could be that after PIC S3, they decide to meet up for a weekly game of poker and we’re just spectators to it.

It could work 😆

Yeah, the prologue and the interspersed bits with Bowerbird (I think that was her name) and the future people was a little weird, but not too jarring. They come into play toward the end of the book with the gift box nanotech thing, so I guess it was necessary to frame them in. It took me a while to figure out how they sent it from the future, but it was time dilation the whole time so no time travel.

House of Suns is my absolute favorite of Reynolds’ work. It’s the least “hard” sci-fi of the bunch but still follows the rules and basically takes all the ships and tech from his other works and cranks them up to 11. Such a fun read.

“Terminal World” is another fun standalone book from him if you come across it. If you feel up for a trilogy, the “Revenger” series is a fun space pirate adventure I quite enjoyed.

Fantastic book. I’m a big fan of most of Reynolds’s catalog, but Pushing Ice I think is the first one of his I read.