Then you know where your standards are and apply them evenly, that’s perfectly valid. Cheers. ✌

I think it might be worthwhile to reflect on the fact that your parents were not just parents, but also human beings themselves. We tend to hold our parents to standards we would never hold our friends. Imagine one of your friends wronged you in such a way; would you hold this bitterness the same? Or would you extend them the benefit of the doubt and understand that in that moment they were not their best, and it probably wasn’t about you at all?

Which is funny because on steam currently Yakuza 0 is on for -45% and the sale says “Offer ends December 11”

Devil eggs taste like somebody already ate them.

I’ve spent a lot of time around dogs, even bonded with and liked a few. Still a very distinctly different feeling than human affection for me, and still doesn’t help me understand for the uncanny glee people get at the mere sight of a dog. 🤷‍♂️ I don’t know if I’m broken, but this seems to be something that’s just outside my understanding

I do occasionally find people cute. But I don’t fawn over every person I see as if I’ve never seen a cute person before. This does not match my experience with the current cultural evaluation of dogs.

And maybe this is the crux of the issue, but I just don’t find human babies and dogs even remotely comparable. I have countless lifetimes worth of conditioning inside me compelling me to love, admire, protect human young; innate feelings and instincts on human babies written into my very DNA. Dogs are an animal.

I do sometimes find dogs cute, just like I sometimes find squirrels, lemurs, sloths, whatever cute, but it’s not an automatic response and it certainly doesn’t ever bring me to point of elation that seeing literally any random ass dog seems to bring so many others. I’m not even trying to suggest any judgement, if anything I’m just lamenting something that for my entire lifetime I have not been able to relate to or understand in my peers, which makes me feel somehow lacking, I guess.

No hate intended, I promise, but I will never understand why people react to seeing any dog as if it were their first time seeing a dog. I’m glad we have them, and I’m so grateful for service animals in particular, I just don’t understand the hyper-fixation.

No sarcasm, pure sincerity, that was a beautifully eloquent comment, kudos.

Pfft. Making things hotter is easy. The fact that we can regularly make things colder and hold them at that colder temperature is what’s actually impressive in thermodynamics

I remember that episode!

That is very cool. Admittedly I was inquiring so I could understand where the nostalgia attachment is (I didn’t know it did not take place in an Enterprise-like ship so I didn’t recognize the setting as specifically the D), but I appreciate the extra information regardless

Wait now I have a fun follow-up question:

If you holodeck the D and then go into the holodeck, can you use that holodeck to simulate another Starfleet vessel with a holodeck? And if so, can you then use that holodeck to replicate the process with another ship and holodeck?

How deep do you think we can go before we start to experience collapse?

Gotcha! Thank you for clarifying, friend ✌️

I have no idea how this ended up a nested comment under another comment tbh, I meant this as a top-level comment. I recognize Kira, I meant the original top-level image with the purple cgi character

I don’t watch NuTrek, is that character on the bottom panel a Dax?

Yes, and therein lies the humor, the juxtaposition of opining in casual tone what feels implied by the speaker to be mundane and relatable but which is in fact extremely niche and specifically un-relatable.

Not coffee, but we’re getting close:

https://www.tiktok.com/@callebakery/video/7489235168117427463

I have no college credits and I would never call a mushroom a vegetable

As always, science sets us free.

I am American.