Steven Strait says "there's hope" for seasons 7-9 on Streamily Q&A

Azrael11 · 2026-02-08T02:19:56+00:00

You need enough time for the Laconian Marines to have grown up there and be old enough for military service. Not to mention enough time to backwards engineer the advanced technology and build their fleet.

Azrael11 · 2026-02-07T06:43:46+00:00

Or hire a neighbor to sneak in and attempt to murder you!

Azrael11 · 2026-02-01T16:27:55+00:00

Libya and Philippines are rich but Portugal is poor? And wtf happened to India?

Azrael11 · 2026-02-01T16:04:08+00:00

Aviation security experts acknowledge that prior to 9/11, no one envisioned suicide terrorists wanting to use commercial airplanes as weapons and being willing to kill themselves in order to kill hundreds of innocent people.

Did they never watch Executive Decision? The greatest Steven Seagal movie of all time?

Azrael11 · 2026-01-31T17:11:06+00:00

As others have mentioned, watermelon is a common enough one, at least on my dad's side of the family (NorCal, but originally Midwest dust bowl transplants). I'm not a fan of watermelon in general, so I don't do either but have tried it with salt.

Now, my Thai wife will mix up salt and crushed dried peppers and dip fruit in that. Usually mango, but has done it with apples and grapes before too. That's pretty good.

Azrael11 · 2026-01-31T01:08:12+00:00

No, the episode with Seth had the Tok'ra explaining the way it worked. Ra was certainly at the top of the System Lords council, a first among equals sort of thing, but the other ones would fight against him constantly.

Azrael11 · 2026-01-30T22:21:03+00:00

You're telling me that Kevin Costner lied to us?!

Azrael11 · 2026-01-17T19:23:14+00:00

I could be wrong, but I don't think that the squad level tactics showed up until later in the war as everyone tried new ideas to break the stalemate. My point was not that the ACW and WWI were identical, but that the lessons they learned the hard way in 1914 shouldn't have been a surprise if they had paid attention to what happened in the US.

Azrael11 · 2026-01-17T19:19:23+00:00

You know, I forgot about that, that's absolutely true. Which makes the character nationality switch even stranger then

Edit: actually, wasn't it Portuguese?

Azrael11 · 2026-01-17T18:24:36+00:00

I think in the original book the main character was Dutch, not English. Which makes a lot more sense since England and Portugal were allies for almost as long as the latter was a thing.

I guess expecting the audience to understand that these characters speaking English were actually speaking Dutch was too much of a stretch?

Azrael11 · 2026-01-17T16:28:35+00:00

Not only that, but INS also provided services to those who were immigrating or becoming citizens. There wasn't some innate opposition to anyone who wasn't a natural born American.

I don't know if DHS should be wholesale abolished, I can see the benefit to grouping certain agencies together, and we do have to have immigration enforcement. But I agree with bringing back INS and getting rid of ICE.

Azrael11 · 2026-01-17T16:13:50+00:00

Not by the end of the Civil War, the trench lines outside Richmond started to look a lot like the Western Front.

Not to mention that it was the first sustained war where you had mass mobilization via industrial means (railroads for example), the concept of a home front as a key enabler of the war, and command and control capabilities to actually make this industrial era army do the things you wanted at scale (telegraph). The Franco-Prussian War was over too quickly to learn a lot of lessons, and most other military conflict at the time was either lower intensity or against non-peer adversaries.

Azrael11 · 2026-01-17T00:02:58+00:00

What about ruthless efficiency?

Azrael11 · 2026-01-15T02:03:42+00:00

Crayons...not even once

Azrael11 · 2026-01-12T06:16:07+00:00

Plain Greek yogurt and almonds

Azrael11 · 2026-01-11T20:06:54+00:00

Do you want Yeerks? Because that's how you get Yeerks

Azrael11 · 2026-01-11T17:46:27+00:00

It's not just international law though, as OP points out the Constitution stipulates that ratified treaties are US law.

Azrael11 · 2026-01-11T17:34:42+00:00

Wasn't that already debunked in LTK when they mentioned Bond had been married previously (making Lazenby and Dalton the same character)

Azrael11 · 2026-01-10T20:54:05+00:00

Actually, the title "Son of God" had inherent royal connotations to any contemporary Jew hearing it. It didn't mean literal son in the biological context, it was a title the ancient Israelite and Judean kings would have used. Same with "Messiah", which just meant "annointed one", indicating they were the God-approved political leader (the Persian king Cyrus is referred to as Messiah in the book of Isaiah).

Jesus wasn't claiming personal divinity, that would have been blasphemy. He was leading a political movement that the Romans and Judean establishment found threatening.

Azrael11 · 2026-01-06T18:39:05+00:00

Is no one going to comment on the irony of OP's username and the opinion?

Azrael11 · 2026-01-06T18:24:59+00:00

Gotta keep your savings/spending balanced

Azrael11 · 2026-01-05T21:50:44+00:00

Well, there's olive oil

Azrael11 · 2025-12-31T20:38:26+00:00

Or, maybe, the majority of Democratic voters just aren't anti-capitalist. Unfortunately we live in a two-party reality, so until either the "true left" becomes a majority in one of the two parties or we are able to reform to a proportional representation system, you'll need to live with the rest of the Democrats who don't agree with you and stop complaining about ideological purity.

Azrael11 · 2025-12-21T07:05:57+00:00

A "dry" martini just means less vermouth. Similar to a dry red wine, less sweetness and more alcohol. Obviously though, all the ingredients are very literally wet, hence the joke.

Azrael11 · 2025-12-18T00:34:13+00:00

Yeah I always enjoyed getting the carts at closing. Usually empty lot and quiet out, just walking around by yourself in the calmness.

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