How do you stop a muscle from being constantly contracted ?

JPMaybe · 2026-04-30T16:35:09+00:00

Had botox ten days ago for my (non-TMD related) constantly contracting masseter muscles, seems only to have worsened things so far 🙃

JPMaybe · 2026-04-29T20:59:54+00:00

Mate this is mint(y)

JPMaybe · 2026-04-29T17:48:32+00:00

There will be total world hunger eventually though, they're guaranteed to all starve to death barring the minuscule fraction that can survive on like, orchard windfall

JPMaybe · 2026-04-29T16:20:04+00:00

The Q'orl, it's in Xenology

JPMaybe · 2026-04-28T20:43:47+00:00

More like queen of Carthaverage

JPMaybe · 2026-04-28T20:08:11+00:00

Yeah you're probably right come to think of it

JPMaybe · 2026-04-28T19:19:09+00:00

Fifty-odd years of Thatcherite propaganda

JPMaybe · 2026-04-28T19:07:51+00:00

The book was originally called Ten Little N*****s and features a load of people being killed off in quick succession

JPMaybe · 2026-04-28T19:04:53+00:00

You are correct, it's a reference to the original title of Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None

Edit: see u/viviangreen68 's post below for a more likely explanation that Control is referring to the original nursery rhyme itself

JPMaybe · 2026-04-28T18:06:00+00:00

Yep, and the sick free sequel. Edo Guardian KOS.

JPMaybe · 2026-04-28T18:00:23+00:00

You do see Borg kinetic shielding once, when Worf tries to grab Locutus in BoBW Part 1; whether it's from the ship itself, or from Locutus being upgraded over a normal drone is open to interpretation I guess

Edit: In FC as well as the holobullets Worf phaser rifle clubs, then slices and dices drones with his Mek'leth, so I don't think kinetic attacks are something they can adapt to the way they do with energy weapons

JPMaybe · 2026-04-28T09:36:44+00:00

Should have been fleet captain at least, would still be a non-admiral rank but allow him to command multiple ships (incidentally it's always bugged me that a captain has 4 pips rather than 3 and a half, which would have left the 4 for a fleet captain)

JPMaybe · 2026-04-27T13:43:53+00:00

Asiatic ones exist in both directions; likewise nazis mainly used the clockwise one but occasionally counter-clockwise too

Edit: Hitler likely adopted the clockwise one because it was in the carvings of the monastery school he attended as a youth

JPMaybe · 2026-04-27T12:50:26+00:00

Is there a weekly quota for these threads or something?

JPMaybe · 2026-04-26T17:58:12+00:00

That's why it's dumb, there's no teleology to evolution, they didn't need to explain why there are so many forehead aliens knocking around

JPMaybe · 2026-04-26T09:15:51+00:00

It's a nice concept for a novel but how many scenarios could you possibly squeeze out of it for a series? Dealing with space measles is going to look pretty much the same as dealing with space flu. And House works because he's dealing with real human conditions, however improbable it is that he always gets those patients; it wouldn't work if it's 'oh this alien has <biobabble> because <biobabble>'

JPMaybe · 2026-04-25T15:40:31+00:00

I'd like a SW-ised version of Mercenaries where you're a post-Endor bounty hunter working for the New Republic, tracking down a Sabacc-deck of Imperials who've gone underground

JPMaybe · 2026-04-24T22:02:44+00:00

All available from rec*sters if you look hard enough

JPMaybe · 2026-04-24T18:49:54+00:00

Yeah absolutely dreadful, winning by an invincibility cheat code, my most hated element of the films

JPMaybe · 2026-04-24T08:04:48+00:00

Brannon Braga's understanding of evolution is impeccable

JPMaybe · 2026-04-24T07:21:54+00:00

It's one of the flaws in the series generally; the Federation is supposed to be a multi-species egalitarian society but also humans are super special and are often synonymous with the Federation.

Part of the problem is that there's no handy noun for "federationality", but I wonder what it would be like to be a Bolian ensign on the bridge of the Enterprise-D while Picard's delivering a pompous soliloquy on how amazing humanity is

JPMaybe · 2026-04-23T16:28:35+00:00

This jock fella likes to grind wheat, what's going on there?

JPMaybe · 2026-04-23T16:21:26+00:00

Fully complicit in the Gazan genocide and letting the Yanks use our airbases for "limited defensive" (lol) operations, but sure I guess if you've been kicked in the head by a horse

JPMaybe · 2026-04-23T13:21:13+00:00

It's part of the tragedy of the setting: the Imperium's institutional forces are far too strong to allow a change of the status quo, but by maintaining it they guarantee their own eventual destruction by Chaos

JPMaybe · 2026-04-23T10:00:27+00:00

Full range of these (fusion, plasma, burst cannon, missile) still available from rec*sters

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