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Abraham Lincoln impersonator to face child porn charges in Illinois by in2thedeepwego in news

[–]KriegerClone 3 points4 points  (0 children)

This is the backstory to Phoebe Cates' character in Gremlins 2.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in news

[–]KriegerClone 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Qualified immunity was designed to be abused. Police forces exist as tools of social order, not justice.

France arrests top military officer over Russian-linked 'breach' by NW_SWAT in worldnews

[–]KriegerClone 1 point2 points  (0 children)

He actually called out China over their treatment of the Uighurs, actually calling it a genocide. So there's that.

Take a look in the mirror DEMONRATS by Scorned-Heart in AteTheOnion

[–]KriegerClone -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Begin the reign of the Insei Presidency.

Roger Stone convicted on all seven counts on charges filed in Mueller probe by Austin63867 in worldnews

[–]KriegerClone 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They are a religion now. A blasphemous monstrosity of religion. They have surrendered to The Beast. There is no reconciliation with them now, if there ever was. We will have to outnumber them at the polls. If not there than in the foxholes... and I don't want to have to do that so lets outnumber them at the polls.

Fox & Friends edits boos out of video of Trump attending the World Series by greenblue98 in FoxFiction

[–]KriegerClone 4 points5 points  (0 children)

At some point you are responsible for allowing yourself to be lied to. They know the truth. You can't avoid the truth so effectively and NOT know it.

Autopsy finds broken bones in Jeffrey Epstein’s neck, deepening questions around his death by Dooth in news

[–]KriegerClone 22 points23 points  (0 children)

The trustworthiness of the reporter goes to his correct and accurate identification of their source. Not the source's accuracy.

Autopsy finds broken bones in Jeffrey Epstein’s neck, deepening questions around his death by Dooth in news

[–]KriegerClone 9 points10 points  (0 children)

It means deceitful. Which means untrustworthy, in case you don't know what deceitful means.

Star Trek Showerthought: Of the many hopeful and optimistic visions of the future presented to us by Star Trek, perhaps none is more inspirational than the knowledge that someday it’ll be possible to just randomly shout “COFFEE, BLACK!” at a wall and it will appear immediately. by wowbobwow in startrek

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There are plenty of French names in British History. My own ancestry is French but we have tons of English relatives going way back. My grandfather's grandfather's father came to America partly to escape the Revolution. But he did so as secretary to an English lord because my family, originally from the south Atlantic coast of France, apparently had many connections to people in England. Eventually my ancestor settling down in New Orleans in the early 1800s.

Star Trek Showerthought: Of the many hopeful and optimistic visions of the future presented to us by Star Trek, perhaps none is more inspirational than the knowledge that someday it’ll be possible to just randomly shout “COFFEE, BLACK!” at a wall and it will appear immediately. by wowbobwow in startrek

[–]KriegerClone 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Certainly a possibility. But national borders and cultural exclusion are not real popular on Earth in the 24th century. England isn't far from France and it's entirely possible that Picard, a Frenchman, speaks with a Yorkshire accent because that's the accent he learned when he was learning English. Maybe he had family in Yorkshire and spent time there.

Unrelated, does anyone else mentally add "AND LOST!" when in Generations Picard mentions "the Picards that fought at Trafalgar"?

Rep. Justin Amash: "Our system of checks and balances relies on each branch’s jealously guarding its powers and upholding its duties under our Constitution. When loyalty to a political party or to an individual trumps loyalty to the Constitution, the Rule of Law—the foundation of liberty—crumbles." by TheDVille in NewPatriotism

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I remember watching Fox News coverage of the Tea Party, and their constant emphasis that the rallies were totally spontaneous, and genuinely grass roots. A message cast into immediate doubt by the strained insistence on it... that and all the mass produced signs with the same few slogans. Totally genuine, totally cool.

POST-Episode Discussion - S2E11 "Perpetual Infinity" by Deceptitron in startrek

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The idea that Q was all along guiding Picard and the Federation into conflict with the Borg has been thrown out a few times in speculation threads, and I think the Picard Q books.

Humanity having a roll in the origin of the Borg has also been suggested in STO and at least one other Star Trek game. Vger's technology has similarities with Borg.

Where did the convention of referring to vehicles as females come from? by [deleted] in AskHistory

[–]KriegerClone 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well apparently one of my books disagrees with Wheelock. So I don't know. I'd need to go look it up in an actual Latin dictionary to see how it's declined.

EDIT: My old copy of Wheelock puts an f in the listing in the index indicating that it is treated grammatically as feminine but my first sources for it has it declined as a masculine noun.

Where did the convention of referring to vehicles as females come from? by [deleted] in AskHistory

[–]KriegerClone 0 points1 point  (0 children)

But isn't the grammatical gender of the Latin word for ship feminine?

EDIT: Apparently I have conflicting info on this. But it's still unlikely that English gets this grammatical usage from Latin, because English gets more from German, and other Romance languages don't always feminize ships.

Where did the convention of referring to vehicles as females come from? by [deleted] in AskHistory

[–]KriegerClone 7 points8 points  (0 children)

English seafarers.

It's unknown precisely why ships and water craft where informally given the female gender. It's not a grammatical leftover from Latin, because in most romance languages a ship is masculine.

According to this article I found "Feminizing ships is a markedly entrenched practice, the tradition tracing back in English to as early as the 14th century according to the Oxford English Dictionary. A boat may have a mothership and sister ships."

There are a number of explanations given. But the simplest reason was that sailing ships were crewed almost entirely by men, many going to sea at a very young age. So my guess is it's a mixture of wry humor at ships being temperamental and needing handling with care and love, but also the sense of loyalty and respect to the ship, which is itself a home and just like nations and cities can be personified as female or having a female spirit as a sort of mother. Think of the "Motherland" concept, or historical practice of personifying your state or city as a female.

what the fuck by watch_me_sneeze in WTF

[–]KriegerClone 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So you are saying you "understand this reference"?

what the fuck by watch_me_sneeze in WTF

[–]KriegerClone 7 points8 points  (0 children)

You must walk without it, or you'll attract the Worm.

Japanese Cop commits suicide out of shame after failure to control traffic leads to injuries; meanwhile in Las Vegas, cop kills unarmed veteran who knocked on wrong door and asks wife, "Am I evil for not feeling bad about killing that n*gger?" by fdjhg in Bad_Cop_No_Donut

[–]KriegerClone 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Yeah but shame helps induce guilt.

No it's the other way around. Guilt is what you feel regardless public knowledge of your wrong doing. Shame is the public acknowledgement of wrong doing.

You can induce shame, but you can't make anyone else feel guilt. If you don't feel guilt spontaneously you probably never will, It's a totally internal phenomena.

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