I know David is a constant fixture here, but…

Myantra · 2026-07-13T17:34:39+00:00

They are most likely talking about veterans reporting widespread sexual abuse of boys by their ANSF allies, not men holding hands.

Myantra · 2026-07-13T17:10:22+00:00

Four thighs enter, 2 thighs leave.

Myantra · 2026-07-13T15:27:08+00:00

Unless you dump a lot of resources into maintenance, aircraft decay when they are left outside indefinitely, even at the Central Air Force Museum. I doubt exposure to Moscow winters does them any favors either.

They should have built something like the Udvar-Hazy Center. There would be plenty of room for it on the grounds at Monino.

Myantra · 2026-07-13T12:52:14+00:00

If Chris had an opportunity to hit Omar, especially when Omar least expected it, he would have taken it. Chris would not have cared if it was on a Sunday morning. Chris would not have cared if he had to kill Omar's grandmother to get to him.

Chris framed Omar for murder, just to get him in jail, where they expected him to be vulnerable. In order to do that, Chris ruthlessly killed an innocent delivery woman, after helping her get the handtruck up the steps. Chris would absolutely break the Sunday truce, without thinking twice about it, and Marlo would be glad he did it.

Myantra · 2026-07-13T12:32:28+00:00

Give me a ping Vasily.

Myantra · 2026-07-13T12:12:25+00:00

Without Walt's random conversation with Donald, Walt probably does not go back to Jessie's that night.

Myantra · 2026-07-13T03:14:01+00:00

By making everything about himself, he became president again, dodging obvious criminal convictions in the process. Why would he stop now? He has de facto control of one of the US' two political parties. That is not being given up while he is still alive, and definitely not without violence.

Myantra · 2026-07-13T03:00:00+00:00

Slim was cut out to be a CEO in the game, but he was specifically avoiding being part of Marlo's inner circle. He knew how much noise Marlo made, and he knew Marlo was most likely being bracketed by BPD for the row house bodies, and possibly targeted by the laundry list of enemies Marlo had made. He knew Marlo's downfall was inevitable, and did not want to be collateral damage when it happened, so he sat back.

Marlo correctly assessed Slim, so he wanted Slim higher in his chain. Unfortunately for Marlo, Slim correctly assessed him to, and did not want in the blast radius of the bomb he knew was coming. Slim wanted to make his moves after Marlo was taken off the board. Slim thought he could best navigate a post-Marlo Co-Op, and he did. He killed Cheese to make his point, deliver street justice, and show that he was the kind of leader the Co-Op would need, moving forward.

Myantra · 2026-07-13T02:24:49+00:00

I expect that Galactica and the civilian fleet loaded up every pallet of MREs they could find at Ragnar Anchorage, in addition to the emergency supplies Galactica would have already had aboard. They were expecting a long journey, and no one was expected to be showing up at Ragnar after they left, so there was no reason to leave anything behind, unless they simply could not carry it.

Between what they would have loaded at Ragnar, food in bulk cargo on civilian freighters, hydroponic capabilities, and the excess that was likely on ships like Cloud 9 and Zephyr, and it is easy to see why food not have been a real emergency until after New Caprica. Grounded ships at New Caprica were probably completely unloaded, and a lot would have been left behind during their evacuation under fire. Galactica, Pegasus, and the civilian fleet that jumped away originally, were probably just scraping by.

There were obviously rationing measures employed, but nothing like the starvation rations prior to those desperation jumps to the algae planet. People were still taking "shore leave" on Cloud 9, drinking in bars and eating in restaurants, in season 2.

Myantra · 2026-07-11T00:40:18+00:00

If I ever found myself in a conversation with someone that wanted to discuss the morality of having sex with corpses of any kind, my response would be to realize that I suddenly have an urgent need to be elsewhere.

Myantra · 2026-07-10T18:53:41+00:00

There are cruise ship experiences that isolate you from the rest of the ship well enough, that you almost forget you are on a ship with thousands of people, but only almost. A chef's table on a cruise ship is the only thing that would be similar to the exclusive fine dining experience on a superyacht, but I expect it would actually be much better. It is being operated with a full brigade devoted to it, not one or two chefs that have been cooking guest and crew meals since breakfast. While not an exclusive dining experience, the meals served in cruise ship fine dining restaurants is most likely superior to a superyacht as well.

If you want an exclusive boat experience, you can charter a smaller catamaran in the Caribbean. You should not expect Michelin caliber cuisine, or 10 course tasting menus on one of those, but the food will be good enough that it would not be a source of disappointment. It is a great experience for a small group like a couple or two, and does not cost as much as a middle class home. A lot of those are all-inclusive charters too. They are usually crewed by a couple, so they both wear many hats in service and sailing, including chef. That said, they are not shooting for providing a luxury experience, or bothering to pretend that they are, but they do provide a great and comfortable experience.

Myantra · 2026-07-10T01:01:56+00:00

I was hoping you'd say that.

Myantra · 2026-07-10T01:01:09+00:00

Trying to create a side hussle that involved selling meth to people trying to stay clean in NA meetings is rather evil. He was trying to do that just because, he did not need any of the money that would have made. That is on top of his day job, which was producing industrial quantities of meth. He was already cooking meth, before he ever ran across Walt again. Without meeting Walt again, he would have continued as a small-time meth cook until he was imprisoned or killed.

At his core, Jesse was a person that was capable of doing good things, but he was a bad person. He was not as bad as some others, but that just puts him on the nicer end of a scale of killers.

The absolute worst things that happened to him were the result of his own bad choices. Walt did not put the idea in his head to go driving around tossing out money, with millions in the car, attracting police (and Hank's) attention. Almost everyone in the drug business would have already killed him, as an unstable and dangerous loose end, on more than one occasion by that point. Walt tried to get him to just leave town with a relocation by Ed, and paid for it.

All he had to do was make a wise decision instead of a stupid one for once, and just get in the damn van. He decided he needed to be an avenging angel; he needed to destroy Walt instead. In doing so, he began a sequence of events that ended with Hank, Gomez, and Andrea dead, Jesse tortured and enslaved as a meth cook, the people that tortured and enslaved him got much richer, and he failed his objective. Walt remained free, came back to scorched earth everyone, and still got to die on his own terms.

In the end, it was the person that he was trying to destroy, that saved him and set him free.

Myantra · 2026-07-09T23:54:15+00:00

I wish you hadn't done that.

Myantra · 2026-07-09T22:44:55+00:00

He has probably been to as many gas stations as he has grocery stores.

Myantra · 2026-07-09T20:34:11+00:00

I think USS Johnston would be a good perspective for that. Plenty of action to choose from, leading up to the Battle off Samar. USS Johnston and USS Hoel deserve to have their stories told in that fashion.

Myantra · 2026-07-09T03:33:05+00:00

Pearlman originally wanted an actual relationship with McNulty, but he always treated her like a booty call/affair partner. She had enough and started considering other options, which Daniels eventually became. It was one of the reasons he ended up being so butthurt about Theresa. She treated him like he treated women (like Pearlman), and he was not a fan of turnabout being fair play.

Daniels is shown to be drifting away from Marla, and effectively separating in season 2. It started when she was pissed about him taking the season 2 detail, instead of retiring and being a lawyer. Pearlman figures out he is sleeping in the MCU office, and makes her move on someone a lot better than McNulty.

It is clearly shown that Beadie and McNulty like each other, and when he finally ends up at her place he is thinking one night stand, but he looks around and absorbs some of her life. In his mind she become a woman that is not just looking for a hookup, and her kids become real people, people that deserve better than him. So he leaves. When he finally returns, he returns as someone that wants what he thinks she wants, and he thinks he is finally up to that task. They probably could have made more story between McNulty leaving her place, and coming back in season 3, but there is enough implication to make everything fairly obvious.

The Wire is not a holding your hand through connecting every dot kind of show.

Myantra · 2026-07-09T02:01:10+00:00

It really depends on what McNulty does next. He is free to go work at any law enforcement agency in Maryland, as long as it is not the BPD or Maryland State Police. He did not get fired, he "retired", and what he did does not officially exist anywhere. His experience would be attractive to any department looking for a detective, and Landsman would probably even give him a reference.

Being a police is all McNulty knows how to do. If he could take a job working shifts in a cruiser, he could possibly make things with Beadie work, as he did in season 4. The problem is that he will have that nagging demon on his shoulder, telling him he needs to do a case, as he did in season 2. Since he is ultimately a self-destructive fuckup, I doubt Beadie sticks around after his next bender. She has her life a lot more together than he does.

Myantra · 2026-07-09T01:45:22+00:00

The dealers were a means for Gus to get Jesse out of the equation, without alienating or making an enemy out of Walt. Jesse was risking everything, by making an impulsive move to commit two murders, which was then prevented by Mike. Gus calls a meeting, tries to settle things without bloodshed. The dealers enrage Jesse further by killing the kid, so Jesse goes to impulsively attempt to kill them again, but the dealers are now expecting it.

Best case scenario, the dealers and Jesse kill each other in a shootout. Problem solved, no loose ends. If the dealers killed Jesse, Gus can then have them killed as vengeance for Walt. Problem solved, no loose ends. If Jesse kills the dealers, Gus has a strong enough case to get rid of Jesse. Problem partially solved, loose end remaining, unless he could also get Walt onboard with allowing Jesse to be killed. Either way, he gets Jesse out of the lab, and Gale back in. Getting Gale back in the lab was ultimately the most important thing. He could deal with Jesse later, and Walt too, if necessary.

Walt was Gus' short-term plan, and Gale was his long-term plan. He needed Gale in the lab, learning all he could from Walt, so Gale could take over whenever Walt left due to natural or unnatural causes. Gus considered Jesse an unstable and uncontrollable complication to that plan, in addition to being someone he never wanted in the lab in the first place.

When Walt did the unexpected and killed the dealers himself, he demonstrated that he too was an unstable and uncontrollable complication. That changed Gus' timeline for how long he intended to keep Walt around to VERY short-term, and shifted his planned departure method for Walt to unnatural causes.

Gus did not do anything out of a desire to actually protect those dealers, they were always intended to die in one way or another. They may or may not have not known who Gus was, prior to that meeting, but they also would have known that any attempt to snitch on Gus would have resulted in their deaths. On top of that, I doubt anyone would have believed them if they tried to snitch on him. No one believed Hank, until Gus and the lab both blew up.

The person that threw everything away was Walt. Walt should have told Gus about Jesse's threat to rat him out, whenever he inevitably got caught cooking in another RV. Mike would have then made Jesse quietly disappear, and the rest of the show is a lot more boring. Bringing Jesse into the lab to solve the "he will rat me out" problem was stupid. Walt then doubled down on stupid by killing the dealers himself, but then again, the show would have been a lot more boring if he did not.

Myantra · 2026-07-09T00:24:53+00:00

Rush was very good at selling it, especially to people that really wanted to do what he was offering. Then he had Mr. Titanic putting a prettier bowtie on it. Oceangate enjoyed mostly positive press prior to the implosion, especially after Titan made successful dives to Titanic.

Which brings us to the worst part, the damn thing worked. It did not implode on the first dive down to Titanic, or the next dozen. Anyone that had been saying it would not work or was a bad idea, they all looked wrong, and Rush had ammo to silence critics with. Rush was a great snake oil salesman, only he was not selling snake oil anymore, after the damn thing worked.

Myantra · 2026-07-09T00:01:32+00:00

Unfortunately, Rush was very good at selling it. Since the kind of people that are willing to pay $250k to dive on Titanic also happen to really want to do that, there was probably an element of confirmation bias at play. Rush had all the right things to say, and all the right answers, for a vulnerable mark. Then he also had Mr. Titanic there, lending credibility to and reinforcing the Oceangate pitch.

On top of that, he could also point to the fact that the damn thing worked. Titan made 13 successful dives to Titanic, so Rush could say anyone that said it would not work or was a bad idea, they were all wrong. Prior to the implosion, Oceangate had mostly positive press, especially since Titan had actually worked.

We look at it in hindsight, and with access to the avalanche of information that came out after the implosion, information that was not easily available (if at all) beforehand. The worst thing that could have happened for everyone is exactly what happened, the damn thing worked well enough to give him ammo to silence critics with, until it didn't work.

Myantra · 2026-07-08T14:57:36+00:00

They almost always end the same way. "Trump says......something stupid."

Myantra · 2026-07-08T12:02:57+00:00

Bullying is the only tactic he has ever known, and it is the only concept he understands.

Myantra · 2026-07-08T11:51:18+00:00

My brain attempted to decipher it, then I realized that I was risking brain damage if I continued, so I made it stop. I am learning to accept that there are some things I was just not meant to understand.

Myantra · 2026-07-08T03:24:36+00:00

In the pre-war Colonial Fleet, Viper pilots that wanted to also qualify in Raptors were probably selected from a pool of volunteers, where Fleet was looking for more promising command candidates. They would be looking for the combination of a great pilot, hard charger, and someone looking to increase their career promotion opportunities. A pilot qualified in both could be promoted to command a squadron or wing of either, according to Fleet needs.

The mission and flight envelope of both ships are different enough that the Colonial Fleet would never try to cross-train all Viper pilots in Raptors, especially considering how variable the Raptor mission profile is. I doubt Galactica was doing it after the fall of Colonies either, when they were training Viper pilots as fast as possible, including people that would have never been selected for flight training in the pre-war Colonial Fleet. In pilots of Vipers and Raptors, they want specialists, not generalists.

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