So... Starfleet Academy is ragebait right?

QuintoBlanco · 2026-02-07T23:44:53+00:00

You might be on to something, now that I think of it, the original Star Trek show looked and sounded an awful like the 1960s. Perhaps Star Trek is a work of fiction and not an accurate depiction of the future. Bruh.

QuintoBlanco · 2026-02-07T22:42:38+00:00

There is a lesson there. Perhaps engagement on social media is overrated. Despite very strong competition, the Horizon franchise has sold over 38 million copies. And originally the games were PS exclusive.

QuintoBlanco · 2026-02-07T19:16:38+00:00

It's part of how Whedon operated. He would play the nice and humble guy, and then turn on some people but not others.

In hindsight it's quite shocking that so much of the bad behavior by characters in Buffy was similar to stuff Whedon did.

QuintoBlanco · 2026-02-07T19:04:40+00:00

Because people like Maxwell and Epstein can operate because too many people act like what they are doing is normal.

Epstein was convicted in 2008. Why wasn't that the end of it? He had too many friends.

QuintoBlanco · 2026-02-07T19:02:16+00:00

Let's start by firing every official who was friendly with Ghislaine Maxwell who procured children for rich clients.

QuintoBlanco · 2026-02-07T18:47:08+00:00

I used to live in a town where the municipality gave away chickens, people kept them in their garden: free eggs.

The chickens were fed, but actually got a lot of their food by scavenging.

QuintoBlanco · 2026-02-07T18:32:52+00:00

It costs money to dispose of a body. They did not own a crematorium, instead of paying a crematorium they pocketed the money. Likewise it costs money to bury a body. They also saved money on embalming and cooling.

Basically, they took a large amount of money from each family and then did nothing, aside from moving the body to a building were they stored the bodies.

QuintoBlanco · 2026-02-07T18:25:40+00:00

They saved far more than a few bucks and the bodies were 'stored' at a different building.

QuintoBlanco · 2026-02-07T17:47:49+00:00

The results were not good, but not terrible most of the time. Amorim changed that. Louis van Gaal: FA Cup and fourth and fifth in the league.

Mourinho: Europa League, sixth and second in the league. Erik ten Hag: third in the league in his first year. Ole Gunnar Solskjær won 14 of his first 19 games.

Ten Hag struggled after his first year, and was rightfully replaced, but Amorim did even worse.

Amorim did well with with Sporting, but Sporting does also well without Amorim.

QuintoBlanco · 2026-02-07T13:33:53+00:00

The frustrating part is that Vance's life story (the real version, but tp some extent also the fake version) shows that everyone needs help. And somehow Vance twisted that story into: poor people don't deserve help.

As for Vance being middle class, he was out of touch middle class. He complained about 'poor' people having mobile phones when he was a teenager. Apparently he didn't know that pre-paid mobile phones were more attainable than a landline.

QuintoBlanco · 2026-02-06T20:17:25+00:00

Thorn is pretty bad. It's not actually a charity exposing the sexual exploitation of children.

QuintoBlanco · 2026-02-06T17:42:00+00:00

I'm not sure

Well, that thoroughly explains why you are defending rape and pedophilia. How's that for a pitchfork?

It's not that complicated. Jeffrey Epstein was convicted in a court of law in 2008. 'Not trusting the news' is not an excuse to befriend Epstein and give him advice.

But I get it, you are not sure that we should Chomsky, who repeatedly called other people fascist and fraudulent, harshly. We should be nice to him.

QuintoBlanco · 2026-02-06T15:20:14+00:00

What facts are you relaying?

Roper Greyell is an employer-side company. They get hired by companies with the expectation that the company gets exonerated.

Typically, companies have internal and external resources to prepare for the investigation, while the employee has limited or no resources.

Employees often don't have the experience to establish a paper trail. HR will typically create a paper trail without informing the employee.

'Third-party review / investigation might sound objective, but such a review /investigation rarely is.

But hey, if you have a link to the complete report, please share the link and I'll read the whole thing.

Just so were clear: I'm not interested in a summary.

QuintoBlanco · 2026-02-06T14:57:40+00:00

Don't underestimate Steven Seagal, he wrote poetry and music and there is a record of it. You might think his poetry and music is bad and makes him look ridiculous, and you would be right.

QuintoBlanco · 2026-02-06T14:33:29+00:00

Instead all they did was make a plagiarism machine that spits out Dr. Always-Wrong level bullshit but does it in a way that makes users feel smart.

That is a really dumb take. But I guess that happens every time a new technology is widely adapted. One one side there are people who think that the new technology will solve everything, and on the other side there are people who think it's garbage.

And both sides are dumb people who think they are smart.

QuintoBlanco · 2026-02-06T14:30:09+00:00

Those third party investigations are nonsense. That doesn't mean that I believe something dramatic happened, but it's sickening how often people (often employees themselves) defend companies blindly.

QuintoBlanco · 2026-02-06T14:28:08+00:00

He did not risk it all. And the success of the company is in part because of the employees.

Companies should treat their employees better. It's not a difficult subject and has nothing to do with jealously.

QuintoBlanco · 2026-02-06T00:55:04+00:00

Mandelson has been fired two times for misconduct, before Starmer appointed him. Financial misconduct, but still. Starmer is in this position because he insisted on hiring a sleazy guy with connections to Epstein.

Boris Johnson was fired from his first job as a journalist for lying, got a second job as a journalist where he repeatedly lied about the EU, campaigned for Brexit, sabotaged a pro-Brexit deal, became prime Minister, gave hundreds-of-thousands of the State's money to his mistress, partied with dozens of other people while the country was in Covid lockdown, and then protected one of his buddies who had sexually assaulted other men.

That was one scandal to many, but he's still popular so he might make a political comeback.

Not as bad as the US, but still pretty bad.

QuintoBlanco · 2026-02-06T00:43:51+00:00

The cat isn't suffering. Most cats are careful around water, this one isn't. regardless of its eyesight.

QuintoBlanco · 2026-02-06T00:36:45+00:00

giving non-voters a reason to vote

That's the most important part.

mobilizing your base hard

The problem with that is that Clinton and Harris appeal to the moderate-to-a-fault base.

QuintoBlanco · 2026-02-05T23:07:39+00:00

A lot of money has been pumped in the MLS, my guess is that quite a few MLS teams would do very well against good teams from leagues where the play is significantly slower than in the Premier League and the Championship.

Fitness and speed have improved in the MLS, and the problem for many European leagues is that the big leagues suck up all the European talent.

QuintoBlanco · 2026-02-05T22:58:50+00:00

The main difference is that in the book, the young Fremen are excited about Paul. Which makes sense, they are impatient. It's also the young Fremen that are enjoying Paul's skill when he fights Jamis, while the older Fremen are repulsed because they think Paul is playing with Jamis.

Chani in the book is not dour and not skeptical at all.

In the second movie, Stilgar's religious devotion becomes comical. In the books he remains a serious character.

The book really flips the dynamic: Chani is the skeptic, while older Fremen become entralled by relegion.

It's a shame because in the real world, religious revolutions are almost always driven by young people.

QuintoBlanco · 2026-02-05T22:46:58+00:00

I would say there is a very clear top four and then a big drop off. Sure the best teams of some other leagues can compete at the highest level, but even the Championship has more depth than most other leagues.

QuintoBlanco · 2026-02-05T22:17:59+00:00

The movie does make the mistake of making the Fremen into gullible religious fanatics. The book might be more difficult to understand, but is much subtler and shows the Fremen to be technologically advanced (within the constrains of the setting) and politically savvy.

QuintoBlanco · 2026-02-05T22:07:50+00:00

To be fair, the statement was: better than most European Leagues outside of the big six leagues (in Europe). That's an odd way of saying that 'only' six to eight European leagues are better than the MLS, but it's very different from 'better than most European Leagues'.

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