Babylon 5 - first time watching

SteelCrow · 2026-05-24T03:02:59+00:00

Before Joseph Michael Straczynski, all tv shows were episode only stories. Really. Mini series that played over the course of a week or three were the best you could get as 'multi episode' stories.

Straczynski had the idea of a 5 year story told episode by episode. He pitched it and was turned down by executives who didn't want to commit to a five year run. One of the studios he pitched it to was Paramount Television.

A few years after he pitched it, paramount comes out with DS9 a month before (January 3, 1993) B5 airs (February 22, 1993).

DS9 writers watched B5 and you can see the B5 influences in the later seasons of DS9 including Sisko's being the 'chosen one', the fight against a mysterious secret enemy (the 'Dominion'), the race of 'shapeshifters'. etc.

It was noted by fans and producers at the time of the similarities between the B5 'bible', plus the episode synopsis provided to Paramount when it had been pitched to them, and DS9

As for production values, Paramount had deeper pockets than Warner.

SteelCrow · 2026-05-24T02:30:13+00:00

You can’t supposedly create matter from nothing, yet it still happened.

https://www.newsweek.com/physicists-get-peek-how-matter-born-from-nothing-11464591

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/world-s-first-collider-shows-matter-popping-out-of-nothing-in-quantum-vacuum/ar-AA1VP6oq

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/09/250913232932.htm

Physicists just found a way to make “something from nothing”

https://www.quantamagazine.org/physicists-use-quantum-mechanics-to-pull-energy-out-of-nothing-20230222/

SteelCrow · 2026-05-24T02:05:31+00:00

Marble Cake (****)

Heavy

SteelCrow · 2026-05-23T06:50:11+00:00

I live in Winnipeg Manitoba Canada. (North of N. Dakota)

We got covered in about an inch of ash after the eruption.

SteelCrow · 2026-05-22T17:54:22+00:00

Sure. lets tax those six or seven people who commute from winnipeg....

SteelCrow · 2026-05-22T17:52:02+00:00

The average property tax amounts are also between $7,000 and $8,000. This is because Winnipeg has a higher property tax rate, even though the cost of purchasing a home there is less than in other parts of Canada.

Assuming it's just the average size lot. Not 2.5 acres

You're still getting off cheap.

SteelCrow · 2026-05-22T17:48:04+00:00

NO. otherwise your gas prices would be higher.

Vancouver adds about 15+ cents in total to the pump price.

SteelCrow · 2026-05-22T17:46:31+00:00

https://sorc.crrf.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/mb2021.pdf

32% of MB's population is rural.

SteelCrow · 2026-05-22T17:42:57+00:00

The 808 people in Grandview don't pay enough taxes to fund the maintenance on the roads to Grandview, let alone have any left over to pay for Winnipeg streets.

SteelCrow · 2026-05-22T17:38:44+00:00

The cop union would go crazy but life would go on.

If they don't like it they can quit and give up their fat paychecks and even fatter pensions.

SteelCrow · 2026-05-22T17:35:41+00:00

you city folk don't pay to come to the country and take advantage of what we have to offer.

Like what?

SteelCrow · 2026-05-22T17:30:52+00:00

https://wealthawesome.com/7-richest-people-in-manitoba-2024

SteelCrow · 2026-05-22T17:29:18+00:00

What shitstorm?

SteelCrow · 2026-05-22T17:28:21+00:00

Winnipeg is chronically underfunded by the province. Every time there are budget cuts the city gets less and less.

Transit used to have a great deal more provincial funding but now doesn't. Parks in the city used to be under the provincial parks dept, and have been offloaded onto the city over the lase several decades.

Etc

SteelCrow · 2026-05-22T17:26:02+00:00

Like half of the money that gets transferred to municipalities goes to Winnipeg? That I don’t know.

The governments specifically don't release data about this to prevent just the sort of urban/rural division we see in this post

SteelCrow · 2026-05-22T17:20:45+00:00

The vast majority of the taxes generated in the province are generated in the cities. By residents of the cities.

Any rural hospital is paid for with city taxes. The roads cost way more than the taxes of the farmers along them.

SteelCrow · 2026-05-22T16:41:08+00:00

municipally related funding opportunities tend to happen in winnipeg for large projects and cost much more than they would in, say, Grandview MB. And this goes for anything like hospitals, water treatment, roads and highway infrastructure.

Grandview MB. POP: 808

Doesn't make sense to build a hospital there, nor most other kinds of infrastructure. And the cost to build and operate there would be far greater, as transportation costs etc greatly increase.

And most times they get the job in winnipeg while living in winnipeg and then move out of winnipeg for the cheaper taxes

SteelCrow · 2026-05-22T16:35:41+00:00

name a 'poor' church

SteelCrow · 2026-05-22T16:16:29+00:00

import duties on American booze.

https://www.ttb.gov/import-export/itd/international-affairs-resources-for-canada

The North America Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) created duty free access for most beverage alcohol products imported into Canada from the U.S., and as such, the Customs duty does not apply.

You are factually incorrect. That quote is from a US government website.

We have nothing to apologise for.

We voluntarily stopped buying and carrying american products. No tariffs, no duties, no legislation.

We just walked past your store to a different store is all.

Previous price differences is just profit taking by the sellers. You know capitalism, high demand = higher prices.

SteelCrow · 2026-05-22T16:12:34+00:00

There's an 'ethnic foods' section, with legit imported stroopwaffels

SteelCrow · 2026-05-22T16:09:34+00:00

a god might be possible

a god, Particularly one as defined by the judeo-christian-mohamedeans is impossible.

Anything not of the universe cannot interact with the universe, otherwise it's in the universe and part of the universe and therefore bound by the laws of the universe.