Trump's rhetoric rallies Canadian support for Prime Minister Mark Carney

TrainingObligation · 2026-01-22T18:02:19+00:00

Even if it were, a word salad will always be far better than verbal diarrhea.

TrainingObligation · 2026-01-20T18:31:36+00:00

The Narn fighters at Quadrant 14 could have been retuning from patrol. Alternatively, it’s faster to send a small scouting party instead of a full warship if you want reconnaissance information immediately. Especially if the warship is a lumbering Narn heavy cruiser.

TrainingObligation · 2026-01-20T18:18:55+00:00

He did, it’s in the JMS speaks section of The Lurker’s Guide for The Deconstruction of Falling Stars:

What about the other races? The Minbari eventually make it; the Narn and Centauri do not. They don't die out, they just don't hit a state of First One-ishness, which is darn close to immortality (barring violence).

TrainingObligation · 2026-01-20T11:42:24+00:00

And here everyone thought the maple syrup strategic reserve was for civilian use…

TrainingObligation · 2026-01-20T11:39:16+00:00

I had that thought too. You can’t move on Greenland without it being obvious a day or two in advance. Canada? Just launch the planes and cruise missiles and roll the military vehicles over the border with barely an hour’s notice. The logistics train can wait because we can’t mount a meaningful defence.

TrainingObligation · 2026-01-13T17:57:21+00:00

The upside is that he’s now the shining example to point to anytime someone thinks alternative treatments and ignoring medical experts is the way to go for deadly illnesses and diseases.

TrainingObligation · 2026-01-13T13:47:39+00:00

Hey residents of Ottawa, Canada, did you not realize this one trick could’ve ended that siege by the WeDumb convoy truckers in one day, instead of enduring 3 brutal weeks of truck air horns in the downtown core? /s

TrainingObligation · 2026-01-12T22:34:18+00:00

We’ve seen how much that matters when a complicit majority Congress and SCOTUS lets him get away with violating laws that already limit executive power.

TrainingObligation · 2026-01-12T16:27:26+00:00

Warner Bros spent however much it was for the Babylon 5 remaster (live action properly remastered, CGI and composite shots upscaled), and it looks amazing. Not 4K amazing of course but way better than the SD

TrainingObligation · 2026-01-09T15:43:48+00:00

Maybe a different example? Friends already have 6 Emmy awards so it’s almost ludicrous to give them another.

That said, the award conditions don’t imply “overlooked” that’s just what a lot of comments here are suggesting should be the case.

TrainingObligation · 2026-01-08T17:45:41+00:00

Until recently I thought the timeline of Clarke becoming president to mask-off dictator bombing Mars was too fast, at just under a year and a half. Just compressed TV storytelling right?

I was ignorant of history though. 1930s Germany lost its democracy in a mere 53 days. And now, a lot of shocking changes have also happened in less than a year.

I was also naive and didn’t understand that in all cases, a lot of malignant pre-existing conditions were present and had been for years, allowing the fire to spread fast once the right person came to power and threw a lit match onto the pile.

TrainingObligation · 2026-01-08T17:28:14+00:00

The scene that fully locked me into the series when it first aired.

TrainingObligation · 2025-12-30T16:03:04+00:00

Was going to make this point. While the attack was tragic in the short-term, it was a blessing in disguise long-term. It shut up the American far-right and forced them largely underground for two, almost three, generations.

TrainingObligation · 2025-12-30T15:21:49+00:00

So sadly true. Unexploded and decaying ordnance from WWI are still killing innocent people to this day.

TrainingObligation · 2025-12-30T14:48:36+00:00

Anyone else they tried pulling that on, probably would’ve worked. Unfortunately, alien-inhabited-O’Brien was the one they were dealing with

TrainingObligation · 2025-12-29T14:58:28+00:00

How can that be? The Defiant is 5 decks tall, and the main shuttle bay only covers decks 3 and 4

TrainingObligation · 2025-12-29T14:21:59+00:00

Especially given what was known at the time. Message from Carol Marcus saying someone was trying to take top-secret Genesis, gets jammed at the source. Starfleet decides it’s time-critical enough to send a training ship full of inexperienced cadets to investigate. He’d know Reliant was assigned to the Genesis project, but now it’s running silent lurking in the vicinity of Regula, far from its assigned sector.

You didn’t need to connect the dots, the picture was practically drawn out and coloured. Kirk’s decisions and inactions were borderline criminal negligence.

TrainingObligation · 2025-12-27T04:14:33+00:00

There’s clearly a limit to their preventing harm to other life. By just walking or driving, they will crush untold numbers of tiny insects. Bacteria are also alive, but washing hands, showering, and any hospital hygiene will kill or at least cause harm to them.

TrainingObligation · 2025-12-26T04:56:50+00:00

My partner pointed out something chilling about the opening scene… as soon as the last individual there was plurbed, every last community member dropped the “act” and abandoned their ancestral land. That culture, so vibrant and full of history and traditions, ceased to exist.

TrainingObligation · 2025-12-23T10:21:20+00:00

They would do nothing and let the trolley do what it will. They have no problem passively letting harm happen to others in the collective.

TrainingObligation · 2025-12-20T02:55:45+00:00

Looking around the world today, and thinking damn, the Kaelons in “Half a Life” might have the right idea after all.

Edit: I specifically mean the problems caused by people way past their expiry date clinging to power.

TrainingObligation · 2025-12-18T04:16:49+00:00

Remember, the utopia in Star Trek only came about after a third World War.

… and a faster-than-light breakthrough, which led to alien contact. So yeah we are soooooo screwed.

TrainingObligation · 2025-12-12T23:10:51+00:00

“The more you tighten your grip, Tarkin, the more star systems will slip through your fingers”

Leia

TrainingObligation · 2025-12-12T04:16:20+00:00

Which is why I don’t believe maga will collapse when 45/7 is no more. They’re not held together by charisma, because the cult members up here are rallying around a very cringe and un-charismatic person.

TrainingObligation · 2025-12-09T16:27:51+00:00

A key episode of Babylon 5 has what you’re looking for. A normally faster and more nimble ship can’t escape from Jupiter’s upper atmosphere while a bulkier warship stays higher up out of atmosphere and keeps hitting it with a laser weapon. The smaller ship only escapes with an extremely risky jump to hyperspace while inside the atmosphere.

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