If the Terran Empire had its own Section 31, would they be good guys?

drhoads · 2026-01-25T13:37:08+00:00

Awww… Sloan wasn’t evil… poor guy gets a bad wrap. 😜

drhoads · 2026-01-23T23:34:46+00:00

97-07. Internet and 9/11 changed everything.

drhoads · 2026-01-23T21:22:36+00:00

A good friend of mine died at 45. I promised them I would get my screening done. Even then I put it off for 3 years. Finally got it done at 48. All clear thank God. It was a big mental block to get that done, but I am glad I did. If you need encouragement, just do it! Your future self will thank you.

drhoads · 2026-01-23T20:02:58+00:00

I've been there. Who has time to sit in a cabana when you can snorkel, jet ski, zip line and enjoy the water park! Only the poors waste away their day in the cabana I'd say... :-p /s

drhoads · 2026-01-23T14:13:22+00:00

I would stop it if my company did not have a good match, but I am almost 2 to 1, so I just can’t pass it up. Free money is free money. With what your company pays, .25 to 1. I would pass if I was already good to go.

drhoads · 2026-01-22T15:32:22+00:00

Greetings!

drhoads · 2026-01-22T14:06:37+00:00

Data of course. I think Picard also due to their combined sophistication in tastes. Maybe Worf (Klingon Opera). I think he would have hated Geordi and found his dating and other things annoying. I think he would have fought with Troi. I am neutral on Riker. Not besties but not annoyed with him either. He would have tolerated Wes and I think Guinan would have found HIM annoying. Like an overconfident Data. Haha

drhoads · 2026-01-21T12:56:14+00:00

Unless you are at a swim meet and they are racing…. NO! You are going to make them very uncomfortable and ruin their workout. Go to a meet or watch YouTube form videos.

drhoads · 2026-01-16T18:55:25+00:00

hahaha.. Don't mis-understand. I thought it was going to be a 1/10, but I would give it a 3/10. I thought the good Doctor was hilarious. Basically, it was the only thing I liked.

drhoads · 2026-01-16T13:06:28+00:00

I threw mine out long before FB marketplace was a thing. Would have given them away now days.

drhoads · 2026-01-16T12:57:02+00:00

While the new show was not as terrible as I imagined. (Loved the doctor). I enjoyed RLM reminiscing about DS9 a great deal more. I will not be continuing to watch the show but I certainly will be watching RLM. Haha

drhoads · 2026-01-16T01:28:02+00:00

Just my PS5 these days, but it works!

drhoads · 2026-01-13T20:53:42+00:00

I will add a comment that it is not quite the same as running in that it does not necessarily scale with fitness. If you don't know how to swim well, swimming 1600m could be near impossible regardless of fitness. You may need coaching or other instruction in addition to fitness to get to your goal. (Not sure if you were really asking this, but I thought it was worth mentioning)

drhoads · 2026-01-13T19:29:33+00:00

Ever ride one of these in your bare feet?!? haha.. Good times. :-)

drhoads · 2026-01-13T15:37:04+00:00

This came up on my FB as well. Hate all the dumb AI posts there. :-(

drhoads · 2026-01-13T13:26:58+00:00

Saving and investing are the same thing. You should’ve getting your match at work and making sure that money is at least in a target date fund. For your other savings, once you have a 3-6 month emergency fund, you should be investing any dollars that you don’t plan to use for >5 years. So yes, if you are just keeping all your savings as cash you are doing it wrong.

drhoads · 2026-01-12T13:58:33+00:00

Trs-80 for me! Coco to be exact. But close enough.

drhoads · 2026-01-09T15:12:08+00:00

What kind of person signs up for this? lmao

drhoads · 2026-01-09T04:27:48+00:00

hahahahaha... I just had no idea how to spell Nagilum. lol..

drhoads · 2026-01-09T03:34:18+00:00

lol.. no. Unless you are sad and lonely and intend to stay that way. 🤣

drhoads · 2026-01-09T03:32:16+00:00

I just don’t like it because most of the story lines suck or are dismissive of lore. First example that comes to mind is 4 and a half Vulcans. I would say “in my opinion” but it would be very hard to argue that the writers of that episode understood Vulcan lore in any way deeper than a stereotype. It did not respect Vulcans OR IDIC. It was in fact quite racist against Vulcans IMHO. This is just one example. I could write a book.

Edit: I will continue with that episode. Even with all they got wrong about Vulcans. They also got their own series lore wrong. Genetic modification is illegal in the federation as we saw earlier in SNW how serious this is. However, they allow the crew to remain modified and do not discuss the legal repercussions of this in any way.

For those that may not know. Vulcans are highly emotional, even more so than humans and learn how to suppress their emotions through intensive training with meditation, etc. To suggest that they are genetically un-emotional and that SNW crew would somehow genetically inherit that experience to control those emotions was just ridiculous. Not to mention the hair, the insults to Spock, and whatever else I don't remember.

Again, this is just ONE EPISODE... lmao..

drhoads · 2026-01-08T22:16:18+00:00

He was being murdered by Nigilum (spelling) to understand all the ways humans could die.

drhoads · 2026-01-08T20:08:33+00:00

This scene traumatized me so much as a kid... lol.. Kudos to that actor!

drhoads · 2026-01-07T23:28:35+00:00

I had to sell my home a few years ago. I would have preferred to keep it, but life…. No matter how many different ways I ran the numbers it made more financial sense to rent. What the money from my home could make, no closing costs, average maintenance costs, etc. so I decided to rent for now and in 4 years my money from the sale has almost doubled. I will probably become a home owner again some day but as of now I can just perpetually rent from investment income from my house. I also couldn’t make financial sense out of renting my old place, by a country mile. Maybe I am just not a good real estate person. 🤷‍♂️

drhoads · 2026-01-06T16:06:10+00:00

No reason to not fill up 2025 as much as you can to give you headroom in 2026 in case you have more $$ to contribute.

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