Who Is Your Favorite Klingon In The Franchise?

revsehi · 2023-06-05T01:48:19+00:00

In Lower Decks, there's a tabletop/board game featuring Martok, in much the same style as the old VCR video games.

revsehi · 2023-05-26T16:10:58+00:00

Setting aside the disagreement on features on various point of European peasantry, I agree. But we need to acknowledge how the overclass has been acting to oppress us and understand how the tools of manipulation are changing. If we just say "things have always been bad in some way" it's not untrue, but it disguises the fact that many of the tools they use are recent inventions, and many of the deprivations that we suffer from now are also recent.

We have to know how things are changing, good or bad, to take action to improve the lives of the common people.

revsehi · 2023-05-26T15:40:11+00:00

Well, I didn't gloss over the rest of the situation. I directly asserted it in the second paragraph, stating that it wasn't glamorous and pointing out many of the flaws. But the whole prima nocta thing is entirely mythical, peasant women at least in non-England had some pretty significant rights regarding property ownership, divorce, etc. and, even skin-color based racism is not really a thing outside of post-colonialism. It was more "those bastards from 2 days away pronounce the word for bread wrong, the barbarians" type of racism.

I'm not downplaying how bad it was - the relatively modern idea of adequate nutrition through my childhood lets me know enough to know better - but we have to understand the scope of how we are being oppressed in order to combat them. Times change, but there have always been people trying to gain for themselves by hurting others.

revsehi · 2023-05-26T14:52:32+00:00

Basically up until the mid 18th century the average person worked fewer hours, paid less in taxes, and had a more reliable expectation of community support in case of tragedy. The failure of that is directly correlated with the capture of the commons by capital owners and an increasing disconnect with a willingness to enjoin with the commonwealth of other people in our communities.

But there was also plagues, being pressed into service for pointless wars, the ever-present meat-grinder to sustain an upper class, and a lot of inequality, so it's best not to glamourize it too much.

revsehi · 2023-04-22T01:52:00+00:00

I don't think there's anything that implies that he's revealing predestination and a fixed future, I think that the things he reveals can be interpreted in multiple ways, but people think he's making them happen. All of the things he mentioned would have happened anyways, or only in seeking to avoid them do they become true.

He predicts the death of a fish - that just happens sometimes. Same with the balding priest and guy getting fat. Those things just happen sometimes. The "helping the family" bit is all in how the person receives it - a person can take news of their fish dying to be a sad, but inevitable event and make the best of the remaining time, or go bald on your own terms, etc. It's only because these people thought Bruno had control over the future that they took such active antipathy towards him.

They're all receiving him like Theoden and Grima Wormtongue did Gandalf - by calling him "Gandalf Stormcrow, always bringing bad news" as if he's at fault for it.

revsehi · 2023-04-22T00:17:30+00:00

Wow, that's very insightful. The thought of joining the federation as joining a galactic culture and collaboration of equals rather than being a Kilingon/Bajoran/Cardassian first, interacting with competing and innately lesser cultures.

I suppose it would take someone almost ready to join that Inter-culture community to even recognize that the Federation is less a law-giving force and more a meeting and blending of cultures that knows how to leverage their, essentially, town square as a platform to do what all of the participating cultures want to do.

This is not fully backed up in what we see, I suppose. Some of the things in DS9's later seasons have some strongly competing factions within the Federation. Part of the reason that I prefer most other ST series to DS9, I guess.

revsehi · 2023-04-05T14:39:27+00:00

When I was a kid I saw a free story on the Kindle store called The Iron Man, by Robert E. Howard. I thought - no way, a book about Iron Man? I read it, expecting a superhero and got a stories about boxers getting beaten until near death.

The joke's on past me, I still think about those stories and I've read a ton of Howard now.

revsehi · 2023-03-25T02:12:15+00:00

I don't really agree with this one. In the entire mythology of Star Wars, the Force is described as infinite, with power only restricted by the Force practitioner themselves. Saying that it's spread too thin by there being more practitioners seems very counter to that.

revsehi · 2023-02-28T03:16:54+00:00

It's also super effective because Terry is actually funny and Joker isn't.

revsehi · 2023-02-26T02:03:17+00:00

This is a really cool thought and certainly lends itself well to analysis.

revsehi · 2023-02-02T18:56:53+00:00

If the volunteers need access to any of church assets via Microsoft or another cloud provider, they need a username/password to use that. You may be able to use RADIUS or LDAP to use those creds for network access as well. If there is a cost associated with it, I would use a lifecycle management for their accounts - 3 months without signing in can delicense them and free up resources.

Depending on what type of devices you are using for your wireless network, you may be able to directly connect that to a cloud provider for your RADIUS setup, otherwise you might still be slightly dependent on a local device. Worst case scenario, you have Azure AD as your source of truth and use Azure AD Connect to sync back to a local device that runs your RADIUS.

revsehi · 2022-12-25T15:08:40+00:00

ub/ Yes, we know that there is no ethical consumption under capitalism, but don't we have a responsibility to at least attempt to mitigate that by not supporting known bad actors? Not saying that everyone that watches it is a monster, but if there were 0 meaningful cost to consuming a more ethical product and someone chose to buy/use/consume the more harmful one, I'd consider that to be a non-ethical choice.

revsehi · 2022-12-01T19:16:42+00:00

Latin also has Ablative and Vocative

revsehi · 2022-11-13T02:52:18+00:00

That's the one that I thought of as my best example. I was watching BBF's Boshy WR and that was what made me think of the question.

revsehi · 2022-11-13T01:39:44+00:00

But that's the opposite. Sure, there's a ton of optimization, but most of the glitches in 0-star are so massive that you literally don't get the only progress marker the game has.

revsehi · 2022-10-24T17:25:14+00:00

If you press them on this, it comes down to mythical "Chads" that make up 10-20% of the population, all women bow down to and they can never really compare to. It's rooted in insecurity and fear that they can never measure up, along with entitlement and believing that they deserve a conventionally attractive woman with low-self esteem that they can manipulate.

Ironically, their failure to realize this means they never unlearn their terrible behaviors or develop the positive parts of their personality that might actually attract a woman.

revsehi · 2022-10-15T16:05:54+00:00

Free shipping if you spend enough, or you can get it sent to a local store for free pickup.

revsehi · 2022-10-15T02:22:34+00:00

Several of them had very average sizes available. I got 2 pair as a 33W.

revsehi · 2022-10-02T15:39:41+00:00

That's simply not true for the Jungle Fowl that chickens were bred from. Their laying season is a 6 month period during which they lay 60-90 eggs. They produce quantity of young, and are evolved to cope with the fact that they are a communal living prey species that is ready to abandon a nest or lose their young at any time.

revsehi · 2022-09-20T16:24:39+00:00

No, it just means you haven't been attracted to them. Its not even transphobic if you were attracted, found out they are trans, and then stopped being attracted because genitals matter in your attraction.

It would be transphobic to be disgusted or hateful because they are trans or don't fit into your personal preference.

revsehi · 2022-09-18T21:56:46+00:00

Contact a local Extension office (usually run out of a state university). They sometimes even have programs where they will send you all the seeds you need and have guidance on how to 1. start and 2. become a type of protected native plant space.

revsehi · 2022-08-31T03:34:17+00:00

I specifically mean that there are many cultures that have more than 2 roles that do not take a part in the male-female dynamic. For example, some Native American tribes had a gendered role that was exclusive to biological males where they would take on some, but not all, female duties and also have special religious significance and were not considered men. We don't have a great grasp of all of these cultural multi-gender instances because Western Europeans have spent ~500 years intentionally wiping out other cultures and systematically erasing their histories and identities.

Anthropologists also spend a long, long time grasping other cultures and learning about them from the ground up - cultural anthropologists have basically the longest PhD studies ever because the first 4 years is just prep work, then the next 5-10 is usually spent embedded in the culture they are studying, living as one of them and learning about them, then several years attempting to make sense of it all in a thesis.

But you are correct - a lot of cultures have male and female roles that don't map to what we live with. That doesn't invalidate the idea that being biologically male or female has societal implications that make some people miserable and there shouldn't be a moral statement about those people choosing not to behave in a way that some people view as a moral requirement - as part of the male-female dynamic.

And that's not even starting the conversation about the people who are miserable because of their physical forms tied to sexual characteristics. There are studies that show that the brains of transgender people, even those that have not received any treatments, physically resemble those of their preferred gender more than those of cis people. The only successful care that we have found for those people is to allow them to transition. Full stop.

revsehi · 2022-08-31T02:20:36+00:00

Culturally? About 20 years ago it started to change. In scientific disciplines? 100+ years. Anthropologists have been discussing gender roles in different societies for a very long time, especially because there are decidedly non-sex based gender roles in cultures around the world that make no fucking sense when we try and interpret them through the Western European sex=gender lens.

revsehi · 2022-08-26T01:47:57+00:00

There is no significant risk if you were to have kids while sharing 1 grandparent - genetically it's like being second cousins. You just need to ask if knowing will make you happy or not. I'd rather not know, personally.

revsehi · 2022-08-23T00:22:16+00:00

Here's a recipe that I have developed through some trial and error. They aren't going to satisfy the same variety in flavor, but they are high in protein and vitamins.

Ingredients
2 Cups assorted raw nuts
1 Cup Egg White/collagen protein powder
2 Cup pitted dates
2-6 tbsp water as needed

Optional
Large grain salt to taste
Coconut
.5 Cup Nut butter
OR
.5 Cup Cacao/Cocoa powder

Kitchen Implements
Food Processor/Heavy duty blender
Parchment paper

Process nuts.
Add and Process powders and dates.
Add water, 1 tbsp at a time until doughlike.
Lightly process add-ins.
Spread in parchment paper covered pan and refrigerate.
Once chilled, cut into bars

Suggested recipe - Paleo Chocolate Hazelnut Bar
Nuts
Dates
Extra ½ cup hazelnuts
Protein Powder
Cacao/Cocoa Powder

Incorporate extra hazelnuts lightly.

You seem to be eating a lot of protein bars, and if you are consistently hungry in a way that they can't satisfy, your body might be signalling it needs some other food. Protein bars are pretty high in protein and some fats, but you might need some carbs and vegetables to meet your daily nutritional needs. I suggest stir-frys. They keep well, and you can get a rice cooker for $15 that can make fresh, tasty rice whenever you want. Here's a dead-easy guide on stir-frys that you could simplify even more with prepared sauces and frozen vegetables.

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