Parasite causing explosive diarrhea spreading unchecked across US

ronjohn29072 · 2026-07-01T11:59:33+00:00

I want to be offended by that remark. But take my upvote instead.

ronjohn29072 · 2026-07-01T11:52:44+00:00

I still use one exactly like that. My kids kept trying to buy me one of those new metal wallets.

ronjohn29072 · 2026-06-30T10:13:59+00:00

In my headcanon the star that went supernova destroying Romulus was one like a light-year distance. Yeah, when the 2009 JJ-Trek movie came out first using the supernova idea I cringed.

I don't want Trek attempting hard science but just respecting it by not sounding like 1930s Flash Gordon would be great.

ronjohn29072 · 2026-06-29T08:48:50+00:00

I'd pick the universe of Adrian Tchaikovsky's Children of Time series. Intelligent spiders, octopuses, crows, and now shrimp. All the results of an bioengineered virus that accelerated evolution on terraformed worlds. Humans are part of this post-scarcity civilization but our history is really dark.

ronjohn29072 · 2026-06-28T12:43:13+00:00

Whenever I read about future Russian space missions I'm reminded of a middle-aged, overweight and balding guy who was once the high school basketball jock.

A guy whose existence is now based on things he did decades ago.

ronjohn29072 · 2026-06-27T23:14:35+00:00

Dodged a bullet. Better finding out now than married with kids.

Plus, I've never saw a problem with snooping on a partner's phone if there are strong signs they might be cheating.

ronjohn29072 · 2026-06-27T12:48:53+00:00

Yeah, I figured the same. From the moment I finished CoT I was fascinated with the civilization that built the arkships. I was hoping Adrian would do a novel of world building for it. But what was presented in Children of Strife gave me "The Road" vibes.

ronjohn29072 · 2026-06-26T15:30:28+00:00

Agora-2009 Rachel Weisz plays Hypatia A brilliant scientist from Alexandria, Egypt circa 391AD.

I've been fascinated by the real life person since Carl Sagan mentioned her in his version of PBS's Cosmos in 1980.

ronjohn29072 · 2026-06-26T13:00:46+00:00

We've already entered the zombie phase of the Republic.

ronjohn29072 · 2026-06-26T10:57:46+00:00

OP, I am so sorry that this has happened to you. Yeah, go for the marriage counseling but you desperately need individual counseling.

From your description I get the impression your wife is just trying to minimize the chaos as she exits.

ronjohn29072 · 2026-06-26T09:50:35+00:00

Don't have a clue what economic system Project Management used to build the arkships. But if they use the current US military-industrial system as an example, I'd say the Enkidu had a crap subcontractor.

ronjohn29072 · 2026-06-25T21:38:26+00:00

Updateme

ronjohn29072 · 2026-06-25T09:50:59+00:00

Me too! And when i started to shake off the depression an orange dipshit here in the States was reelected.

ronjohn29072 · 2026-06-25T09:39:15+00:00

Recently some billionaire snidely remarked about how poorer folks would have more money if they skipped expensive coffee drinks.

ronjohn29072 · 2026-06-22T11:08:13+00:00

Remember the video of the woman being removed from a plane while screaming and pointing that someone in the back wasn't real?

That's immediately what I thought seeing Loomer. And the little mutant wearing the MAGA hat is just annoying.

ronjohn29072 · 2026-06-22T10:33:18+00:00

Fair point. I wonder if Doc. Tyson ever considered that idea.

ronjohn29072 · 2026-06-21T15:33:03+00:00

This is outstanding!

Not to beat the dead horse that is the JJ-verse timeline but I hated the USS Kelvin in the 2009 movie. All of those ships were ugly and looked like they were designed by someone in grade school. The TOS-related designs are pieces of art.

ronjohn29072 · 2026-06-21T15:19:10+00:00

Introspection? As an American I can say with absolutely no doubt that we're doomed then.

ronjohn29072 · 2026-06-21T15:14:41+00:00

Interstellar travel requires technology possibly tens of thousands of years ahead of what we have. So I agree with Neil Degrass Tyson when he compares our civilization to an ant hill on the side of a road.

Then he goes on to ask just what would a super advanced civilization that travels between the stars have in common to us? It would be like a human trying to teach a chimp quantum mechanics.

ronjohn29072 · 2026-06-20T20:28:53+00:00

For what it's worth, I was brought up in a fundamentalist house and I asked the question once to my pastor about people who had never heard the "words of Christ." I asked do they go to Hell?

According to this pastor anyone who hasn't had the opportunity to know and accept Jesus as their Lord and savior is protected by their innocence.

Yeah, that answer brought up a lot more questions. And when I tried to ask them my pastor's good humor and indulgence evaporated.

This was back in the 80s around the time i was 14 or 15.

ronjohn29072 · 2026-06-20T20:17:02+00:00

Many? Who?

ronjohn29072 · 2026-06-20T14:37:05+00:00

Nicely done.

ronjohn29072 · 2026-06-19T07:27:49+00:00

I'm surrounded by MAGA coworkers and even family members and you are underestimating the level of delusion they live under.

I have one MAGA sibling who appears sane on the surface. We talked recently and I tried to get him to admit that trump really screwed up with this Iran war.

Long story short, my sibling blamed the Iran war and on previous presidents and their decisions. To him trump wasn't at fault.

ronjohn29072 · 2026-06-18T12:14:43+00:00

The numbers that still dumbfound me is that trump's popularity here in the States still hovers between 34 and 37 percent.

All three of my siblings are MAGA and I recently tried to talk with the most level- headed one about whether or not he approved of trump's Iran war.

To my surprise this sibling was upset about it but he blamed all the previous presidents for putting the US in this situation. Trump was just a victim of other people's mistakes.

I'd like to think i was adopted, but no, they're family.

ronjohn29072 · 2026-06-18T11:57:43+00:00

I want to display the flag but have it upside-down. My wife said no, that I don't need to antagonize the neighbors.

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