All things considered, he succeeded in his goals.

The concrete plant was under insured and so his “rival” that owned it ended up eating a few hundred thousand dollars in damages.

Still a complete lunatic, but a competent one as well.

Thanks fam, looking forward to watching it.

Can’t forget mothballing the entire navy and banning the printing press 👌

Source: one time a Turkish guy I worked with explained the fall of the empire. He blamed it on rejecting technology 🤷‍♀️

I love this meme. There’s one I saw once where he’s trying to explain why he blasted those parasite badmirals. Wish I saved it at the time.

Me: wow we already have that? can’t wait to be approved!

The comm:

As for paleontology, I personally think it’s just a bunch of hogwash if we go further back than around 5,000 years

Me: 🤮

I had no idea they were related, but apparently they were (thanks 😉). But that too was soon retconned:

According to comments by Michael and Denise Okuda, when mentioning of the speed limit was abandoned a few years after “Force of Nature”, it was assumed that newer ships, such as the USS Voyager and USS Defiant, had improved environmentally friendly warp drive systems, that did not cause damage to the spatial continuum.

https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Variable_geometry_pylon

Warp 10 and salamanders. Great examples 👌

But what about TNG 7x09, the one where we learn that warp travel damages subspace and that a warp speed limit is the solution?

Later, the Federation Council issues a new directive limiting all Federation vessels to a speed of warp five except in extreme emergencies.

Laughs in Janeway

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Force_of_Nature_(Star_Trek:_The_Next_Generation)

Ya that’s kinda what I’m trying to get at. Like Latin, Arabic was useful and so it was used.

If such Latin erased them then arguably such Arabic equally erased them. Or maybe there was no erasure but instead pragmatism 🤷‍♀️

Are you saying these folks aren’t Arabs?

But why would they have Arab names instead of names from their own language?

So peculiar.

Edit: on further thought maybe we’re ready for a lemmy ask history community. This could have been a great discussion if it started with a question about Latin naming instead of an assumption of cultureal erasure.

Reminds me of this

Starships were meant to fly

My wife (and probably many others) disagrees, but I’m firmly of the opinion that Starships by Nicki Minaj is an uncertified trek banger 🙌

Here we go -> So it begins

Come at me bro -> Let them come. They will break upon this fortress like water upon rock.

Harbinger is the worst episode of ENT. The captain and the alien of the week are maybe 6 minutes of the episode. The rest is a bunch of bullshit with resolving the conflicts in the crew that had been brewing all season.

Only saving grace is the fight scene, but then the macho American space marine gets schooled by lieutenant mister bean? Lolwut

What the hell do they think this is, Hamlet, Gone With the Wind, Ruggles of Red Gap? It’s a goddamned space western, aliens in rubber masks, you know the drill!

My favorite is the repair tool from S1 PIC, the one powered by imagination. Lets just create and forget a magic wand that commoditizes the entire engineering department 🙃

Enterprise was not bad at all.

Phlox, rub some decontamination gel on this revisionist history! The worst part was absolutely all the oily creeper shots.

When quark spells out the logic of peace to his vulcan maquis cell mate.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdQcGzbpN7s

Absolutely peak quark 👂👌

Not sure if you’re actually wanting animated or not, but Scavenger’s Reign is a good animated sci-fi miniseries of a spaceship crew stranded on a strange planet.

For live action check out the two Callister episodes of Black Mirror.

Also I can only imagine his pitch.

Crossing my fingers it gets leaked 🤣

Odo used harumph. It’s super effective!

Really thoughtful read. I especially appreciated this

The term woke originally meant something quite simple: Being awake to injustice. However, in recent years, it has undergone a remarkable semantic inversion. For some critics, woke has become shorthand for any narrative that asks viewers to empathize with someone outside their tribe.

This is why stories about immigration policy, systemic injustice, or forgiveness trigger such strong reactions. They are perceived not as entertainment but as ideological intrusion. They become “the enemy.”