The Little Asian That Could

i mean, the reason we quit using sail power wasn’t because it didn’t provide good propulsion. it was because sails were fragile, labor-intensive, and subject to the whims of the weather. from an industrial revolution era perspective, being able to know that your cargo is going to be chugging across the atlantic at a constant 10 knots and arrive friday after next at the latest was HUGE. it’s no wonder we never went back, even after fossil fuels became not only gross but expensive.

this design? using aerofoils like plane wings, with full rotation ability and telescoping height, controlled by computer from the wheelhouse? all the problems with sail power are suddenly over, except the ‘how much wind is there’ one. and that one is significantly reduced by modern weather data gathering systems.

i love the age of sail as a fiction setting because sailing tall ships was so fraught and busy and stressful. the captain or bosun was shouting out orders based on what he could see and feel and guess in that very moment, and maybe some clues like the movement of fog or birds in the distance, and a bunch of underfed guys with crippling ptsd would go rushing up and down an enormous jungle gym with no safety equipment, quite often coated with ice or in the pitch dark, and if they screwed up they died. amazing drama.

This is so fucking stupid. I can't believe I'm doing this. I never use reddit, sorry if I do something wrong.

I (a 19 yr old girl) was watching Star Trek TOS a few weeks ago with 3 other friends (one 18 yr old guy, the other two don't matter)  over a video call. We get to the episode Amok Time, and long story short there's a scene where Captain Kirk's shirt gets ripped right across his pecs (it kinda looks like one of those boob window sweaters?? idk how to describe it I'm sorry)

So when Kirk's shirt gets ripped I say some dumb shit about him having fatty milkers and the two other friends laugh and we just start making tit jokes and making up increasingly stupid words for "boobs".

We watch a few more episodes then call it a day and disconnect the call, and a few minutes after disconnecting the call my guy friend (we'll call him Tom) messages me and brings up the Kirk boob jokes in passing, like he was trying to make it seem casual but I started feeling like he was bothered by it and wasn't telling me, you know? So I asked him if the tit jokes bothered him and he got really defensive and didn't really answer the question.

Later one of the other two people that was there (we'll call him Mark) messages me and tells me that my guy friend was mad at me. Apparently Tom had ranted to Mark about how William Shatner (the guy who played Kirk) was a huge inspiration to him as a kid and he thought I was being extremely disrespectful referring to his character (not even HIM, his CHARACTER) in such a derogatory way (as if William Shatner is gonna give a fuck that some teenage girl in central America said his old character had fat hooters, but I digress)

So Mark said I should apologize, I said it was stupid for Tom to have a temper tantrum over such a meaningless situation, Mark said that was mean, so I caved and apologized (and no it wasn't a backhanded apology, I messaged Tom and said I didn't mean to be disrespectful towards someone he looks up to and that I'd refrain from doing it in the future)

But then Tom continued to give me the silent treatment and fucking brings it up whenever we talk Star Trek and I ended up snapping at him that he was being childish for holding onto this for so long, and that I'd already apologized and I didn't see why this continued to be such an issue.

“I’m gonna act like no one is there”

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