Beyond the Black Stump

the expanse budget is like

Granny Warcrimes need her drip come on now

The political details in ME are really unmatched, it’s kind of sad that there’s not that much focus on them overall. Like what do you mean your VIs are programmed in such a way that they tell a non-council species alien that non-council species are “lesser”. What do you mean your one “council species” companion who’s the most involved in that society is the one who’s the most judgemental to other species based off the stereotypes seen on the citadel itself. What do you mean krogan get tagged and taken into custody as soon as they get to the citadel.

"The newest members of the council are pretending that they have their territory under control as more and more of it is sacked by who-knows-what (they don’t care). Their people would rather risk going to the ass-end of the galaxy, taken by predatory corporations who lie and minimise the risk of death and enslavement by the nation they are definitely not at war with, than stay in their own home planet."

The proof that chiropractic is an utterly failed medical profession is not that adjustments can cause harm, but that the profession has responded by ignoring and denying the harm, rather than studying it.

One of my colleagues was a chiropractor. After a while he began to suspect that a lot of his patients actually just had muscle tears, not spinal issues. He bought an ultrasound machine, learned how to use it and how to read ultrasound, and found that to be the case. Between that and the constant pressure from management to get customers (because lbr, they're not patients, they're customers), he got sick and tired of it and bailed to become a sonographer full time.

As a Greek, in response to the current controversy about Matt Damon being cast as Odysseus, I'd just like to share that one of the moments that changed my brain chemistry as a kid was reading a novelized version of the Odyssey and coming across the following description of Odysseus when Circe sees him for the first time and thinks he's hot: "his hair curled like a clematis and his eyes were very brown".

Is this the face of a man who would put his own infant in front of a plow to avoid going to war?

The last thing Penelope's suitors ever see: