Forget-Me-Not-Blues

this is the funniest analysis of “Space Seed” I've ever seen

... Same. :)

we used to get christmas episodes of television. halloween episodes. valentines. we used to get television that felt like part of your life. like it was happening alongside your life. now we mostly get 8 episodes dropping all at once every two years and they don't have time for any of that. i miss characters living alongside us

#and sometimes the christmas episodes would strongly imply Santa literally existed in the show's universe#and sometimes the halloween episodes would reveal vampires existed or something#and it would never ever come up again

Traffic enforcement in the US primarily serves two functions: To generate convenient legal pretexts covering otherwise unconstitutional police actions, and to extort money from citizens. Public safety is a distant tertiary consideration which rarely plays any real part in decision-making. Anyone who lists traffic enforcement as an example of an "actually useful/helpful" cop job is a naive little child who willfully chooses to believe in comforting fictions.

anyone who lists it can be asked "why on earth foes the guy who tells me to drive slower have a gun and cuffs" to unlock secret dialog about the violent drug doers who will only be discovered because their inherently crimeful souls lust to drive 11 miles per hour over the speed limit

I do love the way that some raw milk producers end up independently reinventing pasteurisation from first principles though, that kind of trial and error is what gets humanity to the stars, at least after killing enough kids.

Why do the servants not simply rise up and execute the Bridgertons

canoeing is a fantastic word . those vowels are absolutely out of control in there

like. female and male bodies are not different species. the traits you consider inherent and unique to Female or Male can often be changed by hormone therapy and other interventions, and many traits fall on a bimodal distribution, not a binary one. you can apply the findings of 'Invisible Women' without implying that female bodies are like, Startouched Special Moon-Tied Nature Creatures that are immune to all known scientific phenomena