But desires to be less so.

I passed the check. You get to go home.

Then you get to start a new game, because, really?

No, if warp speed has to be maintained, then when it stops being maintained, you stop moving at warp. This is very well outlined in the show. It doesn’t work with our understanding of, well, anything, but that’s covered under “we have no meaningful understanding of FTL.”

You’re trying to impose real world physics on something that has no real world analogue.

We have no meaningful understanding of how FTL works. It is presented to us as an active process, something that must be maintained, unlike normal space velocity.

But, again, no meaningful understanding.

I mean, anyone looking at Win11 is gonna be skeptical about anything Microsoft is putting out.

The majority of those problems go away if more people had their basic needs met.

I’m perfectly happy to ignore everything between Enterprise and SNW, except for Lower Decks. (Is there an official TLA for that?)

Tricky to “kick out” an outpost of the most powerful military in the world.

Further, you really don’t want an outpost of that same military sitting in your country unpaid, worrying about their family, maybe running short of food, absolutely running short of entertainment, tension rising, and heavily armed.

Hopper died, too.

Isn’t the after sex cigarette kind of a trope?

Which he will ignore as soon as he finds it inconvenient.

Why do people continue to think you can make a deal with someone who never upholds their end of a deal?

I’m tired of pretending their opinion matters.

Are you aware that their vote counts as much as yours? And many of them are in Congress, so their vote counts for a lot more than yours?

Don’t get me wrong, I would love to simply excise people without basic empathy from any role of leadership or influence. But until we do that, we have to deal with them.

According to Wikipedia, 1,500 people work there. We could have just given each of those people 100,000 a year for six years, and had a few thousand dollars left over. We could have given 3,000 homeless people $25,000 a year for six years, and made them productive members of society.

Instead, we made a rich Nazi richer.

You aren’t wrong, but you need to remember that a lot of people don’t give a shit about helping other people. Any argument that uses “good for people” as the basis of argument is going to fail with them.

Do battlecruisers count?

IDW1 Megatron, it sounds like.

But the mountain of corpses he was prepared to create in order to achieve that peace is where he went wrong. Megatron would reduce a city to ashes and call it peace.

Are there any Russian workplace comedy?

As a pure act, I can’t see that it causes any harm.

However, it will very likely lead to frustration, anger, and poor treatment of the person in question. Those things are bad.

This is the way.

I can see that, but I’ve always expected tidal waves to be far more destructive. This is, as you say, an astonishing amount of movement, but nothing like I was expecting to see.