That’s beautiful… great way to meet new friends

Launches entire US nuclear arsenal against Russia

This should have more than one ham

… so that you can “clamp your hams”

But still get up with a broken nose to mutter …

"… UHHH LUNK TREK DAR? … " … then pass out in embarrassment

It’s like meeting someone in an empty desert.

You go through life secretly liking Trek while everyone around you either doesn’t know about the show or have heard of it and think it’s some kind of nerdy thing from the past. Or they think there’s something wrong with you for liking a terribly made show in their opinion.

Then you meet a stranger who likes Trek and wants to talk about it.

You jump over a railing, flail your arms in the air, and land with both feet, then with a serious look point at them … and ask which series do they like the most.

You have found your people

The fact that most of the world has decent access to food. And the fact that here in the first world (I’m in Canada), just about everyone has access to some kind of food.

I know it isn’t perfect and there are still a small percentage of people that may have difficulty with access to proper food, plentiful food or enough food … but everyone everywhere here has something to eat.

I’m Indigenous and when I was growing up in the 80s, mom and dad had enough for us to eat but we weren’t starving or anything.

However, my parents were born in the 40s and they said they had to live through famines as children … in modern Canada! They remembered a severe famine that swept through northern Ontario in the 50s where every hunter and trapper just couldn’t find enough wild food anywhere to feed people. It was a normal cycle that happens in our part of the world that takes place at least once a decade - most times it is just small decline in animal populations but other times, everything just disappears for one reason or another (disease, migration, weather, temperature, animal movements, etc)

In my grandparents time … starvation was a normal part of life to the point where lots of our old legends are filled with stories of cannibalism and murder because people were starving to death.

It all just means that in our modern era over the past hundred years … food has become plentiful for the majority of the world and that starvation has become less prevalent than it ever was in human history.

In our modern world of interconnected finances, services, governments and systems … it is all hinging on a very delicate balance … because as Will Durant put it …

“From barbarism to civilization requires a century; from civilization to barbarism needs but a day”

Our easy access to food for everyone is only possible if we maintain a functioning world order of cooperation.

I love how this medieval knight decided to use a recently invented folding lawn chair to do battle with his opponent.

Then it must involve a medium sized metal food bowl … one about the size of a human (or Vulcan) skull … and a very unskilled barber … perhaps a sibling or a parent

I’ve only ever watched one or two episodes of the series and hope to watch the whole thing some day … but these memes make me feel like I’m going to have to listen to the entire theme song every time now.

I hope it involves Edward Scissorhands

Imagine being a barber and cutting the hair of a Vulcan.

This is similar to the so called ‘Holdo maneuver’ from Star Wars: The Last Jedi … where they take a rebel ship on a suicide mission of deliberating flying it into a large Imperial ship.

If spaceships can become very powerful sources of energy and exotic engines that can deliver and sustain massive amounts of energy … eventually someone is going to want to turn it into a weapon.

If you can use the energy of a fancy star ship to propel a craft through space at very high speed, they can use the same technology to use it as a delivery system for a weapon … or just use the energy created as a weapon itself … or in the case of the Star Wars thing I mentioned above … just use the entire ship as a weapon … as Worf would have put it ‘IT IS A GOOD DAY TO DIE!!!’

Anyone that can be funded endlessly by a corporate and capitalist elite can become president.

If billionaires and corporate leaders decided tomorrow that you should be president, they could dump millions of dollars and a few years worth of hired professional help and they’d make you president.

It’s not the will of an individual person or a personality that makes a president … it’s whichever group of wealthy backers who decide to fund the campaign … after that it is j just a matter of how much money they are willing to spend to make it happen.

[Instead of the type writing tapping … I can hear the computer booping and beeping]

I have you know that my name is … dies an unremarkable death

Yes a call or a even a regular talk with someone in the normal sense is not sexual at all

But if you both lay on the floor with your heads next to one another in an upside position from one another … where you placed your mouth very close to your listener’s ear and they did the same to you … and both of you are so close that your cheeks touch one another as you talked … you might not be tonguing their ear but you are close and intimate enough that it does become something else and may even start becoming something close to being sexual or sensual.

It was just a silly thought and image that came to me the other day while talking on the phone … we’re basically whispering into each other’s ears when we use a phone in the traditional sense.

topologically, though, isn’t that just the same as all speaking and listening? it’s all mouth to ear.

True … if we were standing together in the same room and having a conversation, it would just be a normal chat where we would both be standing about arms length away from each other.

But I thought the idea of a phone conversation was weird a few days ago. You speak into a mic that is very close to your mouth and your voice is transmitted to a speaker that is pressed up against the ear of the listener … and they are doing the same from their perspective.

It would be like if we were both in the same room again and having a conversation … except this time, we decide to lie on the floor … where I would be upside down from you and you the same to me … and you position your head really close to mine and I speak really close into your ear and you do the same with mine … we have this conversation so intimately that our cheeks touch the entire time.

Phone rings

decide to answer call

muffled noises … ??? …

can’t hear the caller because they put saran wrap over their phone as they tried to provide a safe 69 phone conversation

They are in the same group of people that insist on playing music on their tinny device or little boom box while walking down the street.

For anyone not aware (because I first saw the episode a few months ago) … this is reference to the Dooms Day machine episode of Star Trek: The Original Series - Season 2 Episode 6 (originally aired in 1967)

https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/The_Doomsday_Machine_(episode)

… also … that is one big ass horn