Where’s the DS9 mug?

… and on another note, if Odo were to shapeshift into your mug … would you be drinking from his mouth? or the other end?

So you’re saying there will be no 60th Anniversary today … and that a a deranged El-Aurian scientist, will launch a trilithium weapon as an explosive agent into our sun, stopping all nuclear fusion within the star, leading to an instant supernova that will cause massive gravitational disturbances that will alter the trajectory of a nearby energy ribbon to pass over our planet, and in the powerful gravimetric field emanating from the trailing edge of the energy ribbon, send this psychotic scholarly experimentalist into an extra-dimensional Heaven-like realm in which one’s thoughts and desires shape reality while leaving behind our homeworld to be destroyed by the rapid expansion of our local star.

I’m all for Bernie Saunders … I like the guy and appreciate him and his message … but if American progressives are relying on an 85 year old figurehead to lead their movement … holy hell, America is deeper in the hole than I imagined.

… and no one will complain.

The owner class figured out a few generations ago that in order to keep the masses from openly revolting … you keep them fed. And you also don’t need to keep them fed that much either, you just need to keep them holding on or have access to enough food in order not to starve. Revolts and revolutions won’t happen until people start starving, near starving or are threatened with starvation.

So they’ll keep us all fed … they won’t give us big giant buffets of food … but just enough to keep us all from standing up together to try to fight anything or anyone.

Talk to any old timer from the past 20-30 years who grew up and worked in the 1950s-1960s and you’ll hear stories of what unions, union membership, strikes and worker rights actually means.

I grew up in northern Ontario and got to know lots of older people who lived and worked in forestry towns, pulp and paper towns and mining towns … and all of them have stories of being part of a union and fighting to get the most basic benefits … the same rights and privileges that everyone enjoys today and thinks they are normal and enshrined and have been magically in place forever.

Just remember that if corporations and businesses have their way and always have their way … they would not think twice about developing a society filled with slavery, semi-slavery, starvation wages and no rights for any workers.

And don’t get me started about the whole debate of ‘unions have too much power’ … that is a joke that only most ignorant people understand. If unions had too much power, every worker no matter their station of level of employment or experience or position would have a decent wage with benefits and corporations would be spending the majority of the profits sending it to the people who do the work rather than in spreading it out to a bunch of nameless and faceless shareholders who do absolutely nothing for the company or business other than to claim ownership to the generated wealth.

Here’s another example of what unions and striking workers had to contend with decades ago …

https://www.ontarioplaques.com/Plaques_ABC/Plaque_Cochrane02.html

Who’s to say that it is in fact this hamster who is controlling this human in these nefarious schemes.

lol … imagine slapping down some raw chicken on a Vulcan shrine wearing no shirt but an apron that said ‘Kiss Me, I’m Vulcan’

Time to bring back ‘Kent Micronite filtered cigarettes’ …

From March 1952 until at least May 1956, however, the “Micronite filter” in Kent cigarettes contained a mixture of crimped crêpe paper and compressed blue asbestos, the most carcinogenic type of asbestos.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_(cigarette)

I think this is our great filter … the filter that won’t allow us to explore the universe beyond our planet. We’ll send up probes and robots into space but we’ll be too busy fighting the handful of men down here who want to try to rule the planet. And those handful of men will keep our world as miserable as possible in order to keep them wealthy and as powerful as possible. Once that group of men dies off, another group of men will take their place endlessly. And it will be that perpetual small group of men that will keep us confined to our current state of evolution and keep us all down on this planet.

As Carl Sagan put it in ‘A Pale Blue Dot’ …

“The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot.”

If they had had the barbecue in Vulcan … plenty of rocks in the countryside there to grill a few burgers and steaks

Good … all social media should be heavily regulated and controlled everywhere. Social media has become as integrated and influential in our lives like newspapers and television and radio once were … they heavily regulated those media in the past, they should do the same for all social media everywhere now.

Right now, its basically just the wild west and governments are always playing catch up or just blindly being controlled by the corporations behind all social media

… ship immediately catches fire and engineering has no choice but to eject the warp core

One of my inlaws was like this … she was an absolutely funny lady. She was so good at making people laugh that she could insult and belittle you and still make you laugh.

Majority of Americans are starting to realize they don’t exist in a democratic system … because their government really doesn’t care what anyone thinks.

Ear ache … mostly definitely ear ache … caused by a space worm that has burrowed into my ear canal and lodged itself into my cerebral cortex

TIL … black coffee is merely just the remnants of a liquefied black hole that sucks the life out of everything and everyone

Janeway: … I have become coffee, the destroyer of worlds