It’s worth a read

During the sexual act, there must be a remembrance of Stalin

The NYT has always been dogshit. I remember them breathlessly repeating every warmongering lie of the Bush II regime.

*gestures at the web, circa currentyear*

Disclaimer: the Burn happened in the later seasons of Discovery, which I didn’t watch past season 2 so everything I know about it is either from hearing about other people talking about it online, or from the intro to this new Starfleet Academy show.

In the later season of Discovery they got tired of being in prequel time so they time traveled the ship forward to something like 500 years after the TNG era. I’m told this improved the show but can’t personally vouch for this. The Burn was an event that happened in that far future time a while after Discovery got there where FTL stopped working for reasons and the Federation kinda fell apart. Adults In The Room Made Hard Choices.

Starfleet Academy opens with showing exactly how this was very bad and hurt a lot of people. The plot so far has centered on kids trying to unfuck the results of those Adults’ Hard Choices.

(most charitable possible interpretation) the term they were looking for was “limited hangout”

I saw a clip of him the other day going “oh, that’s why we need gulags”

Some of those can also mean “we make useless geegaws that turn your lights purple and break forever when the useless geegaw company goes out of business”

And he said it in Switzerland, which has German as one of its four official national languages

“We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you’re studying that reality—judiciously, as you will—we’ll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that’s how things will sort out. We’re history’s actors…and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do”

-Karl Rove, 2004

It’s specifically about how the dark and gritty era was a mistake

I would also prefer a Picard/LD era setting, but even though I dropped DIS back in season 2 I think this post-Burn setting fits the same historic moment: a rebuilding and correction after an era of conflict and darkness.

We’ve had two different Adults In The Room go “I made the Hard Choice. I was wrong, that was bad to do and a failure to live up to the ideals of Starfleet, I’m sorry” and as the site’s resident Adults In The Room Making Hard Choices hater (in UlyssesT’s absense) I think that’s great.

First approximation: for every type of weirdo that exists, assume China has about 4x as many of 'em as amerikkka

I’m doing a rewatch there will be more

It’s good watch it subbed.

Also the “his ugliness is corrupting” thing is a completely ass backwards reading of the film, probably because the goofball who wrote it only watched a few minutes

both

Amazing how western “China watchers” are still constantly surprised

I don’t want to see any hexbears in here falling for “protect the children” rhetoric that is always and only used for control and abuse.

I don’t want to see that, but I will.

Zero Taste

This is Ne Zha (and his dragon boyfriend)

I’ve played Cyberpunk 2077 and Night City honestly compares pretty favorably to, say, modern day Los Angeles. The rent and medical care are pretty cheap and the public transit is very robust.