[-] FridaySteve@lemmy.world 5 points 7 hours ago

And Enterprise had a great opening theme song, sadly they decided to play it over the closing credits. Faith of the Heart is raspy and bland and sounds like an advertising jingle.

[-] FridaySteve@lemmy.world 6 points 9 hours ago

What are these? Do they hang on a wall? Do they have stands on the back like a picture frame you put on your desk?

[-] FridaySteve@lemmy.world 2 points 12 hours ago

You could take the question for what it is - a person's polite way of acknowledging you in their orbit and that their actions may affect you. This is an extremely rare attitude. Most people express entitlement instead of kindness. If people around you are actively trying to be less self-centered, the best way to respond is by acknowledging that they are being considerate and answering their question. Pretending not to understand what they mean is the last thing you want to do. Always support and encourage behavior you want to see more of. You have more words than "yes" and "no" and while that question literally suggests a binary response, you can always feel free to use your communication skills.

[-] FridaySteve@lemmy.world 7 points 15 hours ago

People who are actively working for change in concrete ways don't often call attention to themselves by posting about it on public social media. If nobody in power is working to silence you, you're probably participating in controlled opposition and not much else.

[-] FridaySteve@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago

Caring about other people enough to hate them

Wew, lad.

[-] FridaySteve@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago

My personal theory is that every piece of name related legislation was introduced by a backbench politician named Hitler Slobodan bin Laden or something but I don't actually know that.

[-] FridaySteve@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago

A lot of countries do. Denmark famously has a list of 7000 pre-approved names and if you want to use something else you need to file forms.

[-] FridaySteve@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

Elections are designed to be democratic. Political parties are largely unregulated and can generally make their own rules about who they choose to run as a candidate. Remember this next time the Republicans get a big group of powerful party members together to say how much they don't want a certain orange-tinted fascist to be their candidate, their party could have run someone else. Winning was more important. Similarly, the democrats are well within their rights and the law to have previously committed "superdelegates" or just to skip the primary process entirely and run the vice president.

[-] FridaySteve@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

Now they just walk into the street at any point

Face down, phone in hand...

[-] FridaySteve@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

The president is the leader of one branch of our three branch system. Cooperation between Mexico and the USA and Canada and the USA is generational and extends across various diverse dimensions like scientific cooperation, infrastructure protection, border security and law enforcement, fire protection and prevention, trade, and food safety, among others. It would take much much more than one presidential administration much longer than four years to make meaningful progress toward the goal of destroying all these cooperative agreements at all levels of government that took generations to build.

Donald Trump sucks but he isn't America, nor should we be judging any country by the actions of its corrupt billionaire leadership.

[-] FridaySteve@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

Spicy take incoming: it's pretty great right now. We're a continental country rich in natural resources. We're very friendly with our only two major neighbors, Canada and Mexico, so tits hard to imagine us being attacked over a land border. We have tropical beaches and snow sports 365 days a year, and they all speak English and take dollars. Our universities are some of the best in the world and graduate Nobel Prize winners in arts, sciences, and mathematics. Yes the current American experience sucks but for a lot of people it always has and has even sucked worse. We've experienced massive civil rights expansions over the past three generations.

If you think America sucks you're right, and always were, and always will be, but if you can't think of anything nice to say about it then you're just not paying attention.

[-] FridaySteve@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

Also an unmarried rabbi of his age at that time was really unusual.

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