Lol, yeah, THAT strategy would keep it at 99 cents.

TBF I’ve met scrum masters and product owners who think they’ve hacked the system by adding this to story AC, so…

Right now my company calls it “Investing in IST”

Hello Wildcats!!

Weber Cooks

Fucking love those. Absolutely required for a “Pee-Off in the Trough” competition. One idiot bar put up dividers and I’m still mad.

Yes. All of them.

From a shareholder position, it’s just as bad to simply not be going up enough.

This kinda reminds me of when Beavis and Butthead first came on the air. Panned as the stupidest thing on TV.

When it came back in the 2010s, it was exactly as stupid. However, relative to what ELSE was on TV? Suddenly it was relatively high brow. It was easily the smartest show on MTV. By a LOT.

Putting super Gover in the first Iron Man? Nonsense. Putting him in whatever they do next? IMO it would generally raise the bar. No offense, MCU superfans.

That’s another great point. People do seem pretty comfortable speaking about their species as a whole in Star Trek, not just Klingons.

That’s fair. Humans have diverse cultures.

That being said, especially in matters of after death beliefs, humans won’t say “humans believe…”, they’ll add specificity by saying “Catholics believe”, or drop the universal quantifier of “humans” and just say “I/we” leaving the exact contextual bounds ambiguous in the case of “we”.

At least in the Star Trek I’ve seen, Klingons are pretty fucking happy to say it’s the KLINGON way. The KLINGON belief. The KLINGON tradition. Pretty explicitly setting the bounds.

Entirely possible that every subculture is so enamoured with themselves that they really don’t consider other Klingon cultures “true Klingons”. So that’s an explanation.

But even with that, we even see Worf, the same singular Klingon, giving IMO two contradictory versions. Although as another has said, he might have just made one up to be a comfort to a friend.

Oh yeah, the yell+trash bit is internally consistent. Just the trash vs something worth guarding vs worth permanently enshrining.

But honestly that pet theory of yours is probably the simplest way to reconcile DS9. Then let discovery just have its Klingon reinvention and let it be it’s own thing and baby, you got a stew goin’

Klingon death lore isn’t very consistent. In TNG they yell to warn the afterlife that a warrior is approaching… And then say the body is trash. Throw it out the airlock. All Frank Reynolds.

Then in DS9 Worf is standing some silent vigil over someone who died saying it’s what Klingons do.

Then we have discovery where they build giant ass ships for the dead.

What am I missing

… Did they both involve sending weapons to Israel?

This is exactly my point. You’ve made it better than I ever could have.

The minute you buy into identity politics, you’ll reject what is front of your own eyes because you fail to seperate an issue from the whole. If “they” are wrong on the “issue”, then you’ll diminish the “issue” to protect the whole, thus protecting your identity.

Biden and the world and the current Democrats are absolutely fucked the dog on Israel. That doesn’t mean the Democrat turd sandwich isn’t still better than the giant douche, but there is no godly reason that one can’t evaluate issues honestly.

If you want to take this one step further, it’s the the inevitable result of identity politics in general.

Once you decide to generalize away per-issue stances just to paint them “left or right”, “red or blue”, “my team your team” then it becomes trivial to make an argument that both sides are the same, or conversely that both sides are polar opposites. Whatever suits you.

Republicans and Democrats both shovelled weapons to Israel. They are thus, as a whole, identical. Indistinguishable. Republicans are erasing reproductive Rights. Democrats are trying to guarantee them. They are thus, as a whole, complete polar opposites.

Generalizing from the specific is a convenient mechanism, but error prone, and it leads to absolute trash discourse… Which in turn leads to a failure of consensus for specific demands to make during a protest.

“No Kings” isn’t realistically actionable.

That’s Wolverine.

Not even about what you want, it’s what do you want MORE.

Do you want to be in a privileged position of elected power faithfully serving the best interests your constituents?

hehehehehe

I got in deep shit because of a stupid “creative writing” project where the inciting incident was prewritten and you had to finish it. It was something like “you threw a rock and accidentally hit a car and dented it, and you felt terrible so…” , obviously bait for apologizing.

Fuck that. In mine the character refused to admit wrong-doing, went insane and was institutionalized and eventually lobotomized (a la jack Nicholson).

DEEP shit.

If he doesn’t solve problems with chmod 777 then he’s already more competent than the ops teams at my fortune 500 company