I grew up on TOS reruns, and TNG as a teen — but had gone off to foreign lands without television by the time DS9 was in full swing.
TBH I didn’t like it at all through the first season, and my millennial partner had told me that Quark was her favorite character and I just couldn’t square that with what I knew about ferengi.
BUT I was so, so wrong. DS9 is fantastic and the problematic merchant goblins are great characters.
Been doing bedtime DS9 lately, having already gone through TOS and TNG.
Amazingly, for a kid who watched TOS reruns in the 70s, there were some episodes that I had never seen. Also, some real stinkers – it was a slog at times
Anyhow, just now in DS9 S7 so soon it will be Voyager
Zinky Boys is a haunting but great read
Also her Voices from Chernobyl is fantastic
Afgantsy by Roderic Braithwaite is similarly great, and is written with a more historical perspective in terms of the political landscape that led to that conflict being so bitter. (relatively – all conflicts are bitter)
Wow — first seeing US Airways, and then later in the article Continental mentioned, lets me know that the page linked is wildly out of date.
I wonder if Pan-Am will make an appearance.
I have similar feelings and experiences as you, but have learnt while doing… uhh internet research, that micropeens do in fact have a pretty extensive and well-developed fanbase.
The acronym ‘sph’ is not very affirming, but there’s a hole other side to the genre that’s really quite supportive.
Some guys have all the luck, it seems.
Or rather, a Democratic majority Congress could USE that power to fix some things, and then shelve it.
Would they actually do that? X•doubt
No.
Remember their names for the PRIMARIES
Learn who’s challenging the incumbents, and throw a few bucks their way. Or help with their campaign
https://ballotpedia.org/United_States_Senate_Democratic_Party_primaries,_2026
Most the Losers List above don’t expect to keep their seats or are otherwise election-proof to a degree, but it’s still important to pay attention in the primary.
Instead of ending up with a DNC-approved corpo-Dem, we need better candidates to win the PRIMARY
Mike Johnson won’t call the House in until after the 2 Dec special election in TN-07 Aftyn Behn is running against a maga candidate for a vacant seat
If she loses the election, then this cancels Grijalva’s vote and then it will be ‘safe’ for the Pedo Protection Party to bring the House back.
When she wins… Who knows.
The House will stay out until then, which is a major contributing factor to why the GOP was so desperate to peel off the ten Dork Dems on the Losers List above. They can NOT accept anything that would send the CR back to the House because the House is not available until 3 Dec.
Send Behn some dollars if you can, many small donations can have a great impact. She accepts no corp pac or iapac money
https://www.aftynforcongress.com/
Also, she has a substack for posting about issues
https://aftynbehnfortn.substack.com/
Much later edit: Dunno why I had any faith in Schumer to stay the course. Of course they caved.
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Changing the law to require Digital ID is as as simple as changing the word “never” to “will”
Many men would LOVE a reliable, non-condom, male-controlled birth control method
Currently for men there are two options — condoms, which are problematic and difficult in several ways, or vasectomy, which is essentially permanent or at least difficult and uncertain to be reversed.
The third method is to take WAY too many TOO HOT baths, but that also has uncertainty and is a real hassle.
As it stands, really for men they either need to use a condom, or trust that your female partner is reliable.
Are you required (currently) to use that digital ID to access some types of websites?
Can you browse porn without submitting a selfie? Or your digital ID?
The general concern is that once online digital ID is required, people will be forced to use if for ALL internet activity.
To be fair I don’t know the exact situation in various places, but it looks like UK is heading that way rapidly. China is already there for some time now (?)
Eventually, it will be required to log into any form of social media and “Droggelbecher” could (will) be associated with your real name.
Thank you for linking this.
Hahah you mean like Lemmy itself?
I think that you’re onto something with the dumbass White Guy™ thing here, and while it’s pretty reductive and I do believe that people can (and often do) grow and change (for better or worse) over the course of their lived experiences.
So, perhaps today he is still a dumbass. I know that I am in some ways. We’re all dumbasses in our way and it’s the people who believe that they (or anyone) are infallible that are the true idiots.
Maine could do a LOT worse than the dumbass lefty-leaning former Marine that you describe. Maine is composed of roughly 92.82% dumbass White Guy™ (and gals)
So yeah, maybe someone better will rise up. Or maybe, this guy, who just recently pointed out on his own, in an extemporous exchange at a town hall, that he has a lot of privilege based on his cis-white-maleness and personal experiences, is a good fit for Maine.
We will see.
Yea it’s pretty clear.
Capitalism and religion, with maybe a little bit of ‘public health’ thrown in
There’s strong bias against contraception in general from some religious groups, and it is strongest against the “easier” forms. For example, among Catholics technically ALL contraception is forbidden, but condoms are more acceptable than an IUD, both of which are considered by some sects to be ‘abortifacient’ — on the theory that it merely prevents a fertilized egg from implanting on the uterine wall.
So condoms are ‘better’ because it is a barrier method.
The only Catholic-approved BC is abstinence of course.
Public Health also has a strong bias towards condoms, because of their protection against STIs. Of course, actual proper condom use is… inconsistent at best for most people.
Anyhow, the easiest and least intrusive methods of BC are usually viewed with the most suspicion and disapproval from all sides, and Vasagel/RISUG is like… the most extreme example of that.
It is:
Unfortunately none of these factors endear it to the capitalists, the puritans, or the public-health hand-wringers*
*To be clear, i support public health goals, but the AIDS crisis has put a strong and lasting emphasis/insistence that condoms are the only way
Bullshit. A group of drunk Marines in a tattoo shop on shore leave is EXACTLY the sort of idiots that would point a a fat-looking pirate skull-crossbones on a sketchy tattoo shop wall and all get tattooed together.
This and eating the red crayons are a core activity for ignorant young devil-dogs.
I am not a Mainer but I’ve donated to Platner’s campaign because I believe we need voices like his. Susan Collins and Janet Mills are two sides of the same coin, in the same way that all the old ‘establishment’ Democrats are similar to their ‘moderate’ Republican counterparts
Graham Platner is the right choice amongst the candidates in this race.
We need to elect candidates like Kat Abu and Abigail Spanberger and Zach Dembo and Darren McAuly and Maura Sullivan and Maggie Goodlander and Deb Halland and many other good, earnest, qualified candidates.
None of them are perfect candidates. None of them are perfect people.
But they are better, and we have to hope we can all get better, be better and do better together over time.
(disclaimer: unfortunately my real opinion is that we’re actually totally fucking cooked as a country, and there’s a solid chance that authoritarian fascism will be with us for a while — longer than my lifetime. I will continue to participate in the ways I’m capable and willing, but it’s probably futile)
Yea it’s bullshit. They want to build the whole thing as 'voluntary" which will last only until it’s in place and then some manufactured satanic-panik will make it “mandatory”
This is a ploy to build the system now and flip the switch later.