TrashGoblin [he/him, they/them]

It must be exhausting always rooting for the antihero.

Land and houses aren’t private property unless you’re renting them out. If they aren’t a financial asset, they’re just personal property.

Businesses are an interesting question? The Federation, or at least its core worlds, doesn’t use money (by the 24th century). The only business we see onscreen, on a Federation core world, as far as I can remember, is Sisko’s Creole Kitchen. If there’s no money, why does Joseph Sisko run it? My guess is to maintain the tradition of Creole cuisine, to perfect his skills as a chef, to meet and interact with guests, and to preserve an historic New Orleans building by keeping it in use. Is it private property? Does he own it? He owns the business in some abstract sense, but the building? Probably not. I’d expect he holds it in trust in some kind of legal arrangement with the city, but there’s really no onscreen evidence.

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PSL candidates are on the ballot in my Republican state for the first time this year - via another (local) party.

Every press release and campaign email has just been “I’m not owned, I’m not owned” lately.

I eat almost no processed food other than giving my kids breakfast cereal and lunch treats, and a grocery trip that I’m used to costing $80 costs $120, consistently, week over week. Maybe food prices aren’t continuing to skyrocket, but higher prices are locked in, and wages aren’t catching up.

The other thing is that I expect Biden to spend a lot of time and money campaigning in states that don’t matter to him electorally, as payment to his intra-party supporters. For example, South Carolina is solidly Republican and there is zero chance of Biden winning its electoral votes, but he will spend time campaigning there purely for the prestige it gives Jim Clyburn.

The main problems I see are that for Biden to win, he needs not just the core “Blue No Matter Who” vote, but a broader coalition. In 2020, that included young people, and politically unaware people who were upset about COVID. In 2024, he’s doing everything possible to alienate the youth (via support for genocide, and violence against protesters), and the politically unaware people are upset about the economy. Trump isn’t any more popular than he was in 2020, this is entirely an own goal on the Biden campaign’s part.

Great, WWIII is right on schedule, still hoping for First Contact in 2063.

More seriously, can you believe these ghouls?

Children of Kali time.

Buying a Dr. Bashir action figure and a Garak action figure so I can mash them together and make them kiss.

Good for Harry Kim that he finally got his promotion.

I don’t use TikTok, but if they ban it I sure as fuck will start.

Just 40 more years of bad stuff to get through before we get to the good part.

Regarding Vulcans drinking, in SNW S02E01, “The Broken Circle”,

The older ones were larger (and more likely to explode). Not backpack sized, though.

Human Federation Standard

I see that it’s in Klingon, but I’m too lazy to transliterate and translate. What does it say?

So “massive local participation in the actual killing of Jews, usually by shooting at local pits rather than by deportation to faraway camps” is just an “oopsie woopsie fucky wucky” that can be brushed aside because… why, exactly?