The problems with 8 stemmed from the problems with 7, which failed to lay any groundwork for the rest of the trilogy to build upon.

I mean you can have it for brunch…

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are you describing like a goulash?

Why do americans refuse to recognise the genetic distinctiveness of true thoughoughbred Europeans. I can assure you those guys from the next village over are indeed monsterous fishmen, and our Earl Jeremy Flaxwheet the sixth was right to kidnap and employ all their hideous children in his mills.

[Source: proud anglo]

The closest thing my family do is boiled ham:

Thigh of a pig is stuck on a low boil for ages, lid on pot. Maybe bayleaf, black papper, rosemary, thyme, salt etc… but very much lightly seasoned compared to italian food. The ham comes out with a soft texture, cut it into slices and serve with potatoes, butter, green veg, english mustard, relish, pickle etc… It’s less flavourful than a porkchop but:

1. You are serving it with powerful flavours anyway
2. The ham flavour is now all in the water, adding split peas and herbs makes a large quantity of excellent soup which you can heat and eat at your convienence. Finish friday with ham and lunch thoughout the weekend is set.
3. There is usually ham left over, and this will be cooked again into something like a ommlette, pie or stirfry.

we would not call it a “roast” though, that’s reserved for roasts.

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So, a fluid coupling?

If Soong had designed data with the intent to make his creator rich and powerful beyond any sanity or measure. (Instead of being a chill nerd) there’s no doubt in my mind startrek would be a lot less utopian.

Also starfleet have had that level of computational complexity for 2 or 3 centuries and never actually managed to create a superintelligent AI that was a match for human pluck and ingenuity, so an AI takeover probably isn’t a possibility in that Universe. (Same goes (I think) for all the millenia old Alien societies).

I mean, the “middle class” doesn’t usually refer to the poorest 50%. The Lower class has always been the majority, Middle a large minority, and Upper a vanishing minority.

I’m not making china look bad, I’m making all states look bad by citing the tendancy of them to become imperialist when there exists a sufficient power differential, hence why I cited Europe more critically than china.

Didn’t realise I mentioned to US in my comment

In yester-year China invaded their friends and allies India & Vietnam. Not long Before that Europe was inventing entirely new ways to shaft over the rest of the world. There’s really no such thing as a “trustworthy” partner in geopolitics, just Alligned incentives&ideologies

*Leftists when there’s plenty of right-wingers to pick fights with, a total flood of them, actually.

Famously nobody got arrested in droves for protesting the war on terror.

Atlantis has so much to answer for

imagine approving of any media

honestly my money is still on the log trap.

If only there where some way for Russia to prevent this…