There’s those few Voyager episodes that deal with children’s holodeck programs, where they note that even Janeway and B’Elanna grew up with the characters and stories. I find that an interesting little addition (and shows that, thank heavens, Blippi is maybe one of those things that didn’t survive WWIII and the postnuclear horror).

Also, I just started revisiting Skyrim with my older kids and that Aela joke hit me hard. A+

Only the one button down for the four dudes?

Just yesterday I was at a cat cafe with two of my kids. My 9y/o is with me as we are petting a British “blue” shorthair and I tell it “you CAN haz cheesburger.” He laughs and is like “dad, what is that?” And I realize that that meme is practically ancient history for him. So I pull out the phone and show him the kernel of all he finds funny today.

It’s the dead eyes. Despite whatever emotion he attempts to convey, the eyes remain dead.

Going down it looks like that Mac and Me clip that Paul Rudd brings with him whenever he’s interviewed by Conan O’Brien

So, the term “Antichrist” is kind of complicated. It only appears in the letters of Saint John (never showing up in Revelation, despite popular belief), where it tends to refer to a spiritual power that is “anti” Christ. But prophecy people over the centuries have turned this spiritual power into a certain figure they call The Antichrist. The imagery of this figure makes use of the “Beast” in Revelation 13 (specifically the Beast from the Sea). Which is all to say that “the Antichrist” and “the Beast” are, in a sense, the same figure. Curiously, and more to your question, Revelation 13 also refers to another Beast (from the earth) making an image of The Beast from the Sea that can speak and convince people that the image is alive. And this image forces people to take on the “Mark of the Beast” in order to participate in the economy. So, AI Trump?

Say what you will about the movies and scripts, but Chris Pine was damn fine casting as Kirk.

I REALLY hope NYT doesn’t settle on this and goes to court. All the stuff that would need to be proved by Trump, like him NOT squandering his dad’s money, etc.

Argh! The painful reminder that my mom gave my cousin my Dreamcast while she was packing up the house because “I thought she might enjoy it.” The same cousin who was also given my pristine NES a few years before that.

A notepad with the imprint of the removed page.

Ah, the ol’ Lebowski school of forensics!

Close cousin to the sort of science seen on NCIS that states that two sets of hands on a keyboard allow for one to hack a computer FASTER

“Forensic evidence.” So, like, bro said “he totes wrote a note” and then someone uses science to say “there was paper over here; must be where the note went!” Is this the kind of Keystone cops bullshit we’re being asked to believe?

Are you suggesting that he might be (puts on sunglasses) changing his mind?

For a split second I legit thought George Costanza had snuck onto the shoot lol

Chances are that the guys who posted this ARE racists though. So while this might not be racism, the comment still stands: these racists are embarrassing.

And giants are famous for their diminutive size.

Andre de Grande?

Arianna Giant?

Right. The shark is just a shark doing what they believed sharks did in those days (Peter Benchley himself later became an advocate for shark preservation and once said that if he’d known at the time what we know now, he’d never have written Jaws). The mayor is the one who sees truth as an inconvenience in the way of profit and so creates the situation. Even the shark is a victim, being killed because it stands in the way of capitalism.

The novel iirc goes further in revealing that the mayor is in debt to the mob and needs the money from July 4 to pay them off. So there’s two kinds of “sharks” swirling about…

I did all of this years ago and it is bliss lol

Another thought about read receipts, can’t spammers and phishing scammers use those to determine if a number is active in order to send more trash?

If nothing happened then there’s no harm in releasing those Epstein files. Let’s see them, just to put everything to rest.

(Assuming this is not a psy-op where she says nothing happens, giving time for them to release an AI-generated version of the files that confirms what she said—or some other shady thing they could do…)