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  • But… Why?

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    In a phone interview, Judge Wolf said he had resigned not only to speak more freely about his own views, but also those of colleagues who were still on the bench. “I hope to be a spokesperson for embattled judges who, consistent with the code of conduct, feel they cannot speak candidly to the American people,” he said.

    Like… No! Please be a spokesperson, yes, but, like, keep your post! You’ll be replaced with somebody who’s worse! It’s not a hard concept to grasp!





  • Just to add to this: this is where that weird trope of American culture to associate lube with masturbation comes from as you obviously can’t masturbate by moving your foreskin back and forth - so you need some kind of lubrication to just rub your penis without it getting sore. It took me literal decades to understand that odd connection from American teenager comedies as I literally had no clue why they kept making jokes about hand cream.




  • I will never get over how the Borg were so amazingly well introduced just to be utterly torn down within a few years. The whole buildup of Q introducing the federation to something so strong it merely serves as a means to make Picard crawl before him (metaphorically, yes), Guinan giving a back story of how they “developed over a thousand centuries” and destroyed their homeworld while still not knowing much about them and the Borg themselves remaining mostly silent while still being so well written was just remarkable.

    And then they introduce the queen and Voyager comes around, making assimilation reversible, introducing drones to have their individuality intact and being their old selves while they sleep and finally having that small exploration vessel just blast through the Borg like they’re paper walls before labelling them nearly extinct in Picard and having them saved by a singing doctor.

    It’s a damn shame and whoever greenlit each of those steps of running down such an excellently introduced foe should be forced to write long essays on what went wrong when writing each single borg encounter in Trek. They were introduced to be the perfect storm the federation would just have to live with and bend to… Instead they turned out to be a side note that popped up each time the writers wanted something seemingly dangerous to overcome or conquer. I hate it.








  • There aren’t that many pictures of the bluebrixx enterprise d from below for comparison (and I still think it’s odd the Lego model was shown from an angle you practically never see it from, but whatever)…

    From golem.de:

    From YouTube:

    The bb enterprise d came with about 2k pieces for about 200 bucks, so the retail price per piece isn’t even that far off. The dimensions are pretty much the same though (bb coming at 55 cm length, so slightly shorter), so I’ll guess that Lego just keeps its course of avoiding larger plates and pieces to end up using so many more pieces for a model of roughly the same size. I really prefer how bb avoided sharp corners in the saucer section though.

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    Okay, my mistake: the bb enterprise is 55 cm wide, so the Lego one seems to actually be larger as, due to the elliptical saucer, the model is supposed to be wider than long:

    Also, here’s a better bottom view image I found on amazon, for a better comparison:

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    Lego enterprise saucer section seems 60 studs wide. BB Enterprise is a bit harder to count from the images, but I’d say it’s 52. So, yeah, Lego 1701-D is a bit bigger.