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Cake day: July 15th, 2023

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  • Loved the idea of it. The execution left something to be desired.

    Would have loved to see miles, Dax, and Worf pull something like the Delta flyer, only to become the Defiant, though.

    But really only as long as Miles gets to weaponize the transporter.

    (I wonder how many torps a cargo transporter could drop off just outside the hull. Imagine dumping entire holds of the things only to replicated them again. Especially doing so from cloak.)

    (I can hear the naysayers being like “but thebtorpedos wouldn’t have a starting velocity!”… ask how people get transported onto planets without going splat into the nearest vertical surface.)


  • Why do they gotta turn the plane around?

    FTA:

    However, moments before departure, the flight’s crew discovered that the woman had died. The aircraft was forced to return before it had even departed the tarmac, with the journey from Spain to Gatwick eventually postponed by 12 hours. Travellers claimed the dead woman had been taken to towards the rear of the aircraft in a wheelchair before she was hoisted into her seat with assistance from five family members.

    so. first off, the plane had never taken off by the time they had found her dead.

    Even then, the flight was from Spain to the UK, so jurisdiction matters. if she died on the plane (which is what Easyjet says) she still died in spanish territory. And if she died before they boarded… well… that’s probably something they want to look into.










  • Fourteenth amendment’s equal protection clause says “no person shall be denied equal protection”, not “no citizen”

    the same distinction is made in the fifth, “no person shall be deprived of life, liberty or property without the due process of law”

    The constitution is actually quite clear.

    Edit to clarify: the SCROTUS is definitely going to come up with some reason to explain why words do not mean what they mean, but both trump’s actions and siding with him like that are in fact impeachable.