Well, there’s a bit of a difference between “Doing less murder than you could have done, in return for sexual favours” and “doing your best in a situation where you don’t have all the power”.

But you are right. Treating it like a numbers game lets you justify the evil status quo, and be afraid of rocking the boat. Odo demonstrated that he had grown beyond that in the time-travel episode where we saw all this get explored, and we saw the past he was so mortified about.

Yep. Competition cyclists these days probably just have the special shoes which lock onto the pedals. Dunno if there’s any goth boots that have those.

I’m old, and my dad and granddad were bicycle mechanics, so I grew up with the stirrups.

Hmmm. Beach volleyball? (too perky.) Equestrian? (Horses don’t like the paint smell.) Rugby? (Getting paint all over the other players.) Cycling? (Boots don’t fit in the pedal stirrups.)

Instead of doomscrolling, I read the newspaper. Having to go out and get it was a nice little nudge towards sociability.

I would hang out at a cafe in the city, reading and having coffee, and inevitably, someone I knew would come along and have a chat, maybe get a cuppa, tell me about something crazy, etc. Like a group chat in real life. We would never really organise to meet there, you would just turn up if you felt like it.

The paper itself being curated was good, too, because while it was definitely skewed by its corporate masters, or the inclinations of its editor, the stories had more time to be well-written and well-sourced within those constraints.

With experience, you could read between the lines to infer what wasn’t being said, or know that something was missing and to check by other sources. Since everyone else was reading similar things, you could sometimes talk about the issues in more depth, without having to explain the basic facts.

Oh, and most people agreed on those basic facts.

Also, people were casually racist and sexist and bigoted, and lots of things we care about today were not even acknowledged by the majority as being problems.

A friend of mine got gaybashed (there’s a term you might need to look up, hopefully) and it was like he’d just suffered an accident. People just shook their heads and muttered sympathies, like it was an inevitable result of being gay in public, instead of a brutal fucking hate crime. That sort of thing didn’t even make the news unless the guy died.

Yes, instead of the formerly chud-brained person who changed their mind and did the work to improve, you would rather vote for the current Nazi who is clever enough to hide their nature by not having a tattoo.

You absolute muppet.

That’s a great question though, if you don’t have a technical background.

And it has a logarithm attached. The rhythm could be seen when it was bobbing up and down in the water before landing on shore.

Because if he didn’t, there would be even less justice. But you are right, that was part of how he learned not to embrace order at ALL costs.

Odo does not obey the people in power if they don’t achieve justice.

Ha! I wish it did. Certainly keeps it from getting too bad though.

Hehe. Looks like she hit a nerve.

Owned

I definitely agree that the whole racism thing is absolutely stupid. A whole kingdom of cruelties based on nothing important.

The absence of colour is not a colour.

That said, white people are generally actually various shades of pinky beige, black people are generally various shades of brown, but our language uses colour-based terminology to refer to ethnicity anyway.

Complaining that white is a colour, so whites should be included as coloured people, is kind of silly in that context.

Especially if you remember that the term “coloured people” originated as a way to stop people who had black and white heritage from getting any of the benefits of their whiteness.

It’s fun when I just try to compile it again and it works fine. I’m sure that’s a good sign.

Booooo… well done

Australian desert, though…

Man, misreading this created some disappointment.

Jesus.

Arrr, me fellow hearties!