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Yes, the intended target audience is desperate addicts who can be tricked into committing a crime that doesn’t actually benefit them at all.

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TNG’s first season can just be skipped IMO. The first time I watched TNG on streaming, I was… surprised… at the quality of season 1.

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I love character-driven narratives, so DS9 is easily the best Star Trek for me that I’ve seen. I think the only series that I haven’t seen is Lower Decks.

I would claim that Voyager is objectively worse than DS9, though. A big part of it is how many terrible episodes come from each series. With DS9, there are only a few episodes sprinkled here and there that are terrible. With Voyager, it had to be at least 1 out of every 3 episodes that were terrible.

Of course, these two series have completely different standards. Both standards are about whether they deliver an episode that is fulfilling and makes sense.

DS9 is completely serial. A good show has character development and progresses the main plot due to some event or other intrigue that happens. If you don’t like Star Treks where they “boldly stay home”, then all of the Vic Fontaine episodes would be terrible, but Vic was like this perfect tool to try to round out all of the character development at the series end.

On the other hand, a good Voyager episode is a sort of alien of the week. That’s what would make sense, because they were traveling in a straight line home. Yet they nonsensically had all sorts of recurring characters that they came across. Recurring races is fine. In fact, you’d almost expect to have like one or two major races that are the villains per season… but recurring characters? Really??

Voyager could have been the perfection of Roddenberry’s ideal Star Trek. Almost purely episodic. Heroic cast solving problems every episode. They even have the best excuse for taking the ship into the most stupidly dangerous situations. They were desperate for supplies to get home. I don’t know that any Star Trek had such an easy set up. How did they have so many bad episodes??

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So you’ve never seen DS9, then.

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I forget where I heard it from, but somebody said that it’s strange how we believe that if we go back in time and make a small change, it will have a huge effect on the future, but we also believe that making small changes today won’t make any difference in the future.

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That seems like a serious gambit. After all you might be part of the program. Much safer to ask for the arch.

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This one is easy. I would simply do what they tell me to do. After all, since they came back to see me, it’s certainly because the future me sent them back in time.

If it wasn’t me that sent them back in time, then it’s probably a set up, and I would be powerless to resist it.

If they insisted on my ordering them around, I’d have them bring back a copy of their Wikipedia from 50 years in the future, and then I’d try to use the rest of the time to figure out the physics behind time travel, and see if I can’t get plans for a time machine.

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There are few theoretically possible technologies as overwhelmingly powerful as time machines. Even an extraordinarily weak time machine, for example, one that could only move you a few minutes back and forth, would be enough to make me insanely wealthy, assuming that it wasn’t cost prohibitive to run.

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The reason you have a spare is because you might need it in the future.

People seem to think that “spare” means that it’s useless, but it’s exactly the opposite. It’s “spare” because it’s useful to you. So it’s strange that people think you would give something away just because it’s “spare,” because that just means you’d have to acquire another spare for yourself.

Would you give away the spare tire for your car just because somebody asked you for it?

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Vampires can’t cross running water, and they don’t seem to do well on the ocean, either. Their options for meeting dolphins are relatively limited.

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How about 4D Venn diagrams?

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When I read your comment, my monocle popped right off!

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Groundhog Day every February 2nd

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This is top-tier The Far Side content. Everybody seems to remember the stuff with animals acting like humans, but this is the sort of thing that I remember most fondly.

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Still, you’d expect someone who saw it happen to Picard to phrase it better. That’s assuming it’s a direct quote.

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This does look like it was printed on the kumquat. I don’t know whether it’s the case here, but this sort of thing sometimes happens when there is something printed on a bag or the plastic that food is wrapped in, and the ink can get transferred to the food.

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According to my college physics 101 professor, a curved sail is generally superior in all situations. There are sails made out of rigid materials, and they generally are curved, even though they could be flat. Everybody who sails knows that you can adjust the slack in your sail, and that sometimes a tighter sail is better, for example when tacking. You can tell this just from the feel.

Now, then, it’s been a LONG time since my physics 101 class, but the explanation was something like this: Although this is an oversimplification, you can imagine that a sail works when air particles bounce off of it. The momentum imparted to the sail depends not only on the direction that the wind is coming from, but also the direction that it ends up going when it bounces off the sail. A curved sail helps redirect the wind away from the sail in exactly the direction that the sail is pointing, which is better at pushing the vehicle in the correct direction.

Another way to look at this is if it is a pure matter of air pressure. A curved surface will be better at creating air pressure inside the curve. It’s like if you’re driving and you hold something out the window. When you hold a rigid board out of the window, it will be hard to hold in place, but the air pressure won’t build up behind it as much as a sack, for example. If you hold a sack out the window, it will probably just be ripped out of your hands.

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A scarf doesn’t create heat. It only holds it in. So, this comic is even more disturbing than it seems, because Frosty must have an internal source of heat that’s slowly, inevitably melting him away… It’s just occurred to me that this is analogous to the human aging process.

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I wouldn’t be surprised if the increased blood pressure could cause a brain aneurysm to rupture. So, that’s similar to your head exploding.

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pouch protectors

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This is unlike Garak at all. He would never close for the week. What about all his customers?!

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This is less of a joke and more of an illustration of the ending of Moby Dick, except the whale is the wrong color.

logicbomb,

Jokes aside, I wonder what would actually happen if your addiction led to your finding your son’s drugs.

Because usually, an addiction means you’re going to try to hide it. So my guess is you’d pretend you didn’t find drugs rather than out yourself.

logicbomb,

I almost didn’t get it. I guess because of my weird brain, my first reaction was to wonder why the items you find in the shower would be upset that an item not in the shower would think that cartoonists get most of their ideas in the shower. Surely, they’d be proud that they inspired the creativity.

But that’s got nothing to do with the joke.

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If you zoom in on the helmet, you can see a face in there.

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