JungleJim @ JungleJim @sh.itjust.works

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Well okay, but nobody was saying cops should get a pass, or that we like cops. This thread isn't about cops.

Oh that's an accent? Sorry, thought it was meth jaw.

Most.

Yeah, yesterday the comment was negative because people thought it endorsed animal abuse. I was clarifying it was a quote. Thanks for the backup.

Well yeah, duh. But that doesn't mean we stop trying to do better. People are saying "do the right thing", and you're saying "people already fucked up though" like it's some sort of, I don't know, excuse to not care about doing the right thing this time. Maybe, just maybe, if we can prove even the highest level crooks go to jail, we can shake the idea that "In America that there's no point in doing anything because it's already shit.".

I'm not saying let the fucker free. Lock him up til he dies. Prison rations. Solitary confinement. But if we torture, and excuse it because THIS TIME WE'RE SURE, and "it must be alright because the bad guys also tortured", then we've only made a more torturous union.

If I had meme skills I'd make a Simpsons "Don't make me tap the sign" macro, and the sign would have the cruel and unusual punishments clause on it.

Hey everyone I think it's a Futurama quote. Stand down red alert.

Actually that was a personal priority. My uncle works for Nintendo Power and he said they did it just to annoy you specifically, Stephen01King.

Nintendo has the money to build any hardware they like. It's an artistic priority, not a financial constraint.

Well good. Those companies deserve to fail if their business model can't support itself without abusing people.

Companies often do stupid shady things for short term profits at the cost of long term stability.

Aha! I thought it must be a romhack or something. But oh man, yes! I'd play the heck out of such a thing. Thanks for responding

Well I love your combination of humor with deeper lore appreciation. It makes it fun for newbies like myself.

I see what you mean, and I wish we could have had more Neelix, as I really do like him as a character, more than even Tuvix (why couldn't Janeway just transporter clone Tuvix and then disassemble one?). I just personally think it'd be having our cake and eating it too in order to both put his character arc at a conclusion or resting point, and get to see him with Voyager to the last moment.

Neelix was always a wanderer, and since his planet was assaulted and his people genocidally attacked to the point of a thin diaspora, he was really adrift. Kes's kindness and love (as weird as it is) cracked his shell enough for him to be able to try trusting Voyager when he first meets it. Voyager teaches him to open up. Kes leaving teaches him to let go. Learning to let go let's him process the tragedy of the loss of his family. Through the strength of self he's gained on Voyager, through learning to love and nurture Naomi Wildman and to serve as part of the crew, Neelix has become a whole person again, but not without scars. When he met a holdout group of Talaxians with no real leadership, he saw an echo of the family and culture he'd lost before Voyager. It wasn't that he felt Voyager no longer needed him, he was still very worried about that and as you said, they needed their chef, and morale officer. But those Talaxians would probably die without his help.

That's what Starfleet taught Neelix; that in order to save his new friends, he has to make them his family. In order to save his new family, he has to say goodbye to family one who helped heal him. The crew's reaction wasn't one of indifference to his departure. It was one of acceptance, and letting Neelix know it was okay to accept this new responsibility to his new family. That despite their love for him, the needs of the many outweighed the needs of the few. Or the one.

If I'm understanding you correctly, Neelix is in 2 of the last 3 episodes. He has a starring role in one, a guest appearance in one, and isn't in the finale. That seems pretty "included" to me up til the very end. If Neelix had been included in the finale I can't see how it would have been much more than another cameo, perhaps waving goodbye to the ship over subspace as it dove into the transwarp conduit.

Also, I like your memes; I see your content a lot. Thanks for contributing so much.

What is this Zelda TTRPG thing I'm looking at? I wanna play it.

This is my new favorite critique of capitalism.

If that's a paradox, you have better friends than I do.

You know can toast bread with any source of dry heat though? You don't need a toaster. Use a solar oven if you like, or a camp fire, or wait for lightning to hit a tree, or a lava flow, or a regular stove.

Growing all that wheat takes acres of native prairie and turns it into a tilled monoculture devoid of soil life, turning a carbon sink into a net increase in atmospheric carbon. The bread is the issue; Grow cassava and beat it into a paste, then dry that in the sun. There's your bread. Don't make it hot twice though, toast is bad.

To address the flooding but, I've heard the idea (nope, I don't have a source) that some of the ancient structures along the Nile may have been built with the assistance of dug canals that would have allowed barges to move right up to the job site. That could have been. Why the sphinx had wet feet, it was built in a puddle.