theinspectorst @ theinspectorst @kbin.social

Liberal, Briton, FBPE. Co-mod of [m/neoliberal](http://kbin.social/m/neolib

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Either Ricardo Montalbán or Walter Koenig (I forget which of them used to tell this story) head canons it that Khan had to use the (never seen) Enterprise toilets after Ensign Chekov when he was still a lower decker, and Chekov had used the last of the toilet paper, which is why Khan burnt his face into his memory.

Han is the mahn.

I love that they actually turned this into an episode of It's Always Sunny - it was entirely believable as the sort of scheme the gang would come up with.

My recollection from interviews is that Dan Harmon and the cast found Chevy just didn't get the show at all when they were making it. A huge amount of Community's humour is a mix of meta humour and pop culture references. In the same way that Pierce claimed to never understand what Abed was talking about, Chevy didn't understand most of what Community was on about - his frame of reference for what is funny hadn't moved on in decades.

Even though he's famously a dick, when he says he didn't think Community was funny, he might actually be telling the truth - not just being petty.

I think partly it's a language thing - politicians (who are supposed to represent us all) keep telling 'hard-working families' that they matter, and keep pretty quiet on the rest of us - regardless of what they're actually doing about it.

But the point the article makes too is that being single is disproportionately expensive already - cooking for one costs more than 50% of cooking for two, splitting a car or the deposit for a mortgage between two is cheaper, etc. So a cost-of-living crisis will affect single people disproportionately too - but there's no political recognition of that fact.

Space-faring whale-like creatures are an extremely common science-fiction trope.

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SpaceWhale

So pathetic from India - seeking to punish Canada for the fact that the Indian government murdered a Canadian in Canada, and Canada had the temerity to call them out for it.

What an absurd victim complex Modi has.

Space whales that paid a key plot role in Rebels and now again in Ahsoka? If all you've watched is the Prequel and Sequel movies (not even the OT?!) then there are going to be an awful lot of Star Wars memes you might not get.

'So long and thanks for all the fish!' is what the dolphins say in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, when they leave the Earth and fly off into space, shortly before the Earth's destruction to make way for a hyperspace bypass.

The Purrgil's in Star Wars are also a species of space-faring cetaceans and OP is making a meme linking the two.

Harry and Tuvok, their answers contradicting.

I listed six politically high-profile individuals out of the set of politically high-profile individuals, which is a much smaller set than every person on the planet. If I knew the political views of every human on the planet then of course I would prefer to give you a more comprehensive picture.

I also listed the 16% of Jean-Luc Melenchon's 7.7 million 1st round voters who indicated they were backing Marine Le Pen in the 2nd round of the French presidential election last year - literally leaping direct from the far-left candidate to the far-right candidate in preference over the moderate candidate.

I'm open to your alternative explanation of the observed pattern of horseshoe-jumping: e.g. Russell Brand, George Galloway, Claire Fox, Piers Corbyn, Glenn Greenwald, Naomi Wolf, Melenchon voters backing Le Pen in the 2022 2nd round, etc - regardless of what theory explains the observed facts, there are a disturbing number of examples of it.

He jumped the horseshoe. The fringes of right-wing extremism and left-wing extremism often end up having rather a lot in common - it's easy for people who define themselves against the mainstream first (and only for something second) to find themselves agreeing a lot with people who are notionally at the other end of the spectrum.

In Russell Brand's case, that meant embracing anti-vaxism, Covid denial, climate change denial, 5G conspiracies, etc. George Galloway did it by embracing Farage and trying to get selected as a candidate for the Brexit Party. Claire Fox went from a pro-IRA Revolutionary Communist Party activist and co-publisher of the Living Marxism magazine to a Brexit Party MEP. In the US, you see a lot of notionally right-wing US Republicans now starting to spout anti-capitalist narratives. At the fringes of politics, this sort of horseshoe-jumping happens all the time.

There's an interesting suggestion by Matthew D'Ancona in TNE that Brand's actions of recent years in embracing far-right personalities, promoting a range of online conspiracy theories and building a weird cult of personality around himself are a direct response to the #MeToo movement emerging six years ago - knowing that eventually his own actions would come to light and so he needed to build a 'digital stockade' of useful idiots who would jump to his defence when the time came.

Now THAT'S a conspiracy theory I can buy into...

What a loathsome piece of shit.

Apologies, the most confounding thing. We appear to be shredding.

Merry Christmas to you ... and your house!

Me when Prequel fans lament that the Sequels were awful and ruined Star Wars and it's all the fault of the youth for liking this sort of thing: 'I've heard that before'.

He's Tuvix ... but sexy!

I mean, there is a chart right there in the link... You can see wind was around the 45-50% mark from late morning Monday onwards. That's impressive.