Non-trekkie hearing Trekkies talk: "It doesn't even sound like you like this show."

Trekkies: "It's my favorite thing EVER."

Yeah. We all watched it happen in real time.

IV

You were right to call me out on that. I was mistaken when I said it was Aurora borealis. Your kitchen is on fire.

Would you like to hear a list of the most common kinds of kitchen fires?

I've been training for this moment for decades.

There are such things as mitigating circumstances, but those are supposed to be considered in a COURT OF LAW by a JUDGE. Not by self decree.

To be fair, he doesn't have to go to the office now. And that rat looks pretty tasty...

Corporate control and toxic trolling are completely unrelated problems.

In fact, corporate control used to be one of the primary ways to REDUCE toxic trolling before all the tech platforms went mask off when they realized the political levers are now in the hands of those very trolls.

It's a problem inherent in humanity. The only way to get rid of trolling, self-promotion, and toxicity is to get off the internet altogether.

Unironically needs an actual gallery.

"Sparking a conversation" is a funny way of saying "provide an instruction manual to bad actors."

It's like releasing an unpatched security exploit to "Spark a conversation."

"I don't understand... we threw out all the immigrants who were having more children, and whose children on average try harder, are more innovative, and become more successful on average than their native peers, and we've simultaneously doubled the cost of living and made everyone constantly angry and unpleasant. Why is this problem not fixed?"

tldr;

We're

"Did someone say phage?"

I'd be remiss if I didn't mention this could easily work both ways and someone could talk to THEM.

Boy, do I have bad news about how much carbon is going to be burned when a major asteroid hits.

We WILL get a mini-ice age from the blocking out of the sun though!

You named it GIMP. It's a joke to YOU, too.