Doesn't the holodeck have a panel that displays if there's a program running? Anyone walking by can see it's running program PicardTotallyNotHiding01.

I'm surprised it didn't just have google's DNS hardcoded to bypass your pihole.

Things can burn up and down at the same time.

waifuarts took me way too long to read

wai fuarts - unknown flatulence?

wai f u arts - unknown anger at art

waif u arts - spouse, you do the art

waifu arts - oh, ok. that makes more sense I guess.

That's the jacket they put on her to hide the actress' pregnancy. I don't think she ever inserts or retrieves anything from the pocket.

Everyone always forgets Virginaska

That was actually mountain dew (though mountain dew is owned by pepsi)

This is what they do instead. The long term agreement discount encourages people to stay subscribed rather than discouraging people from (re)starting a subscription.

It's kind of a problem that they own the stock. It's not the people that own the ETFs or mutual funds that get to vote with the shares. Instead, a company gets to amass that power using other people's money.

I don't know what a good solution is, but it's very much a problem.

The money isn't owed to universities. They already got theirs. The money is owed to banks. Banks will always get theirs one way or another.

What a terrible analogy. Cannibalism can be, arguably, justified. Starving people will do things to survive. I don't really care what happens to my body after I die and don't hold dead bodies to be especially sacred. I can consent to being eaten after I die.

There's no argument, no circumstances, no valid logic that can say rape is ok.

“It comes from a very ancient democracy, you see..."

"You mean, it comes from a world of lizards?"

"No," said Ford, who by this time was a little more rational and coherent than he had been, having finally had the coffee forced down him, "nothing so simple. Nothing anything like so straightforward. On its world, the people are people. The leaders are lizards. The people hate the lizards and the lizards rule the people."

"Odd," said Arthur, "I thought you said it was a democracy."

"I did," said Ford. "It is."

"So," said Arthur, hoping he wasn't sounding ridiculously obtuse, "why don't people get rid of the lizards?"

"It honestly doesn't occur to them," said Ford. "They've all got the vote, so they all pretty much assume that the government they've voted in more or less approximates to the government they want."

"You mean they actually vote for the lizards?"

"Oh yes," said Ford with a shrug, "of course."

"But," said Arthur, going for the big one again, "why?"

"Because if they didn't vote for a lizard," said Ford, "the wrong lizard might get in. Got any gin?"

"What?"

"I said," said Ford, with an increasing air of urgency creeping into his voice, "have you got any gin?"

"I'll look. Tell me about the lizards."

Ford shrugged again.

"Some people say that the lizards are the best thing that ever happenned to them," he said. "They're completely wrong of course, completely and utterly wrong, but someone's got to say it."

"But that's terrible," said Arthur.

"Listen, bud," said Ford, "if I had one Altairian dollar for every time I heard one bit of the Universe look at another bit of the Universe and say 'That's terrible' I wouldn't be sitting here like a lemon looking for a gin.”

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