ApostleO

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[–] ApostleO@startrek.website 6 points 10 months ago

Pretty sure they are referring to average annual temperature. The winters may get colder in some areas, but the summers are getting hotter everywhere, and to a bigger degree. So the average temperature will continue to trend up.

[–] ApostleO@startrek.website 13 points 10 months ago

If the big bang had never occurred, queer.af would never have died.

Ergo: big bang killed queer.af.

QED

[–] ApostleO@startrek.website 36 points 10 months ago (5 children)

They almost certainly picked it just for the joke.

queer.af = Queer AF = Queer as fuck!

It's like how popular the TLD of Guernsey (.gg) is with gaming websites.

I wouldn't be surprised if they didn't even realize what country code the TLD was when they registered it.

[–] ApostleO@startrek.website 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

'we should have separated the people into their own regions'

We should launch all the white supremacists to Mars and see how well they fare building their own civilization.

[–] ApostleO@startrek.website 10 points 10 months ago

If you're proud of limiting the genetic diversity in your lineage, you probably look as weird as some "purebred" dogs (i.e. inbred).

[–] ApostleO@startrek.website 5 points 10 months ago

Dude might be the only person with teeth whom you could punch in the mouth and hit only gums.

[–] ApostleO@startrek.website 6 points 10 months ago

On a tangential note: I propose we ship the top 1% wealthiest people to Mars and make them colonize it.

We can send all the life sentence and death row convicts with them.

[–] ApostleO@startrek.website 6 points 10 months ago

I guess I assumed a sort of corollary.

Starfleet personnel ends up back in time on a Starfleet vessel. We both serve the same organization. My duty is to protect the timeline I come from. Your duty seems, implicitly, to aid a fellow Starfleet officer in their mission (to protect the aforementioned timeline).

It seems like Starfleet should have a dedicated Temporal Security crew on every starship and starbase for such an occasion. You find a supposed time traveler, you immediately call this team. They sequester the intruder and go through a careful interview to verify their claim as cleanly as possible, then render what aid is needed to secure the timeline and get them home (or, barring that possibility, get them somewhere isolated where they can't contaminate the timeline). Then, maybe memory wipe the Temporal Security team (and possibly anyone else who interacted with the traveler). On the flipside, if you end up back in time, it's expected you should immediately attempt to contact the local Temporal Security crew.

[–] ApostleO@startrek.website 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Sure, but what about random crewmen, like in my example? Are they expected to make such a decision?

[–] ApostleO@startrek.website 15 points 10 months ago (1 children)

If God wanted those kids fed, he'd have rained mana from the heavens, or multiplied bread and fish for them. If they are hungry, they clearly deserve it.

[–] ApostleO@startrek.website -1 points 10 months ago

I'd argue that an unconstitutional law is itself illegal, and thus does not render an unconstitutional action legal. That said, I'm sure I'd lose any argument on the constitutionality of the war power granted by Congress to the President.

The truth is, our Constitution was written in a time when the world moved much more slowly. It's unfortunately no longer practical to expect it to work in a world as fast paced as ours is today. We need a full rewrite, but I do not trust anyone to rewrite it.

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