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Guys really, be a little empathic with Donald J. Trump here. He caught COVID-19, lost his job and is about to be evicted from his home... a tragic story if I ever heard one!

We also learn that millennia is both the singular and plural of millennium, and the sphere data has finally merged with the Discovery computer to form the Andromeda AI.

With a name like that he sure is part of the Jewish world conspiracy and an enemy of the people, therefore an enemy of Trump. Which makes no real sense because Trump is supposedly Cyrus the Great reborn, who was decidedly not an enemy of the Jews. Great, now I'm confused.

You mean very exciting sham. If Trump loses then only because Democrats commited massive fraud with mail-in voting!

That you cannot distinguish between them just shows your lack of taste, can you flaunt your pedestrian views some place else? Just kidding. But yeah, cost was the major factor. Dark Matter creator Joseph Mallozzi talked about that after the cancellation a bit while he was desperately trying to find someone else to pick up the show before they had to scrap all the sets. He didn't, so that's that. What's worse is not only that they cancelled Dark Matter, but that it was the best rated (with DVR factored in) SyFy "original" at that point and by every performance metric it should have been Killjoys that got canned.

People are like that sometimes. Back when Take That split up there were 14-year-olds commit suicide over it, writing letters of farewell stating that without them they have no reason to continue living.

No way, it just means Satan won with some heavy voter fraud.

Yeah, uhm. I hear a sound too, but it's certainly not victory.

People latch onto everything that they can which might save their world view when they see it crumbling apart. That's how you get reptoid leaders, microchips in vaccines made by Bill Gates, the mysterious servants of the Coudenhove-Kalergi plan trying to eradicate the white race (like Merkel and Soros, although at least Merkel is ALSO a shapeshifting reptoid), or whatever else floats your fancy. Hollywood people keeping little children in underground bunkers to feed of their life energy, or ancient alien theories. Well, wait, no. Ancient aliens doesn't belong there. They at least try hard. Still ridiculous, but at least they're trying. And they're fun. It's only suspicious when it favors the other side. God-Emperor Cyrus reborn, Great Tangerine in Chief, Donald I of the United States simply must be re-elected else all is lost. I mean who else will bring about the rapture/apocalypse/glorious new age?

Project "Veritas" is as much about the actual truth as Pravda. Not entirely sure why Sky News Australia is even giving... oh, wait. Australia. Yeah, figures.

I just killed The Lich in Enter The Gungeon. Which was kind of surprising to me. I was trying out the Rainbow Run modifier and that worked very much in my favor. Blank Bullets, Vulcan, Ancient Hero's Bandana meant that boss did... absolutely nothing. Just stood there shooting at it. So the next time I get to the boss I'll probably die the miserable death I expected while trying to learn his bullet patterns. And I probably used up all the drop luck this game's ever going to give me. Also managed to unlock the shortcuts, the boss rush mode and the Super Hot Watch.

Is the US running a protection racket in Poland? Otherwise it's good for the economy, those soldiers spend a good deal of money wherever they are stationed - which is why removing US troops was used to threaten Germany (and a lot of US troops are to be moved/rotated out of Germany) and Poland got increased troop numbers as "thanks" for their continuing support. What other problems they might bring, US military bases also bring lots of dollars with them.

You're the king of non-sequitors, aren't you? 's not about selling but about stationing more soldiers in Poland. Do you really think a Biden administration would continue Trump's confrontational course with the other allies of the United States to a point where they'll be using economic pressure through troop rotations whenver the big manbaby doesn't get his way? Yeah, not really. It'll be more subtle, or actually negotiated for. I'm pretty sure Poland will do better with Trump as a partner than with Biden.

We have a saying for that - "Wie der Schelm ist, so denkt er" sometimes said as "Wie der Schelm ist, so denkt er vom Anderen", meaning a crook expects everyone else to be crooked (and act accordingly). He's just projecting. Plus Poland has a vested interest in Trump bein reelected so they can continue to fellate him and expect good returns on that, uhm, investment. That'll be a tad harder to accomplish with a presumably less confrontational Biden administration.

What? The first Tremors at least is a really good, well crafted film. It might be considered a guilty pleasure but it's nowhere in the same ballpark as trash like Sharknado.

I'd give that particular trophy to Goldman-Sachs but yes, the DB isn't that far behind. Much of the very deserved reputation inextricably linked to Josef Ackermann, someone who paid his way to freedom. Should be behind bars somewhere for the rest of his life. Makes me wonder if lynch mobs are really always a bad idea (they are and I'm not really serious). And Bruce wonders why the world doesn't like bankers.

Killed all the pasts in Enter The Gungeon, includig the two unlockable characters. Time to start working on that final stage.

Man, lots of chaos just a few kilometers away. Some sort of terrorist attack that apparently started near or at the headquarters of the Jewish Community of Vienna. Luckily "only" one confirmed dead and several wounded so far. Could have been far worse considering there were automatic weapons involved and a LOT of people were on the streets, a warm night one day before the nightly corona curfew begins and all bars and restaurants have to close. edit: Well, there are two confirmed dead people, but one of them is one of the terrorists, so that doesn't really count. Guy was wearing a suicide vest that didn't go off (or remained unused, who knows).

Wow, that took me a lot longer than I'd care to admit. Not bad, not bad at all.

You could probably hug some of our Greek members in lieu of the real person. It's probably even older than that but the earliest recordings we still have go back to Homer. Have to admit I do prefer the darker variants. Especially when they're just finished and still hot and all creamy. It's not really easy to get your hands on those unless you leave nearby a butcher's shop that sells them fresh out of the boiler, so you can kind of do the next best thing by simply heating them up in water. Similar to this: Don't get me wrong, I also love them roasted with some, well, roasted potatoes and fresh horseradish (and maybe some spicy mustard), but there's something to be said for simply heating them up and enjoying them. Of course they're also great just cold. Man... I'm hungry now. Damn.

My car has three settings (comfort, neutral, sport) for the amount of resistance you want to get from your steering wheel. Unlike the other settings (transmission, "enhanced" or reduced engine noise) you can choose from I never quite understood what that one is for, but I guess I'm beginning to now.

No, I just don't like murderous Antifa and BLM Nazis! R00fles! I mean, yeah, sure sarcasm. Has Volo been gone too long now?

Wait, that's not right. Antifa and BLM murder people every day, not to mention that socialist incited civil war that's been going on in the US.

Anyway, sorry if this turns out to be a double post, but usually posting one of these takes time and there might be a reply or two in the meantime. Discovery S03E03. Again, unmarked spoilers. If anyone actually cares then simply scroll by. The beginning of this episode sums up the entire absurdity of both the show as a whole and the premise of the third season so far in two neat sentences in a dialogue between Beka Valentine, Tyr Anasazi and yeah wait, that falls flat because Stamets isn't really Harper... uhm. So yeah, anyway, Burnham, Stamets and Georgiou have the following exact conversation right after the episode begins. This is not a paraphrase by the way, I'm transcribing verbatim from the episode that's running in my Netflix tab right now. Just for the sake of being entirely accurate. So, yes, well, there you have it. Even the people writing this trash know it is trash and make fun of it. At least I hope that was what it was, because if that wasn't intentional lampshade hanging on the writer's part then they should all be fired. No, scratch that, they should all be fired anyway. As for the rest of the episode, well, the writers exercise their complete inability to gauge distances in space yet again. Discovery flies to Earth because an Admiral Tal sent a message twelve years ago inviting all Federation starships to join him. Discovery jumps to Saturn which is "outside" of Earth's "scanning range" to pretend to have hobbled home after The Burn at sublight speed. So there you have it. Saturn is a planet that's visible from Earth with nothing but the naked eye. A starship appearing in an instant near it would alert Earth immediately (well with an 80 minutes delay) even today, let alone in a future where people have FTL scanners. But nah, Earth's scanning range is so limited that they don't even know that the space pirates they're fighting with launch from Titan and they're all surprised when they find out that Hallig/Todd (actually his character's name in Discovery is Wen), their leader, is human too. Not that I mind, I really enjoy seeing Christopher Heyerdahl no matter where he shows up. Anyway, following The Burn Earth by the looks of it turned into... I don't know. Whatever the Federation turned into in Star Trek Picard, just only with one planet. Oh, and there's a new Wesley on Discovery now. Her* name is Adira and even though she's 16 she's part of an United Earth Defense something task force that's inspecting Discovery. She immediately knows that Stamet's spore drive thing is not what he claims to be and even sabotages Discovery without being noticed. Tilly is positively wired about an engineering wunderkind like that showing up, upstaging her, coz she's super nerdy but boy oh boy is she better than her. In a funny "twist" she's simply a human with a Trill symbiont. Phew. So no, sorry, no wunderkind, just a medical marvel. Well I guess it's a good thing Trill symbionts learned to deal with human hosts in the past one thousand years. Oh, and right, and she's actually human. For a moment I thought she could be J'naii, but that would require some sort of continuity beyond knowing that Trills sometimes have symbionts and that they carry all their previous memories with them and casting a non-binary actor in a (somewhat enforced) unigender species role would probably cause a crapstorm these days. Assuming anyone on Twatter who participates in manurestorms remembers a Star Trek TNG episode from almost two decades ago. *I know that the actor considers themself (theirself?) simply non-binary, but Adira is referred to as her by other Discovery characters. So I'm going ot use that when referring to Adira. On a more funny note I think if Luzianus were still around he'd rejoice, Blu del Barrio looks a bit like his pictures of DA:I's Cassandra. However, this is time at least Discovery tried to be Star Trek in some ways. The setting is ludicrous and the fact that Earth can't scan past Saturn is moronic beyond belief but at least they made peace between the United Earth Directorate Defense and the outpost on Titan. You know, like they're supposed to in a Trek show. Even if Georgiou beats up Hallig and says "diplomacy is so slow" just for some giggles. Actually I'm surprised to be somewhat pleased with how that episode turned out. Surprising. I'm sure they come up with something really stupid next week to alleviate me of that feeling. Because I don't want it.

Dark Matter might be the best trash sci-fi show ever made, and I say that intending it as nothing but a compliment. It certainly scratched the itch left by the more fun Stargate shows or maybe Andromeda. I might be one of the few people who actually liked Universe but for pure, silly sci-fi fun you can't beat SG1 or Atlantis.