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  1. Comment on Babylon 5 S01E02: "Midnight On The Firing Line" - Episode Discussion in ~tv

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    Interesting I had always thought they were really well done with the selective canon status JMS gave them. But it's been a long time at this point and maybe I'm being overly generous to them

    Interesting I had always thought they were really well done with the selective canon status JMS gave them. But it's been a long time at this point and maybe I'm being overly generous to them

  2. Comment on Babylon 5 S01E02: "Midnight On The Firing Line" - Episode Discussion in ~tv

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    I'd always heard Heinlein. I suspect it's a bit of a myth at this point. Ellison said that Hubbard had said the real money was in religion but who was present and whether there was a bet or...

    I'd always heard Heinlein. I suspect it's a bit of a myth at this point.

    Ellison said that Hubbard had said the real money was in religion but who was present and whether there was a bet or something about actually doing it is all a bit mythologized

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  3. Comment on Nine dead after shooter opens fire at Canadian high school in ~news

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    "somehow" I mean I don't know what they're using but I suspect it's not exactly difficult.

    "somehow"

    I mean I don't know what they're using but I suspect it's not exactly difficult.

    3 votes

  4. Comment on Babylon 5 S01E02: "Midnight On The Firing Line" - Episode Discussion in ~tv

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    Oh I mean I'm not gonna say he wasn't also an asshole. Both things can be true.

    Oh I mean I'm not gonna say he wasn't also an asshole. Both things can be true.

    2 votes

  5. Comment on Babylon 5 S01E02: "Midnight On The Firing Line" - Episode Discussion in ~tv

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    But on B5

    "I recognize the Council has made a decision. But given that it's a stupid-ass decision, I have elected to ignore it"

    But on B5

    4 votes

  6. Comment on Babylon 5 S01E02: "Midnight On The Firing Line" - Episode Discussion in ~tv

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    I love the "oh noooo I left before I could give you orders, oops" Mixed with several twists that make that decision less relevant, it still tells you who Sinclair is.

    I love the "oh noooo I left before I could give you orders, oops"

    Mixed with several twists that make that decision less relevant, it still tells you who Sinclair is.

    3 votes

  7. Comment on Babylon 5 S01E02: "Midnight On The Firing Line" - Episode Discussion in ~tv

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    He's never been considered a congenial guy, but iirc JMS got him to seek help for his MH leading to him being diagnosed with bipolar. So probably he was pretty consistent.

    He's never been considered a congenial guy, but iirc JMS got him to seek help for his MH leading to him being diagnosed with bipolar.

    So probably he was pretty consistent.

    3 votes

  8. Comment on Babylon 5 S01E02: "Midnight On The Firing Line" - Episode Discussion in ~tv

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    I may still be able to quote the entire theme. It's so fun seeing them all so young. I really appreciate Sinclair's contemplative style and Ivanova will grow to be one of my absolute favorite...

    I may still be able to quote the entire theme. It's so fun seeing them all so young. I really appreciate Sinclair's contemplative style and Ivanova will grow to be one of my absolute favorite characters.

    It's very cool to see so many threads set up for future episodes here, not even A plot things, side comments made off handedly that mean so much later.

    Edit: Also "Enhance" (⁠ ⁠´⁠◡⁠‿⁠ゝ⁠◡⁠`⁠)

    Edit again as I got interrupted watching: I forgot how this episode resolved, though I knew the Raiders were involved somehow. But I also forgot Santiago's platform being mentioned this early. Now I want to know more about Marie Crane.

    Did anyone else read the novels? The Psi Corps ones stuck with me but the others were a bit more sporadic (and selectively canon)

    5 votes

  9. Comment on European Parliament votes overwhelmingly for "the full recognition of trans women as women" in ~lgbt

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    May it be a sign of good things to come.

    May it be a sign of good things to come.

    9 votes

  10. Comment on Tell me about your favourite web-based logic puzzles! in ~games

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  12. Comment on Disabled woman put in UK nursing home against her will says she feels 'betrayed' in ~health

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    If the law works as the article says it does, then they clearly didn't follow it. I'm not using the one solicitor's interpretation. I'm using the fact that they treated her as if she had no...

    If the law works as the article says it does, then they clearly didn't follow it. I'm not using the one solicitor's interpretation. I'm using the fact that they treated her as if she had no capacity - they didn't apparently share plans with her, they didn't simply remove her from their premises, they placed her against her will and moved her there.

    If it wasn't about the money, then it was about considering her incompetent and irrelevant as a person. If the law requires her wishes and social needs to be taken into consideration and the nursing agency could provide the care - but weren't even consulted... Yeah no. I'm not British, my partner's system works differently and frankly worse in many ways as round the clock nursing would not be an option here for adults, but the records, that he has full access to, show all of the communication between home nursing and the hospital. It's all documented.

    The NHS shouldn't be underfunded. You're talking about 50k people in the whole country receiving this level of care. There will always be people whose care costs more than others. That just has to be accepted or you're going to run straight into letting disabled people die because their lives are worth less.

    Regardless, turning off someone's wheelchair is like turning off your legs. Like taking away your glasses and demanding you be helped around and helped to read. It's a clear signal of her mistreatment to me.

    7 votes

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  14. Comment on Tell me about your favourite web-based logic puzzles! in ~games

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    Squaredle - I've subscribed for two years now. Daily regular and express puzzles, and harder weekly and member weekly puzzles. It's pretty great and free but the sub is worth it for me. The Daily...

    Squaredle - I've subscribed for two years now. Daily regular and express puzzles, and harder weekly and member weekly puzzles. It's pretty great and free but the sub is worth it for me.

    The Daily Spell a fantasy new headline a day in the form of a drop quote puzzle

    2 votes

  15. Comment on Disabled woman put in UK nursing home against her will says she feels 'betrayed' in ~health

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    Removing someone from the premises isn't the same as taking them to a nursing home against their will. I don't feel any need to be "fair" to the NHS here. Per the article the law was not followed,...

    Removing someone from the premises isn't the same as taking them to a nursing home against their will. I don't feel any need to be "fair" to the NHS here.

    Per the article the law was not followed, no matter how many "sides" are presented. The NHS is explicitly saying it wasn't money and you seem to be saying it is and should be.

    My partner receives home care services rather than being in a nursing home and he'd have died in a nursing home by now, so I'm probably the wrong person to argue that someone's quality of life has to be worth a particular amount of money. If that was true then he didn't deserve the last 20 years of healthcare and I'm not particularly swayed by that.

    15 votes

  16. Comment on Third spaces: What do we want, and how do we get them? in ~life

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    I don't have any opinion on whether you smoke or not? And didn't express one. I was not commenting on you, but on how nothing seems to adequately remove the smell. College students have been...

    I don't have any opinion on whether you smoke or not? And didn't express one. I was not commenting on you, but on how nothing seems to adequately remove the smell. College students have been trying for decades. And they have no idea if it works.

  17. Comment on Disabled woman put in UK nursing home against her will says she feels 'betrayed' in ~health

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    Having your wheelchair turned off and pushed against your will is the equivalent of being forcibly restrained and carried and you have no ability to even struggle. It's all horrific. But that is...

    Having your wheelchair turned off and pushed against your will is the equivalent of being forcibly restrained and carried and you have no ability to even struggle.

    It's all horrific. But that is visceral

    22 votes

  18. Comment on Third spaces: What do we want, and how do we get them? in ~life

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    I don't know, I've been around a lot of cannabis and in my experience people who smoke it don't think they smell like it. This isn't moralizing or anything I just really hate the smell. Cigarettes...

    I don't know, I've been around a lot of cannabis and in my experience people who smoke it don't think they smell like it.

    This isn't moralizing or anything I just really hate the smell. Cigarettes are also pretty bad but far less common indoors these days.

    1 vote

  19. Comment on Fix your hearts or die: The path to liberation for lonely men is feminism in ~life

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    I'd be happy to, but I wasn't targeting incels particularly. This stuff is a spectrum. I have a good sense of what helps individuals, not so much large groups

    I'd be happy to, but I wasn't targeting incels particularly. This stuff is a spectrum. I have a good sense of what helps individuals, not so much large groups

  20. Comment on Fix your hearts or die: The path to liberation for lonely men is feminism in ~life

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    I have not found a message nor messenger that people have found acceptable. And I think that is unlikely to change.

    I have not found a message nor messenger that people have found acceptable. And I think that is unlikely to change.