"It's a dangerous thing to mistake speaking without thought for speaking the truth." Fan of #crows, #StarTrek and the #Japanese language, among many other things. Currently posting one frog species per day. If I keep this up, I should be done in about 20 years. My toots are searchable.
@gregorni I'd say there's a difference in meaning. "Remove" = wipe all the software and all associated files off of your system. "Uninstall" = leave user-defined customizations and configurations on the system, so that when you reinstall, your software is customized/configured the same way as before.
Today in Labor History September 19, 1952: The United States barred Charlie Chaplin from re-entering the country after a trip to England. In 1947, his black comedy, Monsieur Verdoux, was released. In the film, he criticized capitalism and its reliance on wars and weapons of mass destruction. The FBI launched a formal investigation of him 1947, after public accusations that he was a communist. Chaplin denied the charges, calling himself a “peace monger.” Nevertheless, he protested the HUAC hearings and the U.S. trials of Communist Party members. Representative John Rankin called Chaplin's presence in Hollywood “detrimental to the moral fabric of America.” Writer George Orwell prepared list of people he believed were communists, which he gave to British intelligence before he died in 1949. The list included Chaplin and Michael Redgrave, as well as Paul Robeson, Katherine Hepburn, John Steinbeck and Orson Welles.
Sarah and Allie slip on some armbands and kick march around the studio… No, I’m not doing this. I refuse to put swastikas on our cartoons and there’s no good jokes to write here about this literal Nazi episode of Star Trek: The Original Series. Listen to this episode, punch a Nazi, and learn from history.
@humanisttrek To comment on this episode's question: I was walking around the city of The Hague in the early 2000s, while Paul Verhoeven was filming the WW2 movie Black Book. I arrived at a square where a big, old building was adorned with huge red nazi flags with swastikas hanging from its facade. That was definitely weird enough that I still remember it today.
@Andy_Scollick The first question any good journalist should ask when talking to a person in a powerful position, speaking on behalf of his or her government, is, "Why are they telling me this?"
And in the case of Russia, I don't think that "Because it's true" is necessarily the only possible answer to that question.
It’s the 1-year Anniversary of Humanist Trek! Allie and Sarah’s bodies are taken over by ancient aliens that may be our great great great grandparents, Dr. Pulaski’s excited to host an alien katra, and Nurse Chapel finally gets Spock inside her. OH MYYY.
@humanisttrek Hey, not to rain on your parade, but I listened to this episode and it sounds like you mis-edited the Booming Voices into the rest of the episode: they constantly overlap with your normal dialogue.
A good lesson in humility: scientists have found evidence that 800,000 years ago, our hominid ancestors were reduced to a mere 1280 breeding pairs worldwide —and stayed like that for 117,000 years. If that’s true, we have come incredibly close to extinction. All of humanity today owes its existence to the survival of those 1300 or so hominids. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abq7487
I've heard a lot of people say we should be better than to mock Trump's weight. Here's the thing: What we're mocking is that he lies about everything, the important and the unimportant, the public and the private. He is incapable of speaking the truth. That's what we're mocking.
@dankennedy_nu It's not inconceivable that Trump (or his PR people) released this ridiculous weight for the express purpose of triggering a response, which can then be debated as being fat shaming or as calling out a lie.All of this distracts from the actual arraignment. To quote Ronald Reagan: "If you're explaining, you're losing."
@dancinyogi I chose Columbo, not only because I don't know Jim Rockford, but also because of the following anecdote: Peter Falk was having lunch with a friend in a big Hollywood cafeteria, full of people. At some point, he started tapping his glass with his fork, as people do when they want to make a speech. The crowd went silent, expecting some announcement from the actor. "Thank you," he said, "I couldn't hear my friend over here with all the noise." Now that's someone I wanna have lunch with.
@tony@OrionKidder I read a fascinating New Yorker article once that explained that even if a homeless addict sells everything in the apartment and trashes the place, that's still cheaper to society than if they were homeless.
The reason: homeless addicts very frequently end up in hospital because they keep getting hit by cars (wandering around at night high as a kite will do that). They have no money, so we jointly foot the bill, which is astronomical.
When Allie and Sarah find themselves on a planet based on a book about 1920’s #Chicago#mobsters the episode encounters way more tangents and accents than usual. What might happen to a culture if a people came along and just dropped off a book? Ask Africa. And Haiti. And…
What's all this about "The other one?" and "Our question?" Listen to find out!
@flexghost I read somewhere that he may be deliberately taunting the judge because she will then be forced to muzzle him, a decision his lawyers can then fight over and appeal up to the Supreme Court, which then stalls the actual case until after the election.
In 100,000 years an alien ship enters our solar system. The earth has no remarkable intelligent life, but it's a beautiful biodiverse planet recovering from some bad extinctions. The aliens don't notice the traces left by humanity right away, this is just a survey trip and not much monumental remains.
But, they do pick up a signal, coming not from Earth, but from Mars. "How strange?" they think. Mars is obviously the inferior planet for life. Earth is incredible. But they go to investigate. 1/
