My oh my. Check out Mr. Optimist over here thinking that they’ll be time to be “historians” in between scavenging for scraps and battling the nuclear mutants for the last bottle of fresh water at the bombed out Tesco.

Flive has flive letters.

I realize I’ll get downvoted to hell for saying it, but IMO anyone who says that non-violence works every time is naive.

The French didn’t gain anything until the guillotines started rolling. America didn’t get their freedom until they started fighting back. British/Portuguese/French Colonialism in Africa didn’t come to an end until the locals started rioting and in some cases flat out starting revolutions.

Anyone who says violence never solved anything hasn’t been paying attention to ANYTHING in history EVER.

It’s Tommy Westphall’s world. We’re just living in it.

Kazinsky probably “killed himself” because he took a look at the world of 2023 and realized that no one listened to a single word he said.

That’s correct. It IS better than it was. And it’s important to KEEP it that way. But in case you haven’t noticed, world history is following pretty much the exact same path beat-for-beat that it did in the lead up to that war that cost 140 million lives.

It’s not whether we are better off than we were in the past. It’s a question of whether or not we’re going to stay that way. Because the next world war might claim a billion or more. (exaggerating for effect of course)

In some ways I think they always were about non-violence. Kagami clearly only resorted to the bombing when they had nothing else to lose. The female leader (Sonia I think her name was) was on that side of things as well, while Roger Cross’ character (I think his name was Travis?) was the militaristic one.

Canadian Sci-Fi starring Roger Cross

That made me laugh out loud because it’s so damn true.

It was a pretty good show that sadly got forgotten. But yes, on my second rewatch recently (In Canada at least it’s also on Tubi for free…) I was immediately with Liber8. They are the protagonists. And I think that was kind of the point of the show by the end.

I too enjoy peyote on occasion.

Well shoot. My regular eye doctor is a cute little thing that I kind of have a crush on, and now all I can picture is her talking about my eye sphincter…

I’ll have none of your witchcraft here, thank-you-very-much.

Out of curiosity, does a different shaped pupil change your vision? I equate a pupil to a camera lens aperture; the smaller it gets, the less light gets through. Have you noticed a difference?

Exactly. This is the good thing about federation. If you don’t like the community you’re in, move to another one that better aligns to your values. No one’s speech is “limited”, but other instances aren’t forced to listen to you unless they want to.

Funny? No.

A good start? You betcha.

Lucid Reading?

I’m fortunate that I don’t struggle with food/weight.

I miss those days.

then I’m so stuffed I feel sick

A lesson I learned too late in life, and will often still ignore is:

“Eat to fuel, not to fill.”

I’m feeling very attacked right now.

What puts me in awe of things like flight isn’t the act itself, but the brilliance of the people who designed it to work. I look at the aerodynamic shape of an airfoil and think “we did that…humans”.