Yeah you’re not wrong, but my takeaway is that it’s at least going in the correct direction (haven’t heard any white supremacist stuff but wouldn’t surprise me in that part of the world). When your house is on fire, you care less about who’s the guy with a hose.

Now we just gotta see if things improve through their EU vote and restoration of human rights in Hungary. Then their people need to work towards empowering more left parties. I’m at least somewhat hopeful, especially if it helps Ukraine.

It’s beyond me that any modern democracy would even allow someone be PM/President for 16 years in the first place, and then allow them to run again. For all that’s fucked with America rn, that one they’ve done right (for now).

Damn really needed this right now. That launch teared me up, felt like a shot of hope right to my frontal cortex. Science and exploration really does bring out the best in all of us.

Had the live stream on all day, I jumped up when the clock hit T-0 yelling “fly girl FLY!” Most powerful rocket NASA has launched, I definitely teared up. We need more of this. The possibilities to show what good humanity can do.

Someone not in STEM would say this

So you then? Because anyone who has to work with grants to fund their research knows this isn’t how this works at all. Lmao go back to Reddit.

SLS is mostly designed by Lockeed-Martin and NASA SRC. Boeing was a private contractor too though. This is also the first space toilet we’ve put in a spacecraft and exactly why we’re doing this test flight.

Sim builds + cats, what are you me?! Working on my driving sim mostly right now, but nice setup!

Yeah this. I hardly touch AAA titles anymore besides some Nintendo and Rockstar. But I’ve put in hundreds of hours in indie games, AA simulators, and some big studios’ smaller projects like Square Enix’s HD2D titles.

That T-90 MBT that got taken out by a Bradley just running circles around it and hammering it 100 times was hilarious.

Not really a surprise, people dunk on Kurtzman a lot, but even he’s not stupid enough to allow AI like that to air.

Yeah I agree, there’s still some lingering odd choices from Discovery, but for the most part the ship has been set back to the right course with SNW and Academy.

Even Kahn respects his enemies! These cave dwellers need to fuck off.

Flawless, as always from the Captain.

Unironically I think Tawny Newsome would make a fantastic showrunner. Frakes has taken her on as a sort of protege and she killed it with the witing of the SAM episode.

I started viewing Academy through the lens of a YA show more than a flagship Trek series and that really helped me form a different opinion of it being quite fun. I like that it doesn’t take itself seriously like SNW has mastered and I think Ake and her XO are the best parts of the show for sure. The stressed tf out military Chancellor is pretty hilarious too.

My only real concerns, with most of Kurtzman shows, is the inconsistent writing. Some episodes are fantastic, and you can tell there’s talent in the writing room like SAM’s episode, but I feel like too often a lot of the plots just rely too heavily on who screams the most at each other and odd tangents.

I also just can’t really get behind the fact that the Federation would abandon any of its planets, much less a founding member. That being said, having the capital be on Betazed is totally a Federation move I love it. Bringing back the MACOs really feels forced and an illogical choice for the Federation to do as well. I think it could’ve worked just as easily if they had the rivalry between a more amped up Security and Science/Medical imo.

Despite all that, I’m still very happy to keep watching and enjoying the show. Ultimately I’m kinda glad it takes place in the 32nd century as its kinda a soft version of the alternate Kelvin timeline. I’d really love to see some new post-Dominion War shows imo.

He’s trying his best!

So proud to see the EU flag flying high next to the Italian and Greek flags! Can’t wait for France to host it next, you know they’re gonna dial it up to 11.

In the process of moving to Fr myself (diginomad). As I understand it you don’t even need 1.5x SMIC in savings just prove you earn 1.5x monthly x12. I could be wrong, still trying to work the plans out if you have any resources you can recommend would love to learn more!

The other big aspect to getting your temp long stay (1yr) visa, if you’re not being sponsored by a company, is to prove your income is solely from non-EU companies. Since I’m WFH American business, I basically just need to pay rent+insurance.

Yeah I’m in the process of moving to France as well. Have been planning it before the current state of affairs and for work reasons but things like ICE and the Thought Police EO are expediting things.

Ultimately my family came here from Europe generations ago for better economic opportunities, more freedom, and virtually every one of us have served our country in some compacity. I no longer see anything on the list that is true anymore. Europe, and France, have their own problems but in the next 60-100 years they seem much more stable and democratic than the US.

I’m contemplating just going on our 90d visa, WFH with my American business, and simply renewing until I get a 1y long-term visa (which you can renew every year with proof of income and NOT working for a EU company). A lot of people on r/digitalnomad and r/getout do a variation of this in Fr.

If things get worse I genuinely think seeking political asylum may be on the table for some people. But I make enough money to not really consider that.

Yeah it’s all a smokescreen. They’ll just shrug it off for their dear leader like everything else. Anyone left supporting Trump are traitors and already quadruple doubled down on his lies and are not the type to admit they’re wrong. It’s just the latest carrot for the Dems to chase while he robs our country.