ahhhhh … I really don’t care any more … I’m nice and respectful and open to everyone … I accept everyone no matter race, gender, identity, nationality, background, religion (or non religion) and I do my best to respect everyone for who they are … beyond that, if people give me a hard time to be around them just to give me a hard time or show authority or try to be above me or control me - I really don’t want to be around you.

… or marketing, plain old marketing, advertising and public relations.

You can blast the airwaves with the same message over and over again eventually people just believe it … either because they are lazy, don’t care, it doesn’t immediately matter to them or they just don’t want to be bothered learning the details. It’s the same process of convincing people to either like Coke or Pepsi.

Goebbels and the Nazi party easily mastered it in the 30s … tell a lie, repeat it often enough and eventually it will be come true … if you tell a lie, tell a big lie, the biggest lie you can make and everyone will believe it.

It all boils down to money and marketing … whoever dumps the money into one party, politician, political movement will get the votes eventually and convince everyone of whatever reality they want them to believe.

. . and a few of us get impregnated, violently give birth to new monsters that live off of us hosts and leave us for dead.

I think the relevant question is whether the aliens will fuck us … and whether or not it will be any good.

The latest Star Wars films have million dollar CGI and special effects budgets but all these guys had was a lamp and a plaid blanket and they made a film that was way better.

Get to the bottom … “Son! did you take down the garbage for pickup!?”

Picard and Troy running short of puns

Don’t worry … Princess doesn’t bite.

You are a way more funnier content creator than most professionals I’ve ever seen or read. I laugh or smile even when your comedy fails … which either says something about your comedy or my sense of humour. I don’t know if that is a good thing or bad thing but it still makes me laugh anyway. Regardless, keep up the great work, I’m always a fan and if I ever went into a place with a two drink minimal to hear you perform … I’d spend a couple hundred bucks just to support your show and laugh uncontrollably like a maniac.

As great as this meme format is, I don’t think there are many people left who remember the Karate Kid.

It’s funny because I think Laxana is remembered more than the Karate Kid.

I am a polyp that lives in the gastrointestinal internet tract and I do not want to leave.

More like

Microsoft … I make billions spying
Google … I make billions spying
Apple … I make billions spying

Linux … you guys make money spying?

Company hires eight parrots as project workers because they are all able to say

• ‘we need to move the project deadline back by two weeks’
• ‘get back to me tomorrow’
• ‘can we do a zoom call to discuss this?’
• ‘I’m waiting on material from parrot #5’
• ‘I’m waiting on material from parrot #4’
• ‘Our shipment hasn’t arrived yet’
• ‘What was the project goal again?’
• ‘We need another project manager’

Instead we use a worldwide network of interconnected computers and systems to micromanage everyone’s lives and convince them all that billionaires are good for the economy, infinite money is possible, immigrants are bad, global warming is not real, perpetual war is normal, no one landed on the moon, the earth is flat and nazis are OK.

A baby crying

or

a young woman’s scream

less so would be

a grown man screaming in agony … (something along the lines of saying something like 'OH GOD, MY LEG, MY LEG, OH GOD, GOD NO, MY LEG!!!, OH GOD, HELP ME, MY LEG!!)

There was a lot of people asking questions about the previous war and current wars, including the Vietnam War which was happening at the time.

I think the combination of veterans of Second World War, Korean War and the terrible experiences they had meant that they were more than willing to ask pertinent questions about any war.

For example ‘A Private Little War’, episode 19 from season 2 of TOS which aired in February 1968 is seen as an allegory of the Vietnam War … the powerful federation and the Klingon Empire trying to manipulate and affect control over a weak neutral planet, which then leads to conflict on the once peaceful population.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Private_Little_War

It’s really striking when you realize that the episode aired in February 1968, a month after the Battle of Khe Sanh and the start of The Tet Offensive which all happened in January 1968. Major battles and events were happening in Vietnam and the writers and producers air an episode on Star Trek asking and displaying why two great powers (Soviet Union and the United States) are fighting or starting conflicts in once peaceful places. The episode didn’t provide any answers but it certainly asked a lot of important questions for everyone to think about.

There are a few other examples like this from the TOS series but this episode was one of the most obvious ones.

A SIDE NOTE: … I took two trips to Thailand, once in 1999 and another in 2015. We did a lot of budget travelling when we were younger and stronger in 1999 which meant we stayed in a few shady places, including one little bungalow rental place near Trang in the sound of Thailand. We met a middle aged man who was about 50 at the time but built like a muscular 20 year old and as lean. He was a veteran of the Battle of Khe Sanh and he’s the one that explained to me that the Americans regularly used any Southeast Asian looking person to fight as a Vietnamese soldier. The old guy told us in his broken English how he watched RPGs fly onto their base and how he stayed up for days avoiding these rockets to stay alive.

During that visit to his place in Thailand in 1999 we came back to his place very late one night at around 2am, I can still see him standing at the gate to his place asking forcefully who was there. It was hot and he stood there shirtless shimming in a layer of light sweat over his tough frame and holding a machete ready to fight. Once he knew it was us, he quickly turned into his nice friendly self and helped us into his property again. The man was scary but also one of the kindest people we met on that trip.

Couldn’t get my head around this one

and the greatest lesson I’ve learned about any and all wars and the veterans that were left behind and survived is to always ask ‘why wars were started in the first place’

The biggest humanitarian crime I’ve come to learn is the lessons of the First World War and why that fiasco was even started. The more history you read into that conflict, the more confused and complicated and senseless it becomes.

And those question lead into WWII and the reasons why the second conflict started and how it could have been prevented. Because even as the world watched the fallout and the rise of fascism, no one really did anything to stop it and in many cases, helped to enable it to become the thing that everyone fought against.

The more history you read about every conflict, the more you realize that every conflict is preventable, which leads you to realize that every conflict is senseless.

Which is why I always believe that we have to remember … remember the fallen … but also remember the reason why they fought in the first place … and to remember the reasons and causes so that we never allow this to happen again.