He’s telling people in the room about everything about buying oceans, what it mean, how great it is, he has all the evidence in this computer, he’s reading all this great stuff about buying oceans, he’ll get China to pay for it, yadda, yadda … and the computer hasn’t even been turned on or plugged into anything.

No … if people want to watch it live go ahead … if not they can read the news story.

I just thought it was a significant world news story of a fairly good person who was able to have some international influence and use it for good causes … a type of individual that we are sorely lacking in the world these days.

Thanks for that … like I mentioned to friends and associates in public and online … I thought it was just important to highlight the event as he was US President, and also most long lived US President at 100 years of age … and the fact that after his retirement, he did so much international aide organization work, either to support or to just lend his name and personality to it.

It’s becoming a rare thing to see a world leader honestly, publicly and through their own actions actually join in and take part in grass roots organizations and even get down and dirty to the point of working at an actual construction site, not just for a single photo op but on a regular basis whether cameras were rolling or not.

Rotated it and all I could see was this …

Fascism is on the match. The problem is not that they are on the move. The problem is that many of us just join the march but caring about what we are doing … or not doing.

And no I’m not calling for revolution… I’m just calling out everyone that participates in corporate social media and wonder why they are encouraging the spreading of lies and propaganda

It had everything to do with human greed.

As long as there is the suggestion or possibility, no matter how remote that anyone of us can become enormously wealthy, we won’t want to change the system.

(I’m having trouble responding to this post because my Lemmy instance at Lemmy.ca has been having problems for the past few days)

Thanks to people like you and everyone at c/tenforward for giving me the motivation and enthusiasm to get back into Star Trek. It’s people like yourself and especially @Stamets@lemmy.world that really got me back into Star Trek. @Stamets@lemmy.world was probably the first person I chatted with on Lemmy when I first got on this social media platform and he has always guided me to the right people and places which led me here to c/tenforward.

I watched Star Trek many times over the years but it was always a lonely experience. I’ve never known a group of people in real life in my circle of friends who enjoyed Star Trek. My wife is partial to it and only enjoys watching The Original Series and dismisses all the others. It’s fun to relive and rewatch these episodes because many of them are truly wonderful writing and acting. This episode of DS9 was particularly outstanding. I was thrown for a complete loop when everything blasted back to 1950 and again caught off guard when they introduced all the characters. I thought at first it was weird that they brought in new actors but then realized who they all were. The intro scene with the sidewalk paper boy had me totally confused, I knew the voice, I knew the character but didn’t realize until later who it was. The same for all the other alien characters. It was also thrilling to see Marc Alaimo and Jeffrey Combs - I really loved hating those two and its part of what makes the series so memorable. The only character I really missed in this episode was Garak (Andrew Robinson).

It is a really enjoyable show and it’s made even more fun because I’m able to share the experience with people like yourself and this online community at c/tenforward

I don’t know if I’ll live long (I hope I do) … but I’m definitely prospering.

Meegwetch Mina Doodem … it means ‘Thanks again my friend’ in my Native Ojbway/Cree language

Trust me the beginning is not easy … I think I started and stopped watching DS9 about five or six times over the years. I started it again last summer and the first season is a bit of slog, second season felt a lot better and by three and four, I was looking forward to it all. Once you get past those first few episodes, there are some definite jewels to see and you get to enjoy all the major cast members and characters that are part of the show. At times, the good guys become the bad and even the bad guys become the good and sometimes you can’t tell which makes you realize that this is what life and society is all about. You get to love the protagonists and you even grow to enjoy and appreciate the antagonists because there is so much great writing and acting in the series.

Reading up on the episode and learning about the writers and actors as I keep watching the series.

This documentary you mentioned will be added to my list to watch now … unfortunately, it doesn’t seem to be readily available in Canada. I’ll have to find other ways or sources to be able to watch it.

Shows like this are special, not because we get to watch them … but the way we share them with others and get to know that there are many people out in the world who share the same views and ideas.

Seeing Jake as a fast talking cool cat with a pencil moustache and slick hair in the 1950s was one of many highlights

I was a bit saddened at the thought that there could be a point in my life where I would have watched all of Star Trek … but I’m realizing as I get older that my memory is fading. I sometimes rewatch some episodes of TNG, which I watched years ago and once enough time passes, it feels like watching them again for the first time. So my failing memory is making me happy to know that I’ll probably be watching Star Trek for the rest of my life.

Or being able to hide an alien in plain sight and calling it a Chicken Lady

TIL Kids In The Hall doesn’t take place on earth in Toronto, Ontario, Canada … it takes place on an alien planet that is part of the Federation. This explains so much.

Loved Dangerfield … in my mind’s eye, his character is like a marker in time for me now … are we dating ourselves?

That slight tilt does seem to throw things out of balance …

It feels shitty and I was doing the same thing all day. I had to resurrect my lemmy.world account just to get back online. It’s made me realize that I should maintain both accounts for shut downs like this. And now I’m also having to do more in maintaining my Mastodon account too.

Always loved that easy way to identify DS9/Terok Nor and Empok Nor

Weird to think what happens when you lose a site you visit on a regular basis. I can understand the whole instance going down but us users just get lost when things get turned off. There’s no way to know what happened, why or when or if anything will return.

I had to resurrect my old lemmy.world account to figure out what happened. I guess we have to hang on to two or more unique instance accounts in case our main instance goes down.

Stay well guys and I totally appreciate the admins of lemmy.ca and all the work they do. I’ll patiently wait and look forward to seeing it online again.