Because I played Dragon Quest and Zelda, I developed an unfortunate predilection for walking into strangers houses and smashing pots and vases and stuff. Took years of therapy to break that habit. :(

I still can’t even look at a barrel.

More accurate than you might think.

Right. Hexbear is Russian propaganda. Got it.

WTF is up with Hexbear users?

What makes you think that’s likely?

Or wait, are you just Onioning?

Or will you decide which it is later?

“Mothers for America” isn’t.

At first I was like, “Man, the Onion has gone downhill. These stories are supposed to sound both ridiculous and credible, not just ridiculous.” Then I remembered that George Santos is a drag queen.

Is the ban on genetic modification a Federation thing, or is it just a Starfleet thing? They may not be the same thing.

Also, the “divine monarchist” point is a weird one. When asked about it, Jesus asserted that his kingdom is “not of this world”. And when the Israelite demanded of them relief from the anarchy of the period of the Judges in the form of “a king like the nations have”, the response was “don’t you already have an even better one?” Which is what John Locke cited when writing against monarchy as practiced at the time.

When James spoke of helping the poor, he said, “is is not enough to say ‘be warm and well fed’, you must actually give him food and clothing”. He might also have said, “it is not enough to say, ‘be healed!’, you must also pay his medical bill”.

Sometimes search is just buggy. I had the same problem when I first started: couldn’t access certain communities from my instance until one day, I just could, for no particular reason I could see.

How about DS9’s “The Wire”. A powerful story of isolation, suffering, addiction, and the power of friendship coupled with medical professionalism. I have to admit I don’t recall anyone else’s role other than Dr. Bashir’s and Garak’s (and some momentary spots with Quark and some random nurse). I don’t remember what the B plot was.

As I understand it, Beehaw was basically being brigaded by spam accounts on Lemmy.world, and Lemmy doesn’t yet have moderation tools to deal with that kind of issue. If what I read is correct, Beehaw and Lemmy.world both agreed that, for the moment, defederation is the least bad option.