Well, I only know of two off the top of my head, but I really doubt they’re the only examples: Irish and Mandarin Chinese.

I think some Irish don’t even habitually use them when speaking English. If you ask them “Are you ok?” they’d answer “I am” or “I am not.”

From what I understand, it was a blanket pardon for anyone who met certain criteria, and this judge just happened to meet them.

What’s going to happen in the long run? Is that part of the country simply going to become uninhabitable? If so, why isn’t the real estate market reflecting that?

(Genuine question)

I found it on Know Your Meme: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/pondering-my-orb

That was my first thought too. What’s this orb pondering business everyone’s on about?

What I usually love about musicals is the variety of songs and subject matters, and with the exception of the Klingon song, the songs all felt the same.

If you liked Norsemen, try Lilyhammer.

There is, or at least was, at least one place catering to your friend’s tastes: https://urnotalone.com/male-maids-serve-it-up-at-japans-first-cross-dressing-maid-cafe/

Edit: More recent article: https://www.tokyoweekender.com/food-and-drink/restaurants-and-bars/boys-magically-become-girls-at-the-maho-ni-kakerarete-crossdressing-bar/

I think it’s fine to acknowledge the unfortunate truth that autistic people have to live in a society designed around the needs of people who are unlike them in important ways. Saying so shouldn’t diminish their responsibility to try to function in society as best they can despite this challenge.

To an extent, it’s a matter of perspective. We can easily conceive of a society where the things that “normal” people do are considered alien and jarring. If they had to constantly suppress their fundamental nature the way autistic people do, they might not seem so natural and healthy.

Henry George wrote about this extensively. The solution is a tax on all land at just under 100% of it’s rental value. That allows landlords to profit from the structures they build and maintain, but not from the land itself. It disincentivizes real estate speculation, lowering the cost of land and housing and improving accessibility to people who use it productively.

They’re written differently, but pronounced the same.

I agree. But there were a few moments where the Ferengi were shown not to behave consistently with the principles they espoused.

They shouldn’t have had any problem with (Edit: Rom) forming a union, for instance. After all, what’s wrong with a little collusion and price-fixing between the sellers of labor?

I guess some hypocrisy is to be expected in any society.

Star Trek: Picard has Picard too…

I vaguely remember seeing a news article about something like that. I think it was a game where killing enemies caused files to be deleted from your computer. It was portrayed as some kind of artistic statement about digital possessions or something.

Someone in the forum where it was being discussed sarcastically said they developed a live action version called “playing baseball inside.”

Yes. If I understand correctly, it’s because the eggs are washed, which strips them of their natural protective coating and causes them to require refrigeration.

My Hero Academia.

My thought was that turning it into an alloy somehow stabilized it.

Nausicans of all species had working temporal technology thousands of years in the past!!!

Is it possible they merely discovered the portal and carved the notice on to it?

So “Horonium” was once so abundant that it was accessible even with Earth’s limited capabilities in the NX-01 era, but somehow it’s now gone from the entire quadrant? Seems like there must be a story there. I wonder if something like The Burn could have come into play (I never watched DISC past the first season, so I’m going off of hearsay of what that was.) Or possibly it was a material somehow created and scattered all throughout the galaxy at once with a limited lifespan. Given that it powers the time portal, maybe it has some weird temporal properties that made it disappear.

Been awhile since I’ve watched it too, but given that Tellarite culture revolves around things we see as rudeness, do we really know for sure that runts are seen as or treated as lesser?