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According to Lower Decks, the replicators accessible to the junior officers have fewer (and worse?) recipes than the ones for the senior officers.

Vulcan cooks are probably a bad bet if you're looking for something spicy.

Yet another way the education system has failed that Trump voter: it's not "slander" if it's true.

It’s overused. It’s used by some as a blanket insult for someone or something they disagree with.

But it's really not, though. It's used a lot nowadays because the people the term gets applied to keep doing more and more fascist shit!

(Okay, I'll sort of agree that it's "overused" by people on the right -- but that's not because they're confused about what it means; it's because they're deliberately trying to destroy the meaning of the term to deflect from their actual fascist behavior. In fact, arguments like yours only help them do that, so it's time you quit talking now.)

Part of me wishes I hadn't already changed careers before finding out about Strong Towns.

It's because practicing engineers (as opposed to road safety researchers, who are silo'd in academia) are obsessed with Level Of Service (LOS) for cars to the exclusion of all other concerns. Cyclists and pedestrians are a joke to them, whose safety is to be afforded lip service, at best.

Traffic engineers are people who would demolish a thriving main street to build a six-lane 55mph highway and have the utter gall to call it an "improvement." The entire industry is fundamentally fucked up, working from incorrect premises to achieve incorrect goals.

(Source: I used to work as a traffic engineer.)

First of all, it's so overused by hyperventilating gaming-chair leftists that it's lost its rhetorical effect

Except it's not, and never was. Leftists were correct to have been calling Trump "fascist" since a decade ago; his more recent actions have proven it. The fact that "centrists" are slow on the uptake is hardly the left's fault!

so they’ll believe anything they are told.

Except the truth, for some reason.

He sleeps with Mein Kampf next to his bed.

Not Mein Kampf, but rather My New Order, which is a collection of Hitler's speeches. Trump is a fan of Hitler's propaganda and rhetoric specifically.

First of all, capturing CO~2~ out of the air is incredibly inefficient compared to simply not emitting it in the first place. It should be only the last resort after we've completely ceased using all fossil fuels and found that it still isn't enough.

Second, I wonder how much greenhouse gas the manufacturing of this material emits?

I vary between calling it "sealioning" and "JAQing off" depending on how polite I feel like being.