You can acknowledge that the rapist at a frat party made a mistake

Woah. Stop right there. A mistake is an action taken in error.
Those frat boys deliberately raped that girl. Their actions were not mistakes, they were deliberate criminal acts.
Do not confuse the two. This is the difference between accidentally discharging a firearm and taking aim and firing.

Does it make more sense if it’s presented as

If a woman goes to a party, she won’t be raped unless there’s a rapist there.
This holds true even if she’s on drugs and naked.

Because the drugs aren’t the point

Yeah, uh, not going to criticize you here, but have you tried not missing the point?

And this classic https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093649/

There’s something about him that seems, I don’t know, not quite human?

Absolutely. There are so many ways available to make execution ‘easy’ for the condemned, but the states enacting it seem to look for the most torturous ways they can get away with.

I am generally against the death penalty for exactly these reasons.

I’m pretty sure this whole time the intent has been to maximize suffering while making it look like they are trying to minimize it.

Well, when one considers that the lethal injection drugs are reported to be painful, inconsistent in efficacy, and difficult to obtain, while at the same time fentanyl is ending the lives of long term heroin addicts with high tolerance…I mean, c’mon, if they’re hell bent on injecting stuff why aren’t they hooking them up to a fatal fent dose?

The only reason I can see them continuing to do it the ‘old way’ is the suffering.

I didn’t feel that way about DS9, tbh. Voyager, yeah - but again, it was mostly episodic and you don’t need to watch the shit in order to enjoy the good stuff.

If you skip any Disco episodes then you are missing story and/or character development.

Very cool, this was the result for me, so at least on android it seems to work as advertised.

While I get what you’re saying here,

By the 10th episode,

That’s an ask. That’s a bit over 4 hours, and to me exemplifies one of the biggest problems of modern T.V. - you can’t jump into it where it gets good without missing important stuff.

When I introduced my partner to TNG, we started with season 3, and they LOVED it.

Later on I was doing a rewatch and was part way through season one or two and they sat down on our couch “oh, nextgen. Nice.” And was silent for about 15m and then said “what is this shit and why don’t I remember it?” And later after another early episode and discussion “good thing you didn’t try to get me to watch season 1, I would have noped out of the show before they got good.”

I don’t want to slog through 10 episodes of shit to get to the good stuff…and, for me anyway, discovery would do exactly that over and over. 8 episodes of shit and 2 or 3 good ones…and for me, needing to invest that much time into a show for such a poor reward is very… disenfranchising.

Maybe they need to look at haiku. :-p

I don’t know who is down voting you, but yeah, you’re right, split pea soup doesn’t require blending. Maybe people use whole dried peas instead of split peas blend it?

Yep. Rewatched it, the enterprise ‘wiring’ had to be changed according to the chief engineer, which would take too long… I guess they decided from that point on that they could just flip between those configurations at will. Not that it helped when Frasier Crane left cheers and drove straight into their nacelle.

I seem to recall that the enterprise needed more time to restart the engines and they used Wesley’s concepts to turn the tractor beam into a ‘repulser beam’ to gain a few more seconds from…a comet strike? Or something like that? I’ll check later tonight.

In the naked now didn’t Wesley ‘invent’ the pushing tractor beam?

Yes, I agree. I’m saying that the article posted here provides actual evidence that they already have the tools they need, therefore…

Pentium II introduced the cartridge, then for the P2 celerons they went back to socket 370. P3 offered both slot and socket CPUs.

Yeah, what I’m saying is that this proves there’s no need for chat control. Law enforcement can already get what they want by being sneaky.

Almost. More like they asked to use the bathroom then unlatched the bathroom window, left, and returned later through that window when the homeowner wasn’t paying attention

That’s not MITM done by the signal foundation.