double-plus good.

I'm hearing he stiffed a lot of people.

Shocking, I know.

With a 15+% spread.

which is why Musk is looking so fucking sour all of a sudden.

Exactly.

It was a monumental fuck up and everyone knows it.

Sometimes you need to take a few lumps, so you take them from some one you trust. Some one who isn’t trying to drive their fists through the back of your skull with all the strength they can.

No…. You get some one who can slip in some excuses, set up the “it wasn’t so bad” while also framing the “criticism” that’s weak and half assed as “fair minded” or “honest”

This is why people take interviews with people they know will grill them, but also in a way that lets them retcon the narrative- after a large enough fuck up, you’re no longer talking about hiding it or getting away from it. It’s all mitigation and minimization.

well it became pretty clear that nobody wants him as pres, so.... might as well flip sides, right? Greasy bastard has also pulled on asswipes like Bannon to his podcast, too.

No he’s not. He’s actively helping the admin.

By pushing it as a simple, innocent mistake. That’s the party line. They’re assholes who thought they were the smartest in the room and wouldn’t get caught.

Now that they got caught, they really can’t deny it, so “it wasn’t that bad”, is the party line.

They fucked up, “but it was just a mistake, honest”

Fucking Rogan is a propagandist for trump.

what's the matter? did he make you look stoopid for not reading your favorite (and probably only,) book- Green Eggs and Ham??

Depends. If it’s me we’re talking about…. Nope.

But if it’s some asshole douchenozzle that’s forcing them to be a fake online girlfriend….. I’m okay with that guy not existing.

Be fair. We inherited most of that mess from the French.

You're looking at the back of the head; the shaver is above their ear.

Geordi has hair. Whoever this is... doesn't have hair.

I'm familiar with the scene where geordi is shaving (his chin IIRC,) and data asks why he's not using the razor he tuned up for him for the optimal close shave, and La Forge replies (basically) that perfectly tuned things aren't always the best. (in this case because a close shave is... uncomfortable.)

edit: that scene is eluding, me, probably because it's in code of honor... but, the memory alpha page on Shaving has this same photo tagged as sisko.

Assuming you’re vaccinated…. You’re more than welcome here.

Hell? Even if you’re not, we can take care of that. If you want.

NCC1764 was neither particularly tough, nor, uh, particularly little.

So. Like. I love the defiant. It’s one of my favorite fed ships. It’s unabashedly designed for a purpose that Star fleet still does not want to admit they fill the role of.

It’s simple, spartan, and densely packed.

What it is not, however, is built by an engineer.

Any half-decent engineer with access to replicator tech would have designed the ship to at least be able to spit out its own parts.

(And probably, just maybe, to self-repair itself. Possibly using a singularity core for a power source so all it is now is a question of mass.)

Also, can we mention the seatbelts? And surge protection?

Bashir: “Oh look. Seatbelts. It only took them a decade to read my analysis of shipboardninjuries….”

<Sisko Glare>

O’Brien: “look, don’t blame us. Every prototype, seatbelts come standard. But apparently ensigns are less expensive because they remove them to keep the cost down.”

<Sisko’s glare changes to miles>

Bashir: “what?! That’s barbaric!”

O’Brien: “Don’t even get me started on surge protection circuits for the eps conduits!”

Musk’s net worth dropped $121 billion.

So... does this make him not the richest guy yet?

long walk off a short pier. Preferably someplace with sharks.

But, uh, the nazis stuff is fake, amirite?

I don't think you can copyright a color, per se. You can trademark certain uses of color in certain schemes. For example, the walmart smiley is trademarked, but they can't go after people just using a yellow smiley. or like, Checker Cabs, with their yellow and black livery. (as mentioned elsewhere, the pantone colorset is trademarked.

Further, you can get patents for pigments- specifically, their production methods, and how they get bound into a solvent or whatever. For an example here- Vanta Black. If someone were to get their hands on some second hand, the people that make it can't stop them from using it, but they could go after another company producing it the same way they do.

Copyright protections are for works of art (or other works, eh.), and while there are plenty of monochrome works, part of what makes "art" ... "art" is composition. For example, in the sampling of monochrome, that first one is a blue panel set inside a white frame. Others, you see the single color is composed of texture. (the Yves Klien painting, for example.) Or, like Gerhard Ricther's solid gray which was expressly intended to convey... nothing (A lack of emotion or feeling, etc.)

But all of these are more than just the color they're painted in.

“Well, Aktually…. You’re right…..”

Basically how I read that.

Only matter of time before we get our rainbow-glitter cat.

No shit, fuckers.