The Borg came about when I was very young, so they were incredibly scary to me.

I recall the Tholians from a Game Boy game I had, but they were no big deal. It was when they were featured on Enterprise that they became scary to me. They’re so different and we don’t know a whole lot about them (I haven’t seen any Trek after Enterprise, no spoilers please). That’s what makes them scary to me.

The Tholians are the scariest alien race in the series.

Well I still have to go to work tomorrow, so I guess make sure my alarm is set.

Do you have to use the power so you were still born?

This is true. No one has tried, and it hasn’t been adjudicated. However everyone treats pardons as needing to be backwards-looking.

but doesn’t protect him from anything he may go on to do

The only limitation on the pardon power is that it must be for things that have already happened. It is not possible to pardon someone for things they might do in the future.

I thought Bill Cosby died a year ago.

They thought of that:

It also bans multi-occupancy gender neutral restrooms

I’ve heard that Debbie is the best thing to do in Dallas.

Only because of networking effects. The software itself is suitable, but people don’t mass migrate to another platform until a critical mass has moved there first.

I mostly hate that people don’t use an article before the term or correctly pluralize it. Saying “we want to use blockchain” is like saying “we want to build house”. You want to use a blockchain/use blockchains/use blockchain technology.

I don’t hate the technology itself. I hate what the applications of the technology have brought us.

I would hope that love-based marriages are what we all aspire to. At least in my belief it is. I’m not telling people what they can’t do with their lives. There are plenty of things I disapprove of, but I don’t go around berating people for not living as I would like them to.

The OP sounded like they didn’t like this kind of arrangement for children, possibly for the same reason that I don’t like it. So I was letting them know that I agree and sympathize but at the end of the day their child is an adult and can do whatever they want. It is the parents’ decision with how they will react to things they don’t like their daughter doing.

I agree with many people here that it’s up to her. It’s her life and she’s going to live it how she wants. How you feel about it doesn’t matter. I think what she’s doing is morally objectionable because it turns a relationship that should be about caring and mutual affection and all those flowery concepts and turns it into a financial transaction. He gets companionship and sex and she gets money and not having to work (I assume). But once again, this is her decision.

How do you manage this? You either accept that or you don’t. You get to determine if you want to be part of her life or not. Perhaps this is too much for you. Perhaps not. But your only options are to accept the arrangement or not.

I do not. Not as long as Jimmy Wales is involved with it. I strongly disagree with his objectivist philosophy.

There are certainty worse places to send your money, though.

I say “Jesus, Mary, and Joseph” as an exclamation to this day.

I haven’t done it myself, but I plan to watch a bunch of pre-Hays Code movies from the late 20s and early 30s. Many of these movies are in the public domain and more are entering it for the next few years.

Yes. Me included.

You got to touch a girl’s boobies.

Jesus Christ, dude.

We’ll see if I go back to the mental hospital but I don’t foresee it happening unless work gets really bad again.

I’ve already internalized that this country is populated by shitty, hateful people. Trump winning again just confirms what I already knew.