Loomer isn’t the worst person.

But she’s probably giving the worst person blowjobs.

He’s the kind of monster that takes his well done steak and slathers it in ketchup.

Well done is one thing. But ketchup?!

The port nacelle is the grow, obviously.

Lots of “interesting” botanical specimens.

I thought the popemobile was supposed to be white.

Its got the dorkiness for it, though, and the kitty probably would make an excellent pope.

that thing is hideous, and it’s only real resemblance to trump is that look of abject stupidity.

My headcannon is that you can, in fact, go in the nacelles while they’re operating, and be perfectly safe, but starleet’s corps of engineers tells everyone else that the radiation would kill them so they can have their own, private little space. Like a secret engineers club. (but also, they can transport guests in and have parties without fear of somebody crashing it.)

the replicator in that space lacks the controls to prevent people from fabricating things that are of dubious legality. Like weed, which ordinarily wouldn’t be a problem, except Blazin Bev is a world class stoner; and that forced Picard to order it onto the forbiden list. the killjoy.

you have to get Bev really, really blazed for that to happen.

And to be clear, she’s the reason the replicators on the ship can’t make a good blunt. Except in engineering, and that’s just because they “accidentally forgot” to lock out one replicator in the auxillary engineering workshop on the starboard nacelle.

If you’re thinking, “HEY, but the nacelles can’t be manned during operation…”… That’s exactly what the engineers want you to believe.

well, if you come across the puppet master, let him know that his puppets suck.

somehow, i think we’re well past the iran-contra affair level of scandal. We have 2-3 contitutional criss including a present using money without proper oversight; different but the same. We also have a president providing things to a heavily sanctioned antagonist nation (russia,)

oh and he’s doing the broke-dick nazis thing.

I’m curious what you would consider a “big enough scandal”.

they’re talking about sub-o cargo things, yes. But the only thing you need that kind of global delivery window, and don’t want to keep, you know, mostly discrete… all make really big explosions.

the launch vehicle could just as easily be used as a ballistic missile of any sort as a cargo thingy.

But again, we have Best-in-Class military logistics; and we have bases all over the world staged with teams ready to go. any conceivable thing that would need a 90-minute response is so niche, it’d probably never actually get used. the cost of just a single launch vehicle is probably a fairly large chunk of the operating costs for those bases; and those methods of deployment don’t come with the added issue of being really freaking obvious.

Obligatory unneccessary censorship

Gotta laugh at something, right?

Anyhow fuck the assholes that are threatend by Big Bird.

Nope. Stegal is busy.

I wonder how many Russian troops got saved by judo chopping a drone?

Honest answer? Nukes.

Or rods from god.

But the system doesn’t chill in orbit- it launches on Sub-O trajectories to get the cargo or payload in place quickly.

The problem is it’s only slightly more subtle than a nuke in the face, costs ridiculous per launch, has extremely limited capacity, and is only a few hours faster than say, Mach 6 (aka hypersonic.)

We already have a best in class logistical system that makes either of the hypersonic or sub-o systems… extremely niche.

WH should cut it’s losses and fire Kegseth already. Dude’s an embarrassment to whatever species of slime mold he devolved from.

Did he install it himself?

Like. Did download it and deploy it on the wrong computer?

“what was kiwifarm”, basically.

He approves stuff. So I am at a loss to understand how he can fuck it up so badly and at such a basic level. Even if he is partying all day and all night, if he doesn’t give two shits, shouldn’t he rubber stamp shit?

the budget request is probably collecting dust in his in-box while he’s multiplexing online poker tables. or raid shadow legends. he looks like the kind of guy that plays raid.

He’s also seriously infuriating certain congress people who… would really love him to do his fucking job and get the budget request in.

Ritchie Torres is a democrat US representative from new york, whose been on the wrong side of genocide since Oct 7th kicked off the current bullshit, Kehlani is a nonbinary pop singer whose been very vocal about supporting palestinians and calling out israel for the genocide that Torres seems to support.

I don’t know if Kehlani supports hamas, but she’s made statements that, uh, certainly could be interpreted that way. (or, just general support for palestine more broadly.)

either way, it’s probably worth pointing out that Torres is one of the top recipients of AIPAC contributions in 2023.

Context?