I love the film, but as an adaptation of the comic, it changes things I would have liked to see on screen. This may do that.

a pun worthy of being boiled until soft

Not to say this will be good, but the biggest failures of the film were that it crammed too much material into too little time. If nothing else I'm interested to see this as 4-8 episodes

🎶"They say our love won't pay the rent, so let's sell out, the people can get bent"🎶

they really do look alike, goddamn

This is where I felt S3 finally hit its stride -- it's often silly, and you can tell everyone on screen is having a fun time

If you were any kind of TNG fan, I do recommend Picard season 3 as delicious, wall-to-wall TNG fan service. They get the whole gang back together. Worf and Riker could make a killing in vaudeville

I really enjoyed binging nuTrek : Discovery, Lower Decks, Strange New Worlds, even Picard and Prodigy

I mean, he is a double agent in that he pretends to act for the benefit of human beings, when in fact he's purely an agent of monied interests

Penicillin is a disgrace. Nobody should be transmitting syphilis in the first place!

As we all know, we can calculate the price of clothing and food based solely on the cost of boots. As boot prices increase, so to do food and clothing.

If boots cost half your income, food and clothing would automatically cost the other half. It's just math (it's not, this isn't how it works)

@whstancil.bsky.social If you want to talk about Prosperity as a metric, you have to be willing to talk about what goes into that metric. Otherwise you just seem to be using Prosperity as a synonym for the only metric you did cite - the broad accessibility of deluxe products.

For some people, "there is no ethical consumption under capitalism" is their excuse for why they need never consider (as opposed to permission to continue living when trapped within a capitalist system that runs on exploitation)

Simultaneously the most liberating thing about advanced study, and the thing that massively undermines one's sense of the value of expertise -- when you run out of experts to ask, you're the expert now

Man who once described USAID as "a ball of worms" says Joyce Carol Oates delights in being mean

I buy it. I have to. But I don't pat myself on the back and tell myself it's a sign of a virtuous system.

Do you *like* thinking about the exploited labor who made your cheap imported clothes?

If your only metric is cost to consumer, I guess.

I don't feel super prosperous when I think about how much fuel was burned shipping those clothes from someplace with weak or nonexistent labor laws.

A non-exploitative economy feels like the kind of prosperity worth holding out for.