I’m not going to tell you you’re wrong about having a type of advantage due to size, but I will say in actual fights, unless you’re against someone the size of Halfþor Bjornsson, it won’t matter enough to protect you.

And when it comes to knife fights, one person dies on the spot, the other gets to die on the way to the hospital.

Someone once said “Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth”

Keep attending self-defense classes and learn to kick assailant ass the proper way!

I feel personally attacked.

I’m sorry everyone, I just like commenting and talking to people more than trying to be creative.

Tldr: Long winded way of saying “is he wrong to assume that?”

American here, I can assure you that the majority of the people around me have absolutely no idea about anything involving the UK government.

In the last month I have overheard two separate conversations in different states, asking if the UK has a “president”, and at least one got the answer “no, they have a queen”.

I’m not even sure most Americans are aware the queen died. I’m not sure how they could possibly have missed it, but our country is collectively under a rock, so…

I have heard many people over the years trying to argue US law for things happening in the UK.

I have had to inform a great many people that the UK includes Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland. Most people have been surprised to find out Ireland isn’t united as a single country.

Americans in general are not smart. Even less informed about anything that happens outside the US than I assume most people in the EU know about the US state Ohio.

“Don’t come to me about unaligned phase conduits, mine are aligned as hell.”

Rutherford is an officer after my own heart.

I usually skip s1&2 of tng when I re-watch except a few key episodes.

Some things just don’t click with me, or are just too on-the-nose to take seriously.

TOS is particularly bad when it comes to themes that boil down to “don’t be racist and sexist”, but they’re all a product of the times. And CLEARLY we still have those issues today, but it’s preaching to the choir vibes when I watch them.

I don’t have to like any of the shows, but I do feel I still need to support them, otherwise we might not get more because the corps that own the IP don’t hear enough praise.

I can appreciate that it paved way for more shows while also not caring for it.

With apologies to everyone who loves it, I don’t particularly care for TOS. Yet without it I would have none of my favorite shows.

In fairness, I think everyone involved in both shows realizes they aren’t meant to be the same kind of show. They aren’t meant to be compared.

I enjoy both, and I think I enjoy SNW more as a trek show, but I like lower decks more as a general show. It’s probably just my lowered attention span, but I do like the 20-30m format and more comedic tone of LD. Especially the comedy, since gestures wildly at the world y’know.

I watch them at different times, in different moods.

felt like a space show with Trek slapped on sometimes

So many shows in established IP feel this way because that’s exactly what happens, even if not the original intent.

The Halo TV series was never intended to be Halo until it failed to get picked up as a standalone Sci fi show, and then they replaced names and locations in the same way a 5th grader might use “Find&Replace” to change names in a word document (think Michael Scarn vs Michael Scott). It’s so obvious they wanted to be their own independent thing and shoehorned in all the Halo parts.

Discovery FEELS like they want to make a star trek show, but that they ALSO want to tell their own story. I think every creative wants to leave an impact on things, otherwise why bother trying to tell the same old story that’s been told before? So I’m perfectly okay with each series being a different tone, with different perspectives on things (I like to think inter-series contradictions are simply results of different points of view).

That said, discovery definitely feels like the “Pick Me” kid in the IP. It’s trying too hard to be “different” sometimes, and it clearly wants to be set in a “relevant” time while also being technologically on par with other shows we’ve seen already, two ideas that are incompatible. There’s over a hundred years of difference between discovery and Voyager, which I think was the latest-running series in terms of stardate?

Discovery could have been a lot better, I think, if they had stayed closer to classic trek-type stories, but I’m still glad they tried steering away. You don’t know your limits if you never test them.

Haven’t started season 3 yet, I’m slowly catching up.

It’s not my all-time favorite, but it’s a close tie for 2nd.

In descending order, TNG, DS9/SNW, VOY, Lower Decks, and in no particular order, ENT, TOS, DIS.

I would like to have a pineapple plant just because I think they look neat and it’s cool that they grow such large fruits.

I don’t like pineapple though. Horrible, bitter taste.

I’m sure their wallet appreciates your separation.

I think it’s less “anonymity” and more “person isn’t afraid to suffer the potential immediate consequences of being a Fuckwad and thus says shit they would otherwise keep to themselves”

Fuckwads get brave behind a keyboard since the computer screen won’t punch them in the mouth for being racist.

blatant Russophobia

Lol. Lmao, even.

4,000 hungry children leave us per hour from starvation, while BILLIONS are spent on BOMBS

CREATING DEATH SHOWERS

Wait until you hear about county and city laws.

Fbi can cut local authorities out of federal investigations, but at the state level hes still guilty of murder

Oh, so the US should have claimed Venezuela was US property, then they aren’t playing world police!

“Have you tried turning it off and back on?”

“yes, obviously that was THE FIRST thing I tried”

system uptime 582 days 23:59:12

Random thought just popped into my head for no reason I can think of: if you know someone’s name, and the county they own property in, you can visit their county records (many even have publicly accessible websites) and find the exact plots of land tied to their name!

I managed to track down the former property owner of the place I live now to their new house in another state, since they intentionally hid a bunch of issues from the buyer before the sale that ended up costing nearly half the price of the house and the realtors decided to ignore me when I attempted to get in contact.

All I did was look up “[County I knew remembered they were moving to from overheard conversations during the buying process] county property records” and the rest was super straightforward.

It’s been a hell of a year, huh.