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Great shot! Is it me, or does it have an expression reminiscent of Chicken of Chickenthoughts?

Looks like a wasp pretending to be a fly, really. Might just be the Beedrill shape it kind of has.

Just giving my opinion, but I did not care for the Orville. I'm a big fan of wonderment and adventure in Star Trek, with a healthy dose of exploration and philosophical consideration. In my experience, Orville spent all of its time on trying to be Star Trek: The Snark Generation and trying to make Seth MacFarlane look like a cool space captain. I think around the third or fourth time MacFarlane had said something incredibly offensive to the person he was meant to be diplomatically engaging with, but since he said it in his quick Family Guy aside voice it was apparently okay, that I got pretty tired of the show. It was way too much of a badly written ego trip for MacFarlane and not nearly enough science fiction fun. I was left feeling like the Orville was what would happen if Brian from Family Guy tried to write Star Trek, that it was more of mockery of science fiction than a positive addition, and I never went back.

In my further opinion, Lower Decks, meanwhile, is knocking it out of the park. I've heard a lot of good things about Strange Worlds as well, though I haven't had opportunity to check it out yet.

EDIT: Yeah, I figured this would happen. Hooray the internet.

For a moment, I thought this was a cryptid instance and briefly wondered what level of crazy believes that Bigfoot will put you in the ground if you don't believe in him.

Man, I had such high hopes for Anthony Mackie. He's been great in everything else. Can't out-act bad writing, though.

It was a common mentality there, which was amazing to me, considering it was a union job. But it turned out that was part of the problem, since unions guarantee overtime allowances.

I eventually realized it was because quite a few people were determined to take as much overtime as possible out of pure greed. They seemed to often believe they were somehow getting one over on management by working overtime. They didn't really need the money, and they truly didn't care about how little time they spent living their lives versus working. Getting two hours of time and a half meant more to them than any evening spent at home.

There were those that needed to pay their bills, but they were rare and completely overshadowed by the greedy. The majority of overtimers just wanted more money and less time at home.

The truth was most of the greedy were committing massive time clock fraud during their overtime and were relying on one another to keep the lie going that the overtime was needed. Then, anyone who didn't want the overtime was considered a threat to their profit margins, and so was treated with contempt.

Management knew, but didn't care, because employees selling their bodies was barely the cost of business. I mean, a single fastener, of which we would scrap hundreds without a care, would cost the company more than an hour of a full-time floor worker on double time and a half. It was worth more to them to keep ~~butts in seats~~ feet on the floor (just remembered that before I left, they took all the chairs away to keep people from sitting so much...) and eyes on the machines than it was to try and stop people from abusing the overtime system.

Overtime in manufacturing isn't going to make anyone a millionaire, but you might be convinced otherwise from how they behave. The money was amazing for manufacturing, the best you can get really, but it will never be enough to make me willing to miss time with my family.

The 4chan UAP larper.

A fun read, even if it's as substantial as smoke. The writer does his best to connect the dots of all the recent UAP news and sightings that have been happening. Still, his posts helped drive a fair bit of the engagement surrounding current events. The air of anonymity from places like 4chan really captures the imagination.

Coulthart asked him specifically about Kirkpatrick's statements that there is "no credible evidence" for any extraterrestrial technology.

I just rewatched the relevant clip from the Coulthart interview. Grusch stated that he knew Kirkpatrick for 8+ years, before AARO. He stated specifically that he informed Kirkpatrick in an attempt to draw attention, and that Kirkpatrick never followed up with him. He goes on to say that Kirkpatrick could have done all the same investigations that he, Grusch, had, but chose not to for whatever reason.

So not AARO generally, but Kirkpatrick specifically is who Grusch referred to. I amended my comment to compensate for my bad memory.

No way to migrate posts and comments, is there? It'd be a shame to lose the little spark that was already here.

Man, Coulthart... needs to stop talking so much. He's already been wrong a few times about things he said were definitely coming, and the more he speculates, the more he erodes his credibility.

He got the Grusch interview. I don't believe anything he has said since has been particularly relevant or accurate, and he's making a great deal of money off of all of this.

But hey, maybe he does know something. We can but hope.

This is what has Congress so interested, more than the possibility of aliens. There's a chance that this could lead to tracking down the trillions in missing taxpayer money that the Pentagon has "lost" over the years.

EDIT: Except Burchett, I think that guy really wants it to be aliens.