That was horrible. With the singular exception of the wonderful TOS time travel tribbles episode, DS9 never once exceeded mediocrity at its very best.

The entire thing was stupid. The entire thing was boring. All of the original characters (exceptions being Garak, Quark, and briefly Nog) were boring and one dimensional. It says a lot when the only actually likable, interesting characters are the two B-listers they pulled from TNG (O'Brien, Worf).

Avery Brooks can't act. None of the cast could act. It's like they were directed to play someone playing an actor playing their part. And then there's Avery Brooks who had to have been directed to play an actor overacting the part of an actor overacting the part of an actor playing Sisko, a man with a debilitating brain injury.

Sisko wasn't even the worst though, that honor is split between Jake and Kira. Jake would clinch it easily if he had appeared more often (though he still appeared WAY too much) and this fucking episode that Reddit ADORES remains the single worst episode of anything I ever remember seeing. Kira ties him though with the sheer volume of her appearances and how the writers were deadset on having her be this sexpot despite being an aging, fuck ugly hag with some of the ugliest hair ever to grace the 90s, a grating voice and an utterly hateful personality. The mirror universe episodes where she was always in leather are going to haunt me for the rest of my life.

"teehee rom sounds goofy but hes actually a super smart engineer" would have been a funny bit for one episode but they built large swathes of the later series around this. It wasn't cute for very long and Rom is insufferable.

Bashir x O'Brien forced bromance is the most egregious example of what Peter meant when he said something insists upon itself.

Ezri was a horrible replacement for Jadzia and I don't know why we needed a trill for the last season. Just write the character out instead of inserting this pointless therapist bitch with a pixie cut and spending HALF THE SEASON telling us her backstory and showing us who she is.

Bajoran mysticism is fucking retarded and the entire show was built around this nonsensical space magic. Everything about the bajorans sucks. I think there are probably a double digit number of episodes where the premise is "Kira must work with a hated cardassian but what if the cardassian is actually a good guy????" and absolutely none of them were remotely interesting and having Kira be the focal point just made them all the worse.

Absolutely no one wanted 20 episodes of boring ass horrible actor Sisko romancing the ugliest women in the galaxy but we got them anyway

Oh and don't even get me started on fucking Odo and the entire race of shapeshifters

And that sappy fucking bittersweet instrumental music montage of all the Moments throughout the series at the end???? It didn't even come close to earning that fuck OFF

What else

EDIT: OH AND FUCK VIC FONTAINE

!trekkies kill yourselves

First, it is simply false to say that treasury payments do not have a "payment categorization code". It is notable, by the way, that he uses this completely invented phrase rather than the actual phrase "Treasury Account Symbol" (TAS). Indeed, it's impossible to find another use of this phrase using an internet search engine in any context, let alone the Treasury context. The far more limited "deficiency" pointed out by the Government Accountability Office report Krause referenced is that information about individual government transactions were recorded in multiple different account entries separately by some government agencies and thus individual transactions could not be readily traced through to all the accounting ledgers they effected.

No chud, the government doesn't need to note where it's spending your money and it was definitely working on a system to fix that by 2028 possibly

On to Musk's next claim: the need for "rationales". The idea of putting a "rationale" for each and every individual payment (or payment file) makes little sense in the context of how the system works. Think of this in your own life: do you fill out a little form that provides your "rationale" for purchasing an item every time you swipe your credit card? If you were required to do so, you would react very negatively for the same reason you should react very negatively here: if you had to put a rationale then someone could reject your spending requests on the basis of providing the "wrong" rationale.

Imagine the right wing uproar when the possibility emerged of restricting purchases of meat through such a "rationale for transaction" system. This should be seen as no different. The "Treasury Account Symbol" (TAS) provides the only rationale that should matter which is that congress appropriated the spending. Of course, if you want to abrogate congressional spending then that is obviously not sufficient and, in fact, counterproductive.

No chud, the government doesn't need to note why it's spending your money

Imagine if the government were buying some groceries and the government's credit card was rejected at the checkout, chud, that would be terrible. What if the government imposed fascist restrictions on you, chud, how would you feel?

This all goes back to Musk's tendency to think that there is, can be or should be a "button" that determines all of this and its corrupt, inefficient bureaucrats preventing this from happening. He simply doesn't understand how complex these systems are or why they are the way they are. Take the Treasury Offset Program (TOP) for instance. It is a Bureau of the Fiscal Service system for collecting delinquent federal or state debts. One former Bureau of the Fiscal Service employee explained to me that there are rules that determine:

Actually, chud, the bureaucratic tumour is a good thing and hasn't metastasized enough

To include my own editorial comment for a moment, this is why it's so alarming to see him talk about updating this list "weekly, or even daily". This strongly suggests to me that he is talking about arbitrarily and rapidly expanding the list of people and entities on lists such as the Office of Foreign Assets Controls (OFAC) list without any due process to block them from government payments. As I discussed the Wednesday before last, the apparatuses for capriciously destroying the financial life of disfavored entities and people has been constructed over multiple decades with active Democratic participation and support. Now they are in the hands of Donald Trump and Elon Musk. Thus, again, Musk's comments hide a desire for unchecked power over others under a false narrative about governmental "inefficiency".

My sources are also very skeptical that any career Treasury employee told Elon Musk that half of the expenditures that constituted "entitlements payments to individuals with no SSN" were "unequivocal and obvious fraud". It's hard to say more without knowing the context. This is the difficult thing with government by the pronouncement of Elon Musk. He can say stuff without any corroboration much faster than anyone else can check facts or correct falsehoods.

There's no fraud chud, my sources are 'skeptical'

In the meantime, it is exhausting how much effort is required to deconstruct one Elon Musk tweet. He can lie about very complex and technical systems much faster than he can be answered, but nevertheless it's important to periodically critically assess what the richest man in the world is saying as he continually tries to justify chopping the government up and selling it for parts like this is a private equity takeover.

Actually Musk is just lying, chud

The basics- why he's in jail & acquiring a phone

I have terrible news. The state of Connecticut has sentenced me to 8 months in jail beginning on Nov 15. I have always tried to make the most out of my life, but today I am presented with an overwhelming challenge to overcome. pic.twitter.com/pBO1a7NZfS

— William Banks (@williambanks_) October 10, 2024

free william banks btw he's based as frick https://t.co/lICTPyG1xa pic.twitter.com/Vn00LrH9ir

— #1 JOLLIEST FELLOW 🎄🎄🎄🎁🎁🎁 (@horriblescifi) December 10, 2024

It's vlogging time

1. updating his fans and meeting his roomie

2. showing off a commissary haul from his fans, Life update & confirmation that he's a top bunk neighbor. His enemy appears

3. Holiday Preparations and trying to make peace- Setting up his Christmas tree, getting bullied & the importance of homemade christmas gifs, his bully

4. The cookie saga- baking a christmas cookie by mashing up packaged cookies, squabble neighbor, and debriefing after trying to give his bully a "cookie".

5. Aftermath & New Years- Journ*lism for Instagram/bully expose, a new years letter from his friend, hoping he's enjoying the cookies, happy new years, hanging with the homies, and playing football with the boys

6. a video simply labeled they are atheists which sounds like a vintage jinxthinker video title

indigenous woman who is also a vidya designer, on the "indigenous" section on CBC:

Neighbor why are "indigenous" and "aboriginal" activist foids always like the Whitest motherlovers on the planet?

When the video game Custer's Revenge first came out more than 30 years ago, a successful boycott eventually caused it to be pulled from store shelves The controversial video game, made for the Atari 2600 by Mystique (now defunct), depicts indigenous women tied to trees and cacti and r*ped.

When indigenous game designer Elizabeth LaPensée found out this game was again available for play online she took to Twitter to voice her outrage.

"The game reinforces systemic violence against native women," said LaPensée.

Daniel Starkey, a Chickashsha Nation game journ*list, was researching a story about Native American representation in games when he came across YouTube videos of Custer's Revenge. Starkey spoke with LaPensée about his find. The two of them were able to find several game-play footage videos on YouTube, but it wasn't until Starkey dug deeper that he actually found a playable link to a remade version of the game.

"I'm not in a position to go to that link, download it and play it. I don't know how far back that would put me in my personal healing," said LaPenśee from her home in Oregon. But Starkey did download the game to prove that it can be played.

"[It] made me sick to my stomach and brought me to tears," said Starkey. "I respect its right to exist, but it's almost impossible for me to figure out how anyone could consider the game of cultural value to anyone."

B-WORD THIS IS A FRICKING ATARI GAME FROM 1982

1 9 8 2

IT WAS ALREADY BOYCOTTED WHEN IT CAME OUT

THE COMPANY THAT MADE IT DOESN'T EXISTS ANYMORE

THE DEVS WHO CREATED IT ARE IN THEIR 70S OR 80S IF THEY ARE STILL ALIVE

ARE YOU GONNA CALL FOR THE BOYCOTT OF SALÒ AND ERASERHEAD NEXT?

LaPensée is a former game journ*list turned game designer. Until now, LaPensée had not spoken out against violence against women in video games. The gaming industry has come under fire for its sexual harassment against women and female game designers and journ*lists have had their safety and lives threatened.

LaPensée said she has stayed quiet for this very reason.

"If anyone were to attack me in that way, I just don't have the allies in the game industry who would help protect me and look out for me, I have the native community too," said LaPensée.

For me stepping out isn't just about the game industry, it's about personal experiences and having to be the voice of someone who is part of a statistic, that a game like this is reinforcing what creates that statistic.

• Elizabeth LaPensée, video game designer

LaPensée, who designs games that promote indigenous heritage and healing, said her decision to speak out now is based on her career's work.

"This has been my whole life's work, starting off as a g*mer and then looking at native representation in video games. And finding the places that we can step up, and step in and define our representations ourselves," said LaPensée.

"For me stepping out isn't just about the game industry, it's about personal experiences and having to be the voice of someone who is part of a statistic, that a game like this is reinforcing what creates that statistic."

In the last 24 hours, since LaPensée`s initial tweet and the follow-up Twitter conversation, several videos of game-play footage have been taken down. Starkey added the footage violates YouTube's terms of service by containing explicit content and uncensored nudity.

LaPensée said that even though a game like this exists, the indigenous community can change the narrative by replacing the content with positive messages.

"We can make games too. We're completely capable of it. The cowtools are much more accessible, the technology is much more accessible than it used to be," said LaPensée, adding a lot of her work is responding to a game like this.

Holy fricking shit, imagine sperging out about a game that was 31 years old (now 41) by the time this article was written, this is even more pathetic than the Brapzilian Pentecostal TV channel in 2011 sperging out against Duke Nukem 3D , this is like if Jack Thompson came back from the shadows and started to shit on Doom and Doom 2 30 years later

!foidmoment !g*mers

https://old.reddit.com/r/IsraelPalestine/comments/1iduh13/al_jazeeras_arabic_documentary_about_the_war/

Al jazeera

https://old.reddit.com/r/TrueChristian/comments/1idp1ly/when_and_why_christians_first_demonized_muhammad/

a lot of dummies about to get decapitated

https://old.reddit.com/r/anime_titties/comments/1idtdxm/hamas_has_confirmed_that_its_military_chief/

Hamas fanboys cope that their hero is dead

https://old.reddit.com/r/UnitedNations/comments/1idvcco/netanyahu_furious_about_chaotic_handover_of/

Defund the un

https://old.reddit.com/r/IsraelPalestine/comments/1idpszo/israel_did_not_commit_the_crime_of_genocide/

Israel isn't committing genocide but they should down boy

https://old.reddit.com/r/Thailand/comments/1idrw4g/five_thai_hostages_released_by_hamas_after_over/

Thai cucks

https://old.reddit.com/r/Jewish/comments/1idor7i/dont_know_where_i_can_stand_anymore/

American leftist Jews cope that they suck and are about to die

https://old.reddit.com/r/IsraelPalestine/comments/1idrh8y/palestinians_are_innocent_their_leaders_are_not/

I'm not bothering with this one

This is 100% home grown photoshop no AI which is why it kinda sucks

there is nothing else implied though

!illuminati !schizomaxxxers

@WeihnachtenSalvador

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In case you missed the half dozen other NFTs/shitcoins, our former and future President is still in the game of separating r-slurs from their USD!

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I only associate Solana with neighborchain.ai now because they at least made a website with catchy sound design.

The "news" article even quotes the intent and then goes on to entirely ignore it

Naturally chuds

This bill is about sperm and regulating it, which is creepy, weird, and all sorts of 'WTF.'

Like chuds obsession with babies.

Talks (well signs) about reddit at 4:25

!simps discuss

shiiiieeeet pic.twitter.com/Yfad0PZRd9

— KekMagician🫘🆙 (@KequeMage) February 17, 2025

I stumbled upon a post on /r/NPR of the voot bloo no madda who black trans lives matter ultra-wokeoids getting cannibalized by their own listeners, because they do not hate Drumpf enough and are being "unfair" towards Biden , and well, I just clicked on the profile of a random commenter, called /u/Knower_of_somnothing who calls himself a "mega-progressive" to see how much reddit has been affecting the mental health of terminally online antisocial urbanites in the 2020s.

However, I was shocked to see that this leddit user is a Progressivecel version of Anders Breivik , the user is very obsessed with IQ points, constantly mentions 4chan, and hates jannies, something uncharacteristic of the average redditor with /r/politics brainrot, and very likely an inside job of a Dramanaut, KiwiFarmer, Sharteen, or 4chud.

So deep inside, I hope to Allah (SWT) that /u/Knower_of_somnothing is just a shitposter from /pol/ making fun of redditors during election season.... but this seems unlikely, since he has been non-stop posting his mass shooter manifestos for over a year, and has very upmarseyd comments, let a user like this be put on the museum of 2020s internet brainrot, a cautionary tale for future generations who might start to rebel against social media and culture war doomposting:

1. Anyone and everyone who tries in any way to frick with the election should be hanged until death like the law states.

2. I am definitely a mega progressive, I hate republicans, fascism, russia, and any kind of hate. So when I hear NPR being soft on trump, I question why more people let them slide?

3. Nobody wants to unify with garbage nazis. What do you not understand about that? You are a shitty loud minority, and we will progress this country without you all. You all lost all respect years ago; lucky for you, you will benefit from the progress. Best thing to do is just shut the frick up after the election, but we all know you'll go smear shit on the walls of some government building and get arrested.

Ledditor version of the "you sound like a seething jewish chad, Trump won, get over it" copypasta

4.

5.

Why are both leftoids and rightoids so much obsessed with the IQ points of people they believe to be subhumans worthy of death?

6.

A MAGNeurodivergent wants to leave the MAGA cult? you would expect that ledditors would let their inner Evangelical take hold and welcome new Democrat voters with open arms, but no lol, to this future mass shooter, there is no forgiveness for the unforgivable sin of being a Drumpflermort supporter, once a RethugliKKKan always a RethugliKKKan, your only form of mercy is getting choked before you burn to death at the stake

7.

Once again, my post is not a "lol look at this crazy libtard amrite fellow MAGA pedes? ", this guy is a genuine schizo mass shooter in the making who hates even Democrats who despise Trump, it does not matters even if you are a hardcore vote blue no matter who Black Trans Lives Matter Trump 4 Prison Kamalabro, this guy still fricking hates your guts for existing, and wants revenge against those who he feels wronged him because he is an r-slur that is likely already on a mass shooter/Trump assassin FBI watch list.

He just uses culture war politics and faux-Progressive/right-side-of-history lingo to justify his emo edgelord misanthropy and fedposting straight out of 2004 VampireFreaks, the "everyone is welcome in our movement, we do not discriminate" doctrines has led to countless charlatans, grifters, predators, manipulators, outright malicious and violent people to infiltrate Progressive/faux-Leftist/Gaming/Animation/Geek circles in the past decade or so, politics and working for your friends and community be darned, they just want what benefits them and themselves only.

8.

9.

To be expected, he actually despises Palestine, and is honest about why he does not gives a shit about it..... because he heckin christofascist MAGA bigot chud Paleschudians hate LGBTQIAP2S folx

10.

!schizos !grillers !fedposters !reportmaxxers

USS Preble firing a HELIOS laser weapon. pic.twitter.com/z7iLk0uylt

— Ashton Forbes (@JustXAshton) February 3, 2025

https://armyrecognition.com/news/navy-news/2025/us-navy-transforms-naval-protection-with-helios-lasers-power-on-uss-preble-at-sea

The US Navy released a new photo of USS Preble (DDG-88) firing her HELIOS laser weapon. pic.twitter.com/oL4rMsA4Xu

— OSINTtechnical (@Osinttechnical) February 3, 2025

Source (page 399)- https://t.co/wHOW2JHGcr pic.twitter.com/gVHzdkgEQa

— OSINTtechnical (@Osinttechnical) February 3, 2025