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Just paint the old prop grey and turn it on its side. No one will notice.
  • K so I helped build that transporter room. And I helped build the one we built inside it because this one didn't look star-trek enough. Look closely at the Discovery's transporter room.

    Also fun story: when I was working on this (with hundreds of others) one job that took forever was the rectangular black tiles that make up the back wall. I spent days, I think it was close to 1500 of them, plywood laminated to some sort of firm sound foam, run through the table saw for each of the beveled edges.... Carefully mounted to this bracket thing that the welding guys must have built. It was one of the earliest sets they wanted done, and they ended up using it for some early promo pictures of our hero....

    One of the earliest released shots of Michael were in the transporter room, and dead centre behind her on the wall of a hundred tiles, is one super crooked tile. I can't find the pic right now, but it's obvious... I don't know how nobody saw it during the shoot, or at least in post....

    I facepalmed so hard. All our hard work and we looked like we hired a toddler last minute.

  • Inside the pro-MAGA pet company that convinced Laura Loomer to eat dog food
  • Ended up using dog shampoo while staying at my parents place for 2 weeks. It made my hair weird but how I figured it out was it was in one of those clear bottles with the picture on the inside behind the semi clear aqua blue shampoo. So when I picked it up for the 6th time I actually tilted it passed the point where I could see "Shampoo" and up to what I thought would be wheat or yellow flowers.

    Golden retriever smiling back at me....

  • How come older people like to act like furries are this outlandish idea but the thought of being with a mermaid has been around a lot longer
  • My partner went to a convention in another city. He was caught off guard by the number of dudes in leather and fetishwear that he saw around the hotel when he first arrived but just thought the city must have a diverse and adventurous night life.

    The next morning on his way out he spotted a poster, it was "The Bear Ball" weekend, some disco themed big gay guy event, and the hotel he was in was the headquarters, which explains why most of the other attendants of his conference were being housed in a different hotel.

    He said he had some great people watching for the next couple days.

  • In an Unprecedented Move, Ohio Is Funding the Construction of Private Religious Schools
  • I am not an American, but doesn't America separate church and state? Like as one of the base rules? I know they are constantly pushing that boundary (for the "good" religions that is) but isn't this just a "nope, state can't send money to that."

    It's seems pretty straight forward... What mental gymnastics are being used to get around that pesky fundamental cornerstone of the US Constitution?

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  • A lot of comments here have what I assume are non-functional spoiler tags.." < ! " without the space..But they don't make the bars appear, like some other spoiler tagged comments.

  • Trump falsely claims children are being forced into gender transition ops at school
  • Oh I remember we had a big bag of rainbow cookies one time and they made you gay, and the only gay guy in school was eatting them but they were apparently really good so we figured out if you just ate an even number you'd end up back straight again.

    Twas a simpler time.

  • Trump tried — and failed — to catch Harris in a lie about McDonald's
  • Did Trump's campaign have credible evidence she didn't? Was there any reason for them to suspect she was lying?

    It's a waste of time to prove every little facet of someone existence, not matter how "easy" it would be.

    Instead, let's ignore wild bullshit accusations of lying unless we are presented with some sort of evidence that backs it up, or come up against a strong reason to need to know (I can't even think of a decent reason in this example...)

    If Harris is caught in a lie about something related (lied about her qualifications during a campaign speech or something) THEN maybe demanding she look up her records and print some proof would carry some weight.

    As of now, I'm just tired of this double standard. They squaxk and squak and demand proof for every little thing, it's just to waste time and energy.

  • Trump is finally admitting he lost the 2020 election
  • I don't believe that happened, can you provide a link of him saying it or a reputable source quoting him saying that?

    Because I feel like I saw that episode and at no point did he admit to losing....

  • A sovcit FAFO.
  • Even more straight forward and valid points.

    I 'get' the "oh you are flying the wrong flag so you aren't the boss of me" desperate misinterpretations of semi-related laws. It's stupid, but it takes time to explain and honestly it takes a fair amount of trust in a system that usually is working against them (because they are deadbeat parents or idiots who don't want to pay taxes).

    The driving thing is so straight forward you could explain it to a 6 year old.

  • A sovcit FAFO.
  • Right - those visitors either have a passport and were granted permission to enter for a set period of time, or they too would be picked up and deported back to their country.

    There's a lot of rabbit holes that I can see people with poor reasoning/logic getting stuck down, but this one seems pretty easy to explain....

  • A sovcit FAFO.
  • So this was percolating in my brain for awhile, these dense people have a hard time understanding the law but it's very easy to explain even if they magically are a sovereign citizen which means they don't have to do all the regular things humans do in a society.

    If you are driving on publicly funded roads that you didn't contribute to with taxes and did not licence your vehicle to drive on, you are just trespassing. Your options are: pay the fee/fine for trespassing, and then stay off the roads you don't own, or buy the "ticket" (pay your taxes and ensure your vehicle is licenced.).

    What's the response to that? Like I know they think a lot of weird and crazy stuff, but I get why they don't understand some of it, bevause it is complicated and based on law and generations of social contracts. This isn't that. This is "you can't trespass, no matter how sovereign you are."

  • Facebook verified a sovcit, who has some advice.
  • Oh I'll try!

    I think he thinks by buying the car for $1000 it's his, contract fulfilled he paid for it noone can take it away.

    Ignoring how titles work and how you wouldn't be able to get ownership transfered to you with the debt on the original vehicle purchase, he seems to think because he is in the clear (because he bought it legally for $1000) his friend won't still be on the hook for the full price of the contract.

    So in his Iala land he would still be screwing his gullible friend over.

    I think that's what he is saying...

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