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Kate Mulgrew played “Mrs. Colombo” in a spinoff the Colombo team didn’t like. She was way too young and has an 8 year old child. She would have been pregnant at 15-16. It was nuts and was cancelled.

You mean Tony Todd? He’s much more famous for being Candyman. Also, he played older Jake Sisko.

“I shall try some of your burned, replicated bird meat.”

You just said:

the Chinese civil war was not fought with ballots or debates, it was fought with guns, on both sides.

Ultimately, the people with the guns hold all political power in society.

That directly contradicts Mao’s idea that guerillas are supported by the people they live with. If the people withhold support, guerillas become like a fish out of water. Ordinary people (without guns) actually exercise more power in this scenario.

By focusing on guns instead of class, you are not using a Marxist or Neo-Marxist framework to analyze the civil war. You are using a Realist or Neo-Realist framework, similar to Henry Kissinger. Marxist frameworks believe class is much more important than guns.

The statement “political power flows from the barrel of a gun” is almost anti-Marxist in the way it completely ignores class conflict.

That’s wrong in the context of the Chinese civil war though. Mao and the CPC didn’t win because they had more guns or a more powerful army. In fact, the KMT almost wiped them out several times.

According to their own lore, they were more inspirational to the local people, who supported them in return. Mao specifically said “The guerrilla must move amongst the people as a fish swims in the sea.”

You can read it in Mao’s own words: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/113625.On_Guerrilla_Warfare

But this has been known from the days of Napoleon. A gun doesn’t win a war, the idea wins the war. That’s where ballots and debates come in.

There were many people who supported Mao in the 60s and 70s, mainly because the terrors of the Cultural Revolution and the failure of the Great Leap Forward were not really known in the West.

China was a closed society. Academics didn’t even travel there. That’s what they mean when they say Nixon “opened up” China in 1972. Prior to that, people only knew what the Chinese government told them about the country.

This dude is just a troll with a day old account and negative karma. One more for the blocklist.

Caring about downvotes? You’re still in reddit mode dude…

Sorry, we only have leola root “captain’s brew”. Is that ok?

I think Nintendo is a better company to create VR. NES, Gameboy, N64, Wii: all are genre defining devices that are easy to use.

VR is not great for anything but porn and games. Maybe movies.

It’s just the wrong way, but faster.

That’s all a semantic argument. It seems obvious that if your brain is “wiped” as you put it, you are gone. Cloning or copying you doesn’t solve that, in the same way that you are not the same as your twin.

Your philosophical argument of “it’s complicated” is just muddying the water. When twins are born they are two different people. No one ever says “I’m so confused, there are two of the same people!”

That doesn’t answer the question. It’s obvious that the clone of you isn’t you, it’s literally just a copy. Unless there is some magic technology that keeps your brain alive and moves it.

You are most likely vaporized. Although, faster-than-light travel literally breaks causation, and that’s possible in the Star Trek universe. I think that’s a bigger issue than transporters.

“I moved out. Not because of the haunting though. But it was bothersome.”

Definitely something I could hear him saying. Why didn’t he just put down his Earl Grey, look up from his leatherbound book, and say, “You’re being quite bothersome!”? I think that would shut up anyone, ghost or not.

Earlier than 68:

Musk is the rich guy in season 1 TNG who wakes up after being frozen in the 20th century. He’s like:

“I have a substantial portfolio that must have grown since then.”

Picard just laughs and says:

“We don’t use money anymore.”

There are many ideas to increase equity in the housing market. Most houses are bought by people who already own houses. They have better credit and more equity, so obviously it’s easier to buy a second home than a first.

Governments could favor first time homebuyers by taxing extra homes, or just giving each person a grant for the down payment. The answers are pretty simple, but they are difficult because homeowners vote and donate more to political campaigns.

Vote and volunteer for your favored candidates, or someone else will.

They’re looking at his uniform. His is from the future. They’re still in season 2.

At least Star Trek stayed consistent with its prequel stuff.

Have you seen Klingons?

Something about Guinness