Brevity is the soul of wit.

Cagoules (cowls) were the term used by the French to refer to these paint camouflaged outfits. French artillery troops begin to make the outfits themselves after realizing that enemy planes could spot them from the air.

Batman is unstoppably determined. That's one of his traits. What other explanation are you looking for about how he powered through getting stabbed beyond that he just willed himself to keep going?

Of course, the standard joke answer is that he’s the Batman (so he can take it when others can’t).

What about this is a joke answer?

Christmas is canceled.

Couldn’t you have dumped it out in there or was there not one?

Guess.

Also, I would have just shoved it in a bag.

This accomplishes what? The only bags you have available at a TSA checkpoint are carry on. I didn't check it because was keeping the bottle with me for the flight, that was the whole point.

It was a cheap bottle and I replaced it on the company dime anyway, so for me it wasn't a real loss. What I was illustrating was that right or wrong, if a stupid TSA agent makes a decision, you are in for a headache.

I've also had them also almost take Torx bits (they insisted they were drill bits) and a multimeter away from me. Those ones I actually waited for a supervisor to show up and let me through, but it again illustrates that you aren't dealing with the top of the class here.

Just bring an empty bottle and fill it up on the other side of security.

The rules as written don't matter unless you have spare time to spend arguing with the brick wall that is an obstinate TSA agent, and even then good luck. Not too long ago I had to give up a reusable bottle with ice in it. There was a small amount of water from ice melting while in line for security, but clearly much under the limit. TSA agent pointed out how high up the water was in the bottle (which wasn't that far even, maybe an inch and most of the volume was taken up by ice). It was ridiculous. No I wasn't allowed to just drink it, no I wasn't allowed to just dump the ice out. The choice was give up the bottle or go back through security again.

I was correct, and the agent had a bad grasp of what an allowed amount of liquid in ice looks like, but in practical terms she won because I had a flight to catch and she didn't.

As a concept the idea of allowing total autonomy seems sound.

Implementing it as a practice where the government assists could see some perverse incentives to get people to kill themselves. Here's a real example

If the system can safeguard against these, perhaps, but it isn't a one and done safeguard but constant vigilance. Allowing others to put down people raises even more need for scrutiny.

This one isn't stupid, it's incoherent. If you're going to make up terms, it helps to define them for the rest of us. Otherwise any answer you get will be people scratching their heads and giving a guess, but who knows if it's actually answering the question or not.

So you've made up a term and asked us what it means?

so technically, while not true, could it be considered “the last war of humanity”?

(??????)

Did you hear this term somewhere or did you come up with it yourself?

Because if you came up with the term, I think it's on you to explain to us what it means.

Awesome use of the pattern.

Up and at them.

If we are looking at it from the cold business angle, there has to be an acknowledgement of the different audiences and the different ways that different kinds of entertainment are monetized.

A Disney movie goes into theaters to make money on its own, then it goes onto Disney+ as part of the big lineup. The main audience is children. Children don't have the kind of demand of franchises that adults do. It is much easier to get children to accept reboots.

That 2019 live action Lion King movie that nobody ever even talks about? It made a billion and a half in theaters. Why? Simple. It had animals and loud noises in it, kids don't need much more than that.

A Star Trek show is not going to be making any theater money. All the money spent on it is in the hope that it attracts enough subscribers to make the costs worth it. That's harder math and it's with a more niche and picky audience.

I was in the middle of writing up a lot of math, but the TLDR is that a TNG reboot is not as appealing as a new show. A TNG adjacent show can cash in on TNG memberberries while having the freedom to be creative to try and pull in new subscribers.

TNG has aged well and despite some dated elements it is still within the comfort zone of modern audiences. TNG created the baseline for how following Trek shows for decades would look and operate which gives it a connection to all of those shows for people to grab onto. TOS is both older and of a significantly different wavelength. I personally love it, but a lot of people bounce off of it. That is why there is more openness to rebooting it. Also, the JJ Abrams movies have broken the seal, as it were, on the idea of recasting TOS characters, making it less of a major step. This is why people at large talk about it.

SNW also slowly and softly incorporated the building blocks for a TOS reboot spread out of time, rather than just dumping the idea out all at once. This assembly was made more palatable by fitting the process inside of a pretty good Trek show.

In terms of canon, it is much easier to introduce a TOS reboot than a TNG reboot. A lot of things in TOS have had to be explained away in convoluted ways or mostly ignored by the rest of the franchise. TOS is more ripe to be retuned with details that fit better into what Trek has become. TNG has a much tighter connection to the rest of the shows.

For what it's worth, I don't think either TOS or TNG should be remade. A new Trek show should always expand or move Trek forward in some way. I am tired of reboots, reimaginings, and rehashes.

This isn't a productive area of discussion.

Christ lives to serve, and he is serving on those player haters.

At the moment. Parts were delayed at the depot.

Those are frog goggles (frogoggles, if you will) to give multispectrum vision, much like but legally distinct from The Predator.

Oh shoot my Internet is terribly spotty. It showed me it loaded when I posted.