Riker is ultimately one of the best possible examples of a character who doesn’t make sense from a Watsonian point of view because he was used for Doylist purposes. Realistically, Riker should have either left for his own command or taken command of the Enterprise if they’d ended up going with killing Picard in the Borg arc. Instead, he stays on the show in his same job because he’s a well-acted, charismatic fan-favorite who’s also a military administrator with no technical specialty: in other words, he’s the ideal audience-insert character to ask people like Geordi or Beverly to explain a complicated concept so they can have expository dialog for our benefit. For those who know Stargate SG-1, he’s strikingly similar to Jack O’Neill, whose most common script function is to say “uh, can you try that again in English?” in conversations about archaeology or theoretical physics.

That said, they did do a decent job working with that in-universe. There’s actually something compelling with having Riker’s story arc play with the idea that sometimes a person can grow to regret their own ambition, discovering instead that they can actually grow more by putting down roots for a while than they would have by doing the most that they could. But it doesn’t really work in the long run, and there’s a reason he was always depicted as a Captain in every glimpse of the future.

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Did you use your AI to generate some stigmata on your body too? Get over yourself.

Lactose intolerance is a skill issue, 75% of Americans need to lock in

“Please drink one verification can”

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Let’s not forget that during the last CBA they literally locked the Union out of the room so they could say they hadn’t met.

I don’t know, I think I’d rather they beat a chld than throw them into a shredder.

Speedrunning an established legal precedent for nonvoluntary eugenics in the process

You’re singlehandedly undoing years of hard-won progress by those who argued we should stop beating schoolchildren.

I don’t even sexually abuse your mom, even though she blows up my phone begging me to. You can stop following me around now, take your crashout and handle it with stoic silence befitting a le epic atheist sci[ent]ist

Yeah whatever dude, more like fellatio basis

Perfect username for your grasp on theology

That’s idiodic, shut up nerd

Big dog that is straight up untrue, I was there when it launched and it was nothing but nakedly transparent ad reads. Hobbyist journalism is all captive PR

Emotion and empathy are core and required components of sapience in addition to intelligence, in the same way that eggs and sugar are necessary components of cake; no amount of sophistication will render a cake from just flour. An entity that doesn’t have emotion and empathy is too primitive and limited to be sapient regardless of its computational power because it lacks fundamental building blocks of awareness.

Before you try to get out in front of me with this: I’m fully aware that there are human beings with no empathy or emotion. I will not elaborate and I am taking no questions.

Uh oh! Somebody get this cat 50 CCs of SOURCE before they go into SOURCE WITHDRAWAL

Get your corny ass off the computer and go do something real.

The teams share a vast amount of revenue, not all of which is disclosed outside of the league and owners; so much in fact that MLB actually just spun off MLB.TV as its own company so that they wouldn’t have to disclose its net income in the upcoming CBA negotiation. The bare minimum that every MLB team is guaranteed to take in even if zero tickets get sold this year is nearly $100 million, and credible insiders say it’s well more than double that in reality. MLB is a legal monopoly made up of an extremely corrupt cartel of colluding businessmen and they absolutely do not have any intention of presenting their finances in any remotely fair or accurate light. A salary cap would benefit the owners, and should be opposed unconditionally on that basis alone. Personally, I’m team hard salary floor with a luxury tax soft cap.

If it’s not 9 bun-lengths and 9 tallboys, it’s nothing. A 9x9x9 is already hard enough considering I usually do a 12x12x9, I don’t need to be served a kid’s meal to add insult to injury.