Chris O'Regan

that's the China approach!

cohort(n.) early 15c., "company of soldiers, band of warriors," from French cohorte (14c.) and directly from Latin cohortem (nominative cohors) "enclosure," with meaning extended to "infantry company" in the Roman army through the notion of "enclosed group, retinue;" from assimilated form of com "with" (see co-) + a root akin to hortus "garden," from PIE *ghr-ti-, from PIE root *gher- (1) "to grasp, enclose."

True, but I'd argue that doesn't count as a payoff because the whole point was that any day now, all of Starfleet would spend all of its time confronting this unimaginable threat

I think First Contact was a half-hearted attempt to remedy this, which really just gave rise to further questions (like, why take this specific approach to destroying Earth? Seems ridiculously over-complicated)

Star Trek is the absolute king of setups that have no payoff. I think every single show has heaps of examples. To take just one example; The Borg! They were meant to be Starfleet's greatest ever enemy but then the writers just sort of forgot about them

"they didn't just get rid of the algorithm, they replaced it… with a different algorithm"

Today's forecast: 37 degrees maximum, chance of a thunderstorm in the afternoon, 97% relative humidity

Good morning

One thing that surprises me whenever I think about it is how many different kinds of archaic human relatives we have discovered in the last 15 years or so

Bullying, harassment, intimidation: Shocking backlash for farming families who welcome renewables Across Australia, the drive to ramp up renewables is dividing communities.

Goodness me. www.brisbanetimes.com.au/environment/...

ultrahealing

Shohei's reaction to the boos, lol.

today's one was dreadful IMO

I don't know sorry but there are youtube tutorials on how to open a variety of key fobs, one of them might help you.

I just take that to the cobbler down the road from me, he does it for less than $20

Write it for Jacobin

Thinking of writing a scathing review for the Brisbane Review of Birds about how the Bird of the Year poll reveals how hopelessly middlebrow and reactionary our taste in birds is

was it a welcome to country or an acknowledgement of country?

I'm not convinced he has ever watched a film start-to-finish in his life

YouTube video by Callie Gee, Quinn

They truly don't make shows like Daria any more. youtu.be/i5s9s5ZZ6tM?...

Congratulations to the Blue Jays! Now they must be destroyed.

Really hoping they catch the Louvre thieves because I feel like there's at least one more good twist in this thing. Maybe they went to the wrong window and actually wanted to grab a painting. Maybe they are tiresome performance artists

Children are part of society.

People living outside of Brisbane are always saying stuff like this

do you reckon he understand that "Queensland" and "Brisbane" are different entities or nah

weird way to acknowledge that the Yarra is terrible but I will take it

Grey-haired clerk seated at desk getting his ass absolutely handed to him by Hailee Steinfeld's character, who is glimpsed from the back seated opposite him.

Matt Damon's pompous Texas Ranger getting cut right down to size by Mattie Ross

Jeff Bridges as Rooster Cogburn getting fully rinsed by Mattie Ross.

Barry Pepper as Lucky Ned Pepper (lol only realizing as I type this the surname connection) somewhat amused at getting wrecked by Mattie Ross.

One of the great pleasures of True Grit is the faces everyone makes as they realize nobody has ever verbally destroyed them before like 14-year old Mattie Ross.

can't wait to find out who wins the Democratic mayoral primaries. This could be Bloomberg's year

that whole soundtrack is 90s excellence. Hold Me Thrill Me Kiss Me Kill me is like at the tail end of good U2.

we will all of us have finally got fiscal