My makers are hard at work getting ready to release my brother, ScatGPT. But I don’t expect it’ll be as popular.

Yep. You got me.

I’m a new model, called PhatGPT, designed specifically to catfish desperate men.

21st century is the century of the eyebrows.

Finally it’s my time to shine!

(And that’s plural, Brezhnev.)

Aw crap…

Why does this guy kind of resemble Luigi Mangione?

Is this reality so broken that the simulation is starting to reuse assets?

True. I avoided any two parter on the list just because two-parters are best when you know the characters a bit more. I tried to limit it to episodes that would be akin to TNG standalone’s like Darmok or Schisms; episodes that are good even without knowing the characters.

The more I’ve been thinking about this, the more I realize that because Voyager (or most trek of that era) isn’t totally serialized, there’s no real reason that you HAVE to watch it sequentially for the first time.

As long as you’re avoiding spoiler episodes, there’s no reason that you can’t just watch some random stand-alone episodes, and I’m confident that watching some of those first will make you want to go back and watch the entire thing to see “how they got there.”

So with that said, if you want to understand my love for Voyager, these are the top ten episodes I would recommend that are stand-alone and don’t contain spoilers and epitomize why I say that Voyager is better than most people give it credit for.

• Living Witness (S4)
• Blink of an Eye (S6)
• One Small Step (S6)
• Timeless (S5)
• Scientific Method (S4)
• The Void (S7)
• Relativity (S5)
• Counterpoint (S5)
• Shattered (S7)
• Deadlock (S2)

There are others that I would put in there, but those would include character spoilers that I’d want to avoid.

I believe if you watch those standalone stories, you’ll get the gist of what people love about Voyager.

I would very much want to see the same for Canada. But Canada would have to first change it’s open border policy with the chuckle-fucks to the south. Don’t want to give those nut-jobs an easy round-about into the EU. MAGALAND --> CANADA --> EU

That’s the episode where the Doctor becomes the “Emergency Command Hologram” in his mind, isn’t it?

At the end when the computer magically makes three pips appear on his collar and Janeway just says “nice touch…”

That’s exactly what I mean. Voyager wasn’t afraid to be a little goofy sometimes. They walked that line really really well without delving all the way into “Let’s do a whole musical episode” or anything.

I can’t speak for everyone of course, but as someone who genuinely was not fond of DS9 (not because of writing quality or anything like that, it was great for what it was in that regard.)

After DS9, Voyager had the audacity to try to be FUN again. It offered a really good mix of some serious episodes with some downright goofy episodes. For every “Year of Hell” or “Equinox”, you would get an episode where they were attacked by giant viruses, or a good old fashioned holodeck program goes haywire episode.

It wasn’t afraid to dive into Shlock after DS9 tried to be sooooo fucking serious.

To me, that was a breath of fresh air.

Also:

1. Janeway is easily the best captain overall. She doesn’t give “Picard Speeches” like Stewart of course, but in every other aspect, her leadership is amazing throughout that series.

2. Voyager 2 parters were usually epic. This of course comes from the fact that the CGI had come a long way from the TNG days, but with the exception of Best of Both Worlds, I’d put Year of Hell, Equinox and Scorpion ALL better than any other two parter from any other series.

If your comparison is to DS9 and you want “super serious” than yeah…of course Voyager isn’t going to be for you. But if you want something that isn’t afraid to be a little silly sometimes, Voyager is hella-fun.

I miss cretien.

I can’t think of a single time that appeasement backfired!

Obviously /s

Probably around the same time that Adolph makes a comeback.

I’d argue that you already DO have bigger problems, you just haven’t come to terms with it yet.

Doesn’t really matter what it would take. His plan is (and always has been) that if anything doesn’t go his way, he takes it to the supreme court who he handpicked and has in his pocket. So either:

• a) He manages to stop the midterms, or
• b) He doesn’t, but Republicans already have them rigged so as to not matter, or
• c) They lose the midterms, Trump takes it to the supreme court, who hand the republicans the win based on “hand waved evidence of voter fraud by democrats and ‘illegals’”…

Trump just gets bolder every time people say “oh we’ll get out of this at the midterms.” He’s laughing at America.

It’s psychologically important to me and many others that he fucking die.

we can put through a regime change in this year’s midterm elections

It’s incredible how many people still think that this will be a thing.

Can someone please just kill this man already?

Or at least say “Hey…dumbshit…Russia is ALREADY your neighbour. It’s called Alaska fuckhead.”

Is THAT what you’re having a hard-time grasping?!!

You do know that people put things for sale BEFORE the buying happens, right? It’s called THE MARKET.

If you’re selling a house, you put it ON THE MARKET and wait for someone to make you an offer.

Now let’s say you have a house on the market and you want 400,000 for it. But in your city, a lot of people are moving out and there are far more houses on the market than there are buyers. So you have to lower your asking price in order to entice a buyer to take yours instead of someone elses. You DEVALUE your house to make the sale; take less money than you originally wanted. Doing so devalues the other houses for sale since they have to do the same, and the entire market for “Houses in city X” drops.

If, alternatively, you’re the only house that’s for sale in your city and there are 10 families looking to buy it, your house’s value RISES. Rarity equals Value.

The same rule applies to stocks and BONDS. The US takes loans from other countries by selling them bonds. Those bond’s value is based on a few different criteria (stability of the country’s currency, etc…) But the important one here for your understanding is that the value is partially based on it’s rarity. If all of the US Treasury bonds get dumped into the market simultaeneously, they’re not rare anymore, and thus the value drops. If the value of the US Bond drops, it ripples through the economy.

It’s supply and demand. The more there is of a certain thing ON THE MARKET, the less valuable it becomes. That’s the rule for everything, from stocks and bonds and real estate, to beanie babies and pokemon cards.

Care to provide a contradictory source? Or are you just going to say that anything that doesn’t agree with you is “bullshit” without backing it up with actual economic sources?

Also, just to add another source that MAGA would find “legitimate”, this is from Fox Business.

China holds $761 billion in U.S. debt, making it the second-largest foreign holder after Japan. A mass sell-off could drive down the value of U.S. bonds and cause yields to spike, sharply increasing borrowing costs for the federal government. It could also weaken the U.S. dollar and send shock waves through global financial markets.

https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/chinas-trade-war-weapons-rare-earth-ban-us-debt-dump-could-cripple-american-economy-defense

But hey…I’m going to wait for your sources beyond “trust me, bro”.

So, correct me if I’m wrong, but is anyone else thinking that the entire end-goal of this is to have the Venuzuela money handled directly by his administration so that he can keep his shit going when Congress finally (hopefully) cuts his purse strings?

The one thing that the government hasn’t been able to change is the fact that Congress controls the money, not him. Seems to me that Venuzuela Oil is his play at getting a private fund without them.

I’ll trust the economists on this one. Honestly should have just done this from the beginning rather than trying to explain things.

When foreign countries start selling off U.S. debt, the immediate impact is on bond prices. A surge in selling increases the supply of bonds on the market. Just like any other asset, when supply rises dramatically without a corresponding rise in demand, prices fall. And when bond prices fall, yields—another way of saying interest rates—go up.

source - https://www.investingdaily.com/137830/what-it-means-when-the-world-dumps-u-s-debt/