I can understand why someone would ask who the good guys were in WW1.

It’s a question that shows a childlike understanding of war in general, but that’s how war is often sold. A team sport with body bags.

That said, WW1 is hard to pick a “good” side. It was a mess of a war, but no side was particularly vile when compared to the others…

But for a US president, there’s only one valid answer.

A US president can admit that Vietnam was not a shining moment is US history, but the world wars? No.

I’ve been out of the military for almost 20 years and I can still march to a cadence.

Active duty? They could march if they felt like it. They did not.

There were free black people in Washington’s day. But yes, the first several presidents were all slave owners.

What they really objected to, a black woman.

I feel the need to add some context here.

The patriarchal push to erase the pantheon started just before the Babylonian Exile under the reign of King Josiah. He ruled from 640 to 609 BCE.

His son Ellakim (or Jehoiakim) refused to pay tribute to the Neo-Babylonians which resulted in 60 years of slavery for some 7000 Judeans.

It was only in 539 BCE when the Neo-Babylonian Empire fell that they were allowed to go home.

The Judeans come home, but their temple has been sacked and most of their sacred texts burnt, so they rebuild and recreate.

This is when Noah and Moses were invented, a long with anything before Solomon, and even much of his life as well.

Mark Rober already did that.

The Air Force may have split from the army in 47, but some traditions carried over.

Tankies, the original meaning was to refer to those who cheered when Stalin sent tanks in to crush the Hungarian communist party because they wanted independence from the Soviet Union. The term was revived when China literally crushed a student protest using tanks.

There’s actually a somewhat brand new miracle treatment for cancer that uses individual atoms of actinium-225.

Each cancer cell gets a single atom, and then it dies when that atom decays. And since it’s an alpha decay, the cell gins some high energy helium. That’s it.

Well, the atomic nucleus of a helium-4 atom. Which then rips some electrons from whatever it collides with.

And then that happens a few times to produce bismuth-209, which has a halflife of 2x10^19 years. Which means it’s perfectly safe.

Anyway, this treatment, called targeted alpha therapy is specifically approved for Bone metastasized prostate cancer, and significantly improves survival rates vs placebo.

It’s not that good against solid tumors

Vegeta killed Yamcha once, and Buu killed him a second time.

Technically it wasn’t even Vegeta, it was just the little green men that Vegeta and Nappa had seeds for.

Krillian was actually alive to see that death.

As for the death by Buu, that was being turned to chocolate and then being eaten.

Krillian still has him beat on number of deaths, picking up an extra death on planet Namak.

Chameleons don’t actually change color the way people think they do.

First off, the natural state of a chameleon is green, which blends in to the forest fairly well. Their color change is a mating tactic, and so favors bright and vibrant colors.

A chameleon changing colors isn’t hiding, they’re horny.

Or angry. Or scared, or well, any strong emotion. Basically a chameleon is a living mood ring.

Now, if you want true instant camouflage, that’s an octopus. They can not only change colors, but their own surface texture. In their case, they get the info about what to look like from their numerous suckers alone their legs.

Pretty sure that they named themselves. So closer to propaganda.

There was actually an early sect of Christians called the Gnostics. That was sort of their whole thing.

A core belief was that everyone was the child of God, and thus, was God.

They also believed that Jesus asked Judas to go to the Romans.

The early church wiped them out to the last, and we only know what we do thanks to some sparse records and modern archeology.

They think that when the revolution hits, they can use Peter Theil’s spy tech to crush it, and then they will go full mask off.

Racist woman saying that because Kanye West has adopted what are basically Nazi talking points, Jewish people can use a specific racial slur.

And skis before skates.

I’m not denying that Finn and Poe had an interesting chemistry, I just think that Poe should have stayed dead.

The lingering question of what could have been would have been a way to deepen Finn’s character.

And if you want to keep the actor, well. When Poe comes in to land after rescuing Finn and the group, his first words to Poe are “why are you wearing my brother’s coat?”

And now you have another interesting character dynamic to explore.

There are 4 books, and yeah, they’re good. A bit darker than the show, but still comedy.

It starts with Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers, which is Episodes one and two? Of the show… maybe some more thrown in… It actually starts with Lister on Earth and tells how he ended up on the Dwarf. He got drunk and doesn’t quite remember signing on.

Better than Life and Backwards were both single episodes… But of course expanded for book form.

I don’t remember reading The Last Human…

Anyway, they’re a bit hard to find, and certainly not in ebook format.

Fun fact, the full crew got together last year to film another three episode special. No idea when it will air

There are actually a few books based on the series, written by by the series show runners.

Lister does end up as a human puddle for a time. Which is why Holly brings Rimmer back as a hologram. The one person who can drive Lister insane enough to keep going.

The show sort of touches on this, but the books make it quite clear that Holly could have brought anyone back, and specifically chose Rimmer.

Maybe. We don’t actually know, because most of our information about the skeptics and stoics come from their detractors. Very little of their actual beliefs made it into writing that survived the years.