Soupbreaker

I give China the benefit of the doubt because they are, at least, claiming to be a Marxist state. This on its own puts them above any non-Marxist state.

This is a spectacularly stupid assertion. Like, we're talking trumpian levels of idiocy here. Y'all tankies really want to make horseshoe theory a thing.

It's from the early days of Greatest Gen, and references Captain DeSoto of the USS Hood (NCC-1703). DeSoto and the Hood made several appearances in TNG, and Ben and Adam leaned into his chill vibes, theorizing that the Hood would be a great place to work.

It's also an allusion to the phrase Friend of Dorothy, an older euphemism for LGBT people.

I think it was originally jokingly conceived as a sort of passphrase or shibboleth for fans of the pod to identify each other without revealing their embarrassing enthusiasm to outsiders, e.g.

Q: "Are you a friend of DeSoto?"

A: "Best boss I ever had!"

Depressingly accurate. Nice.

Ayy, there's a West Wing reference under Adventure.

Pretty great episode, I thought. There was just one element I found jarring and unnecessary: the flashback scenes during the defense's closing arguments. Like, we just saw Una say this stuff 5 minutes ago. Are we fucking goldfish? A little more respect for the audience, please.

Aside from that regrettable choice, good stuff.

Seriously, aside from all the modding work that went on behind the scenes, you and the other HQG cadre drove so much traffic to reddit. I doubt I would have stayed as long as I did without all those wonderful gifs. Glad you're here! And thanks for all the laughs over the years.

You guys did a bang-up job, I miss r/startrekgifs. Happy to be done with reddit, though, on the whole.

I've been using an app on Android called Jerboa. Really happy with it so far.