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Most games on Steam work just fine when you turn on Proton. Gaming on linux has come a long way.

Well, how about that. Trump did drain part of the swamp.

To what end? To pee? Who cares? Go ahead. When the line's too long at one, people regularly duck into the free restroom in an emergency anyway. If you have to go, just go.

If someone goes into a public restroom with the intention of harming someone inside, it doesn't matter what gender any of them are, or what they look like, or which bathroom it is. None of that matters. Don't go into a bathroom with the intention of harming someone. That's wrong. The end.

Astronomy is pretty cool :) Yeah, the H-R diagram plots luminosity vs. temperature (decreasing), so the biggest, brightest stars are at the top left and the smallest and dimmest at the bottom right with the red giants hanging out in the upper right corner. Most stars (the main sequence) can be found along the diagonal from top left to bottom right.

To talk astronomy on a first date, I might suggest asking about a favorite constellation and then pointing out some of its neighbors in the sky and some of the more prominent stars.

You can have some fun with Orion, for example. Find Orion's belt and follow it down and to the left until you get to a bright blue star. That's Sirius, and the constellation is Canis Major, Orion's hunting dog. From Orion's belt again, follow it up and to the right until you come to a red star at one tip of what looks like a "V" shape. That V is the face of Taurus the bull, and the red star is Aldebaran. Following the line of Orion's shoulders up and to the left you'll come to three stars in an elongated 'V'. That's Gemini, the twins, the two stars at the top are Castor and Pollux. Pollux is the brighter one, on the left. And Castor looks like a single star, but is actually six binary pairs!

If your date things that's cool, maybe one day you can talk to them about the different fusion reactions that occur in the core of a star, but I wouldn't lead with that. :D

Astronomy is one of those things that people think they like until they find out it's mostly math, physics, and chemistry, and looking at cool pictures of space is not directly involved.

source: astronomy minor. I liked it but being able to discuss the various types of variable starts and plot them in a Hertzsprung–Russell diagram is not going to win me any dates.

Why make up a religion, when you can join an already established one, and then foment a schism? The Church of the SubGenius welcomes all heretics.

I understand what you're saying, but I'm not sure if I agree. I think of what Ira Steven Behr said about the portrayal of LGBT issues on DS9, he really feels they missed the mark because they went with a 'technicality', because Jadzia was married to a woman while in a male host, and those thoughts and feelings carried over, and he didn't feel it was actually a portrayal of a lesbian romance, but a cop-out.

There are other episodes which, while groundbreaking at the time, clearly used their allegory to soften the message somewhat. Frakes has lamented that Soren in "The Outcast" was played by a female actor, for instance. Using a female made the relationship more acceptable to the viewer.

I will say, however, that in Enterprise's "Stigma", which on the AIDS crisis via Pa'nar Syndrome, the allegory does allow them to hold up a mirror to intolerance and prejudice. Maybe that's what you're getting at? By showing the relationships and nonbinary gender identities as normal, rather than couching them in a metaphor so they could show the ugliness of intolerance, the writing doesn't go far enough?

It's an interesting point. My instinct is that we're mature enough to see things like gay relationships now without needing to obfuscate them in metaphor, even if the point is to highlight the flaws of intolerant views.

Everything Lincoln says to Uhura is the epitome of cringe. It was certainly a different time, but oh my gosh...

I like Discovery, but I have to agree. So many of the narrative problems could have been solved by simply giving the line(s) of dialogue in which Burnham solves a problem to someone else on the bridge. Easy peasy. Mix it up.