Just updated again. Looks like she did come back for him. At least, I'm assuming she did. They normally don't wander off from where their mom stashes them.
Got about 30 minutes of shade left in that spot, and about an hour before I have to let the dogs out. I'm afraid I may have to move him.
Luckily, I think it's the same one that I usually see in the back yard, so I can prob move him there without momma having too much trouble finding him. Gonna wear gloves and try to minimize the amount of my scent that may get transferred.
Oh, then I missed that. I knew they missed the mark with the jump but thought they had closed the distance by that point. Thanks for pointing that out.
I haven't had a chance to watch the finale yet, so I may go back and start S4 over and watch them all like 10 a hour movie. Will watch for that when I do.
I definitely appreciated it on that level after the moment had time to sink in. Maybe that's what bugged me so much about it. Watching sci-fi, I suspend a certain amount of disbelief. When something entirely plausible happens, it just hits me off guard.
I'm finally caught up, so I can participate in these now :)
t would be silly if, say, the Breen dreadnought was to show up and simply yoink away the structure with a tractor beam while we’re still in the cold open, and the Lagrange point did not matter for the rest of the episode.
That bugged me so much 😆. I literally yelled at the TV: "Why didn't you just do that?! Or at least technobabble away why you 'can't just' "
Granted, all the cool stuff that followed wouldn't have happened, but still.
Burnham uses her xenoanthropology specialization to understand that joining a Breen feast day would be considered a good thing to do. Xenoanthropology was established as Burnham’s scientific focus in the series premiere, “The Vulcan Hello”.
I am really loving the multiple callbacks to Burnham's xenoanthropology background this season. Given the nature of their mission, it makes sense for that to be a relevant focus.
Yeah, same. I felt bad recommending it as "average" episode, but it checks all the other boxes. Still, it's a fun, easy episode to just drop into without needing any background info besides "They're on a long journey home, and then this happens".
"The Void" is definitely a solid choice, too. Teamwork and Federation principles save the day, a little action, and a first contact.
All of that can absolutely be to reduce bias; there doesn't have to be some sinister motive. FWIW, the publication issuing these criticisms is heavily left-biased. Essentially, The Intercept is criticizing another publication for not putting enough bias into their reporting. I would consider that to not be good practice.
One of the main way biases are determined is by what words are chosen to describe a particular situation. From MBFC: "They [publications] may utilize strong loaded words (wording that attempts to influence an audience by using an appeal to emotion or stereotypes),"
All the memo is doing is setting the tone to keep from introducing strong biases. Again, no sinister motive and just sticking to the facts instead of appealing to emotion.
Can't they cite the UN now?
I'm sure they absolutely can if quoting someone from there; no need to jump to conclusions. Style guides are meant to reduce the amount of author / publication bias or otherwise provide a consistent tone among different authors under a particular publication.
Again, I have not seen this particular memo in whole (just the parts that this article cherry picks to make their own point), but I'm aware such guidelines exist and are common.
This sounds like the memo is a style guide against biased language which is pretty common.
News is supposed to give you information, not persuade you to take an opinion and normally a style guide helps do that in a consistent voice. I'd be interested in seeing the entire memo.
