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Just watched that really uncomfortable Star Trek TNG episode where everyone in the crew is playing the computer game that jerks you off. Sorry if you'd forgotten that one and didn't want to be reminded that it exists.

Had a few thoughts about whether we should stoop to the right's level and engage in personal attacks, or take the high road and stick to a policy message. And the answer is yes.

Yesterday I bothered to look it up, and apparently the conference pear is named for the National British Pear Conference of 1885 where it won first prize. OK, but. I haven't heard of this conference ever happening again (no Wikipedia article for the event itself), and there aren't any better pears as far as I know, so is it possible humanity achieved a fairly satisfactory pear 140 years ago and then lost interest?