I read the Uniform Code of Military Justice when I was in the Navy. It not only allows service members to refuse an unlawful order – it requires us to.
Obeying an unlawful order is a crime under UCMJ, and no, “I was only following orders” is no defense. We already settled that, at Nuremburg….
“I was only following orders!” isn’t a defense, it’s an INDICTMENT.
being a guy in love with a guy is not always cute or romantic or soft or tender. sometimes it’s pushing your boyfriend’s face away yelling because you have viral bronchitis and he keeps trying to kiss you knowing this because he’s a himbo with no sense of self preservation
I hate it when your parents are like “I know you better than you know yourself!” Like no you don’t
Like oh, you’re an expert on the inner machinations of my psyche? Name three of my top ten existential dreads
“But I raised you!” Ya and the only version of me that you know is the one I carefully crafted so that you wouldn’t ask me questions because it became obvious early on you couldn’t handle the honest answers
actually there were 0 time travellers on the Titanic, because the time cops have an entire outpost to safeguard that one particular point in history. every rookie spends a least a month on Titanic duty and they all complain bitterly about it since it is, essentially, the time travel equivalent of being the guard who has to stop tourists from licking the Liberty Bell.
listen. LISTEN. there’s going to be somebody, maybe several somebodies, at the travel hub who’s dressed nice and knows all the right words and swears back and forth that they can sell you the credentials that will get you into the Titanic’s timespace. they’ll sell you IDs that pass you and your friends off as 23rd century history students or, worse, some 24th century brats who will go crying to their corporate sponsors if you ruin their paid vacation.
the IDs will look very impressive. they will not come cheap. they will not help you.
there’s no checkpoint to bluff your way through and nobody who wants to hear you try. if you try to time travel anywhere near the Titanic, whether you try to board with all the other passengers or appear on the boat in the middle of the voyage, you will get slammed directly into a whitespace dragnet - a time bubble, in layman’s terms.
and you will be surrounded by at least a dozen time cops, all of whom are bored and cranky and very eager to flex their newfound authority, which means they will absolutely detain you for as long as possible and insist on giving you a lecture when a slap on the wrist would do. if you talk back they might double your fine or even suspend your chronal permissions for up to a year.
and then they’ll send you back to the hub in your period piece clothing that will suddenly look very stupid, and the guys who sold you the ideas will have fucked off to 1998 by then and you won’t have a chance in hell of getting your money back, and what I’m saying is that it’s not worth it, dude. it’s just not worth it.
This is too specific to not be from experience
what are you, a time cop?
The only way to travel to the titanic is to go to the ice age and go into cryostasis on the mass that will eventually become the ice berg.
Pearl: Guys we gotta be careful, someone here is possessed by an owl Diamond: Who? Pearl: I don’t know but— (stops, cuts to a close up of Pearl’s face)
Guys the most amazing thing happened at work today.
So I was working at the counter, and then the great beast rose out of the sea, his ten crowns adorning his seven heads, upon which were written the names of blasphemy. And then, I couldn’t believe it, the seven trumpets sounded, as the words that no man can hear were shouted from the heavens, and th
