After a very long break, E and I have watched some Voyager together!

It was so long we had to resetup Paramount Plus on the PS4, which was a job and a half.

Also, Jenn kept trying to guess the ending for one episode so I've banned her from watching with us. I mean, not really, but I'll probably keep saying it for a few more days.

We watched the one with the Demon class planet, which is sorta meh all around but which is important context for one of my favorite ever ST episodes. It's weird that that's my favorite episode, as it's sad and bleak and also doesn't really go anywhere, but I love it.

Then there's the one where Seven's basically all alone for a month, and honestly, this was a terrible idea all around. Voyager is a big ship, you can't run it with two people, and that's if you can expect everything to work smoothly with no problems which obviously they couldn't because of the scary nebula. They should've gone around. Also, at the end Harry makes an ill-conceived joke about Tom being locked up in small places as a child, and what if he had been, Harry? You'd feel awful, and from now on that's my new headcanon. Tom laughed, but he was only hiding his pain....

(Also, it's super weird to me that one of the first evil hallucinations Seven manifested was a creepy creepster. She was a Borg! She was assimilated as a small child! Where was she even drawing that from!?)

Then there's the one with the slipstream drive that's all an elaborate trap, and my man, I get that you're crazed with grief but I think you should have bigger priorities than some petty revenge.

And then there's Night. The crew spends half the episode moping that they're going through a boring, starless region of space. You'd think they'd be happy that they finally have time to finish their concertos and catch up on their reading, but apparently not! They only perk up when they have a chance to avert a genocide. Which, lemme say, they didn't even fucking try with that garbage hauler. I get that the episode and his behavior is supposed to be about us, but they could've pointed out to him that if he comes back with them he can have a monopoly over this cleansing device and make money hand over fist, easily twice as much as he's making now with a lot less risk and labor. But no, they'd rather write Hoggish Greedly instead, even though that characterization doesn't make any damn sense and it requires the crew to be completely undiplomatic.

I mean, I guess I'd be happy too if I could singlehandedly stop a genocide, but damn, I like a little downtime! What is wrong with them? I think they were just itching for a fight, and that's why they picked one.

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Ask a Manager is collectively losing their shit over how people flush toilets

With or without feet.

There's a few people in that thread adamantly going up and down asserting that, duh, how could the rest of us be so dumb as to not know that certain types of toilets are specifically designed to be flushed with the foot. None of them have provided any sort of evidence for this claim, which makes me think that their evidence boils down to "Mommy told me when I was a kid" or "Well, I flush with a foot so I just sort of assumed", and - man, I hate when people do that. Fucking back up your claims, or at least qualify them. "I was told by my preschool teacher, but I've never verified it" would be a lot more honest and less annoying.

Anyway, I have emailed the manufacturer most often mentioned in the comments to ask for their opinion. Mostly because that is how things ought to be done, but also because if these flushers are designed to be flushed with the foot, great, but if not then we have to ask if the other contingent, which is equally vociferously asserting that foot flushing increases wear and tear on the mechanism and causes breakdowns, needs to be taken seriously. Because what's really not okay is breaking the toilet for everybody who comes after you - and sure, you'll say that you are not the sole person responsible for breaking the toilet that much faster, but c'mon, everybody says that.

So let's see what we see, and in the meantime, let's also all wash our hands. With soap and water, thanks.