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Come on'n get your jamaharon on! There are no real rules—just don't break the weather control network.

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[–] gbuttersnaps@programming.dev 39 points 11 months ago (2 children)

For anyone unaware, this joke references a conflation of the Spock we all know and love with Dr. Benjamin Spock, who wrote some of the most prominent books on child rearing.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Spock

[–] metallic_z3r0@infosec.pub 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

He had some decent political views, but his child-rearing advice wasn't always very evidence-based.

[–] gbuttersnaps@programming.dev 3 points 11 months ago

Truth be told I've never really read up on him, I only recognized the joke because they make a similar one in the movie Captain Fantastic lol

[–] thisismyhaendel@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

I was (probably at some point willfully) unaware of this most of my childhood, and it was more fun to think about than the real thing. I miss the days when I could make up my own answers to references. :p

[–] Pancito@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago (2 children)
[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 20 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yes. Golden Girls is canon.

[–] Pancito@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

More canon than Calvin timeline.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 21 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] jawa21@startrek.website 7 points 11 months ago

I want this as a poster!

[–] grue@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Well, the only examples of Vulcan babies we have are Elizabeth Tucker (cloned presumably in some kind of incubation “pod,” since she definitely didn’t gestate inside T’Pol) and resurrected child Spock on the Genesis planet (who was presumably “reborn” in the torpedo “pod”)… yeah, Rose is right: as far as we know, Vulcans are born in pods!