idk. If western governments had any ability to learn or care, WWII surely would have been that moment. But after beating the endpoint of imperialism, they without irony or self awareness, just kept doing imperialism. I’m not holding my breath.
What’s Britain’s excuse then?
There’s a difference between conspiracy theories and having an analysis of incentives and structures.
There doesn’t need to be a conspiracy for profit seeking corporations to decide not to invest their money into something they think won’t return as much profit.
As for everything else staying shitty, why would corporations spend money on lobbying and campaign contributions if they didn’t expect it to make them a profit? Obviously those corporations want less taxes, less regulations that might cost them money to comply with, and the more of the economy that is privatized, the more opportunities capitalists have for making more profits.
That’s not a conspiracy theory, that’s a basic understanding of economics and political economy plus some history.
My parents have the longest, most obnoxious ring tones for texts on their phones.
Are there still any non-boomers left on Facebook?
Continue writing “2024” for the date for at least a week or so.
Tbf, it’s not like physics stuff is always obvious, especially when dealing with relativity or quantum mechanics. It just feels obvious if you’ve already learned about the research that’s already been done.
It isn’t even remotely intuitive that light should have a max speed that can’t be added to by moving its source relative to other things. Plus, light does interact with matter, but it can only be slowed down by it.
So less a stupid question and more just one that isn’t educated about something.
Kafka wrote stories about confusing, impersonal bureaucracies. So people will describe something as Kafkaesque to convey that sense of being lost in a system.
50% of the time it happens 100% of the time.
My adblocking doesn’t work on twitch anymore, so I stopped using it for everything but one streamer I’m subbed to.
Maybe they’re raising an army of nature’s angriest animal.
Just like the Simpsons or XKCD, there’s always a relevant Star Trek episode. It’s unfortunate none of my friends have watched any.
Nobody is saying it isn’t. But if you genuinely care about the harm it causes and don’t just want an excuse to throw political enemies in jail, then the solution is obviously not to criminalize its use. The correct thing to do is to provide social and health services to addicted people to get them off of it.
All criminalization does is ruin the lives of the people it targets and enrich the prison industry.
I think the show has some decent themes that connect together alright. There’s a bit of a free will vs determinism thing going on. A bit of what is a human/transporter problem with the robot, the emperor clones, and Harry’s mind copies.
But there’s also a lot of other noise that kinda makes the show too unfocused to properly explore those ideas. There’s some war on terror/fall of Rome imagery. There’s the weird religious stuff around the Church of Seldon. The mentalists wanting to put their leader into Gale’s body, etc.
Watched Firefly and loved it. Too bad it got canceled before it’s time.
This was probably something I should have said in the OP, but TOS is definitely my least favorite of the franchise. (outside of some of the new stuff.) We watched the first few episodes, bounced off the camp, went on to watch TNG and beyond, then eventually looped back around to it. This time we did finish it. It has it’s moments and I can appreciate what made it special for its time, but it just feels inferior to everything that came after it. To me, TNG is the thing of when I think of Star Trek more-so than the original.
As far as New Trek for me,
I really like Lower Decks.
I watched S1 of Picard and really didn’t like it. Heard S2 was also terrible but then S3 people like a bit more? Is it worth just skipping to S3 to watch that or nah?
I haven’t watched any of Discovery since I heard it wasn’t great. Same question: If it gets better later, is it something I can skip to or would I need to watch the earlier seasons since it’s got a longer running story?
I watched SNW and… it’s… alright I guess. I can see why people say it’s getting closer to watch older star trek was, but it didn’t really do it for me. Idk if I can really put my finger on it. The characters kind of just feel wrong.
Also, semi-related to SNW, but I’ve seen this elsewhere (like in the JJ Abrams movies or other pop culture references to Trek): While I don’t like TOS as much as the post TNG stuff, one thing I did pull out of it was that Kirk was… a more nuanced character than his later depictions in other media. All of the non-TOS depictions I’ve seen of Kirk make him out to be some reckless, arrogant fly-boy. But he’s just not. Sure, he flirts with aliens or gets campy a lot more than others, and he’s no Picard as far as diplomacy is concerned, but for the most part he’s played as an experienced captain that has his sense of duty and responsibility to his crew and mission. I get that in the JJ movies and SNW he’s younger, but it still just feels like a flanderized version of what people remember him as.
We watched that recently. Pretty good show. It kind of makes me wish Star Trek had some better ecology episodes. Although now that I’m thinking about it, Star Trek would have had a hard time with that kind of stuff because of the costumes and effects. You can make a lot weirder creatures with animation.
I played through ME1-3. I didn’t know it was inspired by Star Trek but I could see it. I will say to anyone else that reads this, ME 1 feels really old and janky at this point. I got through it and enjoyed the story, but the gameplay was an unpleasant experience. ME 2 and 3 do a lot better in that regard, but then you have to get disappointed by the end of 3… so…
Watched Atlantis but not Universe. It was on another streaming service and we read it got canceled relatively quickly. Still worth a try?
The point isn’t to cede ground and compromise with them. The point is to try to show them that they’ve been duped about who their enemies are. It might still take some time to deprogram them, but if we could at least get them to put that all on hold and focus on the class issue, maybe we can actually get somewhere instead of spinning in circles.