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- Comment on Why the Left needs to watch Star Trek: It has lessons for today's techno-optimists 4 weeks ago:
“Money as a vestigial cultural relic” is a great concept. You’re right, Latinum doesn’t provide the Ferengi with anything but status.
- Comment on Why the Left needs to watch Star Trek: It has lessons for today's techno-optimists 4 weeks ago:
I think about this exact topic a lot and I think you are mostly right, but I also think that open source replicators would be an agent of change, especially if one could be used to manufacture parts to make another. Of course, without land to make things on conflicts will arise. But once the need for money is removed some people will choose to “opt out” of society and start building a parallel one similar to how the open source community exists alongside closed source software.
- NY woman who used to own "NCC-1701" license plate ticketed thousands of dollars because of cars with Star Trek novelty plates going through traffic cameras.www.live5news.com ↗Submitted 2 months ago to startrek@startrek.website | 36 comments
- Comment on Canon Connections: PRO 2x05 - Observer's Paradox 5 months ago:
The fact that they are only here was the final straw for me to make the switch to Lemmy.
- Comment on I don't think we should be rooting for the Bell Riots but the pin is funny 8 months ago:
I didn’t say anything about pacifism, but I also disagree with your proposition equating violence and politics. Violence is a breakdown of politics. Politics, almost definitionally, is how a people settle disputes without violence.
- Comment on I don't think we should be rooting for the Bell Riots but the pin is funny 8 months ago:
I will engage with you in the context of your original proposition but I will not engage with Gish Galloping.
- Comment on I don't think we should be rooting for the Bell Riots but the pin is funny 8 months ago:
That is a very machivellian attitude. I don’t believe that hurting people is justified, even if it were a shortcut to utopia, which it’s not.
- Submitted 8 months ago to startrek@startrek.website | 19 comments
- Comment on [deleted] 9 months ago:
These threads/articles always get the facts wrong, TikTok is not “getting banned”, they are just forcing the company to divest from it’s Chinese parent company.
- Comment on [deleted] 9 months ago:
If you think Taiwan and Ukraine are “other countries’ wars” I have bad news for you. It’s better to pay as much money as we can now before the payment is made with american lives.
Israel is something else obviously, but the bulk of the money is absolutely worth spending if you value your freedom. It has nothing to do with the housing crisis whatsoever.
- Comment on Canon Connections: DIS 5x04 - Face the Strange 9 months ago:
I have nothing to add except that I love these threads. Thank you for making them!
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Discovery | 5x04 "Face the Strange" 10 months ago:
Well I did not expect time travel shenanigans in a story about the progenitors but I am not complaining. Really enjoying this season so far.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Discovery | 5x01 "Red Directive" and 5x02 "Under the Twin Moons" 10 months ago:
These two episodes were really enjoyable. Discovery is not my favorite Trek series but I have been looking forward to this final season.
- Submitted 10 months ago to startrek@startrek.website | 5 comments
- Comment on ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Season 5 Interview: David Ajala And Doug Jones On Saying Goodbye To Book And Saru 10 months ago:
Book and Saru are examples of positive masculinity on television, what does that mean to you?
Doug Jones: Thank you for thinking I am masculine at all.
lol legend
- Comment on The restored Star Trek Enterprise-D bridge goes on display in May 11 months ago:
Add this to the list. One day I will make the “trek” to the TOS set recreation in NY too.
- Comment on 11 months ago:
I’m not but I also was not interested in a show about a space station and that turned out to be my absolute favorite so I will judge it on its own merits.
- Comment on [deleted] 11 months ago:
I think it’s a viral marketing campaign for Don Lemon. He still sucks but he played Elon like a fiddle here.
- Comment on [deleted] 11 months ago:
Watching Elon struggle to choose between admitting he’s a failure, or not the big boy boss man was gold.
- Comment on [deleted] 11 months ago:
Still trying to rectify the illegal immigrant thing in my own mind, have to chalk it up to Elon being misinformed about the data I guess, because that made an unfortunate amount of sense.
He was trying to point out Elon’s hypocrisy. The US has a strong existing structural political bias towards red states, who (on average) get significantly more funding and representation per person than blue states.
If Elon was truly concerned with “unfair allocation of funds” and “unfair representation in congress”, you would expect him to be upset with gerrymandering, the electoral college and other things. The fact that he only speaks up when it involved majority nonwhite refugees is telling.
That said, I agree it fell flat. Also letting him claim that the “great replacement theory” is actually just about census-related funding is like saying the civil war was about states’ rights.
- Comment on ‘Picard’ Season 2 Was Rewritten After Paramount Deemed It “Too Star Trek,” Says EP 11 months ago:
lol I like “Jorg”
- Comment on ‘Picard’ Season 2 Was Rewritten After Paramount Deemed It “Too Star Trek,” Says EP 11 months ago:
The title is a misquote:
“We wrote nine episodes at one point and the network was like, ‘No, we don’t really understand this, it’s a bit too sci-fi, it’s a bit too **in-**Star Trek.’”
A weird choice Trekmovie is usually better than this
- Someone recreated the 1996 FMV game "Star Trek: Borg" that works in a browser and with upscaled visualsborgremastered.com ↗Submitted 11 months ago to startrek@startrek.website | 6 comments
