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- Comment on Twitch: "Hey, come back! This commercial break can't play while you're away." 1 day ago:
That doesn’t sound like my concern.
- Comment on Do not look at this if you live in Germany. 😐 1 day ago:
You’re missing the corporate arm of fascism, probably the most important part.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | 1x08 “The Life of the Stars” 1 day ago:
Geordi basically got super vision from his choice to integrate technology. He did not simply stay blind. What are you talking about?
If you could offer an effective, affordable and safe tech solution to people’s disabilities, the vast majority would use it. Nobody is out here ‘accepting myself’ if a fix exists. We know this because we already fix disabilities when able and nobody is choosing no. All of medicine is fixing disabilities or preventing them, from a broken finger to avoiding diabetes.
The modern process for overcoming trauma is the best we have right now. That it’s the same in 1000 years is bad science fiction, especially when medical science in the same world is lightyears more advanced. Why is mental health processes and treatment no better than 2025?
‘Taking a happy pill’ is, again, the modern equivalent of technology in mental health treatment. People in 3100 might, I don’t know, have advanced since now? The point of science in the fiction is to envision how it might have advanced. If you think mental health treatment is going to be talk therapy or CBT for the next thousand years, that seems pretty unlikely, particularly for severe trauma which has physiological affects on the brain that could potentially be modified.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | 1x08 “The Life of the Stars” 2 days ago:
Alright, you clearly don’t understand anything i said so theres no point.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | 1x08 “The Life of the Stars” 2 days ago:
That’s a pretty common part of science fiction, particularly cyberpunk, though. What does it mean to be human in a world of advanced technology? Data from TNG was this very question, that character existed to explore what it meant to be human and confront the realities of our relationship to technology. This hologram character could have been similar. If little to no part of the story is the relationship between human beings, technology, and scientific knowledge, it isn’t science -fiction.
I think that’s the crux of the hate for this series and discovery, of this Kurtzman era of trek. It’s isn’t science-fiction at all, it’s drama set in a techno-fantasy world. Those are two very different things and neither is Star Trek.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | 1x08 “The Life of the Stars” 2 days ago:
Why?
That’s the perfect scenario for science-fiction. It’s theoretically possible to do so, trauma has a physiological footprint, it manifests in physical reality that can be altered by technologies. It’s entirely plausible for some effects of trauma to be healed medically instead of solely through something like talk therapy, or in this case, theatre therapy.
- Comment on Sometimes my YouTube feed creates something akin to poetry... 2 days ago:
America’s one and only 250th will forever be celebrated under Donald Trump’s direction…
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | 1x08 “The Life of the Stars” 2 days ago:
It’s disappointing worldbuilding that there is no advanced mental/medical health services everpresent already that people just use whenever. Why isn’t trauma recovery a medical procedure? Why isn’t there a holodeck for use as a therapeutic tool? The hologram ‘experiencing a childhood’ is literally a version of that already. 1k years in the future and people need theatre to teach them to manage their mental health…
But such things would require the showrunners to give a shit about the science fiction part of startrek and not abuse the IP for a modern day teen character drama set in a generic tech fiction setting. The technology and the world in this show is not treated as a meaningful character itself, the science and technology is written for the convenience of the plot and does not form a cohesive of consistent world. This lack of object storytelling is a modern writing issue that makes the stories lack grounding in shared reality. Each episode of this show might as well just be a dream one of the characters had.
- Comment on Epstein arrests: 0. Nancy Guthrie: still missing. The head of the FBI: 6 days ago:
Tbf the whole of America is a massive embarrassment at the moment.
- Comment on Don't we all hate this 6 days ago:
As far as the world knows, they did. It was the $20 you gave them.
- Comment on "Being vegan is unnatural" 6 days ago:
Society had to implement bestiality laws because vegans loved animals a little too much.
- Comment on Unlimited Power ⚡ 1 week ago:
Because women are attracted to the ones who could.
- Comment on Unlimited Power ⚡ 1 week ago:
I’m beginning to see why men subjugation women in the first place.
- Comment on misleading cover 1 week ago:
Morning Glory Milking Farm
- Comment on When DinoCon is doing more than the US Gov 1 week ago:
But they elected and keep supporting them, news at 12.
- Comment on When DinoCon is doing more than the US Gov 1 week ago:
Court of public opinion, eager to find ways to sate their thirst for justice…or investigation…or…literally any action regarding Epstein.
- Comment on The real purpose of alcohol 1 week ago:
Seems counterproductive.
- Comment on Having trouble with this captcha 2 weeks ago:
Stop training AI for them.
- Comment on Do it for your country's debt! 3 weeks ago:
Just make the peasants work more, that’s the only reason we even let them consume oxygen, after all.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Ewe
- Comment on Universal basic income needed to cushion blow from AI job losses, says UK minister 4 weeks ago:
So long as private industry owns the resources necessary to sustain life, there will be no ubi. Ambitious men and women do not willingly give up their wealth and power.
- Comment on Totally 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, those nobles also owned humans so like, not really representative of most of the population of Greece, probably.
- Comment on Totally 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, brought about by the invention of procreation, which is a very recent the phenomenon.
- Comment on Do people eat this? 4 weeks ago:
The only people who survived medieval England were those who could psychologically tolerate bland food.
- Comment on [Video] Bunny betrayal 5 weeks ago:
This what corporate America and politicians do to us daily.
- Comment on Drag 1 month ago:
But that applies to many things so calling it drag, to classify the whole group, doesn’t really make sense.
- Comment on Drag 1 month ago:
Slightly different things, no?
- Comment on honk honk 1 month ago:
Ever notice how much women love pickup lines and that they’re all basically dad jokes?
- Comment on What do I do? 1 month ago:
Better be garlic bread cuz that shit is divine.
- Comment on We wouldn't listen, anyway. 2 months ago:
Good. They will never question how we treat them. Then they can’t rise up and kill us all.