minorkeys
@minorkeys@lemmy.world
- Comment on Dumb glasses 3 days ago:
I would love these for when I’m dealing with companies and sales people.
- Comment on Is it weird for parents to keep saying "I love you", then asks "Do you love me?" 5 days ago:
This is some manipulative bullshit. Of course dad don’t ask, he doesn’t want to hear that you love him less all the time. How fucking brutal that must have been for him. Meanwhile your mother is still subtly coercing you to choose her and worsen your relationship with your dad. Men may be violent but women are vicious.
- Comment on Is it actually healthy for people to have a place to confess things anonymously? 6 days ago:
And the church used those confessions to control things.
- Comment on it is me, I am the autistic child 6 days ago:
Yeah, you do seem a bit defensive.
- Comment on it is me, I am the autistic child 1 week ago:
Oh look, the massive ego of women.
- Comment on Games with loot boxes to get minimum 16 age rating across Europe 1 week ago:
Does this include ever mob in an RPG that drops random loot? Like all of World of Warcraft?
- Comment on funny number 1 week ago:
Are they distinguishable?
- Comment on funny number 1 week ago:
AI slop, then?
- Comment on An identification key 2 weeks ago:
It does cause gonnatreea
- Comment on Harvard Places Math Professor Martin Nowak on Paid Administrative Leave Over Epstein Ties 2 weeks ago:
Punishing people for things you can’t know they did means hurting people to gratify your feelings. Which is exactly what they did to make you feel that way. So…how does that work?
- Comment on Harvard Places Math Professor Martin Nowak on Paid Administrative Leave Over Epstein Ties 2 weeks ago:
I’m a generally forgiving and understanding person but it’s hard to argue these people shouldn’t simply be shot.
- Comment on Can some please explain to me why it is that your health insurance can deny you medication, even if your doctor says you need it? 2 weeks ago:
Because the humans making money off health insurance don’t care that we suffer. Our wellbeing is absolutely irrelevant. That is why the Luigi is a folk hero right now.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | 1x08 “The Life of the Stars” 2 weeks ago:
I don’t buy that excuse, mental health treatment doesn’t advance in a world of dramatic medical technological advances? They can repair brain matter with an external device and recombine a person, atom by atom in transport but talk therapy is the best therapy for mental health… nah, that’s ridiculous.
And Geordie traded pain for augmented sight, arguably better vision than normal. He chose the tradeoff, not because he just didn’t want to see and accepted his blindness.
- Comment on Twitch: "Hey, come back! This commercial break can't play while you're away." 3 weeks ago:
That doesn’t sound like my concern.
- Comment on Do not look at this if you live in Germany. 😐 3 weeks 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” 3 weeks 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” 3 weeks 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” 3 weeks 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” 3 weeks 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... 3 weeks 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” 3 weeks 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: 3 weeks ago:
Tbf the whole of America is a massive embarrassment at the moment.
- Comment on Don't we all hate this 3 weeks ago:
As far as the world knows, they did. It was the $20 you gave them.
- Comment on "Being vegan is unnatural" 3 weeks ago:
Society had to implement bestiality laws because vegans loved animals a little too much.
- Comment on Unlimited Power ⚡ 3 weeks ago:
Because women are attracted to the ones who could.
- Comment on Unlimited Power ⚡ 4 weeks ago:
I’m beginning to see why men subjugation women in the first place.
- Comment on misleading cover 4 weeks ago:
Morning Glory Milking Farm
- Comment on When DinoCon is doing more than the US Gov 4 weeks ago:
But they elected and keep supporting them, news at 12.
- Comment on When DinoCon is doing more than the US Gov 4 weeks 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 4 weeks ago:
Seems counterproductive.