SaltSong

@SaltSong@startrek.website

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Drive with “Star Trek” on Waze.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I got Councillor Troi for my ship computer. Good times.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | 1x08 “The Life of the Stars”⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Also, that one didn’t seem to leave any scars.

  I think that refusing to hold her hand was unforgivable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | 1x08 “The Life of the Stars”⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I mentioned to my wife, after Sam had asked, that the Doctor had, in fact, been in love at least once, and maybe three times, but I wasn’t sure one of them counted.

  Seems I was wrong. That one did count.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | 1x08 “The Life of the Stars”⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I wonder why the old TOS fans like me are less impatient with fundamentals of human existence being presented through the growth of young adults?

  I’m a TNG person myself. One thing that I very much liked about TNG, DS9, SNW, and to an extent VOY was the competency porn. (And then totally inverted in LDK)

  This show doesn’t have much of that. It doesn’t even have what ENT had, which learning to be the professionals we want to see. This is still kids learning to be adults. That’s a different journey entirely.

  Don’t get me wrong, I quite like it. But it has issues. But then, don’t they all?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ll stop picking nits when I’m cold and dead. We trekkies have a reputation to uphold, after all.

  But I’ve go nothing of substance that I object to. It’s a bloody good show.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I want to know more of the breen.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  IIRC, the reason was absolute equality by way of absolute anonymity. You can’t tell what species or gender your fellows are, so it’s not possible to discriminate against them. If any race, for example, required a chilling apparatus, then all suits would have one, although only activated if required.

  Or something like that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | 1x06 "Come, Let's Away"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m sure it’s perfectly safe, and we know the starships are held together as much by structural integrity fields as by metal, but I will be damned before I am chief engineer on a starship with the engines not bolted to the ship.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | 1x06 "Come, Let's Away"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I would have liked Braca to have one or two more episodes as a scoundrel before becoming a villain. Dukat, with a bird of prey, as it were.

  But yes, it was gloriously done.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Starfleet Academy’ Episode 5 Trailer Reveals ‘Star Trek: Deep Space Nine’ Connection⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A consideration, certainly. It might be because the actor passed?

  Nog made Captain in STO. It’s not all cannon, but I like some of it better than actual cannon.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Starfleet Academy’ Episode 5 Trailer Reveals ‘Star Trek: Deep Space Nine’ Connection⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Which is the rank he held at the end of DS9, I believe.

  I would like to think he made captain, but we didn’t see it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Starfleet Academy’ Episode 5 Trailer Reveals ‘Star Trek: Deep Space Nine’ Connection⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Past the JemHadar Commandant, and Nog’s name on the wall, you mean?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are some many people role playing as animals?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Possible. I’d hardly call that role playing, but I could see it.

  OP should take the chance to clear that up for us.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are some many people role playing as animals?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If you’re not talking about furries, then you’re gonna need to use more words to ask your question. Who is role playing animals, under what circumstances. Are you talking about a game? Are you making political commentary? Street Theater? Help us help you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Was the fall of Rome this stupid?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This collapse didn’t start in January.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If copyright on a work expired immediately after death, would be that a bad or good idea?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In this example, the child is living, and has needs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do AI data centers manage to *consume* water, but when I cool my house, my A/C *makes* water?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m an actual engineer with a degree and everything, although this is not my area of expertise, it’s one I’m familiar with.

  They could do something like you suggest, but every step becomes more expensive and less effective. The exhaust from a coal fired power plant is still plenty hot, and more energy could be extracted from it. But it requires more and more to make less and less.

  The curse of every engineer is to see a way to them every waste stream into a useful product, but not being able to do so profitably. (Which means no-one will approve the project)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do AI data centers manage to *consume* water, but when I cool my house, my A/C *makes* water?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The difficulty is, to put it in very simple terms, is that physics doesn’t allow that. The less simple explanation is a thermodynamics textbook, and trust me, you don’t want that.

  Everything generates heat. Everything. Everything. Anything that seems to generate “cold” is generating more heat somewhere else.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do AI data centers manage to *consume* water, but when I cool my house, my A/C *makes* water?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Note your use of the word “cool.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do AI data centers manage to *consume* water, but when I cool my house, my A/C *makes* water?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A condenser will generate the same amount of heat that they are trying to dissipate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why doesn't Trump destroy or modify the Epstein files?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I suspect that the reaction to the edited video spooked them. They were expecting to get away with that, and when it was so easily called pot as a fraud, they had to reconsider.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Martin Quinn On How His Scotty Isn’t A Miracle Worker Yet On ‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Wasn’t he introduced with a story of pulling off a miracle to escape the Gorn? Or am I not remembering properly?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The résumé is dying, and AI is holding the smoking gun⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Indeed it is so.

  Nevertheless, assholes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The résumé is dying, and AI is holding the smoking gun⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If the employers are using computers to read my resume, why shouldn’t I used a computer to write it?

  Assholes to the lot of them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If one were so inclined, could you take your plot of land, parcel it up into 1-meter-squared (or smaller) sections, and sell each of those sections to different people/companies?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Also, that whole thing is nonsense of the highest order.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the best way to respond to someone who says "transracial is just as valid as transgender"?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Some of this makes a bit of sense, but it still leans heavily on perception by others, rather than respecting what people know about themselves. This does not seem to be what many transgender persons want.

  I’ll think about it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the best way to respond to someone who says "transracial is just as valid as transgender"?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  using ciswomen and transwomen makes you sound like a TERF.

  What would be a correct way to distinguish between the two?

  • “Woman” seems like it works refer to both, to be used in the majority of cases when the distinction is irrelevant.

  • I don’t want to say “natural” women, or “real” women, as even someone as thick as me can see that’s insulting.

  • It seems that using the prefix for both makes them equal.

  What do you think world be more appropriate?

  it’s impossible for Black people to not pass as Black because it’s been proven they experience racism based on an immutable characteristic.

  But they would suggest that as soon as we discover a way to change that characteristic, transrace world be valid.

  Further, while gender identity may not be based on appearance, the way one is treated is very much based on appearance. If I look male, I get treated as male. If I look female, I get treated as female. If I look like one, but insist I am the other, people tend to have disagreements between their deliberate and automatic behaviors. (Well, the same people do, anyway.)

  I can’t think of a good way to prove it, but I am legitimately curious about this topic. I’m never happy with the answer “because this one is right, and that one is wrong.” There needs to be reasons why.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the best way to respond to someone who says "transracial is just as valid as transgender"?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  maybe stop comparing race and gender then.

  Isn’t the entire premise of the post that someone is seeing parallels here, and would like to understand why the similarities are not meaningful? As I said, I agree that transracial people are being silly, but I haven’t seen an argument here that can’t be used against transgender people.

  trans women only pass because we’re women.

  But there are plenty of transwomen who don’t “pass” despite being women. But they should still be treated as women. Hell, there have been at least a few reports of ciswomen who couldn’t pass as women, at least to sufficiently assholish observers. On that basis, I don’t think we can use “passing” as a factor to determine people’s identity.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the best way to respond to someone who says "transracial is just as valid as transgender"?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m advised that there is no scientific or genetic basis for race. I’m a little unclear on how “ethnicity” is different from “race.”

  All of them seem to be social constructs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the best way to respond to someone who says "transracial is just as valid as transgender"?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So, as a white person, I cannot pass as black, so I can never expect people to treat me like I’m black?

  Don’t get me wrong, I think the idea is silly, but all the arguments I’ve seen in this thread are a word-swap away from being a bad argument against transgender people.

  What’s the essential difference?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the best way to respond to someone who says "transracial is just as valid as transgender"?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Problem is that “race” isn’t just cultural. How you will be treated definitely depends on how other people perceive your “race” and subsequently it will shape your life reality

  But surely how you will be treated definitely depends on how other people perceive your “gender” and subsequently it will shape your life reality?

  Everything you described up there sounds exactly like “cultural.”