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- Technology Consultant.
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- Cishet White Male Feminist.
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- Comment on Robert Picardo On How The Doctor Is “Deeper” In ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ 3 days ago:
And honestly, my sourness with the 32nd century is sourness with Disco. It remains the only Trek series I haven’t seen every single episode of.
So I’ll give Academy a chance.
- Comment on Covergent Evolution 3 days ago:
That’s what you get for going Warp 10.
- Comment on Robert Picardo On How The Doctor Is “Deeper” In ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ 4 days ago:
I’ll watch it, but I’m already skeptical because it’s set in the 32nd century. That’s like setting Star Wars stuff in the Sequels Era (don’t do it).
- Comment on Bluesky’s Quest to Build Nontoxic Social Media 5 days ago:
Enshitification commencing in 10… 9…
- Comment on broscience go brrrrrrrrr 1 week ago:
Life… Uh…
- Comment on Give us your craziest ocean facts. 🦑 1 week ago:
Weird mathematical fact about that,
That works out to almost exactly every person on Earth killing exactly one animal every day.
- Comment on LEAVE SQUIDNEY ALONE 1 week ago:
Iä! Hail to the Star Spawn!
Iä! Hail to the children of the slumbering great one!
- Comment on that'll teach him 2 weeks ago:
I hear you can pay for this kind of thing in Thailand.
- Comment on The Photodegradation Ball 2 weeks ago:
Trump claiming this was paid for with Biden era grants in 3… 2…
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- Comment on Mother 3 weeks ago:
TIL how to catch a Pikachu.
- Comment on Caption this. 4 weeks ago:
See kids? Monsters not bad! Monsters just… different! And different not bad!
- Comment on Google researchers uncover critical security flaw in all AMD Zen processors 5 weeks ago:
The researchers discovered that AMD had been using a publicly available example key from NIST documentation since Zen 1,
lol… sigh…
- Comment on All hail Magnetoad 5 weeks ago:
You see Charles, they will always hate and fear amphibians. There can never be peace and understanding between us and them.
*Croak
- Comment on fuck this asshole 1 month ago:
Not voting for them has never once, in the history of history, gotten them to change. It actually causes them to pull further right.
- Comment on Is there a way to watch DS9 whole skipping the prophet & pah wraith plotline 1 month ago:
What the other poster said. Is it possible to skip all those episodes? Probably, if you’re okay with getting dropped into an episode like
“Wait, weren’t they under attack by a huge battlefleet? What happened? How did they survive?”
“Wait, this character is dead? How did that happen??”
You’ll also have to skip the season finale of season 6, the first few episodes of season 7, and most of the last episodes of the series, including the series finale.
tl:dr; power through, don’t do it, it gets better.
- Comment on While Democracy Burns, Democrats Prioritize… Demolishing Section 230? 1 month ago:
This is something I wrote on a recent post. I think it’s something that we should help as many people as possible understand:
This really tracks for me. I grew up around wealthy liberals and am intimately familiar with how these motherfuckers think. I have been telling my friends for months that we cannot expect the Democratic establishment or our current batch of elected Democratic representatives to address the problem.
People are like “Don’t they understand that it’s a war?” Most of these people think we’re idiots for thinking of it as war. Their high spending donors think we’re idiots for thinking of it as a war. They think Republicans are angry idiots who have to be negotiated with so we can “get on with business.” They see Republican voters MAGAing and rioting on Jan 6th and they think “What a bunch of yahoos!” (my multimillionaire boomer dad’s literal words). They see Leftist protests turning out en-masse and they think “What a bunch of yahoos!” (again, my multimillionaire boomer dad’s literal words). My father has literally said about the second Trump presidency.
“This will all blow over.” “You just watch, the system will slow all of this down.” See, it’s not just our “elected dems in office,” who don’t seem to get it, it’s the entire leftish / center leaning, privileged ass, rich ass, mostly white, mostly older demographic, all comfy with their owning of multiple homes and their inflated stock portfolios and their rubbing shoulders with billionaires. We complain about the “elected dems in office,” because we see them out there being like this in public, in the news in front of everybody. But this whole demographic is like this and that’s why we keep seeing it.
EDIT:
The only way we’ll change this is to STOP ELECTING DEMS FROM THAT DEMOGRAPHIC. They’re not “spineless cowards,” they just DON’T ACTUALLY REPRESENT YOU. They represent other neolibral rich people (people just like them, in other words). Those people’s highest values are
Stability. Business Economics (the price of gas and eggs doesn’t really effect them that much). Maintaining their comfy “compassionate upper class” culture. They DO genuinely care about
Philanthropy (usually of a sort of egocentric variety). Social safety nets (most of them genuinely value compassion especially when it doesn’t really cost them anything). Sound fiscal policy. Science (they believe in climate change and worry about their children and grandchildren). They LOVE to reassure and prop themselves up by talking about all the good they’re able to do because they’re rich / influential. On that note, they tend to embrace a kind of leftist, New Agey take on Prosperity Gospel and see wealth as something that enables them to do good in the world and help people (See? Greed is GOOD!). Some of that has merit, but it is NOT nearly as true as they tell themselves and others it is. Faced with chaos and instability they will
Try to negotiate with the people causing it, to get things “back to normal.” Compromise with those people to keep things as stable as possible Every. Fucking. Time. Run off to meditation retreats and vacation homes and time shares in Hawaii or ritzy parts of Mexico to “find their center.” Abandon their higher values to circle the wagons around the first, basic three (Stability, Business, Culture). Importantly,
They DO NOT see you as being “like them,” “their people,” or “part of their culture.” They’re actually VERY aware that you are NOT part of their culture. They usually honestly think that that’s because they made better choices than you. They ARE able to acknowledge that there are people less fortunate then them, and even that they may have an obligation to these people. But they don’t think they OWE you anything. When I say culture, I’m not talking about your Italian heritage, your black southern cuisine or how you abuela only speaks Spanish. I’m talking about private school / charter jets / fundraiser dinners / owning a mint condition classic car / keeping your boat in the garage of the OTHER house you own on the same street as your primary home. They do not feel obligated to go out of their way to defend your culture. Although if your culture is artistic, entrepreneurial, agitates for social justice, or is tangential to their own religious beliefs (looking at you Buddhism), they might be willing to fund it. They DEFINITELY feel entitled to exploit or profit off your culture, if they see an opportunity to do so, and will pat themselves on the back for “the good they’re doing in the world” and “how they were able to help people” the WHOLE WAY TO THE BANK. This doesn’t mean they’re bad people or lack compassion for you. When we’re asking our congressmonsters to fight, we’re asking them to take up our values in ways that many of them (rightly or wrongly) see as abandoning their own core values. THAT’S why they’re angry.
They’re NOT cowards. They just don’t actually value the same things you do and their core priorities aren’t in the same place yours are. They never have been. And as long as we primarily elect Dems from this demographic, they NEVER will be.
- Comment on THE EARTH IS SPHERICAL, DIPSHITS 1 month ago:
100%. I watched a video on TFE where there was a minister guy saying the Earth is flat because the bible says so and that any evidence to the contrary is manufactured by (literally) Satan and the US government and that they may not be able to prove it one way or the other, but they have to have faith in the word of God.
There’s literally nothing you can say to that.
- Comment on Elon's understanding of science. 2 months ago:
I don’t think Elon knows about second year.
- Comment on Roxann Dawson (B’Elanna) passed on directing new Star Trek but has returned to science fiction with Foundation 2 months ago:
TIL! Cool.
- Comment on Film Discussion | Star Trek: Section 31 2 months ago:
I’m glad people are finding it tolerably fun, I guess. I’m about 30 minutes in and don’t know if I can keep watching.
- Comment on Star Trek: Section 31 Review: An Open Window on a Side of the Galaxy Not Seen Before 2 months ago:
I wanted to say something snarky about how “Section 31 aren’t the good guys! Don’t you get it? Stop telling stories where they are!”
But I actually suppose that in 2025 the message of “You will lose utopia if you don’t defend it by whatever means necessary” may actually be a tragically positive message.
- Comment on Cutting-edge Chinese “reasoning” model rivals OpenAI o1—and it’s free to download 2 months ago:
I was curious about the exact same thing, but it’s a 671B model and I only have 3 GPUs.
- Comment on Knowing less about AI makes people more open to having it in their lives – new research 2 months ago:
Interesting. I bet it’s more like this.
- Comment on Politics All the Way Down - Critics are right: the algorithms that increasingly run the world can be dangerous. Are human systems always better? 2 months ago:
“embed the values, aims, and interests of mostly white, mostly male technologists working in mostly profit-driven enterprises.”
This is the correct take, I think. Algorithms could (and can) produce much better outcomes than human driven systems. But when they’re wielded by capitalists, that not what they’re built to do. Human wielded by capitalists suck, but they also (often) have compassion, conscience and some awareness of the outcomes they might be contributing to, and so they don’t always make decisions / take action exactly the way the capitalists would have them do so. Algorithms on the other hand do exactly what they’re told to do, exactly the way they’re told to do it, no matter who is telling them.
- Comment on Star Trek:Section 31 Premiere Reaction (ft Emily Inkpen) and Q&A with Michelle Yeoh and Rob Kazinsky [Spoiler-free mini-review] 2 months ago:
the person who saw the movie described it as “fun,” “silly,” and “Guardians of the Galaxy meets Fifth Element meets Mission: Impossible”.
I have a feeling I’m gonna be like “This was a good sci fi movie, but should it have been a Trek movie?”
- Comment on New coding model just dropped 3 months ago:
Oh, you ain’t seen this shit yet.
- Comment on Luigi Mangione Content Is a Challenge for Social Media Moderators - B… 3 months ago:
Hopefully this shit backfires on the platforms like fuckin crazy.
- Comment on GET REKT 3 months ago:
Deceased! Passed it’s due! Joined the choir invisible!
- Comment on GET REKT 3 months ago:
Can’t you just literally put an [X] for Twitter?
