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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lower Decks Season 5 Official Trailer!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You assumed I was saying a thing because I was a racist. I explained why I wasn’t. And you just refuse to believe me. That says so much more about you than it does about me, and I’m pretty tired of explaining it to you. Consider the conversation over.

  LLAP 🖖

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lower Decks Season 5 Official Trailer!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t suppose you can elaborate on what makes a main character bad without using the word woke?

  Your words. Maybe you didn’t explicitly accuse me of racism. But you did the Joe Rogan “just asking the question” thing of proposing a question and already implying the answer you presupposed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lower Decks Season 5 Official Trailer!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It is equally baffling to me that because you don’t understand why I have an opinion, it must be because I’m a racist.

  I’m kinda done trying to explain to you why I have an opinion. It’s not that I haven’t explained it well enough. It’s that you refuse to believe me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lower Decks Season 5 Official Trailer!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My dude, I am literally praising the writing they did on DS9 and LD with Sisko and Freeman. Two people of color who are in charge.

  I am not criticizing Disco or the writers for the existence of the characters. I think it is very cool that there’s a woman of color running the ship. And that the mushroom engineer has a loving marriage with his doctor husband. And that they picked up a cool enby person with a ghost boyfriend who plays the cello.

  I am not criticizing the existence of these characters. I am criticizing the execution.

  I am saying that the writing was bad, the plots made no sense, and the characters’ motivations were all over the place. And yeah, the main character thing was bothersome. Not very Star Trek. The show about an ensemble cast doing space stuff.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lower Decks Season 5 Official Trailer!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If one person says hey we should do this thing, and everyone else says no we shouldn’t based on the information we have, and it turns out that the one person was right because of things nobody knew at the time, that’s a boring plot device. When it happened multiple times, and then kinda all the time, I stopped watching.

  Kirk and Sisko sometimes disagreed with their crews. Sometimes they were wrong. Burnham was always right. And it got old.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lower Decks Season 5 Official Trailer!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t worry, I’m not the type of person you think I am. I have queer friends. My partner’s a bi she/they. I drive a Prius. I’m gonna vote for the woman of color here in a few weeks. Pretty cool of you to make that assumption, though.

  I actually really liked Disco S1 and kinda S2. But the whole “one special person across time and space” thing got kinda old. One person is always right. No matter what. That and the Discovery-is-special-ex-machina Burn alongside the ridiculous constantly-reconfiguring-geometry ships made me lose interest. I hear half the Disco bridge crew had like zero character development in the last season, and they just didn’t even bother having Detmer there for a lot of it.

  Strange New Worlds? Lower Decks? Hell yeah. Perfect Star Trek. 10/10. Disco and Picard? Trying too hard to make “prestige TV” and ending up forgetting why Star Trek is good: ensemble casts working together.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lower Decks Season 5 Official Trailer!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Counterpoint: Star Trek with a “main character” is no good. Recent shows make that pretty clear.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The problem with sleeper ships⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Admission: I stole it.

  qntm’s cool science fiction stories are my favorite.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The problem with sleeper ships⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Worse: your sleeper ship arrives at what should be a pristine planet. But FTL capable ships beat you there. And they ruined the planet over a few thousand years. And now they’re sending out refugee ships of their own.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨2024-07-18 lemm.ee downtime⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  o7

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When did a movie misrepresent the country or city you live in?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I went to college in Muncie, Indiana, which is the inspiration for Pawnee in Parks and Recreation.

  Muncie is kinda like Pawnee, I guess. But without the whimsy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do 9-5 jobs still exist in the U.S.?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I work a 9ish-to-5ish in a science field, salaried. Nobody really cares when I arrive or when I leave, as long as the work gets done. Sometimes science stuff goes off the rails and I have to arrive early or stay late, but I keep track of my hours and arrive a little early or leave a little early on other days to compensate.

  I mean, it took four years of college and more than six of a PhD to get to this point, which stunk. But now I can monitor my chemicals stirring in a flask for a few minutes while hanging out on my phone, which is nice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨lipids⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I had to stare out a window for a little bit after this one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨evangelism⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Alternate take: this is the same sort of mark self-sorting that scam artists use.

  A reasonable person isn’t gonna reply to a typo-ridden email from a Nigerian prince. But those few who do are going to be easy to get everything from.

  Imagine you’re an executive at the company your dad founded. You’re an idiot. Everyone knows you’re an idiot. But you think you’re smart. This guy is willing to consult with you about how your company will use AI (for a modest fee, of course). You don’t understand AI, but you think you do, and you just need someone to help with the details. And everyone has to nod their heads and agree to pay him because they’re afraid of getting fired.

  You don’t have to fool everyone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can I lick it?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It tastes like hot hydrogen gas (that will quickly mix with oxygen and taste like superheated steam).

  If that doesn’t get ya, it would taste like sodium hydroxide, and also soap. (The soap is from the hydroxide turning the fats in your cells into soap.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do you call the next major American holiday which will occur on Monday, October 9th? - Lemmy.world⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the point is that even by the standards of his time, he was horrible. And that was an era where a common legal execution method was strapping you to a wagon wheel and beating you to death over the course of an hour. He was horrible compared even to that.