This is genuinely very disheartening. A lot of people have died and more will continue to die, but NATO can’t even talk openly about how the conflict might be ended. They really do want Ukraine to be the next Afghanistan in the forever war.
lmao this isn’t going to work at all, but it’ll make literally everyone mad, including the people who think this is a good idea.
This is very weird. Reading it feels like the start of a videogame right before something really terrible happens.
This is dope. I didn’t realize that there was so much consistency with the annular engines on Vulcan vessels.
I love the idea that Vulcans would choose the most efficient design, foregoing performance, versatility, speed, etc. Very “I’m only driving to and from work, I don’t need anything flashy.” That’s exactly how Vulcans would design their ships.
We want you to remain living and growing and learning, friend ❤️
A smooth, voluntary, nonviolent transition to peace and harmony would be every leftist’s dream, but there are institutions with power who have used, are using, and will continue to use violence to prevent it from happening in order to maintain their material interests. Call it whatever you want, but the process of transitioning from our status quo to something better will require dismantling institutions that are capable of defending their existence with violence. It sucks.
midwest.social is also an explicitly leftist server
Then I guarantee you that there are plenty of really smart, thoughtful, genuine individuals on hexbear with whom you will find common cause ❤️
Sorry for the confusion, but thank you for bearing with it (no pun intended) and engaging in good faith. I promise you that, at the very least, hexbear users are real people who are being sincere.
One thing I like a lot about LotR is that it’s incredibly detailed and thorough, but there are still some things that simply exist regardless. In a world where magic is real, it wouldn’t make sense if everything had an explanation.
I like Bozeman as Zephram Chocoran’s home base because there’s a good chance that Montana might have been spared a direct nuclear strike. Same logic applies to why San Francisco looks so futuristic: it for sure got flattened entirely by a nuke, so they would have had to build it back up from nothing afterwards. I’m guessing the Golden Gate was still partly standing and they rebuilt it for the same reason we keep other historical buildings/monuments around.
No idea if any of that is canon, but if we aren’t overthinking Star Trek then why are we doing any of this?
Less alcoholism than you usually see in WASP families, replaced by leftover boomer-hippy health fad nonsense. But yeah, you’re not that far off.
Rick Berman was the executive producer on Enterprise. Given that he was born-and-raised in New York City, it’s possible that the answer is, like, Westchester.
These big tech platforms are designed to be outrage machines, quite literally. They have been built and tuned to keep people engaged, and that engagement is often in the form of making people angry at one another. What you experienced is an intended result, whether the designers really understand it or not, of the way these systems are built.
That’s one of the reasons big tech is awful. They do not care how their technology is affecting people or the broader system, only that it generates ad revenue. You are a victim, but so is the misguided asshole who got so wound up about nothing that they started flinging shit at strangers to feel better about themselves.
The platform wants you to stay on it and fling shit back, on and on forever. Better to keep trying to engage in good faith where good faith exists, and remember that the structure of social media itself is leading people to be hostile to one another. Only way around it is to not play that game.
I was being passive-aggressive in response to their passive-aggressive comments in order to highlight the behavior. I come from generations of WASPs, I’m not putting up with bush league passive-aggressiveness.
Have they really? That’s pretty great. TAS does have all the same actors from TOS doing the voices, it doesn’t get much more legit than that.
That kind of hostility is so pervasive on the internet. That person has some sort of weird axe to grind and they took out their hostility on you for an imagined reason. I sincerely doubt that you did anything to provoke them. Hostility doesn’t always require provocation, some people are out looking for a fight and they’ll pick one the first chance they get.
Sometimes good faith questions look like sarcasm or sealioning, but there’s really no way around that. If someone is so wound up that “hey, can you say more about that?” causes them to lash out then that’s a problem on their end, not yours.
I like this breakdown, particularly the contrast between Ortegas and Paris. I think Ortegas is a better overall character, and gets big points for having her skills and progress matter to her character development. Paris, though, was an elite pilot before he showed up on Voyager, and then he spent years doing the most insane piloting anyone in Starfleet has ever seen. Ortegas is sort of the ideal of a relatable, blue-collar pilot with a promising career ahead of her, whereas Paris was a savant when he left with Voyager and a legend when he got home. He’s a tier above everyone else on the list, you gotta hand it to him.
I have a soft spot for it because they did an episode that added Larry Niven’s Kzinti to the Star Trek universe. I know TAS isn’t usually considered canon, but that was fun.
My apologies, I assumed 1 and 4 were about treatment of other users, rather than more broadly.
lmao flawless