Corgana @ Corgana @startrek.website

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The deflector on the nebula class just always looks like a dumb little mouth to to me

FOSS land is always going to be populated by freaks and geeks. The well socialized devs get jobs at Google. It's impressive the "system" works as well as it does, IMO. Passion is a big motivator.

There is a reason the type of devs who have the talent, passion and time for projects like this are not spending 60hrs/wk at Google.

I've watched this seven times and I can confirm that it gets dumber every time. 10/10.

The moderator to user ratio on the fediverse is orders of magnitude higher than commercial platforms. Even Lemmy.world (a large, loosely moderated Lemmy instance) has again, orders of magnitude more eyes on its content than reddit.

This means that even if a chatbot gets invented that is impossible to distinguish form a human, mods will more readily be able to tell if it is pushing a narrative/shilling products.

This post is definitely Tankie bait

Honestly I had the same thought. But on the other hand, internet outrage talking points have also become extremely formulaic...

Save yourself some clicks: https://github.com/dmunozv04/iSponsorBlockTV

In Star Wars the droids seem pretty ok with their situation as servants. I suppose you could describe Zora in Discovery similarly, but I'm struggling to think of other examples in Trek.

What are you going to do a 360 kickflip over? Water?

LOL is this OC? Nicely done.

Correct! Teenage Mutant Binja Gurtles.

Bitwarden

Do you mean Bitdefender (the antivirus)? Bitwarden is free.

Before anyone well ackhuallys me yes, there is a very cheap $0.80/mo plan if you want an authenticator.

That sidesteps the question of why all of these comically evil people are okay with using this arbitrary contest to determine succession, instead of the usual route of organically murdering each other until someone emerges who is good enough at disposing of potential assassins that they keep the throne for a while?

I'm saying they're not ok with it, but they are trapped in the current system. It's like, an allegory, maaan.

I didn’t watch the movie, so I’m probably missing something. Did Georgiou also have to deal with a bunch of normal assassination plots after officially gaining the throne? Or are we to assume that by virtue of winning this contest, she is widely seen as too dangerous for anyone to attempt to usurp?

Sort of the latter, which is kind of the central plot device.

Thanks, here is the instance list in that case (it looks like it covers most of the big ones).

Can you explain more about your data methodology? Like how did you scrape it? Specifically I'm curious which instances were and weren't included in your study.

I'm hesitant to give the Section 31 writers this much credit, but a recurring theme from Star Trek (especially since TNG), is the notion that people are a product of the cultures they come from, and asks the question of if they can grow beyond it.

This move showed us that Terran empire causes suffering for everyone, even for the top leaders. The system is working for nobody and yet they are all stuck within it. The system of abusing children to choose a new leader seems engineered to make sure that nobody can escape.

Georgiou, somehow, escaped. And now she's (in her own words) "a monster with a conscious (ie: useless)" in a system that has no need for monsters. She felt useless to change the empire, and useless to do anything once she found it no longer surrounding her.