I feel that most Starfleet officers are no more than one degree of separation from having gotten drunk with Mariner.
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I feel that most Starfleet officers are no more than one degree of separation from having gotten drunk with Mariner.
I wouldn't have even cared if he'd been open about it. "I'm part of a network that provides funding to left-wing creators. They have no editorial control over me, and I'd leave if they tried to." Fucking *simple*. The fact that they were told to hide it though? Alarm bells ringing *everywhere*!
The "defense" that "they never told me what to say", when nobody ever suggested that they had is such a tell. Nobody pays "independent" people like Pakman to say things. You find the one who is already onboard with your message and then just pump them full of money.
I don't believe you think it's beautiful at all, tbh, and it's insincere of you to imply so. I think you're very happy with how the world has worked to date and see Trump as an abberation needing to be weathered, rather than an inevitability of the system Democrats and Republicans have built.
Right, because nothing says 'cool' like invisible lines on a map deciding who gets dignity and who doesn’t. Heaven forbid people are allowed to move as freely as money does.
Cool?
Chamberlain bought Britain time to rearm. The democrats are buying America nothing.
They're incapable of recognising Trump as a fascist. They think his term will end and when it does, we'll return to status quo ante bellum, passing power between them and Republicans. They don't want to ruin that by fighting now and seemingly "uncivil"; they're literally trying to wait fascism out.
I only buy from Jeff Bezos when he puts stuff up on Facebook Marketplace or Craigslist tbh.
Trans people have been around your whole life. You’ve been sharing bathrooms with them your whole life. They’ve been in your communities your whole life. They’ve even been playing sport your whole life. And you didn’t care *at all* till a few years ago when every right wing org decided you should
...wait, I think you were the one who taught me that reference! :D
I couldn't give a fuck about your citizenry.
He's probably stuck on the roof again.
It will be a cold day in hell before I endorse that clown @chiggyvr.bsky.social for President!
All the replies in this thread are acting like the Democratic leadership have ever suggested they would do any of those things even if they had a 100% majority. The Democrats are a centre-right party. They do not *want* any progressive wins.
Because none of those are things the Democratic leadership want.
Fuck off with your AI shit :)
What are the odds she doesn't exist either and is just a front for his scam. AI generated or stolen pfp.
Assuming all the ones on the wall are "his", they'd all have fooled me, except the astronaut one, which has def slop vibes. I wonder how they spotted him!
I can't wait to find out the full story of wtf happened here!
I made this as a joke in photoshop and now I desperately want it.
It's not even his national flag. It's like if the Taoiseach covered his entire house in Leinster flags.
Support the strikers! #PensionParity
Not that I think it could ever happen, but if it could, I hope we've burned all the machines down long before that day.
I did not mean to suggest that they should.
I've accepted that there will always be a rug-pull but then we'll all just move to the next place. It's annoying but no different to any general enshittification. Start as community driven -> grow -> monetise -> turn to shit -> die Federation isn't the pull to Bluesky, the people are.
Stop digging.
"All the big boys, all the Berties, all the envelopes, yeah, they hurt me." And with that, he was *done*.
I always considered Spec Fic to be Science Fiction + Friends. Like, fantasy books (usually) aren't sci-fi but I'd call them speculative fiction because they're speculating about alternate worlds.
Like 90% of my parents generation have relationships exactly like that. There was *massive* social pressure on women to quit their jobs by a certain age, get married and become homemakers, and that was what the vast majority of men expected.
It's just eugenics, man. Fascism 101.
I'm just glad this wasn't the announcement of a live action version.
“Nothing is more important than stopping fascism, because fascism will stop us all.” - Fred Hampton
These guys are *still* plenty cared for, but... "If *everything* in the world isn’t about me, then what’s even the point of anything?"
Honestly, not even. There’s more of the kind of great sci-fi the "sci-fi is dying" crowd love available now than there ever has been before. What’s happening is that sci-fi isn’t centered *entirely* on them anymore, and that’s the panic.
"Hi, my name is ___my eyes are up there ^^^, buddy!____"
I'd tell you to touch grass but I suspect you'd just use AI to generate a picture of some for you.
Or maybe not colonised at all.
Yes, but only the east coast.
Gifno Hood was my favourite character in Star Wars!
It was a great episode! Also, with everything else happening in the world, I don't think I could have handled learning that Frakes was a dick!
You joked before about going back in time and writing under the name Robert Heinlein. Turns out you were actually Robert Charles Wilson!
I just want to be able to watch Doctor Who online without pirating it! :D
Working fine for me!
I'm a 42-year old man with no kids of his own and I stan Ms. Rachel.
I spent lots of time with my toddler niece watching her favorite shows, and most of them (Blippi, Cocomelon, Baby Bum) felt manipulative or exploitative to varying degrees. The only exception was Ms. Rachel. Even before all this shit kicked off, it was incredibly clear how much she cares about kids.
Make art so good that people will be riffing on it 2500 years later.
Not just parallels, it was literally the tans. They went to Palestine after Ireland.
Jesus, this one slipped by me. Yeah you're right there, @blackcatfoxrabbit.bsky.social. The person I'm replying to is probably a bot and just pulling from stock phrases about elections.
Democrats probably got close to 100% of the vote from people who aren't absolute total moral voids, too. That number is entirely as relevant as the national popular vote, if what you're looking for is to feel smug about yourselves while your rights are being stripped away.
The popular vote has literally nothing to do with presidential election results, and it is bizarre that Democrats keep bringing it up every time they lose. Good job, you got a bigger *irrelevant* number than the other guy. He got a bigger *relevant* number than you did. Do you want a sticker?
I used to work for an Irish government agency and we were hosting presentations as part of a tendering process. A company from the UK came in and was doing okay, but the guy kept using the phrase "southern Ireland" and every time he did you could feel the atmosphere get more and more tense :D
In France, people understand Ireland is not part of the UK, but what I *do* have to explain at least once a week is that no, the Irish don't all love Conor McGregor.
If only there was a way to do those things that didn't involve maintaining a hyper-militarised police state. Truly, the only two options are arming the police as if the country was a war zone, or letting all the murderers run free.
To be clear, I was agreeing with you and replying to the person who was claiming the Dems didn't do those things.
That message doesn't make people want to vote for Democrats, it makes them want to put a gun in their own mouths.
She had a platform containing not a single *one* of the new verboten words/terms, and she lost humiliatingly.
You may want to review the Presidency of Joe Biden.
The main Democrat platform position for the past several decades has been to accept and perpetuate right-wing talking points, and then to argue to the left from there.
People deserve good food and they can have it if they break the Burger King-McDonald's Duopoly.
I attack fascists and anybody who enables fascists. If you don't, it really shows what side *you* are on.
Why would they push for something they don't want?
A united Irelabd that somehow also includes Scotland and Wales even though we didn't ask for those.
I'm 100% with you when you say we won't get out of this by feeling *less*, but our feelings need to be in support of each other, not rocks. Encouraging people to feel empathy with LLM's is as effective for that as trying to grow your family by watching porn alone.
I felt so powerfully for Frodo when I read Lord of the Rings. It was a profound and moving experience that left me shaken for days, but it was not the empathy I would feel meeting a real person who had been through those or similar events.
if someone starts equating the suffering of your characters with the suffering of real people, something has gone horrifically wrong.
Empathy involves recognising and sharing the genuine emotional states of real people. What we feel when we read fiction is not empathy, it is identification and imagination, both of which are good things, but
Empathy is reserved for living beings. If you feel it towards non-living things, you are the victim of a grift, and someone somewhere is making money off you.
Tangentially related, but I also believe that the massive overreliance on conspiracy-as-plot-device in movies and tv is one of the main reasons for the massive rise in people who believe in conspiracy theories today.
100%. We have used sentient robots as a media stand-in for oppressed human populations for so long that the central metaphor has been lost, and instead we've wound up with a huge number of people who genuiely believe rocks might be able to think.
We are morally obliged as humans to destroy these things and their physical avatars wherever we encounter them.
Je ne sais pas si c'est un problème de langue ou quoi, mais en anglais, c'est bien l'implication que vous avez donnée.
Real human beings are saying they are suffering. A robot is following its programming and printing out text that says it is suffering too. You are shrugging and saying it's not your role to say which is real. That is horrific.
You conflated the idea of listening to people who say they are suffering and listening to *things* that are programmed to pretend to do the same.
If i print a page to your printer with the text, "I am sentient and feel unseen," that is *not* your printer telling you it is sentient. It is your printer following its instructions. LLMs are the exact same.
LLM's aren't "telling" us anything though. They're regurgitating the data they've been trained on.
Normal people aren't their audience for this though. The average person doesn't care enough to watch, and actual experts are watching real reporting. This is 100% for the "le epic bacon" crowd who want to feel smart and "in the know" when they recognise terms that "normies" are unfamiliar with.
I don't believe he phrased it as a request.
> Like 19th-century fears that telephones would spread diseases Think of how much better our mental health would be if phones had never been invented though.
We were told for decades that "you can’t just call every politician you dislike a fascist." Funny how quiet those voices are now that these same politicians are flaunting their fascism openly.
I remember when I was in the AMHS, the lift had a sign inside that said "You are in an elevator. You are safe.", for people who suddenly got disoriented or had a crisis in the lift. Thought that was really good!
The former is how the Irish have handled it. The latter is the Israelis.
It must never again happen to anyone, anywhere. vs It must never again happen to *us*.
I genuinely don't understand how you could *not* believe that the people who have *all the power* in society are responsible for the direction, positive or negative, that society is heading. It's like believing that the passengers rather than the crew are responsible for setting a ship's course.
Y'all had a piece of trash called "The Journal of the Whills, Part I," and then Marcia Lucas "invaded" and fucking *gave you* Star Wars.
And the sauce is locally sourced too!
Not doing much to dispel the tropes about rural Americans, are they!
They tried to lock down Great Britain but the unionists threw a fit and said they had every right to become infected like the true British patriots they were, and we were forced into the British quarantine as a result. It's Schengen all over again but with zombies.
He hates trans people but submitted himself for an award that is *explicitly* trans-inclusive, and then all the other nominees, withdrew in disgust when he was included. It's like a musician being horrifically racist and then complaining when they don't win a MOBO award. He's an absolute cretin.
The "Great Filter" is accidentally building so many data centers around your star to power AI slop that you block out all light from reaching your planet and everyone freezes to death.
I saw this ad on Facebook the other day, and it is simultaneously the most depressing and the most horrifying thing i've ever seen.
When you're such a suck-up to fascist strongmen that even another actual fascist visits the White House with her European opposite numbers to tell you to cool it.
Whatever amount of money I'd need to never have to worry about paying for rent, health expenses or food ever again. If I could just live my live and work to make the world a better place instead of work to survive, to be able to take risks without worrying it might fail and destroy my life.
I'm not even American and I don't live in the states. I just saw a cause I thought was worth donating $5 to, and the Democrats made my life hell for it.
I literally had to abandon an email address I'd had since I was a kid. I donated to a funding drive that I didn't even know was affiliated with the DNC and seemingly every Democrat in the country got a copy of my address and flooded my inbox non stop every campaign season, making it unusable.
I’d believe them if An Post could point to a single mention of the aerial, or of a ‘visual signal to the modern age’, in the initial project brief/spec provided to the artist, rather than giving a post-facto rationalisation of something that has all the hallmarks of AI slop.
