astronaut_sloth @ astronaut_sloth @mander.xyz

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Absolutely! What I find most terrifying is how anyone with a functioning brain can see the progress already made in this goal. Then that coupled with this plan is just the stuff of nightmares.

I thin you're right that it will trickle down and be worse in some areas (re: red states) than others. I can only hope my blue state remains strong.

That was not funny. (It was spontaneous though)

The fact that this is even being contemplated is insane. And let's be clear, it's not a far leap from "eradicate LGBTQ people from public life" to "eradicate LGBTQ people from life." God knows that a lot of those chuds will not see the difference between these statements and start vigilante killings for "being obscene" in public. Truly the stuff of nightmares.

Like @Nightwingdragon@lemmy.world mentioned, it will probably get held up in implementation, but that's my only solace in this because that could cause a whole host of other problems.

Karl Urban is the best of the Kelvin-verse cast. He felt like De Kelley/McCoy without doing an imitation or parody. Even in little things like facial expressions and line delivery, he nailed it.

I agree with you...to a point. Story should come first, but if a story fails the Blechdel Test, there should be a good, defensible reason for it, and there are good reasons to fail the test, e.g. a story takes place exclusively on a Royal Navy ship circa 1800; there were no women there, so it wouldn't make sense to pass. I'll buy it.

In Star Trek though, there are fewer defensible reasons because of the nature of the show. Off the top of my head, "Measure of a Man" could have Capt. Louvois discussing Android rights with Dr. Pulaski (without mentioning Data) or Troi expressing to Guinan how upsetting it is that these trials are necessary. Does the lack of a scene like that make the episode bad? No. It starts a discussion, though, which is the primary purpose of the test to begin with. In the case of "Measure of a Man," a scene like that would have probably been left on the cutting room floor to make way for a tighter story that just happened to not have women at the center of it.

Also, reasonable people can disagree on how important a particular scene could be, but the discussion of female representation is still an important one. The goal isn't to "pass" the test for everything, but there shouldn't be an overwhelming amount of failures of the test.

This is so true. Although not popular with people in my field (Computer Science), I highly value my liberal arts and humanities education. Far from being "worthless mandatory classes" (like many in my major believed), I found thee classes to be the most enlightening. I learned to wield algorithms and build software in my major, but I learned why I should and how to think critically about how to do it to best serve people (not to mention just simple communication). If anything, there should be more liberal arts in the curriculum, not less.

No lie, he seems like such a cool dude. If I were in the area, I'd totally go to see him. And while I first knew him as Chekov, I grew to love him as Al Bester on Babylon 5, truly some of his best work!

And Number One in "The Cage"!

Hey, give it a chance. I love musicals, and I went in dubious that it would be pulled off. When it was announced, I didn't think that they were up to the task, and I have to say that I was very pleasantly surprised that SNW did it an did it well. It's different, and it's a risk, but you know..."risk is part of the game." At worst, you don't re-watch it.

:wq Thanks Bram for a great editor! Vim is probably one of the most useful pieces of software ever written. I know that I use it literally every day.

Right there with you on 10 episode seasons. I wish we could go back to 22 episode seasons.

I love Star Trek, and I love musicals. These are two of my favorite things, and I never thought they should mix. When this was announced, I was very skeptical. I have to say, that they pulled it off, and it was AMAZING! The plot was a bit meh and definitely made to shoehorn in the musical, but the singing really did it for me. "How Would That Feel" (La'an's solo) and "Keep Us Connected" (Uhura's solo) were my favorite songs, and I have listened to them so much today. "How Would That Feel" definitely cemented La'an's place as my favorite character.

That argument felt so weird. 4 shifts means less time on duty each day, so wouldn't people be happier, but it also reduces man-power for each shift. It felt like Jellico should have been pushing for 3 and Riker for 4.

This is one of the best takes I've seen for a while. LLMs seem like they are the "new Google" in that just searching for information super-charged productivity. Now, instead of using some google fu and having to wade through some links and read, someone can just ask a direct question to an LLM and get a reasonably good answer that may or may not need some work to fix up.

In fact, I've started using GPT to summarize large reports/emails and generate the base code for projects so that I just have to tweak it. It has made work that would take hours or days into an hour or two. Honestly, GPT and Llama have made me a much more productive person. Understanding how to use LLMs to one's advantage is going to be a skill going forward just like how effectively using a search engine is a skill now. It's not a skill that will likely be appreciated (much like how effectively googling isn't), but it will set workers apart.

Maybe it's regional or a recent change; it's been a minute since I was in high school, and my university studies were not in the humanities.

Would that really be that bad? Another browser will take its place, or Chromium will be forked. The worst thing would be YouTube going down, but even that is not that bad. Even so, I don't think YouTube would necessarily disappear; it would probably be bought by some other company for pennies on the dollar. If that happened, I think it would be a mild inconvenience but nothing too crazy. In all, I say break it up!

On its face, I'd agree, but the term is used almost exclusively by the hyper-right wing. No one outside of that sphere uses the term (at least as far as I've experienced).

Which is really sad. What "conservatives" are representing isn't even conservative at all; it's just regressive, authoritarian non-sense. Conservatives (real ones) have an important part to play in a properly working political system (which we don't have in the United States). Ideally, we'd have a a progressive party and a conservative party; the former looking for reforms anywhere they can, even to the point of burning down the system, and the latter urging caution and ensuring the stability and safety of the system. Instead, the U.S. has a conservative party (Democrats) and a fascist/regressive party (Republicans). So, instead of moving forward with caution, we're moving backward.

Well, that's kind of the point. If something isn't done to stop their fascist power grab, then no, it means nothing. But, the important thing is to realize that anti-fascism is still the majority, even if it has no power.

Also, quick edit to add that it's important to remember that the military is a class-based system. The majority of the service members who are Republicans are enlisted, i.e., of the lower class. The officer corps, the ones who actually make decisions, is more evenly split. In fact, if I remember correctly, there's a slight majority of officers who are Democrats. I'd wager the reason for that is that officers are required to have a college degree, and there is a correlation between education and party alignment.

Little column A, little column B. They're losing the demographic war, and if the trend continues without any outside influence, they are a dying party. Because of that, they're resorting to fascism to hold onto power with a dwindling minority. That is, their dwindling power in a fair system is leading them to turn to more drastic measures to retain power. We're watching them take off the fig leaf of acting as if they are bound by laws and norms.