mexico's poorly positioned for the climate change induced water shortages and i hope the colorado delta can survive the bout of facism that the united states is going to endure.
the attempt to turn star trek into a character driven drama with discovery has plenty of flaws, but i accept them in the spirit of trek like i do the sexist flaws in tos and the lgbt-averse flaws in tng, voyager & enterprise.
strange new worlds feels like a half step backwards in both respects because of that lack of representation and it's more glaring now that we have fascism in control of our country. to be fair: i suppose an argument could be made that it's needed considering that both liberal & conservative trekkies alike popularly decry leftism in star trek and its fandom despite star trek's clearly leftist premise and settings; but i still accept strange new worlds in that same spirit.
i'm crossing my fingers in the hope that strange new worlds doesn't end up bowing down to popular pressures in the same way that berman's star trek did in this respect and i hope that the abrams movies continue the stellar (double entendre intended) representation going forward.
i wish i could buy and use a huawei in the united states; but my redmi taught me that all american carriers ban chinese phones from working in this country.
the reaction makes sense; these organizations are modeled after for-profit corporations since that's where most of its leaders come from and oriented towards simpler modes of funding like the american gov't; this is effectively a disaster for this sort of posture and it's hard from them to imagine any other form.
i don't think it's much different than canada's alberta or the australian outback and you have figures like murdoch who help them revel in their prejudices.
definately contenders, but we're more sophisticated at screwing over people; so much so that a majority of the people we've screwed over refused to believe that they've been screwed over, even when you present with them proof that we screwed them over.
it's all good though since i got the last laugh. they hired me to create some software for them and they ended up losing all of it when they fired me because i never checked any of the source into github and the laptop i worked from was locked & encrypted using my own account; so they ended up with nothing.
some of them called me "fabulous" loudly and in front of everyone a few times and my autistic ass genuinely thought that they were complimenting me. lol.
i didn't realize until months afterwards that they were either trying to provoke or shame me and my only regret is that i wish i had realized what was happening at the time so that i could turn it on it's head and do things to make them REALLY clutch their pearls.
this bodes poorly for the american resident who was accidentally deported to this same salvadorian prison