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The NFL reddit sucks now. My less geeky friends who don't give shit about lemmy have commented on it.

Shit like this makes me think the CIA isn't nearly as powerful as we think they are.

If you want a real answer find a YouTuber with a moderate following that you enjoy and listen to them.

There are plenty of them that are genuinely fun to watch but not big enough that studios try to influence them. They are also all Canadian for some reason.

People are calling this kid stupid. I disagree.

Nobody buying food in America would think that a single serving product would be able to kill you without any sort of prior health conditions. This is a completely fair assumption and one that is important.

Second, the one chip challenge has been in the public eye for a while. There are multiple examples of people eating them successfully in previous years. When things do go badly, it's usually something along the lines of "I threw up everywhere". That's a far cry from dying and along the lines of risks teenagers have taken for decades.

Third, a ton of food items use the skull and crossbones motif. I've seen it on hot sauces that aren't even that spicy. Nobody assumes that the skull and crossbones means risking death. This is, again, because everyone assumes that food is generally safe to eat.

In conclusion, don't sell things in convenience stores that can kill an otherwise healthy person in short order. While this is especially true for children, it's a good rule of thumb in general.

I think most urban liberals would ban hunting given the opportunity, but have enough self awareness to realize that's an untenable position.

I'm surprised Sundar isn't on the hot seat at this point.

People are gonna be like "oh well he presided over X revenue growth and that's all investors care about". Investors also care about future returns.

Under Sundar, Google has more or less completely failed to diversify. They've had the advantage on several products, only for them to dick around while their competitors established (or re-established) dominance. The areas where they have market dominance went from "we have the far superior product" to "this Lowkey sucks, but I can't think of anything better".

As far as I'm concerned Sundar is Google's Sculley. Google will go for a long time under its own momentum, but eventually the wheels will come off.

Meanwhile Nadella is getting paid a quarter as much.

Every single civilization with every single type of governance in human history requires most people to work. That will continue to be the case for a long time into the future.

Is the current system perfect? No. However it does allow for a greater degree of latitude than basically everything that came before it. It also has safeguards to ensure there's some sort of safety net if you fall on hard times.

You also mentioned democracy. Assuming you live in America, you can vote in a way that introduces reform to the system.

Starting a violent revolution is a last resort sort of thing.

I'm honestly just impressed by how much this guy has grown. I remember when he was going on rants about how much he hates atheists.

I honestly feel like that was a really cheap way of putting tension between Sisco and Picard.

DS9 is a very different show than TNG. Picard and Sisco have an extremely different philosophy towards command. There are a ton of real ways that their values could come into conflict.

Instead DS9 shows Sisco showing open bitterness and contempt because of "Picard Killed his wife". Only he didn't and was very obviously a glorified meat puppet during the entire ordeal.

You know this isn't canon because Sisco looks upset.

So she's actually been around for a long time. The only reason I know was because she was a minor figure in a major internet drama..

Basically in 2014 there was something called GamerGate. It started off as anger over journalists being complete dickwads, and ended in being the blueprint neonazis used to radicalize people.

While the tech journalists were "the good guys" they embodied the "you're not wrong, just an asshole" thing 10000x. They would behave like high school bullies and then be super vindictive to anyone who was perceived as crossing them.

During this time, Wu went to a tech conference with a LED miniskirt that she made. She posted it on the Internet and got a lot of comments. The vast majority of them were good. However, one person said something along the lines of "you look great. These tech conferences can be sexist, I hope you didn't get body shamed". She responded with something like "most people were chill. The only real dicks were the progressive 'conformity non/conformity' types".

This caused a massive shitstorm. Bad actors were able to use the very real argument that the same people calling them sexist were judging Wu so hard that it was visible in pictures". The journalists then attacked her and accused Wu of working with them. Wu apologized. She said she was Chinese and didn't mean to get involved in US culture war discussions. However, she also refused to take a side because she didn't want to get involved in US culture war discussions.

As a result, she got put on a shit list by the media for a long time. That line about VICE NEWS considering outing her? A media organization linked to GamerGate called Gawker pioneered that tactic. They largely used it on us conservatives. Peter Thiel was the biggest example, most people outed were more or less nobodies. I'm guessing VICE had initial thoughts of outing her in the same way, and only later realizing that outing a woman for being a lesbian dating a minority in China is a very different ballgame than outing Timothy Geithner's brother for being on Grindr.

Don't the Vulcans have their own fleet of non federation ships?

Also I'm pretty sure a ton of Vulcans are super racist. Like hilariously so.

So it's basically a tale of two seasons.

Season 1, IMO, has the same flaws as discovery with more coherent writing. The plot jumps from point to point, the characters are underdeveloped, etc. It doesn't have any "this is not only extremely stupid but feels like the writers didn't actually bother watching star trek" moments, but it still isn't good.

Season 2 feels like a true modern tale on Trek. They manage to truly respect the old lore while bringing in new moral dilemmas. The characters are more developed and taken in interesting directions. They managed to sneak in a line that gives a decent explanation as to why things don't 100 percent match up in canon. There's also one episode that I would put up there as an all time great across every series.

So I would say slog through Season 1 for the joy of watching Season 2

Yeah totally. The focal point of "In the Pale Moonlight" was when he told Sisco that he came to Garek precisely because Garek knew how to do sketchy shit like this, and that deep down Sisco knew that something like this was gonna happen with Garek involved.

The thing the world "noble" in popular culture doesn't use Machiavelli as a reference.

Posts like this confuse me.

On the one hand, DS9 isn't really known by people who don't watch Star Trek. The chance of someone randomly running their mouth about it is infinitely lower than something like TNG or TOS.

On the other hand I can't see how anyone who watched DS9 can call Garek noble. One of the best episodes in the series revolves around him orchestrating a plot to trick the Romulans into entering the war by assassinating a Romulan senator. Not only does he show 0 hesitation, but he correctly points out that Sisco went to him precisely because that's his bread and butter.

Do you think the structured Soong's character around the idea that he'd 100 percent be the type of guy to ensure Data had a fully functioning Penis?

I mean let's be real here they had every right to be concerned. TNG had serious problems in the beginning and had some pretty big flaws even as the show got going. Off the top of my head

• The first few episodes (besides Q) were straight trash. Even if you take out the ample racism and sexism, they still kinda suck
• Worf didn't become a thing until Yar died. He was just kinda there. Also his hair looked ridiculous
• Riker was half as sexy in terms of looks and a quarter as sexy in terms of personality
• Picard was a dick. Not firm but fair. A straight up dick.
• They straight up got rid of crusher for a season
• The Ferengi were awful. Not like in a "lol what shenanigans is Quark up to now" but in a "TOS Gorn" way

Look you can call me any name in the book. The current where children can easily form para social relationships with what are essentially pornstars and it's extremely easy for teenagers to become sex workers isn't healthy.

I'm not saying Hawley is right but there needs to be some real effort to address this.

...no? Most watches today don't even do that.