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schipelblorp

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  • Not sure I understand your point. TNG sells continual self-improvement and is constantly showing us continuual self improvement on the part of the crew; and your argument is that I should ignore it because a main character's dad in a different series striving for greater realism runs a restaurant?

  • authenticity problem

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  • People who read books are a different breed. I wouldn't worry about them.

    But if we're going to make a lazy heuristical stand against AI, I've always enjoyed the liberal use of semi-colons.

  • What countries do you want to exist?

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  • Borders?

  • What countries do you want to exist?

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  • Top Democrats set aside qualms and embrace progressive Abdul El-Sayed

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  • Plenty of instances where the government ran roughshod over people's rights, including, you know, slavery; sometimes even Supreme Court decisions were just completely ignored. COINTELPRO targetted civil rights activitst, even killing a few. Leftists were explicitly denied government positions during the cold war. Etc. etc. etc.

  • Top Democrats set aside qualms and embrace progressive Abdul El-Sayed

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  • while defeat could undermine their prospects of gaining a majority in the chamber for years to come.

    Because we'll be living in an authoritarian regime? Just say what you mean.

  • Mind. Blown.

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  • I think it was this episode where Marina Sirtis first noticed the the intelligence of her character's dialogue was inversely proportional to the visibility of her breasts.

    Edit: https://thegeektwins.com/2014/06/7-bizarre-facts-about-deanna-trois.html

    “There are certain rules in Hollywood. One of the rules is not written anywhere, but you just know: if you’re doing an action-adventure show, you gotta have chicks on the show for the boys to look at when they’re not blowing up other spaceships. Second rule: if the chick has a cleavage, she cannot have a brain.

    “So, [after wearing a uniform in the first episode] I got a cleavage, and all my gray matter departed. Which was sad, because originally (I know this is gonna shock you), Troi was supposed to be the brains of the Enterprise. So when the cleavage came, all that left, and I became decorative, like a potted palm on the bridge.”

  • Control freak

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  • I greatly enjoyed Dysfunctional Family Circus, and there's always Gorefield, aka Garfield written by Lovecraft. Garfield was always a little boring, though--I think I was in second-grade at the time.

    Have you delved back into the old classics? There's a lot there. Sometimes it just takes a little while to learn what the comic is about--is enough to do when you're exposed to it every day in the paper, but harder if you're going in blind. I don't really think of comics as greatly in need of innovation, though phone accessibility is a factor, I can´t think of anything that is better for being on a phone.

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  • I used to read French comic books on Hoopla, my library's online service. Their reader could advance panel-by-panel through the comic book page. Pretty neato. Don´t know if it was entered manually, automatically, or a mix of the two.

    Variety is nice, but I consumed most of my comics via books, starting with Garfield.

  • Control freak

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  • I love this inverted three panel pyramid, looks great on my cell phone. I guess in an ideal world we'd have panels arranged dynamically.

  • Live, laugh, Lovecraft

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  • DuckDuckGo Is Selling Anti Pervert Glasses That Contain Zero AI, Cameras, or Even Electronics Whatsoever

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  • Haven't sunglasses ALWAYS been used by pervs to obscure their eyeline?

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  • Yes, though I remember the Futurama episode more clearly. My only regret... is... that I have... boneitis.

    But I guess this why I find TNG sort of spiritually hollow for me. It reflected all the attainment-striving of imbued to the 1990s by capitalism but sans the capitalism. Like I think underneath it might be an anxiety, "if nobody works, does it mean people will be lazy? No! Instead they will WORK HARD at being the BEST THEY CAN BE but in the most 1990's liberal arts way possible." How different is getting into Star Fleet and getting a commission on a starship really that different than getting into an elite university and getting a job with a major company? TNG-era trek is the same existential treadmill but with a slightly different carrot.

  • Man arrested after 'dressing as Grim Reaper' at hospital and staring at patients

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  • Man arrested after 'dressing as Grim Reaper' at hospital and staring at patients

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  • HOW UNPROFESSIONAL.

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  • Yes, that is how it works on Star Trek. My question is if it's a realistic way to run a space fleet, or even if it's in-universe consistent. Seems like random events happen all the time and you always want to be prepared.

    It seems the makers of Star Trek wanted to have a comfortable middle class academic life for its characters, but also the adventure of TOS. There was always a weird tension there. I only resolved it by creating a head cannon where planetary life is so existentially vaccuous, that people would rather risk their lives and the lives of their children on a space ship than live safer lives on the ground.

    I mean... https://listofdeaths.fandom.com/wiki/Star_Trek:_The_Next_Generation

  • Had to draw this for the PlayStation news - shaveyoureyebrows

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  • It's even more depressing that it's a conscious choice, and the exception is a company that wanted didn't want to pay for birth control for their employees. But thank you for the correction.

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  • It's not just transportation, it's coordinating staff assignments. And it doesn't make sense in a frontier setting, where the Enterprise seems to blip back and forth into and out of.

    And also travel time. DS9 to New Orleans has got to take most of a vacation.

    I guess it just tends to make the Enterprise more of a floating research university with all the amenities, which always annoyed me. TNG is a great case study for The Burnout Society--buncha overachievers.

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    Today, August 3, 2026, I Declare my Independence from Rubber Bands!

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    DuckDuckGo Sociology

    Would you date a workaholic?

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    What's the current state of pop media criticism?

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    SOLVED: Is it in any way incorrect to interpret a downvote as a "fuck you" in a 1-on-1 convo?

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    What did you learn by being DISLIKED at work?

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    Men in pink collar positions, what's your experience?

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    Are friends just a form of casual entertainment?

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    Any solution for people deleting their asklemmy posts?

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    Perfect timing: Chicken stock is ready a few minutes before I close my windows against the summer heat

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    Music education: thoughts and experiences?