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Benfell

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Ph.D. Human Science (Saybrook University, 2016). Post-disciplinary, Vegetarian Ecofeminist Scholar, Researcher, and Non-Magical Thinker.

I preemptively block 'tankies' and trolls, and I am selective about who I follow back. If you choose to follow me, please have at least some posts on your timeline.

#AntiCapitalist
#Vegan (since May 5, 2008)
#StarTrek (since I was a kid in #Pittsburgh, though I mostly lived--over 50 years--in #California, mostly around #SanFrancisco #BayArea)

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@circuitfarmer

It was bad enough when cliff hangers spanned a few months; now they span a period closer to a year.

I mean, come on. I'm getting old and yeah, I'd like to see the next episode before I die.

ColesStreetPothole, to allstartrek
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I know people get upset at Scottie being disrespected here, but I can't help but think how annoying he is being. 😂 Like, okay, grandpa, let's get you back to bed.

@allstartrek

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@ColesStreetPothole @allstartrek

Scotty was out of his time and place.

Reflecting on this episode, I remember a truly heartwarming holodeck scene. Don't know if you guys have gotten that far yet so I won't spoil it.

I'm also remembering that the Discovery crew seemed to have been rapidly brought up to date with their refit in the 29th century, something that would surely have helped Scotty here.

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@ColesStreetPothole @allstartrek Wasn't that something? Wow. Just wow.

CK, to allstartrek
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#AllStarTrek @allstartrek #StarTrek #StarTrekTOS #TheDeadlyYears Bones is not aging gracefully! 👎

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@CK @allstartrek

We should note here that aging under the influence of a pathogen is not the same as aging naturally. The manifestation might vary.

CK, to allstartrek
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@allstartrek Red shirt got it… does that get a Bingo square, Hippie Scuba Steve?

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@CK @allstartrek

Yet another red shirt making the ultimate sacrifice in the original series ( ) oughta be like that starred square in the middle of a bingo card, a gimme.

HippieScubaSteve, to allstartrek
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#AllStarTrek @allstartrek #StarTrek #StarTrekTOS #TheDoomsdayMachine Kirk's gonna pull a Riker and ram her right down that thing's throat.

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@HippieScubaSteve @allstartrek

And then wonder why Scotty has trouble beaming him out.

HippieScubaSteve, to allstartrek
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#AllStarTrek @allstartrek #StarTrek #StarTrekTOS #TheDoomsdayMachine Commodore Decker looks like he's hungover. Too much Saurian Brandy.

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@HippieScubaSteve @allstartrek

Entirely plausible that he had some stashed away. And I think if I went through what he went through, I might down the entire bottle.

didgebaba, to random
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"Female 'Samurai'

While 'samurai' is a strictly masculine term, the Japanese bushi class (the social class samurai came from) did feature women who received similar training in martial arts and strategy. These women were called “Onna-Bugeisha,” and they were known to participate in combat along with their male counterparts. Their weapon of choice was usually the naginata, a spear with a curved, sword-like blade that was versatile, yet relatively light.

Since historical texts offer relatively few accounts of these female warriors (the traditional role of a Japanese noblewoman was more of a homemaker), we used to assume they were just a tiny minority. However, recent research indicates that Japanese women participated in battles quite a lot more often than history books admit. When remains from the site of the Battle of Senbon Matsubaru in 1580 were DNA-tested, 35 out of 105 bodies were female. Research on other sites has yielded similar results."

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@gorfram @hazelnot @didgebaba

My discomfort is with what seems to be a requirement for equality that women must emulate the worst behaviors of men.

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@didgebaba @CommonMugwort @hazelnot @gorfram

If we're getting fussy about terminology, you might say 'subaltern,' which reflects a group's oppression. More radically, critical theorists sometimes say that all of us who are not among the political, economic, military, or religious elite are 'colonized.'

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@didgebaba @CommonMugwort @hazelnot @gorfram

Gotta tell you, I have very mixed feelings about the use of the word 'colonization' here (yes, even though I mentioned it). And Franz Fanon is simply an excellent person to listen to here.

On the one hand, I can understand the rationale. This certainly is colonization of a sort. I doubt historically colonization has always been brutally violent. @histodons, can you help? But Fanon I think wants to save the word for a the brutality that certainly characterizes many--and this should not be taken lightly.

pjw, to academicchatter
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Dear academics,
Sorry if this is a dumb question, but is there any reliable way to search specifically for a literature review?
Like suppose I don't want to become an expert on the psychology of moral learning, but I do want to have a sense of the general literature and positions in that literature. I find myself on Google Scholar sorting through hundreds of articles, and it feels extremely inefficient. Is there a better way?

#academia #research #academicchatter #socialscience #philosophy @academicchatter

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@pjw @academicchatter

I think the type of article you're referring to is a 'review essay.' For instance: Greta Gaard, “Vegetarian Ecofeminism: A Review Essay,” Frontiers 23, no. 3 (2002): 117-146.

I've never seen a tick box for this sort of article so I don't know how you'd search for these alone.

How Many Star Trek Episodes Pass the Bechdel Test? (TOS to ENT) | The Mary Sue (www.themarysue.com)

I found this after reading and responding to this post here about early Trek fans’ prejudicial negative reaction to TNG. One of my responses (see here) was to point out that any fans of the progressiveness of Trek ought to have been mindful of the room for improvement over TOS, with female representation being an obvious...

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@UrbanEdm @michaelgemar @Uranium3006 @startrek

For what it’s worth, #TOS was made in the 1960s. The women’s liberation movement didn’t really seem to take off until the 1970s.

You’ll find more than a few sexist relics in almost any medium of the era, as the challenge to sexism had yet to find her voice.

nm, to vegan

WTF. are they demanding a monthly ransom??

I came across this. It’s from Mastodon Valley Farm.

https://www.mastodonvalleyfarm.com/products/vegan-meat-share

@vegan

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@nm @vegan

Bingo. “Your” cow goes to slaughter.

And yes, this is to acknowledge the other subthread here that this advertisement supports a notion of nonhuman animals as property, thus is not at all animal rights friendly. I leave to others whether a #vegan can support this—I certainly wouldn’t.

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@Fuzzy_Dunlop @Madison_rogue

Actually, the Lower Decks series makes numerous references to previous series on an ongoing basis and should be regarded as a spoiler.

I would recommend especially The Next Generation before Lower Decks.

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@deweydecibel @ValueSubtracted

That's frankly what caught my attention, even as I was watching the episode. The decision turns out to have been right, but on thin-to-nonexistent justification.

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@Schal330

This might be a case where they compressed too much for coherence.

Yeah, there was the other guy. But in my mind, not enough had apparently been done to confirm a superficial and partial similarity of symptoms.

To give an idea of the dissonance, I'm remembering somebody (I think it wasn't Miles O'Brien who got the line) encountering the Cardassian systems on Deep Space 9 and complaining that they weren't triple-redundant.

In academia, we call it parsimony in a way that doesn't quite seem to match a dictionary definition that I just dredged up on line: It's when an explanation seems straightforward and satisfactory. For me, that was missing.

I think a challenge for script writing here is keeping the story moving without dragging this too far into soap opera territory. How much do we really want get into the weeds here?

Maybe the writers thought this was too deep in the weeds. Maybe they just ran out of episode time. Maybe we agree they didn't get the balance right here.

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@tukarrs @ValueSubtracted

The bumper stickers on a car I saw just the other day indicated the same.

What do they do? Root for the Ferengi?

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@BukoSpooko @spiderkle

https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/14b57mf/reddit_is_now_undeleting_content/

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@NVariable @Albert_Newton

First, and just to make crystal clear that I agree, I agree.

Second, I'm not sure Starfleet Command is, in any century, quite up to really comprehending this.

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@cascheranno @NVariable

For a precedent, consider how we treat nonhuman animals.

We would shamelessly obliterate the virus.

And yes, of course we're hypocrites with a human-caused mass extinction event.

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