Because the assholes got to "men's rights" "men's movement" en masse, and you'll spend your whole life critiquing individuals and find communities full of those individuals when you see those words.
If the choice is between working on a literal genocide machine and dying, the moral choice is dying. Granting an exception for the guy who sabotages the genocide machine by building in a way to blow it up.
The problem with solving murders in the English countryside comes when the new cases stop coming from police and facilities looking for a discrete consulting detective and start coming from neighbors and relatives of your own friends and family. Then it’s unnerving how everyone two-steps-of-separation from you keeps dropping...
I was planning to go for an island on the edge of the world that you can only find after stealing the single eye shared between my 3 sisters and forcing them to give you directions.
They would have to call cubes back from where they are pushing territory on the other side of their territory.
The Borg were not just fighting one species when they came to get the Federation, they were expanding outwards on all sides. So they committed the lowest level of resources they believed were necessary, and because the Queen was an arrogant fool, that was just one cube.
For First Contact, you can argue that having been thus far unable to assimilate the Federation they are unaware of the speed of human advancement. In the Star Trek Universe it has been implied that humans are EXCEPTIONALLY inventive especially when faced with a problem, and that the Federation is even FASTER than humanity alone because of the additional viewpoints added to human inventiveness. Basically, the Human Problem of Fantasy Games where the humans are an average, all-around boring species while Elves and Dwarves and others all have specialties? That's not applicable to Star Trek Universe, where humans are especially well-suited to be engineers, and highly valued for their social abilities which foster teamwork. The presence of humans in the Federation is one of the ingredients that makes the Federation uniquely effective at technological advancement. Not only is the Federation large and powerful, it advances more quickly than the species that the Borg have assimilated, and has advanced to a level that the Borg never allow other species to advance to, AND it advances the way the Borg do by peacefully trading and adding technologies when it admits new member species.
The Queen never dealt with a society like the Federation before, and she didn't expect them to advance very far beyond their capabilities at Wolf 359. She figured her cube was better, and that should be good enough and if by some weirdness it wasn't she would destroy the Federation by going back in time and destroying its weirdest, least predictable species: humanity.
The U.S. Copyright Office has again rejected copyright protection for art created using artificial intelligence, denying a request by artist Jason M. Allen for a copyright covering an award-winning image he created with the generative AI system Midjourney.
This is Cleo. She is 2.5 years of age. I have posted about her before actually. I worry about her because she gets so anxious that it harms her. She has had an outbreak of hives on her skin, especially her ears, for the last week or so, and she has been picky about when and what she wants to eat, if at all. We got a kitten in...
There's also the Republic of Ireland, the Republic of Korea, the Islamic Republic of Iran, the United Republic of Tanzania, the People's Republic of China, the State of Kuwait, the Kingdom of Belgium, the Republic of Latvia, the Principality of Monaco, the Kingdom of Spain, the Kingdom of Sweden, the Commonwealth of Australia, the Republic of Peru, the Republic of Paraguay, the Republic of Ecuador and a whole ton of other countries who are called by the last word in their official names because that is HOW ENGLISH WORKS.
And if you really gave a damn about all the people in Latin America, you'd call them by the proper names of their countries.
But if you insist I'm wrong, go over to lemmy.ca and post a thread telling them they're American. See what they think.
Thanks for to the Admins for giving me a new and wonderful home. Thanks to the users for making a hospitable and welcoming atmosphere. Thanks to Janeway for letting me live. I love all you guys
Back in the 90s there were at least 5 X-men teams and every single one of them had a full telepath on them, but there was still enough drama and plot for multiple monthly installments of the most intricate superhero soap opera ever created.
Star Trek writers are cowards for avoiding Betazoids.
See, now I think early Lwaxana is key to understanding Betazoids. It is a society of telepaths and empaths, and as a result they have an EXTREMELY strong sense of self that can actually lean into the narcissistic, they don't understand boundaries, and they do not have that filter that lies between thought and speech because everyone can tell what everyone is thinking anyway. They are so aware of people's feelings that they don't feel a need to cater to passing comfort, knowing that annoyance is just a thing that happens and will pass and that it's better to focus on the more important hurts--which is why she goes out of her way to counsel Alexander and Odo but just rolls her eyes at Picard's discomfort.
This really strong sense of self is so ingrained in the species that even Lon Suder, who doesn't have these abilities, is still such a strong personality that he TAKES OVER Tuvok during a Vulcan mind meld, and Tuvok is no slouch in telepathy.
I think it was an amazing idea to portray a telepath or an empath like this, let alone both, and it indicates a unique and interesting society in the Federation. Star Trek has a (criminally underused) race of telepaths that is unlike any other race of telepaths and that is all because of Gene Roddenberry's Auntie Mame joke.
I mean, just stop and think about what Aunties and Moms can be like. Now stop and think about them in a matriarchal culture where men are still traditionally masculine and women are traditionally feminine. Now consider them in a culture where NOBODY CAN LIE.
That's the key to Betazed. Nobody can lie, so you may as well be yourself even if you're annoying and overbearing.
Going by Lwaxana, Lon Suder, Tam Elbrum ("Tin Man") and even Deanna Troi when she lets her Betazoid half out a bit, Betzoids are an extremely impulsive and hedonistic species but also the premier telepaths of the Star Trek Universe and that is just unlike any other portrayal of telepaths but it still makes so much sense when you think about it.
Well, I'm singing the "please fill out this form for my insurance company" song if I get robbed, mugged, in an accident. In the case of the missing kid, it depends. Sometimes they'll mobilize if the family's a "good family" as far as they know, but a lot of times they'll just tell you the kid ran away and not look. So I might be very well singing the "please do a video on this" song to the true crime community on youtube.
This house is really amazing, but this bathroom is a little much: www.oldhousedreams.com/…/1960-lambertville-nj/(Last sold in 2015 for $630K: longandfoster.com/…/315-Goat-Hill-Road-Lambertvil…)
@Phoenixbouncing Soldiers are more strictly regimented than regular police, I think. Hell, if you fuck up just a little as an MP you are out of that career field. Unfortunately, it's because of a STRONGER hierarchy and if the leader goes bad they all go with him. Which is why when there's war crimes it's usually a whole unit committing them.
Of course, there's also the aspect where the Law of Armed Conflict forbids anyone in the armed forces from doing things that civilian police forces do all the time, like using tear gas.
Men Overran a Job Fair for Women in Tech (www.wired.com)
The Grace Hopper Celebration is meant to unite women in tech. This year droves of men came looking for jobs.
Maybe take it down a notch, Han. (startrek.website)
Travelling Kitty 😹🛂 (startrek.website)
I guess less weird than the hut on chicken legs (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
The problem with solving murders in the English countryside comes when the new cases stop coming from police and facilities looking for a discrete consulting detective and start coming from neighbors and relatives of your own friends and family. Then it’s unnerving how everyone two-steps-of-separation from you keeps dropping...
2 Gay Dads Helped Uncover $767,000 Embezzlement Scheme in Texas Town Where 'Officials Called Them Homophobic Slurs' (themessenger.com)
It all started after the dads moved to Aurora, Texas and opened a tacos shop. It ended with city hall mysteriously burning down
Wolf 359: The Massacre (part 1) (youtu.be)
US military asks the public for help finding its missing F-35 fighter jet after its pilot had to eject while training over South Carolina (news.yahoo.com)
The US military is appealing to the public to help find an advanced F-35 fighter jet that has gone missing over South Carolina.
Same could be said for Neelix (startrek.website)
Best poker face in the Galaxy (class) (startrek.website)
US Copyright Office denies protection for another AI-created image (www.reuters.com)
The U.S. Copyright Office has again rejected copyright protection for art created using artificial intelligence, denying a request by artist Jason M. Allen for a copyright covering an award-winning image he created with the generative AI system Midjourney.
Caribbean nations set to demand royal family makes reparations for slave trade (www.theguardian.com)
Lloyd’s of London and Church of England also to be approached over role in past exploitation
Why is my cat so anxious? (lemmy.world)
This is Cleo. She is 2.5 years of age. I have posted about her before actually. I worry about her because she gets so anxious that it harms her. She has had an outbreak of hives on her skin, especially her ears, for the last week or so, and she has been picky about when and what she wants to eat, if at all. We got a kitten in...
The year is 2030, astronauts have for the first time landed on Mars, they found a cave with human skeletons, and a message written on the wall. What does it say? (kbin.social)
I'm gonna go with this:...
What else do you think they do during those long haul warps? (startrek.website)
It has everything you could want (startrek.website)
And no, just taking 5 min to do the thing is not an option. (startrek.website)
[100th post!] Deanna "I don't get paid for this shit" Troi (startrek.website)
Thanks for to the Admins for giving me a new and wonderful home. Thanks to the users for making a hospitable and welcoming atmosphere. Thanks to Janeway for letting me live. I love all you guys
I'll take this room (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
Uh yeah, totally. (startrek.website)
I'm Barclay with a hint of Troi (startrek.website)
This really does cover most of them (startrek.website)
Does the crew ever truly know what to expect from Kirk? (startrek.website)
"And if you're just joining us, we're looking at sunny and dry conditions again all week..." (startrek.website)
San Francisco bakery sparks debate by refusing to serve armed police (www.independent.co.uk)
Business says it doesn’t serve anyone who is armed
Stuck in the sehlat house (startrek.website)
Depressing but not wrong (startrek.website)
Trump Returns to the Service Formerly Known as Twitter (www.nytimes.com)
Absent for more than two years, former President Donald J. Trump posted his mug shot on the site, now called X.
"I was having a really good morning before all this" has unironically become my motto (startrek.website)
Cat owners be like (startrek.website)
I stand by... well... Myself (startrek.website)
I can feel this bathroom just looking at it (lemm.ee)
This house is really amazing, but this bathroom is a little much: www.oldhousedreams.com/…/1960-lambertville-nj/(Last sold in 2015 for $630K: longandfoster.com/…/315-Goat-Hill-Road-Lambertvil…)
New video shows Philadelphia Police officer shot Eddie Irizarry within seconds of getting out of patrol car (www.inquirer.com)
The video shows that Officer Mark Dial shot and killed Irizarry within five seconds of getting out of his cruiser.
Alan Wake II - Official Trailer | gamescom 2023 (www.youtube.com)
HP Fails To Dodge Lawsuit Over Blocking Users From Using Their Printer Scanner If Ink Cartridges Aren’t Installed (www.techdirt.com)