“One day, in the deleted scenes, you will see there’s an alternate version of that, which is opera,” Goldsman tells TVLine. “But [co-showrunner Henry Alonso Myers] and I were very much married to the boy band thing.”
I mean, the opera version was 100% what I was expecting, although I guess in retrospect there was no specific reason to suspect that. The boy band version was, however, the funniest/best version possible
Calling customer service is so weird. I have to pretend like I don’t know the customer service person hates me, and the customer service person has to pretend they’re my best friend. We all know it’s a sham, and really I don’t need them to care as long as they can hear me out and repeat corporate’s policy on whatever I asked, but it makes the people with money happy and they wouldn’t have it any other way, so we all keep pretending.
If you’re just looking to mess around, Bard isn’t half bad. Okay, it’s pretty terrible, but it can do Internet searches and has a Python interpreter built in, so you can do stuff with Bard you can’t do with GPT-3.5
Quantum mechanics presents the most meaningful challenge to determinism because unlike chaos theory it asserts that reality really is indeterminate. Physicists have been wrestling with this problem since quantum mechanics was formulated. Even Einstein tried to prove quantum indeterminacy was false, but he shrank from the implications of his own solutions.
Spoiler: there’s no strong evidence for most hidden variable theories. There has been a revival of interest in some deterministic re-interpretations of quantum mechanics over the last few years (recommend Lee Smolin, he has a book and some talks on Youtube re this discussion), but right now, the prevailing theory is that reality really is just fundamentally indeterminate. Hey, I hate it, makes my skin crawl, but that’s most likely the way it is based on the science.
EDIT – I’m not a strong advocate for free will in the abstract, but I do think the basic worldview underpinning certain forms of hard determinism has been superseded by a non-deterministic view in physics.
edit: to cut to the chase, judicial review is not in the Constitution (go ahead, go find it), was not intended by the Framers, and was a power claimed by the court over a decade after it was set up, in Marbury v. Madison
Amending the Constitution to fix the problems with a court that’s been arrogating extra powers to itself from the beginning hardly seems workable.
From an originalist standpoint, the only consistent stance on judicial review seems to be that it shouldn’t exist. If we hew to the original ideas of the Founders and the plain text of the Constitution, the Supreme Court’s powers are at best poorly defined and not clearly enforceable.
Hey what do originalists think about the power of judicial review? What do they think about that section of the Constitution and the Framers’ intent behind delegating that power to the Supreme Court?
I actually said it was implausible, not unexplained. The explanation in The Chase isn’t plausible, even by Star Trek standards. Like I said, IMHO it would have been better if they’d refused to explain it (since it’s an artifact of the limitations of costume design and nothing else, really) and just iteratively redesigned everything every once in a while. No reason not to.
I’m probably alone in this but I preferred the Klingons in Discovery. It’s implausible that so many alien life forms would converge on looking like humans, and while the Klingons in Discovery are all obviously humanoid, at least they look more like aliens.
It doesn’t exactly bug me that costume technology wasn’t as far along in earlier Treks – just that if pressed, yeah, alien looking aliens are more preferable to me than a guy in a sash, or a guy in a sash with some forehead ridges, as campy and enjoyable as that can be.
I will admit, I am slightly disappointed that the show’s writers left the door open for there to be TNG/DS9/VOY era style Klingons, because if they had just redesigned them without qualification, the outrage when a redesigned Worf eventually showed up would have been epic. But were the fans ready to be asked to question Jadzia’s choice in partners again, a mere twenty years after DS9?
I don’t think there’s anything wrong with massive duplication of communities, but exclusive home on Lemmy? Really? When there’s literally already an entire instance dedicated to Trek?
I have a theory about that. In the Voyager episode Relativity we actually get to see the bridge of one of these 28th century timeships that are one of the “temporal enforcers.” Throughout the episode, they calculate the likely temporal disturbances caused by various courses of action and constantly adjust the level and kind of intervention needed on that basis. Their goal is to always minimize the overall temporal disturbance. My assumption is that any temporal incursion – sorry, time travel shenanigans – gets reviewed, but they are only acted on if the temporal disturbance becomes significant.