FriendOfDeSoto

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The one on the right does reference cats specifically. The writing under the one on the left just references animals.

[–] FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I frankly don't believe that this guide alone would have solved as many issues for you as it would also cause. What is presented as universal wisdom is never that simple. The "nobody taught you" aspect is not universally true. I counted ten items in the list I was taught in school or by my parents. I'm not the center of the universe but we can extrapolate that some people have been taught some of these things in some setting. So there is already a mistake in the headline.

This "cool guide" is either redundant (letting people exit a place or the elevator first are roughly the same thing) or not specific enough (letting people exit buses and trains etc. before you enter is missing). You should also offer your chair or seat to those who need it more than you (e.g. pregnant, old, or injured people). You don't have to offer a replacement date if you cancel an appointment if you canceled in the first place because you don't want to hang out with an asshole. You don't need to clean up a mess you made while running outside while the house is on fire. There will be instances where you don't need to return a borrowed item in the same or better condition than when you borrowed it. If I lended you my dirty lawnmower I would not expect you to clean it or sharpen its blades before you returned it. The additional wear and tear is factored in already.

This poster gives the impression to contain simple, universal, virtuous truths. But none of them are always simple or always logical. They are at best a patchy guideline missing even more unarticulated conditions and exceptions that render them useless. And if you aren't aware of the missing bits, you'll still have awkward social interactions.

My suspicion is that somebody created a list of things they thought was the epitome of wisdom in general social interactions, in the US and not in a city with public transport options. They possibly used so-called AI to compile this list. It's even more likely that they used it to design the poster and to draw the little pictures. And then posted it online to be praised for their effort (don't aura farm ought to be a bullet point on this poster as well). It deserves to be criticized.

[–] FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website 28 points 1 week ago (4 children)

It's not just the SS, the Wehrmacht also "suffered" from having to shoot all these people. Read up on Babij Jar, Ukraine. Even Himmler is on record expressing sympathy for his killers. That's why the bullet based plan turns into a gas based one. Because it's "easier" to flip a switch on a room full of people than to shoot naked people to fall on other corpses already in the ditch.

I think what's standing between us today and the bottom of the genocidal slippery slope is the (relatively) free media. There are too many ways to check up on them today. Commercial satellites, FOIA requests, people with smartphones. If ICE were building a death camp or digging mass graves now, we probably would find out.

So it's important to look at how CBS gave in and how the pentagon restricts coverage in exchange for accreditation - those are your first dead canaries in the news coalmine. When commercial satellites are suddenly forced to blur or not cover ICE camps ...

I would be surprised if they hadn't killed more people in detention already. The aim of ICE is to be state terror, their people are of questionable character, poorly trained or vetted. A duty of care is probably not first and foremost on their mind. There probably is a way to brush some cases under the carpet. Deaths by "natural causes," "misplaced" death certificates, "corpses" on repatriation flights. The spotlight of public attention needs to be on these motherfuckers constantly.

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[–] FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website 31 points 1 week ago (4 children)

No one taught you this? Even if nobody sits you down for a lesson, you are taught by example by the people around you when you grow up.

Also, the tipping and keeping doors open for people behind you are not universally applicable. In large swaths of Asia you'll be met by ire or confusion respectively. So maybe this is missing a generated image for being culturally sensitive.

[–] FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Trouble with Tribbles! Worf just says they don't discuss it with outsiders. ENT does more of the heavy lifting if you ask me.

Spoilers galore for PIC

spoilerThey created a spin-off Borgs collective with one of the main characters from S1 as the queen. They were powerful but looked to cooperate with Starfleet to deal with a big space anomaly. And the season ends and nobody really knows what's up. Are they now the only Borgs? Is this a hard reset and it was all a dream? There are some timeline shenanigans that could explain away everything.

And then S3 happens and we eventually find out the OG queen is hiding and masterminding a new plan that isn't sending one cube to earth for a change. I think they never even question how the S2 Borgs fit into this. It is as though they never existed. What's worse, they seemed to imply this old queen is the one Picard and Data defeated in First Contact and not the one that Janeway dealt with after that.

Swiss cheese is remarkably dense compared to the story PIC tells.

And it's Star Trek. They will always find a way to expand on the Klingons. They'll find a way to bring back the Borgs if they want to. What did the Burn do to whatever was left of them? That's not an uninteresting question if you ask me. Their STSA-current facebook status? It's complicated.

[–] FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website 8 points 1 week ago (3 children)

We are all confused. I feel they wrote themselves into a corner in PIC S2 and airlifted out of it without addressing the little unpainted corner they left behind. From a writers' room perspective, it keeps their options open. From a fan POV it's maddening. I don't think it's all that clear that the OG Borgs are dead after S3; they could return as well because they caused a subharmonic regression in the 500 Cochrane range that traveled back a transwarp corridor in time. Or something like that.

This is a Klingon makeup problem. For the longest time, it wasn't addressed why the movie Klingons looked different from the TOS ones. Then ENT tried to fix this. And then DISCO came in and completely obliterated that fix. It doesn't make sense. It cannot make sense. We mustn't be so Vulcan about it.

[–] FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Background: it is already forbidden for members of the state parliament to display written or symbolic political messages on their clothing while working on the premises. There was a case where a member wore a shirt displaying something from the late Mr. Kirk - you may guess what side of the political spectrum he is on. He was reprimanded and fully covered the shirt under his suit jacket. But later images circulated from that day that showed the written message on the shirt while he was wearing his jacket on the premises; those images were apparently doctored by "AI." As a result parliament will add wording to their house rules banning such manipulation, threatening to suspend MPs who are violating this new rule.

I initially suspected this state assembly banned this for the whole state but it just applies to MPs. Nevertheless they claim to be the first to introduce such rules.

[–] FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Just to translate this headline: "State assembly in Baden-Wuerthemberg (Southwest Germany) prohibits any "AI" fakes in connection with what is taking place at its public meetings" (i.e. committees and plenar sessions)

(Annotations) by me; ~~didn't read the article yet.~~ please see summary in the reply.

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