OpenStars

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[–] OpenStars@startrek.website 4 points 2 years ago

If you think about the range of organisms just here on Earth - from single-celled creatures like bacteria, or below that even with viruses that are just DNA wrapped in proteins, to other single-celled creatures like Amoeba (yes, that's an enormous range still in just the realm of single-celled creatures alone!), to multicellular plants, animals, birbs (haha lolz we know those aren't real!), and finally humans who can literally split and harness the power of the atom - then extrapolate that to the whole Universe in Star Trek, we don't need to think that every super-powerful creature seen is a "Q".

To an amoeba, already every one of the numerous forms of insect life on planet Earth is like a "Q". In that sense then, Q itself was an oddity - not in being a race with that much power, but in choosing to even bother to interact with the lesser forms. After all, we do not do that, to the ones multiple rungs down on the hierarchy below us (or if we do, e.g. yeast, we don't "introduce" ourselves to them, as Q did to humans).

I think it is consistent with Star Trek's philosophy, especially in TOS, that we are not supposed to "know" everything, about the VASTNESS of the large, wide universe it is in:-).

[–] OpenStars@startrek.website 6 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I am a simple man: I see Worf, I upvote:-).

[–] OpenStars@startrek.website 14 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I am no historian personally, but from what I am hearing, even if a former President had only had to deal with a tenth of the issues that Biden has - heck, just pick COVID alone out of that ginormous list - that he already has dealt average to above average with it. But when you put them all together - like you had a whole list and still didn't get to huge concerns that people have like the border issue - then it becomes supremely admirable, in relation to what he has had to deal with.

I wonder if some of that may be due to the Afghanistan withdrawal debacle early on in his Presidency, but even there he owned up to that, despite how it was Trump who caused >95% of it, and anyway that was years ago now. Another part is that the process he chooses to use to get things done is slow and boring, and then he doesn't grandstand to the extent that past Presidents have done.

The media has consistently been instantaneous to blame Biden whenever there is the tiniest thread of a future thought that he might be to blame, but then when he does things like help out the train workers, or lower gas prices, those achievements barely register. This is "biased reporting", arguably so much so that we are not "informed" by what they say and thus it seems not "reporting" so much as showing "advertisements" for things that bleed & lead.

Fox News is correct - hurk 🤮 - when it says that our "lamestream media has failed us". Ofc it is also corrupt and it does even worse, but if that much at least were not a true statement then it would not have half the viewership that it does.

Like Brexit, we have allowed our government to fall into such disarray that we will never be seen the same way again on the global stage. Nor should we.

[–] OpenStars@startrek.website 9 points 2 years ago

Do not underestimate the amount of "Hold my beer" that people possess. :-P

[–] OpenStars@startrek.website 4 points 2 years ago

These marketing gimmicks are fairly uh... "broadly inclusive" in their definitions of terms (whatever makes them the most money).

But you are right, that choice was unforgivable. My image seems to have caused you... pain?

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Thus, mission failed spectacularly! :-)

[–] OpenStars@startrek.website 3 points 2 years ago

That depends (on whether they can make money or not by pretending that they are).

[–] OpenStars@startrek.website 17 points 2 years ago (9 children)

Are you... sure you want to know?

Like at some point, after your standard 5 (vision, sound, touch, taste, & smell), those dimensions gotta start wrapping back around to where they started. And at that point they must have to go THROUGH your tissues to do it.

I am saying that one of them surely is an electrified butt-plug. So that's six, and after that... that's where shit REALLY starts to get freaky!

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[–] OpenStars@startrek.website 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

If your TV is talking to you... you might be possessed? :-D

[–] OpenStars@startrek.website 5 points 2 years ago

Though when they fail, the price of groceries will go up, primarily affecting those who can least afford it. It is all a tangled, interconnected web:-(.

I want these people to be free to live however they wish. But I do NOT agree that their votes should be worth several magnitudes more than mine:-(.

[–] OpenStars@startrek.website 15 points 2 years ago

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what a "PAWG" is:-P.

[–] OpenStars@startrek.website 13 points 2 years ago

The True power of the Ring... was the friendships we made along the way, or something something.

[–] OpenStars@startrek.website 21 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Bold of you to assume that thing on his head is "hair":-).

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