Solumbran

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[–] Solumbran@lemmy.world 1 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

And how many banned cigarettes?

[–] Solumbran@lemmy.world 45 points 22 hours ago (6 children)

The real surprise is that it didn't become the norm, and still legal as long as it has a little warning on the pack, while in the meantime useful medical drugs are banned as "potentially risky"

[–] Solumbran@lemmy.world 2 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

As long as it is only used as a "clue" and nothing else, sure.

But let's be honest, it will just be along the lines of "if it works on AIs, you get funding, else you scrape the project"

[–] Solumbran@lemmy.world 2 points 22 hours ago

L'ambiance est très clairement la cible de ces injures.

Les grosses sociétés (et le capitalisme en général) adorent tenter d'associer à leur image l'idée qu'elles sont respectables, voire même chaleureuses et amicales.

Si je dis "oh, deux sociétés qui sont focalisées sur le profit", c'est assez neutre, et de leur côté on entendra des trucs du genre "chez nous, le client est plus qu'un client, c'est un ami à qui l'on veut inspirer confiance" ou je ne sais quelle absurdité.

Du coup quelqu'un de neutre qui est jeté au milieu de tout ça ressort avec une image qui tend vers le positif ("oh oui, ils se font de l'argent, mais c'est normal, ça veut rien dire") parce que ce qui influence, c'est les émotions.

Si je dis "ces connards de google réduisent la planète en cendres et sont des aliés des putains de fachos" c'est agressif et violent, et du coup on se dit "ouah, ils sont si mauvais que ça ?" et ça influence dans l'autre sens.

Et je pense que dans certains cas, proliférer aux individus est justifiable. Pas toujours, bien évidemment, mais par exemple quelqu'un qui prend un boulot chez Google par pur confort, pour se faire plus de fric qu'il n'en a besoin, en sachant qu'il participe à leurs merdes, je dois avouer que j'ai tendance à voir ça comme une partie du problème.

En bref, l'injure choque, et vue l'apathie de l'humain moderne, je pense qu'il en faut, surtout sur les plateformes de discussions où les gens malhonnetes en font leur gagne-pain sans contre-attaques.

[–] Solumbran@lemmy.world 1 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

J'aurais tendance à dire que oui.

Si les injures ne sont pas nécessaires pour des sociétés qui détruisent activement le monde et l'humanité, je vois pas trop pour quoi elles le sont.

Et c'est pas vraiment comme si les entreprises allaient se sentir blessées.

[–] Solumbran@lemmy.world 4 points 23 hours ago (4 children)

Des connards qui gagnent contre des connards, le monde est beau

[–] Solumbran@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Messy code by humans generally isn't logical because it went through multiple modifications/deletions that are not visible anymore.

I'm not sure that bad devs are much better than AIs, and they're the ones using them to code now. I think the problem stems from not giving a shit about code making sense, and AIs just increase the problem.

I mean, I saw code that was essentially saying things like "if True == False" and when asking about what the purpose of the block was to the original dev (who wasn't even such a bad dev), they just had no idea. Humans are chaotic and nonsensical and messy code comes from that, not from a weird logic, and you can't comprehend it most of the times because it's a mix of confusion, lack of planning, mistakes and laziness.

[–] Solumbran@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] Solumbran@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Let's remind the public that France (by which I mean, most politicians, the government and the president), up until very recently, was saying that supporting Palestine/Palestinians or criticizing Israel was pure antisemitism.

It's like saying "the nazis are bad" one day before the defeat of Germany after spending years snitching on the people hiding from the SS. Let's not forget which side of history these people put themselves in for most of the conflict.

[–] Solumbran@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago

Yeah just avoid those pans altogether.

[–] Solumbran@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago

I face the same level of confusion when people like both of these shows, as when people complain star trek "became" woke.

[–] Solumbran@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

"Un violeur décide de la loi en France"

 

Hello, Since the Shatteted PD updates of the crystal caves (including beta versions), it seems like the game "lags" as in, seems to skip frames without actually freezing. This happens starting from the 6th level, not before, and stays the rest of the game. The main menu also seems to have the background animations sort of skip the same way but in a less obvious way.

This makes the game a bit annoying to play as sometimes you try to, let's say, attack, nothing happens so you press again, and suddenly you move where the enemy (who died during the frame skip) previously was, causing a lot of various unintended consequences. The problem shouldn't be with my phone considering that my system did not change and the game worked perfectly before updating.

Anyone else has this issue?

 

J'ai découvert un peu plus en détail la vision de la pédophilie en France.

Il semblerait qu'en plus d'être à la source d'un tas d'idées pédo, la France héberge et récompense tout un tas de pedophiles connus, coupables et qui en sont fiers.

Je pensais que Polanski était une (horrible) exception, mais non, et c'est loin d'être le pire (Matzneff vient en tête, je vous invite à lire sa page wikipédia qui ressemble à un roman d'horreur, cette merde écrit des livres où il se vante de ses viols et reçoit des récompenses littéraires en échange).

En bref : c'est quoi cette merde ? Pourquoi le "pays de la démocratie" (mon cul) défend les pires horreurs et les pires ordures, sans aucune réaction de qui que ce soit ? Et pas d'excuses à la "c'est la loi blablabla", la loi ne tolère pas l'apologie de la pédophilie, et si la loi défend ces sous-merdes alors il faut changer la loi immédiatement.

Quoi le putain?

 

To my knowledge, the concept of "conservatism" is the will to conserve, preserve past values that are seen as superior. While I don't agree with this either, this community has almost exclusively posts about fearing new things and trying to show them as evil. Evil migrants, evil new generations, evil new sexualities, whatever.

I do not see any "values" in it, only fear. Rejecting migrants is not based on morals or values that are rational, but on fear. Same for the rest. Which leads to the question, what is the point of this community? It does not lead to debate, people calling it out as fascism on one side (which is quite justified as the root ideas are seemingly identical) and the other side just saying that it's wrong and that's it. There's no debate of values, as there are no values to debate about.

I do not agree with the concept of conservatism, and I couldn't care less if this place is forever doomed to be downvoted in oblivion. But if you actually want to do something else than fear-mongering, even if you insist on talking about conservatism, then maybe it would be a good idea to refocus the community on actual ideas, and not the typical far-right speeches of hatred and fear that already flood a lot of media.

Of course I believe that it would be better to reconsider opinions that basically encourage the worst of humanity; but even aside from that, there is more to do than to replace every possibility of a conversation with the (stereo)typical "immigrants bad, jesus good, gays evil" speech.

 

I've been watching the various Star Trek shows for a while now, and while not finished I saw most of them, I believe. And I cannot shake off the feeling that the messages given by these shows, especially (and almost exclusively) recent ones are pushing horrible morals that most people seem to not care about.

Slavery

I posted before, in the middle of my watching of Enterprise, that the show was supporting slavery because of the Cogenitor episode. Many comments disagreed, some even saying that they don't remember anything supporting slavery at all in the show. That was before I watched more. The show contains a full episode that is just about showing that:

  • Sex slaves are not only acceptable, they're "sexy" and cool and negotiating with slavers is a good thing

  • Sex trafficking of individuals groomed since they are born into being sex slaves is the fault of the victims for "seducing" men ???

How is this show not fine with human trafficking at this point? Is all that you need to avoid controversy, to paint the slaves in green? I still cannot comprehend the lack of reaction on this show. Add to that the frequent crimes of war by Archer and you have a nice cocktail of humanity's finest horror.

Section 31

This is also something that seems absurd to me. When it first appeared, it was already a gestapo/kgb-like group that ignores the concept of democracy, laws, and justice - in other words a horrible group - but its existence as a starfleet element was blurry. But with modern shows, they keep on bringing it back, and directly saying that it is supported by starfleet, and a good thing, or at least a necessary one.

The thing is that what made starfleet supposedly admirable was, if not every single individual's morals, the morality of their concept, their laws, their structure. Having section 31 be condoned by starfleet transforms starfleet from "utopian future of humanity" (which it was supposed to be) to "dictatorship that pretends to be a democracy but supports crimes of war and above-the-law groups". In other words, it destroys the concept of starfleet.

Discriminations, sexism, and other shitty ideas, morals and behaviours

Now this one is maybe more blurry and subjective, but it is scattered all across, nonstop.

Let's start chronologically

DS9

For this show, the constant misogyny is nothing hard to see. But they still went out of their way to put some nasty things here and there.

The episode with Quark "becoming" a woman was interesting. Quark discovers a different point of view, gains insight and empathy, that's nice! Until the end of the episode directly says "no nevermind, he was like that because of hormones, and was just an overly emotional woman because of that". Because after all, women are hysterical, right? .

Other than that, we have the toxic relationship between Keiko and O'Brian, the toxic relationship between Dax and Worf, the toxic relationship between Odo and Kira, the toxic relationship between Sisco and his wife, Jake who constantly shows that when a teen boy is targeted by pedophiles, the teen is both responsible for it, and liking it (one second, I need to throw up in a corner), etc.

And of course there is the rest, between Cisco crimes against humanity, Bashir (that's all I'll say, nothing else needed), and the weird pro-religious message that doesn't make sense.

Enterprise

We already talked about their view of child/human trafficking which I think gives the tone of the show.

But of course that's not enough, so let's put some sexual scenes about the women in particular, rape scenes with TPol because who doesn't like rape culture, Malcolm "PoS" Reed talking like a creep about "bums", Reed and Tucker with their "haha lol, these alien women are ugly because you can't tell if they are women or not" and other toxic masculinity scenes, etc. Oh and I almost forgot about the sex scene between teen siblings that serve no other purpose than to show teens having incestuous sex.

Picard

What do we have here, more weird sibling sexual scenes, people getting manipulated mentally and sexually to extract information, murderers who get away with it because betraying the federation and killing innocents is fine if you're a scenario character (reminds me of something else...AhemelnorAhem)...

Oh, and I almost forgot the amazing scene with a white Picard in his white British empire colonist outfit, going on the planet of the tan refugees who hate the federation, kicks everything around and tries to show that he's the boss. I guess this show regrets colonies too, huh.

Discovery

Now I didn't finish this one yet, and it's hard.

We have klingons that start off as a weird racist stereotype of africans seen by colonialists from a century ago: black skin, tribal armors, weird "foreign" language that the show intentionally refuses to translate through the UT, and when they speak english it's with a strong guttural accent. And they're barbaric, scary cannibals who fight with sticks and knives, and are a bunch of disorganised tribes, with weird magic rituals that allow them to do weird brainwashing. I'm almost surprised they don't carry voodoo dolls while dancing around a bonfire. The fact that people describe this show as "woke" is funny to me.

We have very explicit rape and gore torture scenes, for what purpose, I don't know.

We have people forgiven of murder because it wasn't their mind, but then it is and everyone is fine with it.

And then there's more section 31 shit.

There's also the vision of asylum in this show that basically says "we grant asylum whenever we want, not based on the situation but on personal preferences", with Georgiou granting asylum despite the prime directive, and then Pike refusing asylum because of it. It's surprising that starfleet would allow that, but at least it's not Archer-level, sending people to death then blaming the ones who tried to help them.

SNW

As far as I remember, nothing as bad as the rest here. The take on eugenics and "augmented" individuals is really absurd though, showing starfleet hating on Una is fine because her species is augmented (like the denobulans who are in starfleet though, no?), but the stupid security officer who has DNA augmentations from a crazy evil dictator engineered to be violent and crazy, is allowed without any issue.

All of them

One thing that I struggle understanding is the constant of racist stereotypes. They're everywhere, because all the shows use them to define their characters.

Keiko wants to eat her traditional food in a kimono, Georgiou wears a big kimono-like dress that would barely fit in a Mulan movie, Elnor is a ridiculous samurai-ninja with the fitting outfit, etc. As if in hundreds of years, after earth is united and mixed with hundreds of alien species, "cultures" would not evolve and mix but instead go back to being very split apart and caricatural.

P.S.

I'm not saying that the shows are shit, but that I am worried about the lack of discussions concerning all those subjects. Star Trek is supposed to be progressive and show a better version of humanity, one that evolved and grew, and yet morals seem to not be a consideration of the shows anymore.

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