I don't care, I was just refuting "Roddenberry didn’t imagine a moneyless future" because it's categorically untrue.
pimento64
joined 2 years ago
Ronald D. Moore commented, "By the time I joined TNG, Gene had decreed that money most emphatically did NOT exist in the Federation, nor did 'credits' and that was that."
Daily reminder that astroturfing like this is the norm, and it has been for years. Shit like this is easy to do. You can even take it further and fabricate the a truly disgraceful complaint, and counter it with the perfect pre-written riposte. And if enhances your PR standing and helps you make money, are you going to just leave that money on the table and say "no thanks, we've made enough money this quarter"? It would be trivial to preempt criticism of a controversial production decision by commissioning fabricated death threats against the writers of a show, solely to victimize yourself and taint the waters of any possible criticism. Why would anyone not do that? Out of the goodness of their hearts?
You're forgetting the most important part, a room fool of jackasses who wouldn't slow down if they ran a brown person over will get to look and feel good.
O, let not the pains of financial burden which come upon thee enter into my automobile. I am the Extended Warranty, and I am in the foremost part of the loan, and the insurance policy which protecteth me is that which is with all the paid claimants forever.
Chromium is a dead end, I use Firefox because it respects my privacy but also because it works better.
Work with animals is a source of suffering to all of us. We treat them like babies who cannot speak. The more time passes, the more I'm sorry about it. We shouldn't have done it ... We did not learn enough from this mission to justify the death of the dog.
—Oleg Gazenko, one of the scientists who worked on Sputnik 2
I disagree, Mr. Gazenko. The Soviet Union learned the incredibly valuable lesson that if you lock a dog in a hot box, it dies. Truly valuable science.
Was this article written by a LLM? It looks like it wasn't even edited, as evidenced by several pictures in a row separated only by the word "snip".
It's illegal in the United States too, jamming cell phones is a great way to get the government to come and shove a broom up your ass.
I've engaged with a bad-faith question more candidly than it deserves.
Test them for lead.