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- Comment on Dynamic pricing could be coming to your local supermarket 53 minutes ago:
Then I won’t be going to that supermarket.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | 1x08 “The Life of the Stars” 1 day ago:
I don’t buy that excuse, mental health treatment doesn’t advance in a world of dramatic medical technological advances? They can repair brain matter with an external device and recombine a person, atom by atom in transport but talk therapy is the best therapy for mental health… nah, that’s ridiculous.
And Geordie traded pain for augmented sight, arguably better vision than normal. He chose the tradeoff, not because he just didn’t want to see and accepted his blindness.
- Comment on Twitch: "Hey, come back! This commercial break can't play while you're away." 3 days ago:
That doesn’t sound like my concern.
- Comment on Do not look at this if you live in Germany. 😐 3 days ago:
You’re missing the corporate arm of fascism, probably the most important part.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | 1x08 “The Life of the Stars” 3 days ago:
Geordi basically got super vision from his choice to integrate technology. He did not simply stay blind. What are you talking about?
If you could offer an effective, affordable and safe tech solution to people’s disabilities, the vast majority would use it. Nobody is out here ‘accepting myself’ if a fix exists. We know this because we already fix disabilities when able and nobody is choosing no. All of medicine is fixing disabilities or preventing them, from a broken finger to avoiding diabetes.
The modern process for overcoming trauma is the best we have right now. That it’s the same in 1000 years is bad science fiction, especially when medical science in the same world is lightyears more advanced. Why is mental health processes and treatment no better than 2025?
‘Taking a happy pill’ is, again, the modern equivalent of technology in mental health treatment. People in 3100 might, I don’t know, have advanced since now? The point of science in the fiction is to envision how it might have advanced. If you think mental health treatment is going to be talk therapy or CBT for the next thousand years, that seems pretty unlikely, particularly for severe trauma which has physiological affects on the brain that could potentially be modified.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | 1x08 “The Life of the Stars” 4 days ago:
Alright, you clearly don’t understand anything i said so theres no point.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | 1x08 “The Life of the Stars” 4 days ago:
That’s a pretty common part of science fiction, particularly cyberpunk, though. What does it mean to be human in a world of advanced technology? Data from TNG was this very question, that character existed to explore what it meant to be human and confront the realities of our relationship to technology. This hologram character could have been similar. If little to no part of the story is the relationship between human beings, technology, and scientific knowledge, it isn’t science -fiction.
I think that’s the crux of the hate for this series and discovery, of this Kurtzman era of trek. It’s isn’t science-fiction at all, it’s drama set in a techno-fantasy world. Those are two very different things and neither is Star Trek.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | 1x08 “The Life of the Stars” 4 days ago:
Why?
That’s the perfect scenario for science-fiction. It’s theoretically possible to do so, trauma has a physiological footprint, it manifests in physical reality that can be altered by technologies. It’s entirely plausible for some effects of trauma to be healed medically instead of solely through something like talk therapy, or in this case, theatre therapy.
- Comment on Sometimes my YouTube feed creates something akin to poetry... 4 days ago:
America’s one and only 250th will forever be celebrated under Donald Trump’s direction…
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | 1x08 “The Life of the Stars” 4 days ago:
It’s disappointing worldbuilding that there is no advanced mental/medical health services everpresent already that people just use whenever. Why isn’t trauma recovery a medical procedure? Why isn’t there a holodeck for use as a therapeutic tool? The hologram ‘experiencing a childhood’ is literally a version of that already. 1k years in the future and people need theatre to teach them to manage their mental health…
But such things would require the showrunners to give a shit about the science fiction part of startrek and not abuse the IP for a modern day teen character drama set in a generic tech fiction setting. The technology and the world in this show is not treated as a meaningful character itself, the science and technology is written for the convenience of the plot and does not form a cohesive of consistent world. This lack of object storytelling is a modern writing issue that makes the stories lack grounding in shared reality. Each episode of this show might as well just be a dream one of the characters had.
- Comment on 4 days ago:
All this controversy is showing is if the surveillance device is obvious, people get upset. If its hidden, people seem to be okay with it.
Like, your tvs have cameras inside your home watching you and sending that to a corporation but some dude with glasses out in public is the line? Like, it makes zero sense to me. People embraced all these video, audio, location and other surveillance data gathering devices throughout their lives but the glasses are too far? None of this shit should be acceptable.
- Comment on Anthropic says it ‘cannot in good conscience’ allow Pentagon to remove AI checks 4 days ago:
Because America elected unreasonable leaders.
- Comment on Amazon Change Means Wishlists Might Expose Your Address 6 days ago:
Have to dealt with a company before?
- Comment on Facebook researchers previously proposed studying whether features were ‘addictive,’ documents show 1 week ago:
That such studies aren’t mandatory prior to general release was purchased by lobbyist for companies that want the freedom to risk our will being for profit.
- Comment on Epstein arrests: 0. Nancy Guthrie: still missing. The head of the FBI: 1 week ago:
Tbf the whole of America is a massive embarrassment at the moment.
- Comment on Mike Hardaker accuses Reddit of holding organic posting ‘hostage’ unless he buys ads, shares email screenshot 1 week ago:
Owners of the means of production will use that leverage to exploit you, every time.
- Comment on Don't we all hate this 1 week ago:
As far as the world knows, they did. It was the $20 you gave them.
- Comment on "Being vegan is unnatural" 1 week ago:
Society had to implement bestiality laws because vegans loved animals a little too much.
- Comment on Peter Thiel and other tech billionaires are publicly shielding their children from the products that made them rich 1 week ago:
Yeah because they see us as animals that they can hurt to enrich themselves. They don’t give a fuck what the consequences are to your children, that’s your problem. Just because they reshape the inescapable environment you raise your kids in, doesn’t mean they’re responsible for the effect that has on them, or you.
The mass of humanity needs to accept that private power concentrations are a threat to humanity and take steps to ensure they don’t exist. Private interest are hostile to community interests. There is no middle ground with selfishness, it is relentless. The most selfish people will always end up with the power if power is allowed to concentrate. Democracy was literally the remedy for it and we’ve allowed democracy to be removed from the hands of the many in favour of the few.
Private power and community power can not coexist.
- Comment on Across the US, people are dismantling and destroying Flock surveillance cameras. Anger over ICE connections and privacy violations is fueling the sabotage. 1 week ago:
Sacrificing what you want is the option.
- Comment on Unlimited Power ⚡ 1 week ago:
Because women are attracted to the ones who could.
- Comment on NBC draws heavy criticism after Olympic figure skating move 1 week ago:
Surely this has nothing to do with the Olympic Committee’s draconian broadcast licenses…must all be NBCs fault…
- Comment on ChatGPT-maker OpenAI considered alerting Canadian police about school shooting suspect months ago 1 week ago:
It is. But over the years I’ve come to learn that masses of people do bad ideas regularly.
- Comment on AI blamed again as hard drives are sold out for this year 1 week ago:
I doubt offering AI services to the public is their goal.
- Comment on Across the US, people are dismantling and destroying Flock surveillance cameras. Anger over ICE connections and privacy violations is fueling the sabotage. 1 week ago:
This behavior from companies is so predictable that I’m perpetually disappointed in my fellow human beings for ever buying this equipment.
- Comment on Unlimited Power ⚡ 1 week ago:
I’m beginning to see why men subjugation women in the first place.
- Comment on ChatGPT-maker OpenAI considered alerting Canadian police about school shooting suspect months ago 1 week ago:
K…so they’ll snitch on you to the cops, or other authority when you’re using it as a personal therapist? Ppl is fuckked.
- Comment on Talents leave AI companies: "They are putting profits over sanity and safety" 1 week ago:
As a legal requirement.
- Comment on misleading cover 1 week ago:
Morning Glory Milking Farm
- Comment on When DinoCon is doing more than the US Gov 1 week ago:
But they elected and keep supporting them, news at 12.