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Ha! No quarries for you! Today it’s death by snu-snu!

Well first, I don’t have to be dreaming for it not to be real in terms of “true” - which you never know without fact checking. But like most people, I generally don’t do that, I assume the information is correct unless something about it seems off enough to double check. But tbh this seems increasingly unreliable as the Information Age turns into the Misinformation Age.

Boss, I know how we can prove wind power doesn’t work - use taxpayer money to buy it!

I wish that show would get going again. Last episode I was able to see was Frank apparently falling for Carol Kane’s character.

I’m stunned - stunned - that a sample size of 2 would produce inconsistent data.

I think people have made the point with specific references like “coup d’etat” and “faux pas”. I think the general answer is that language standards are fluid and common usage tends to become standard over time. The word “croissant” might be in a transition period depending on personal experience. I’ve always heard it in pronounced in the French or at least French-ish way, so to me “croy-sant” sounds kind of hillbilly. I grew up with Pillsbury Crescent Rolls.

Duh… jappaleeno!

You would hate me - I’ve always eaten whatever I want and somehow stay trim automatically. My wife eats a burger and gains 5 lbs.

I’ve never gotten an impression that the general public has any particular notion of the Romans being “enlightened” with respect to slavery. Most people seem to know only that there were slaves, but have no idea how large the slave population was. People today are eager, almost desperate, to scold somebody for being horrible, but they don’t think beyond that point. To me the more significant thing by far is the sheer volume of slavery, and that Roman society was only able to exist because of it.

Gonna find a way to use “plump as a partridge” in conversation.

Seems like this is forbidden by rule 2: No spam.

Original madlad.

That was McCoy’s attitude about dialsis and 20th Century medicine in general, which was well in keeping within his crotchety nature and was slightly comical, not meant to preach that 20th Century medicine is backward. But if we went to medieval times and called them dumbasses for not knowing about modern biology, that would be showing our own ignorance.

The complaint isn’t about the woke sentiments themselves, it’s about replacing interesting storytelling with lecturing on those themes, and the people in charge of trek right now using the show as their pulpit. IMO it’s phony virtue signaling, but it’s working because the main target audience has largely been ignored in the past, and are very easy to bait and quick to defend anything that looks like an ally and see any critics as evil enemies.

Maybe it’s a question of degree - I didn’t watch all of DS9 and don’t remember those two episodes, but I honestly can’t think of other instances where characters walked around bemoaning the state of affairs beyond a comment or two. In the Harlan Ellison episode with Edith Keeler nobody commented on it being a shame that there were still millionaires while poor people were eating soup kitchens, for example. Same for the Gary Seven episode - there were brief matter of fact comments on young people being unhappy with things, but no lecturing on the military industrial complex profiting off the Vietnam War. Maybe what you’re talking about evolved later.

At the time, I didn’t even think of that outfit as “crossdressing” - it just looked like they were trying to say styles had changed.

This is a complete misunderstanding of the wokeness complaints. They aren’t about who or what is presented in current trek, but how it’s presented. For example, instead of playing out insightful allegories that let viewers figure out the message, thereby crediting us with intelligence, the characters in Picard S2 walk around LA saying, “Wow what a terrible century, there’s so much social injustice.” That isn’t good storytelling, it’s a combo of lecturing and virtue signaling, and the fact that it’s the right message doesn’t change that.

Also, minor correction: Checkov wasn’t added until Season 2.

“You and I are about as similar as two entirely dissimilar things in a pod.” - Edmund Blackadder

SF bay area. I remember there being lots of strikes when I was a kid - farm laborers, for example. There was a big deal about boycotting grapes or lettuce or something, In fact there was a strike at the company where my dad worked. Nobody got shot. There are plenty of valid points to make about government serving the rich and not the common people, without resorting to just making shit up (or automatically believing it). Bobbleheads on the side of Goodness and Justice are still bobbleheads.

Fallout from the prosperity included a booming 1950s that spread convenience and luxury items everywhere, spawning a generation that expected them. The boom was possible largely because consumer goods had been rationed during the war or simply not produced because war contracts were more profitable. But the war created nearly 100% employement, and war production jobs paid very well. People had money to spend and no luxuries to spend it on, so there was a huge wave of saving.

Then after the war, once previously scarce consumer goods were being produced again, plus new goodies like televisions and all kinds of convenient home appliances, people spent like crazy, creating more jobs and higher salaries, which multiplied the effect.

By around 1960 the boom was finally losing steam. So the business world, which wanted it to keep going forever, started handing out consumer credit like candy. Likewise the public, who didn’t want their spending spree to end, embraced the idea of credit debt. Once those mechanisms were in place in the culture, it was simply a matter of normalizing higher and higher balances at higher and higher interest rates, and now here we are with lifelong debt being “normal”.

I was born in the 50s and started high school in the 60s, and was aware of news.

Unions were legal.
Strikes were legal.
Some people worked 6 days a week but 5 was more common; you heard “the weekend” more than “my day off”.
Soldiers and police weren’t killing strikers (source) - list of labor dispute deaths going back to 1850s lists none between 1936 and 1979

The part about defending elites instead of common people - yeah probably, I can’t think how to research that. The rest I dunno, this will just get douchevoted anyway, but I mean we should strive for accuracy right? Or maybe we don’t care.

Amazing that 102 million people wouldn’t feel the same way about something!

Yet another thread where there’s no point commenting on anything factual, because it will be taken to imply a rabidly polarized opinion. You can take people out of reddit but you can’t take the reddit out of the people.

I think the original text on this was better.

Maybe you can take comfort from the extremely low incidence of laptop battery fires in spite of millions of people leaving them plugged in all the time.

Okay I’m just gonna call somebody out - Imperious_melange just deleted a thread with over 200 upvotes where a thriving discussion was underway. It was about whether people perceived a pro-China and anti-west sentiment on Lemmy. I tried to post a reply and the site said “deleted by creator”. The thread was just gone. Whoever you are, Imperious_melange, I’m callin’ you out for this dick move. Please cut out that crap.

Reread the headline - Naming it World War 1 was a bad omen. The first of anything is very normally called “the first” because it’s just that. Headline is about actually numbering it with a One.

Source for that?

Wikipedia says Time Magazine coined the term World War 1 in 1939. Relatives of mine, now long dead, who participated in it told me personally that it was called The Great War or the War to End All Wars.

It wasn’t called WWI until there was a second one.

Bingpot! Features trump objections, which is how any industry knows it doesn’t really have to listen to users all that much. Deep down, addicts really don’t care if their heroin is ethically sourced from sustainably managed small-lot producers.