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- Comment on Here I stand, at 50, wishing I could shit as well as my dogs. 6 days ago:
I fixed both upper and lower GI problems by changing my diet to get at least forty grams of fiber a day. It's crazy how much difference it made. Lentils, edamame, other beans, steamed or sauteed veggies, whole grains. If you want convenience foods then keto or carb smart.
- Comment on Credit to u/donner1701 on Reddit 1 week ago:
Relative to the time in which each was released Trek has gotten less progressive over time. TOS was released during the height of the cold war and the civil rights movement. It had a black female bridge officer. The line of command isn't super clear on tos but Uhura was a department head and no lower than sixth in command. It had the first interracial kiss on television between Kirk and Uhura. It had a Russian bridge officer, also no lower than sixth in command. It had an Asian bridge officer also no lower than sixth in command. Earth was presented as a Socialist utopia.
TNG didn't really back off of that ideologically, though it didn't do as good of a job with racial representation, but it also didn't advance it and culture did advance between the 60s and the 90s.
DS9 pulled back on it primarily as a result of its exploration of darker themes. It creates and drives wedges into cracks in Earth's Utopia. It has Starfleet and even the main protagonist abandon Starfleet's ideas and principles in periods of adversity. It also started the movement away from the philosophical sci-fi that Trek thrived in before to more action oriented sci-fi.
Ultimately, imo, Janeway was a more "Starfleet" officer than Sisko. She showed more integrity and dedication to the Federation's ideals under greater levels of hardship and personal risk. All in all Voy was not particularly more or less progressive than DS9 though.
Nutrek tries but it's too action oriented and doesn't really explore the themes in a meaningful way and that causes its more progressive moments to come off as less impactful and less integrated into the story. It also seems to forget that Starfleet is a quasi military organization and doesn't always do a good job at presenting the characters as competent disciplined professionals which makes progressive decisions and moments less meaningful.
So, I agree. Trek it's woke enough. It should bring Roddenberry's philosophical progressive Trek into the modern era.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Am American, my advice? Just use communities/instances that don't use English as their primary language. If you want to be extra safe avoid Spanish too.
- Comment on Sorry to disappoint you 1 week ago:
Search engines are better at figuring out my misspellings than the android keyboard. Lots of random misspelled words in my search history.
- Comment on Why does everyone here think they're autistic or ADHD? The memes all describe normal human foibles. 2 weeks ago:
Intensity is also important. One symptom of autism for me is compulsive tendencies. The things on the shelf have a correct order and it bothers me if they aren't in that order. Food has a correct order to eat it in and I don't go back and forth between things or mix things together. Various daily tasks have to be done in a certain order.
I don't have OCD. The difference is that I can still function if these things are done wrong, it causes anxiety and agitation but not beyond a level that I can deal with. Someone with OCD might have the exact same tendencies but not be able to move forward without "fixing" whatever is wrong even if fixing it causes them injury or prevents them from dealing with more important things. Everyone wants to wash their hands sometimes. People without strong compulsions stop before their hands bleed.
- Comment on Transcribed text of Samantha Fulnecky's assignment, paper, and professor's comments 5 weeks ago:
It's a twenty-five point short essay that really only asks the student to show that they read and understood the article. I'd be surprised if this assignment was more than about 2% of the final grade.
- Comment on Transcribed text of Samantha Fulnecky's assignment, paper, and professor's comments 5 weeks ago:
I bet with some diligent searching someone could find a biblefaq type website from an ultraconservative organization that has a suspiciously similar answer to a question like "What does the Bible say about gender roles?"
- Comment on How do we know that the ratio between the circumference and the diameter of a circle is preserved across radius sizes? 5 weeks ago:
Shapes don't actually exist. They are abstract concepts that we use to describe and make predictions about the material world. We know that the ratio between the circumference and diameter of a circle are always the same because that's part of how we define a circle.
- Comment on Russia Has Lost 1.2 Million Troops in Ukraine—More Than Its Entire Pre-War Army 5 weeks ago:
These totals include both those killed and severely wounded who will never return to combat—hence the classification as “irrecoverable losses.” Sources within Ukraine’s General Staff told UNITED24 Media that the proportion of killed Russian soldiers is rising each year. Early in the war, more troops were wounded than killed. That trend has now reversed.
From the article. It doesn't count sprained ankles but does count things like foot blown off.
- Comment on What happened if the 5th attempt failed? 5 weeks ago:
Yeah but they didn't limit the buffer. You had to wait 15min for it to load but once it did you could watch a whole low quality video file straight through with no shuddering or stopping.
- Comment on Is there a mechanism in the USA to undo presidential pardons years later if political corruption has been proven as motivation to give these pardons? 1 month ago:
That process is more dangerous because it's less constrictive. Going through the legislative branch limits it to one amendment and is a drawn out public process. At a constitutional convention the representatives can debate and pass anything they want to with the required 3/4 vote without public notice or input. I don't trust our current political system not to add corporate written amendments to the constitution if they have the chance to do so without public review.
- Comment on Do you cheat in video games? 1 month ago:
Absolutely. I usually do some gameplay straight to experience the game as intended and add cheats gradually to see how much difference they actually make but cheats are just part of customizing your experience to make the game as enjoyable for you as possible.
You're younger than me, cheats weren't stigmatized when I was young. Warpzones in SMBros were basically required to call yourself an experienced player and mastering the Konami code was a basic gaming achievement. I've always viewed learning to use cheats and exploits to be one of the things that transitioned someone from a casual player to a gamer.
- Comment on Are you even old enough to remember number 1? 2 months ago:
For a long time I thought that a rotary phone was one of those old wall mounted phones with the horn that you had to crank to make a call because all of those "things people born after 19XX don't recognize" lists had rotary phones on them. I was born after 19XX and basically everyone I knew had one of these so it couldn't be a rotary phone.
- Comment on Are you even old enough to remember number 1? 2 months ago:
Yeah, number one was Zack Morris's phone. I think that the first mobile phone that I had was close to four. It definitely had the extendable antenna and was a flip phone but not a true flip phone like 5.
- Comment on Age check 4 months ago:
Bill Clinton, president from 92-2000, famously had an affair with white house intern Monica Lewinsky which included her performing oral sex on him in the oval office. The joke is that Lewinsky is under the desk.