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- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | 1x10 "Rubincon" 1 week ago:
Yeah, I can just about fill in the handwaving myself, but it still felt a bit too vague for me. I guess I’ve never really been sold on telepathy as part of the Star Trek universe, so the more they use it (and the more powerful and plot crucial it gets), the less I like it. Still, I can’t deny that it is part of the universe, so maybe I should get over it.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | 1x10 "Rubincon" 1 week ago:
Only think that didn’t work for me was the Caleb/Tarima telepathy working like a psychic airtag for Anisha. Needed more explanation than ‘They have a connection,’ IMO.
- Comment on Annotations for *Star Trek: Starfleet Academy* 1x010: “Rubincon” 1 week ago:
Graffiti’d on the wall in the Atrium are the words “Break. Burn. Build.” Other visible graffiti include “Liberation”, “Take Change” and “Never Again”.
There’s also ‘Veni, vidi, vici, Venari’, which is a modification of Julius Caesar’s famous phrase meaning ‘I came, I saw, I conquered’. With ‘venari’ added it could be translated as ‘I came, I saw, I conquered, I hunt’.
It’s also thematically relevant to the title, as it was Caesar who crossed the Rubicon (on his way back from conquering), and became dictator of Rome, similarnto what Nus Braka was trying to do in this episode.
- Comment on What should've been the point or points for society to throw up their hands and stop supporting the government? 2 weeks ago:
I think when they just said ‘Yes, LLMs can steal your work’. That showed they don’t even care about property rights, which is the one thing the right have always pretended was their raison d’être.
- Comment on Head of Police Federation of England and Wales arrested on suspicion of corruption 2 weeks ago:
I guess well done for not doing that?
- Comment on Most Reform UK members believe non-white British citizens should be forced or encouraged to leave, poll finds 2 weeks ago:
Agreed, I’ve also seen and heard a lot of this attitude, going back decades now.
In addition, I think that Islamophobia is very widespread in the UK, including among ethnic minority groups. Both white and non-white Islamophobes see anti-immigrant polices as a way to persecute Muslims and prevent more of them coming to the UK.
- Head of Police Federation of England and Wales arrested on suspicion of corruptionwww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 2 weeks ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 2 comments
- Comment on Annotations for *Star Trek: Starfleet Academy* 1x08: “The Life of the Stars” 3 weeks ago:
I thought it was interesting that the Doctor didn’t want to mentor Sam after he was so enthusiastic about taking the same role for Seven of Nine. This episode gave a solid explanation!
- Comment on If someone tells you that communism has led to famines in the USSR and China, that it doesn't have any incentives and that anyone who supports it use products of capitalism, how do you counter this? 4 weeks ago:
Even if you use open source software exclusively, the hardware you run it on was still manufactured under capitalism, the hardware it was built on was manufactured under capitalism, the electricity you’re powering your hardware with was provided by capitalism, and the very economic system that allowed the devs to build and maintain the software… was capitalism.
None of this is in capitalism’s favour. That there’s no getting away from it is, for Marxists, a key argument against it.
- Comment on If someone tells you that communism has led to famines in the USSR and China, that it doesn't have any incentives and that anyone who supports it use products of capitalism, how do you counter this? 4 weeks ago:
I’m not a communist myself, but the last point is so fatuous that I think it’s fair to conclude that anyone actually making it is not arguing in good faith.
The first two, though, are completely valid arguments and you should respond to them by ceasing to describe yourself as a communist!
- Comment on Thoughts on Kanar 4 weeks ago:
Oh shit, that’s a good point, because it’s drying her out.
- Comment on Thoughts on Kanar 4 weeks ago:
Damar drinks it often on Cardassia Prime in season 7, and it seems pretty viscous there.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | 1x06 "Come, Let's Away" 5 weeks ago:
Nah, they’ve never jettisoned the nacelles. The warp core is the dangerous bit (Voyager jettisoned it, what half a dozen times?). I don’t know if the warp core on the Athena is floating but… maybe.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | 1x06 "Come, Let's Away" 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, the Athena’s wings are cool. But, again, the weird floaty bridge is… weird.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | 1x06 "Come, Let's Away" 5 weeks ago:
Another good episode! Really feels like the show is hitting its stride now.
My only complaint is a bit of standard fan whinging: I hope the detached nacelles go the way of the S1 Discovery Klingons. They just look so goofy.
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- Comment on Starmer says he won't 'choose between' the US or China 1 month ago:
Europe? I don’t know her.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | 1x03 "Vitus Reflux" 1 month ago:
I want some warp core pajamas.
Right? Glad I’m not the only one! I also want Thok’s workout jacket thing.
- Comment on 2025 is ‘year of the octopus’ as record numbers spotted off England’s south coast 2 months ago:
I, for one, welcome our new cephalopod overlords.
- 2025 is ‘year of the octopus’ as record numbers spotted off England’s south coastwww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 2 months ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 4 comments
- Comment on Kemi Badenoch: Tories to scrap petrol ban if they win next election 2 months ago:
Can you imagine explaining this to people in a few decades?
‘People were opposed to electric cars back in the old days.’ ‘Oh, that’s weird. Were petrol cars cheaper?’ ‘Nope’. ‘Were they… cleaner?’ ‘No, no. They made the air poisonous, actually.’ ‘Even for the people driving them?’ ‘Especially for the people driving them!’ ‘Oh, so petrol engines must’ve been more efficient.’ ‘Ha ha, oh God, no.’ ‘???’
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- Rape victims in England and Wales to be protected from ‘serial liar’ trope in legal shake-upwww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 3 months ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 0 comments
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- Comment on Nimby Watch: Nimbys hate your children 3 months ago:
Every small town/village has loads of kids hanging out in supermarket carparks. It is, as you say, bleak.
- Comment on Nimby Watch: Nimbys hate your children 3 months ago:
That is really upsetting! Those old housing estates get a bad rap (sometimes justified), but it’s noticeable that they’re the only inner city neighbourhoods where kids still play outside regularly, precisely because they’re designed with pedestrians rather than cars in mind.
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- Comment on Don’t believe Nigel Farage’s denials. He targeted me for being Jewish – and it hurt | Peter Ettedgui 3 months ago:
I think if it’s true that he’s a racist - and it is - it’s worth saying it. In addition there are two instrumental reasons we should say it.
First, Farage’s whole schtick has been to say: ‘You can oppose immigration without being a racist’ and the related argument ‘You shouldn’t be called a racist just because you want less immigration’. Proving that he is, himself, a racist makes both arguments deeply suspect.
It also more broadly crystallises what’s evil about him for those of us who already hate him (most people!) and shows exactly why he needs to be kept out of power at all costs. If I’m in a swing seat at the next election (currently safe Labour but will there be anywhere safe by 2029?) this is the kind of thing that will make me go ‘I don’t have to like it - and I don’t - but I’m voting for Lib Dems/Greens/whoever is best placed to beat this guy’.
- Don’t believe Nigel Farage’s denials. He targeted me for being Jewish – and it hurt | Peter Ettedguiwww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 3 months ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 6 comments
- ‘It fully changed my life!’ How young rewilders transformed a farm – and began a movementwww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 3 months ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 0 comments