Fair enough. I was suggesting that Michael Okuda didn’t have utility in mind when he made it because that’s not what he was hired for.

Edit: In fact, I just read that he was under directive by Roddenberry to make something minimalist to suggest technological advancement. In that sense, it was prescient.

LCARS is very pretty, but it’s also really poor as a GUI. It was designed for form over function because of course it was.

Cis women can regret breast implants, but somehow I don’t hear anyone advocating for stopping breast implants for cis women. You can even get them if you’re under 18. For purely cosmetic reasons.

There is a vast, vast gulf between blindly trusting the medical industry and accepting your personal conspiracy theory that doesn’t even make sense.

Cool. One person talks about a trans agenda in this thread, another person is making up silly medical conspiracies to dehumanize trans people as if they had no agency.

Teenagers don’t even go to doctors by themselves. They have to be accompanied by a parent.

They don’t have a definition of “actual women,” because every one they can give has to come with massive “exception to the rule” issues.

Just don’t let it near Porthos.

“Waiting” should have been left in the meme. It would be even funnier.

Existing is not an agenda.

And listening to doctors on this. Apparently the vast majority of pediatricians recommending puberty blockers for trans kids since it prevents suicide doesn’t matter.

No trans person has ever done anything bad to anyone I care about.

All Republicans have.

Does the Great Koala not imply an even greater eucalyptus tree? And does that not imply a yet greater still Australia? At which point, is that on an even still greater Earth? Is it a Great Koala Cycle in both directions?

I told a member of an LGBT organization in York, UK that I would be happy for any help I can get regarding finding me a job above the UK family visa income threshold so my gay daughter can stay here longer than six months after he offered to look over my CV and give me pointers… for the glory of the empire?

It also doesn’t dismiss the fact that Voyager was specifically built to fix the problem.

And there’s also the matter of the fact that science is about confirmation as much as it is about discovery. The Federation would absolutely gather their own data to confirm this before doing something like design and build Voyager with the moving nacelles.

The Morn You Know.

I am discussing it with the other mods, but they are all asleep right now since they’re all in North America except me.

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