Linux users proceed to cry

Hey. Let me tell you a little secret, if you take meds and they don’t do anything, but when you stop taking them you suddenly feel bad and go into withdrawal; that’s not a sign that the meds were actually working, that’s a sign that you weren’t prescribed medicine. You were prescribed an addiction. The medical industry LOVES prescribing addictions.

Starfleet Academy fucking REEKS of being one of those instances where someone had a story concept that was too weak to stand on its own so they slapped a beloved existing IP over it and called it a day. I’m glad its getting canceled, that sort of thing should never be rewarded. It’s lazy and insulting to the fans of whatever IP they stole to try to prop up their mediocre story.

Why would she? Keiko has repeatedly shown she absolutely detests Miles. That marriage is colder than Siberia in a harsh winter. The sheer amount of passive aggressive hatred that oozes out of her every time they’re on screen is remarkable.

Keiko wishes every day that Miles will finally die, and resents him for never doing so.

Yep, that’s one of the main reasons I compare him to a 6 year old from the 1950’s.

Tom Paris is the kind of character that would sleep in a racecar bed and think it made him cool.

Tom Paris is the worst character on Voyager, fight me.

If you took a spoiled 6 year old from the 1950’s and suddenly turned him into an adult, that child would be Tom Paris. He’s overly childish, and not in a cute way. He character has practically zero depth. He’s like Wesley Crusher if Wesley was an idiot.

For being gay? No absolutely not. Their culture does not give a shit about gender or sexuality.

For being sensitive and afraid of public speaking? Pitiful coward! He brings dishonor to his house!

That’s not how it works…

FYI, when you click the link on mobile, it immediately starts downloading a video file. I can not stress enough how much I do not want that to happen.

Because, shockingly, Discords user base is not made up of people hyper focused on tech and decentralization and open source software. It’s mostly people who just want to play video games with their friends.

And if all your friends are hyper focused on tech and decentralization and open source software, they should have no problem switching!

If, on the other hand, you have friends who fall into the rest of the 99.9% of society, they will react like you suggested they replace all their meals with raw potatoes.

A goal to work toward. A hope that if we keep fighting, there will eventually be a future where people don’t have to fight. That there is a path toward humanity reaching it’s peak, rather than an endless sisyphian struggle until our extinction.

It’s not “things could be fine without struggle or setbacks”, Star Trek makes it VERY clear that it was not a smooth and easy path toward fully automated gay space communism. It’s history of humanity is riddled with wars and uprisings and cultural slides backwards. But there is the idea that there could be a better future someday. Where greed and inequality are almost foreign concepts in society. Where science and reason finally win out against superstition and ignorance.

It may be a fantasy, but I don’t think it’s unreasonable to hold onto a belief that things will not always just continue to be shitty forever. Never forget the words that can make a happy man’s joy turn to ash, or a sad man’s misery into hope:

This too shall pass.

It just feels wrong. It’s like having superman act like homelander. Even if the message is “things shouldn’t be this way”, you are tarnishing a symbol of hope and optimism. People like Star Trek, especially these days, because it gives them hope of a better future, beyond the struggles and corruption of modern society; where justice isn’t just an abstract concept that has to be fought for every day. Where competence and intelligence is rewarded, and corruption and prejudice is not tolerated.

To take that and twist it by going “actually the future is shitty and still full of fascism and it will always be an uphill battle” is just soul crushing.

I don’t care what identity the characters have, I just want them to be mentally sound. That was my biggest problem with Discovery. I loved all the representation, but holy shit could we have officers that actually act like officers instead of a bunch of high-schoolers in a cheap drama? Every fucking week it was some new identity crisis. How the hell did such a miserable collection of neurotic babies become a Star Trek crew?

It’s my go to reaction gif when I find a thread full of comments of people believing obviously made-up BS.

Some of the jokes will go over your head, some of the cameos will be meaningless, but overall I think the show stands on its own pretty well.

What didn’t you like about Andor? And if your answer is “I didn’t see it”, then why do you already have an opinion on it?

Where is the government when you need it

“The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which”

Move along home!

The millennium falcon is essentially an old Cessna plane crammed full of equipment from a military jet, held together by duct tape, spit, and good vibes. It is constantly breaking down because everything from its armor, to its engines, to its power core was never designed for a ship that size. But when it does work, it punches WAY above its class.