Emotion and empathy are core and required components of sapience in addition to intelligence, in the same way that eggs and sugar are necessary components of cake; no amount of sophistication will render a cake from just flour. An entity that doesn’t have emotion and empathy is too primitive and limited to be sapient regardless of its computational power because it lacks fundamental building blocks of awareness.

Before you try to get out in front of me with this: I’m fully aware that there are human beings with no empathy or emotion. I will not elaborate and I am taking no questions.

Ironically, you’re proving my point in asking this question.

I’m unaware of these, but I’ll take you at your word

You got lost in the sauce because your critical thinking skills are already eroding. The LLM brainlet effect is real, the neurodegeneration has already set in.

None of the above, I just don’t suffer fools.

It’s not realistic to expect no AI assistance in coding in 2026.

Pathetic. You have a serious skill issue, that much is true, but you need to keep it to yourself instead of sharting it out into society. Code better or go get a job you’re more qualified for, like operating a tollbooth.

It does feel like Star Trek used to be woke, but was a story from the mouths of people who had something to say, to now it’s woke, but in a very icky corporate-sterilized kinda way.

Exactly it, modern Trek’s wokeness is diluted and committeed to death, it’s the writing equivalent of performative rainbow capitalism from corporations that now toady to the Trump administration.

Oh you must be right then, not the people who were alive at the time and made and absolute shit ton of media about the exact thing you’re contesting.

A while back I made a spoof account called Universal Crunk. It used his same avatar but photoshopped to be flashing cash in front of the Raytheon HQ, wearing Ray-Bans and a Yankees hat, and smoking crack; the profile bio was the standard one he uses but his the language was changed to be praise of crypto, defense contractors, and hedge funds. I made one comment and within about 2 minutes it was nuked.

Considering Wesley was Gene Roddenberry’s self-insert character, I think the idea was to establish that as brilliant as Picard is, there’s still someone who can get his goat by virtue of just being that special.

In early development, Dr Crusher originally had a daughter named Leslie Crusher. The point of that character wasn’t very well-defined before she was turned into a brilliant male wunderkind named Wesley by a man whose full name was Eugene Wesley Roddenberry. In other words, the point of the character was that an aging egomaniac wanted a self-insert character whose traits are that he’s special, he’s a genius, and that he’s frequently misunderstood and let down by all the dolts who surround him.

Yes, such as spyware

That’s IRC dawg

DS9 was also an outlet for Rick Berman’s nasty misanthropy, he despises the world of Star Trek and loathes the idea of the Federation.

PieFed literally uses a social credit score system and it gets lowered if you post content the Dev doesn’t like. It’s shit. And it’s ugly, people who want a low density enshittified web app interface should be actively filtered out.

So just find scrapers and bot farm owners IRL and burn down their houses, easy

Sopuli is the best instance and it’s not even faintly close

What if you don’t enjoy people acting obnoxiously? S.O.L.?

It’s more common to be wasteful and irresponsible. Literally tons of high quality stuff is thrown in the garbage because people want a shitty plastic one that’s more up-to-date and stylish, and more to the point, not used.

Nearly everything you possess will end up in a landfill or the ocean within 10 years of your death, this is no exception.

Doesn’t it also get thrown out by the fact that a sizeable number of stardates are easter eggs, references, or random numbers?