Guess we best acquit then

Sorry I’m not interested in having sex with you

Based on your name, I assume you have a thing for killing your sexual partners with isotoners on. I am not in favor.

I admit I’ve never seen the show, kinda before my time. But they seem like space police on what I assume is a space station :)

Yep

Welcome to the future

What a weird take. He directed first contact. The drum head. The search, and past tense. All great.

It didn’t start with the media, it started with the crypto libertarians and tech bros. I might be misremembering but I think the news media got on their knees in the mid 2010s.

Well, that and the stupid cameo in iron man. But in general when people say media these days they mean the fourth estate not paramount pictures

I dunno, do you think police officers randomly threatening to murder journalists has stood up as a humorous exchange? I think it’s pretty cringe personally.

Oof that has not aged well

From my pov I think you’re repeating exactly what I said, but I appreciate the additional details.

My last point is that “the design life we choose” is usually dictated by non-engineering forces. A 12th century king can throw resources at a problem. A 20th century governor cannot, and doesn’t care to. They care about the bridge lasting until the end of their term limits.

Yeppers that’s the thought process. thanks for explaining better than me.

I’m considering most economic systems prior to…the last few centuries to be essentially slavery. If some random king owns everything…

Not the same as America’s slavery of course, nor is it necessarily legally structured slavery as existed in many societies, but nevertheless.

Every generation is peddled two insane concepts:

When they are young, they are told that they have a weird bizarre vernacular which sounds stupid to everyone else.

Then when they are old, they are told young people have a weird bizarre vernacular which sounds stupid to everyone else.

Then you die.

Labor was free because of slavery, so the economics were not the same. Current engineering has the concept of “over engineering” which is what cracked-up addicts in wall street call “building to last”, due to the “expense” of not being shortsighted on a quarter by quarter basis.