Do you think Trump would be super broken up if Don Jr, or Eric were killed by a bomb? He’d probably try to act like he cared for the cameras, but would he really care?

Given Mojtaba Khamenei’s history, it’s quite likely he’s a psychopath. So it’s very possible that he’s closer to Trump’s mentality than a normal person’s.

It’s odd how people assume that the enemy of of a narcissistic authoritarian sociopath that has the title of “Supreme Leader” and was personally involved with executing tens of thousands of people couldn’t possibly be a narcissistic authoritarian sociopath too.

Hitler was a bad guy therefore Stalin must’ve been a decent well-adjusted person, right?

Are you confusing Mojtaba Khamenei with MBS? They are different shitty people.

Trump does meet with MBS all the time BTW.

I can understand people sticking with horses more than I can understand sticking with ICE cars. A horse is an animal with a personality, you might feel like it’s like losing a friend.

But why do people have so much sentimentality over having cars that have tailpipes?

Don’t worry, they enshittify software in cars that have an ICE under the hood too.

I don’t think saying AI is being enshittified is too far from the orignal essay

This is enshittification: surpluses are first directed to users; then, once they’re locked in, surpluses go to suppliers; then once they’re locked in, the surplus is handed to shareholders and the platform becomes a useless pile of shit. From mobile app stores to Steam, from Facebook to Twitter, this is the enshittification lifecycle.

The AI companies were definitely subsidizing usage of the tech in the hopes of getting people locked in. Don’t think people are all that locked in. Probably some people are, suppliers like NVIDIA seem pretty locked in. But I don’t think there’s all that much to direct to shareholders relative to what they put into it to try to get lock in.

So it’s kinda failed enshittification? Premature enshittification… preshittification?

Well given the number of developers they canned so they could dump more money into the AI money pit, they kinda were heading that direction. But I guess they clued in that there might be a small problem with that business model.

The Defiant is big enough for a runabout to easily fly around inside of it.

This my head canon… In the movies they were working on transwarp drive on the Excelsior. The warp factor on transwarp drives is different from a regular TOS warp drive.

When Sulu put the hammer down on the Excelsior in ST VI, it proved that transwarp was just way better than regular warp drive. For whatever reason they couldn’t make transwarp work on the Constitution class so most of them were decommissioned.

By the time of TNG, pretty much everything is transwarp, so no one bothers calling it that ,they just call it warp drive since it became the standard. The transwarp factor is used everywhere, but everyone just calls it warp factor.

So it’s kinda like a change from imperial to metric units.

Presumably every warp capable species would have the ability to construct a few thousand hydrogen bombs (or weapons even more powerful) so would have the capability of wiping out life on a planet if they wanted to. So the Genesis device wouldn’t be a thing that would change the face of war, the problem was that a crazy person had such a weapon.

Though Star Trek is kinda hand wavy around nuclear weapons in general… maybe photon torpedoes are more powerful than an H-Bomb? But it doesn’t feel that way. At any rate, Starfleet, the Klingons, Romulans, etc. all have technology to wipe out a planet because we have that technology in the present day. They just don’t do that I guess? To me that’s the real continuity error.

And the time on TNG that they stumbled on a weird transporter trick that could make it so no one would ever need to die of old age ever again.

Another time a transporter accident led to a copy of Riker (with all of his memories) both on the ship and on the planet. You could recreate those conditions and create endless copies of people. The Federation wouldn’t do that because of morals and stuff, but the Dominion wouldn’t give a shit. They could have their best squad of Jem Hader stand on a transporter pad and beam down endless copies of them down onto a planet. They’re cloning people anyway, so why not take it to the next level?

The transporter is just endless continuity problems. Shields are down, oh no they’re beaming over boarding parties! Why are they doing that instead of using the transporting the crew of the enemy ship into their brig (if they’re good guys) or into space (if they’re bad guys)?

But what about TNG 7x09, the one where we learn that warp travel damages subspace and that a warp speed limit is the solution?

That was an analogy for Global Warming. The government issued a big proclamation but never actually did any real action about it.

I can’t see the word electrolyte without thinking “it’s what plants crave”.

But we do talk about the mess that is the prequels?

If you’re someone that loves the prequels because you watched them as a kid, how do think it’ll be in a decade when kids that watched Rise of Skywalker start posting to web forums?

As someone who watched both the PT and ST as an adult, the ST was way more interesting and better made than the PT.

Obviously they both suck compared to the Star Wars movies I watched as a kid LOL.

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Wouldn’t money laundering result in the casino making more money than it should?

Is that Lauren Chen, the Russian agent?

Tankies attacking the political opposition to the fascists rather than attacking the fascists themselves. Again.

Do the arms of tankies ever get tired from constantly carrying water for fascists?

Yeah so I’m not American. You’ve spent too much time on the internet, it’s made you hate everyone that doesn’t look like you. Maybe take a break from it? Hatred doesn’t achieve anything except destruction of yourself. Choose life over hatred.