andyburke

you better watch out for the DS9 people…

At this point does Google ever do anything that isn’t awful for the consumer?

Eject, friend, eject!

this is how the fediverse starts to take over and I am here for it

Not going to agree with the commenter above, but I want to point out that this happens a lot:

A person who holds views that are detrimental to others comes to a community of those people and cries “why, when I am not quite like other people who hold these views, but agree with them on the detrimental stuff about you, do you not accept me?”

The people in the community try repeatedly to explain why holding views that harm others is harmful and that the person asking may need to revaluate their own views.

The person then says they’re being attacked. Everything they predicted about this community is coming true! They feel like they’re being kicked out!

And they are! Because when they came to engage then didn’t change, let alone evaluate, any of their own views, the community rightly showed them back to the door until they are ready to actually listen and put themselves in someone else’s shoes.

I am sure you feel like you have been badly treated at this point. What you do with that now is up to you. I’ll say this: I have no hate for you, I would like nothing more than to give you some feedback that might help change how you view some things. I hope there is enough food for thought here for everyone.

I find it positive to think about these writers, inspired to try to create something scientific and exciting but lacking the education themselves to do it justice, but then inspiring generations to learn and explore, who then return having learned enough to spot the problems.

I hope Star Trek can use science, and the generations of fans now inspired, to keep pushing these stories further because it feels like our collective need for Star Trek’s vision is as deep as ever.

Thinking about this more and it’d make more sense: a Ferengi that believed in giving gifts would certainly be banished, maybe he brought his message of giving to Earth…

… there’s a chance he may have been Ferengi.

One becomes a significant person in politics by writing things like this. This is a Russian politician who is saying the things you want. Was only trying to help make sure you are aware.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/09/11/russia-post-putin-democracy-window-nuremberg-lustration/

Vladimir Kara-Murza is.

Reasonableness on the Fediverse is so fucking refreshing.

FWIW: my only problem is the with the pseudoscience, your picking up his odd behavior is totally correct. I wouldn’t trust this guy as far as I could throw him, just not sure what we can decide scientifically from clips like this.

Can you cite some studies for this, please? Preferably reproduced, peer reviewed ones?

I don’t mean to be mean, but I have heard things like this and from everything I have been able to gather, there’s no evidence for being able to tell how someone is thinking just from their movements or tics.

This is why Ukraine is under immense pressure to get results out of the counteroffensive.

You’re not alone, but maybe we are? Everyone else seems to understand.

I watched Star Trek because my dad introduced me to it. I’m now a dad and I am sharing it with my kids.

I don’t know you, and I don’t know your family, but if your father liked Star Trek enough to introduce you to it, my guess is that he wouldn’t want his death to take that away from you. If anything, my bet would be he’d hope it would bring you comfort and fond memories and hope for the future.

I hope you can get there when enough time has passed, and I hope this message might help it all hurt a little less.

As an outsider with no horse in the race, I thought this a good discussion.

In the end, I think maybe Quebec gets what it wants: I have no interest in visiting a place that tries to police its “culture” that much.

It wasn’t an attempted coup, though, it was more keystone cops action from the Russian Federation.

I tend to agree with OC that these opinion polls don’t matter. Putin is in control and until people closer to him change that, Russian citizens are along for the ride.

The sad truth is it will need to get much worse until conservatives will admit there is a problem and let progressives solve it.

It has always been this way. You either live in a progressive, upwardly moving state with improving quality of life or you get stuck in a conservative, stagnant or downward trending place where people are more concerned with “others” than they are with doing anything productive as a society. As a species, we seem to slowly wobble back and forth between these extremes. It’s maddening.

Can someone explain how Biden is supposed to do this?

Republicans are tilting further and further toward Russia and away from Ukraine. Independents don’t understand why we should be “spending” millions on another country.

Biden seems to be sending about as much as any current US president could hope to.

How much do you think you’d need to get out? (Asking, in a kidding way, as a Californian who is tired of these memes about how it’s bad to live here when you’re just describing any major urban center in the world.)

Edit: you’re not wrong about the challenges, it’s just that they’re not unique to California.

In 10 years you haven’t made any professional connections who would want to work with you again?

That is the single best avenue to other jobs: foot in the door through someone you have worked with who can vouch for your professionalism and ability.

If you’re not making those connections, something is wrong. It could be the kinds of jobs you’ve taken, eg: if they’re all solo contracts and you don’t interact with anyone on anything other than deliverables. Or you are taking roles where your output is used only by a small sunset of the company or something?

If you’re taking reasonable roles and have decent interaction with co-workers and no one is willing to refer you for a job, then you need to think about what your relationships are like at work and why they aren’t positive enough.