Pre-death Deadmau5?

If it were labeled a trial account, not a free account, I might agree. But i think it’s more for harvesting contact details and hoping for a paid subscription down the line.

TNG, Devil’s Due

There was that one episode where they tried to save a planet from Satan. I dont think the planet was technically pre-warp, though, especially since there were federation scientists/engineers on the planet working with the population.

Weren’t they working against the prime directive? Otherwise they wouldn’t have beamed them back down after beaming them up. They had to trick the ferengi into leaving of their own accord… well the accord of the mob burning them in a pyre, but still.

Winngrainvowel?

No one called you any names. They said your advice is ridiculous, but that’s not name calling. That’s critiquing.

They’re not using your dishwasher for your needs, they’re using their dishwasher for their needs. They likely don’t overlap. Different models have different feature sets. One can say that they should have done more research into the home networking requirements for super basic features (as heavily explained in the article that we’re all commenting on, and you seem to have completely ignored), but frankly that’s beside the point. The baseline should not be well below par. The baseline should not be “download our potential spyware that also doesn’t necessarily work very well with your system just so you can use basic features”.

I’m glad you like smart features. I think people should have that kind of flexibility and choice in their home environment. The problem here is that when using this particular appliance, they don’t have that choice. That is a problem. Even if, when you use your appliance, you don’t have that issue, they do. Because they are not you, and do not have the exact same use case that you do.

What does homelessness have to do with anything? Gentrification isn’t specifically about homelessness, I don’t see anyone else mentioning it before now… where did you pull that from?

Gentrification seems to mean the rapid renovation of an area to appeal to a wealthier crowd, which this could easily cover.

… hunter2?

They didn’t need DEI because they were naturally diverse (in universe, at least).

The defiant class was technically the only warship they built for a long time.

HA

I think they’re just another kind of echo chamber people use to espouse views.

Until people change the way they express themselves, and open themselves to different ideas, nothing will change. Moving to a different social media tool because people think similarly to oneself there doesn’t expand horizons or change perspectives, if anything it narrows them.

There’s good solutions, and there’s easy solutions. They just don’t align. It’s just those with power prefer the latter over the former, cause it helps them keep that power. Their end goal also generally isn’t peace…

Which is really what this post is about. It’s about the tactics used (by “both sides”) to vilify their enemies and galvanize their base. To create extremists and reactionaries who think little and act a lot.

The real rub is those parties, the “good guys” and the “bad guys” (interchangeable depending on which power player we’re talking about) are vastly outnumbered by the people caught in the middle. If they stopped reacting and started thinking, those power players would lose their momentum.

We also shouldn’t be trying to propagandizing people to try and fanatically support us instead of “the other guy”.

I had the opposite experience. Left a shitty blue-collar job (it was even a union job, but the union was toothless and mostly just existed to get work from places that would only place orders with union shops) for an office job.

The hours are better, the pay is better, the co-workers are less bigoted, and I no longer smell like grease and sweat whenever I come home.

There will always be trade-offs in any job. Whether it’s blue-collar, white-collar, or whatever ever other collar you can think of. There is no perfect job type for everyone.

Dude was unhinged from the beginning. His early acts could be defensible because we can kind of agree with the words… but it was always about him. He couched it in defense of others, but it was always about “Look at me” for him.

I would say that’s not a reason to take him out of memes, but it’s also not a reason to think of him as ever having been a “good person”.

Honestly, I don’t think Riker ever really got over that hologram. He settled for Deanna.

How big were they before?

You’re welcome to believe whatever fantasy you want, too, it’s not reality after all :)

If you choose to believe your version of events, and whatever justification you need to use for it, feel free. We can both ignore each others reasoning just fine, I’d imagine.