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marcos,

The Maquis were freedom fighters

The Maquis were outright terrorists, that rushed to attack civilians of the wrong ethnicity any time they could, and didn’t care how many of the civilians of the right ethnicity were killed on the process either. That’s put very clearly since the first time they appeared on TNG.

And yeah, they were terrorists fighting against occupation and genocide of their kind. Still terrorists.

marcos,

When a government does that, it’s not called “terrorism” anymore, and instead starts to get names like “crimes against Humanity”.

Anyway, everything is very clear on whether or not the Maquis were terrorists. All the nuance is about how to react to that.

marcos,

If you are focusing on the name, yes, it changes because when the government does it, it becomes a much worse crime.

But I do think this is focusing on the wrong thing. There is a huge amount of discussion on those shows about terrorism coming from an oppressed group, full of nuances and different values. All of what becomes meaningless if you go… denying (?) the terrorism that is completely clear.

marcos,

Sisko could, but they could refuse to let him out of the wormhole.

marcos,

“It’s your religion. I’m just the messiah, I don’t believe in it.”

If there is any more powerful move than this, I never saw it.

marcos,

Starfleet spent all those resources randomizing their phaser frequency… Who would expect the real path to victory was randomizing their captains’ personalities!

marcos,

A long time ago, this probably even had paragraphs!

marcos,

Looks like a replicator with added constraints.

marcos,

It doesn’t glow. The glowing is all in your eyes.

marcos,

There was a ridiculous, completely unbalanced version they published just after Alpha Centauri where the most powerful unit was a van-looking ecoterrorism thing that transformed everything around it into forest.

They could make a sequel to that one instead.

marcos,

But then, Odo wouldn’t care a bit.

marcos,

Looks like something that should work just fine.

Maybe cut that steak more.

marcos,

It was a very good single movie. And a short animated series.

marcos,

Oh, that photo that if you pay attention you’ll notice is flat?

How can you be certain it’s not a disk with textures that keep mutating to emulate a rotating sphere?

(\s of course.)

marcos,

The people that come up with country names do like a light trolling.

marcos,

Did you mean Physics Rule?

Anyway, yeah, if you fully expand the terms, you get something like that. Nobody ever accused modern physics of being simple.

marcos,

Just out of curiosity… WTF is that?

Also, those people are fighting, aren’t they? It doesn’t look like it, but the setup implies it.

marcos,

Ok, for anybody that needed more context like me, the wiki introduction:

World Wrestling Entertainment is an American professional wrestling promotion.

Sounds like a Mexican-style wresting with Hollywood style production. This is easily one of the wikipedia pages that got one of the largest amounts of WTF? from me, but it still doesn’t beat the Emu War.

marcos,

That hard hat!

My only complaint is that it doesn’t seem to use the feet. But that hard hat is just great!

marcos,

Apparently, most of those floating around are fakes.

So, good luck telling them apart from the ones that aren’t. And good luck deciding the next answer you get from Google about something that you don’t know already should be taken seriously or posted here to increase the non-fake ratio.

marcos,

AIs have been capable of doing this for ages already.

It just falls into the set of useful stuff that LLMs trained as chatbots suck at because they had the useless goal of convincing people they are smart.

marcos,

No, AIs have been capable of looking at your code|text|image|whatever and telling the project apart. For ages. It’s not even impressive anymore.

marcos,

The protagonist always wins in the end. That’s a universal law.

marcos,

Everybody is complaining in a way that implies it’s a real ad.

Is it?

marcos,

He is the civilian authority the Major answers to. There’s not rank between them.

Somehow he’s a civilian “Lieutenant”, but well, Enterprise is full of subtle jokes about this.

marcos,

Oh, so the fireworks purposefully added to the consoles is canon?

marcos,

I insist that Enterprise should have tried some at some point.

marcos,

The odds of somebody who was interested 6 months ago to be interested today are much larger than the ones of any random person. And you already have their contact, and already made some kind of screening.

The amount of malice people go out of their way to put on other people’s acts is incredible. Nobody cares about you enough to be out to get you. If you don’t want the job, just say it.

marcos,

Wait, are we talking about “mirror” from what side?

marcos,

Wait, Disco time travels again?

marcos,

I guess so. I doubt it would be the weirdest thing on the series.

They blasted everyone around too anyway, so there may not have been anybody to explain it to.

marcos,

That second one is absolutely disgusting.

It’s not a reason to get mad, though.

marcos,

The court is useless, and it’s by design.

Yeah, people repeating it for the world to hear is good, not bad. But a useful version of that court isn’t something viable.

marcos,

It’s pretty boring to keep beating that dead horse. The fact that people keeping moving it around to pretend it’s alive adds a bit of entertainment, but most of the “ha-ha look at that dumb clown” variety, not of the “let’s do something about it” one.

marcos,

Arrested for protesting against Starfleet warmongering on Klingon territory?

marcos,

Global South

Yeah, right. How is Europe’s food security going nowadays?

marcos,

At least we won’t die of hunger.

The powerful among you won’t die of hunger.

marcos,

Hum, you won’t do that either. The people that will have the food will also have all the guns, and they are not eager to go shooting each other.

Collapse is not as action-packed as it happens in movies. (Unless it’s about toilet paper shortage in the US, it seems. WTF is up with that?)

marcos,

It’s neither. Why do you expect they calculating an answer to have any impact at privacy?

marcos,

DDG already sends your search query to third parties. What they don’t send is your identity.

(Or, at least they say they don’t, whether you trust them is your option. Any 3rd party can betray your trust.)

Anyway, that image implies an in-house implementation.

marcos,

If they killed the Kraken, I would upgrade without even looking at feature parity.

marcos,

All nations were eradicated.

People still kept language.

marcos,

No they just see emotions as useless/illogical iirc.

I’d say they see them as outright dangerous. The reason they avoid them that strongly is not because they are indifferent.

marcos,

That’s a heavy one. I’m not sure it can fly.

marcos,

Scaled down to fit a computer screen they get way worse.

But they are just a couple of Romulan ships.

marcos,

Hum… Your version of electric trains do not need electric motors? It must be a really nice design, have you patented it already?

marcos,

Rare earth elements (the ones people are blaming here) have nothing to do with batteries.

marcos,

she’s not a particularly “good” Vulcan

The understatement of the year. She escapes from continued ostracism by destroing the government…

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