richieadler

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If not the most imaginative, certainly the most inspiring, and it evokes a strong insertion in our reality.

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Is Threshold worse than Code of Honor?

I’d say it’s worst. Being racist is horrible, but it wasn’t until “Threshold” that ST became actively and willingly stupid.

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I loved it but now I’ve mostly replaced it with AIMP.

Dr. Pulaski Appreciation Post (startrek.website)

I don’t know whether it’s a popular opinion or not, but I think Dr. Pulaski was a great character and I found her much more interesting than Dr. Crusher. I don’t know if it was down to the writing or the performance but Pulaski is one of the best parts of season 2 and I would have been happy to see her character continue....

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I think obvious that she would have sided with Maddox and disagreed with the ruling. I don’t think her capable of overcoming her prejudices against artificial life forms.

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Specially when it’s hijacked to run other things instead (cough cough snaps).

richieadler,

I’m partial to AIMP

Reproducing a Microsoft corporate environment on Linux.

Most companies I’ve worked at where employees had a Microsoft work computers. They were under heavy control, even with admin privileges. I was wondering, for a corporate environment, how employees’Linux desktops could be kept under control in a similar way. What would be an open source or Linux based alternative to the...

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I’d say most of those are needed; they’re just not used.

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The actor playing the ghost was very prone to over-the-top material. Besides the more respectable role of Shakaar in DS9, he was the bombastic, soap-worthy Charles in V (the original series after the original miniseries) and the main character in 90’s Zorro.

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I hate the number of people teaching useful things using videos instead of writing articles.

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Not everyone has the attention span required to read through a Wikipedia page.

I contend that such lack of attention span makes difficult to learn anything in any way.

richieadler,

One can debate if is better to create good, indexable articles that can reach a moderate number of people, or run-of-the-mill videos that reach millions but are less useful.

richieadler,

Yup. Paraphrasing an old IT saying, you cannot grep Youtube videos.

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Beliefs inform actions, so it’s impossible that a believer never affects someone. Sooner or later the believer will do something damaging.

Procreating and passing on the delusion. Harassing non traditional sexualities or lifestyles. Preaching. Preventing their children from following their own love or their own vocation because it goes contrary to their religious tenets. Supporting “charities” that take the help hostage until the helped listen to the sermon or embrace the faith. Teaching that the only source of morality is religion, and specifically theirs.

Also, leaving someone believe something intrinsically damaging and doing nothing is an asshole move.

Of course it doesn’t benefit you but them. But maybe helping others is against your own beliefs.

richieadler,

attempting to force a worldview or belief system on somebody who didn’t ask for it? Does that ring a bell perhaps?

They have millennia of advantage over us in that regard. A little pushback won’t kill them.

richieadler,

Push back against religious enshittification of society is “being a shitty person”. OK.

Do you live in the US? Because that would be ironic.

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You clearly believe you are smarter than anyone who believes in any religion ever?

Not a chance. The director of the Human Genome Project is a believer, and he’s undoubtedly more knowledgeable and smart than I’ll ever be. He just happens to have an unjustifiable belief outside of his area of expertise.

Being religious doesn’t mean you must hate gay people

No, but being a member of a religious organization that does is being an accomplice.

and you must hate people who don’t think like how you think.

Nice non-sequitur you got there.

You clearly have some very deep prejudice against people who believe in religion

If thinking they’re mistaken and deluded about their god is a prejudice, then I do.

I imagine that you feel very smart and superior to someone who goes to church once a week

Only about my better use of time.

I would rather have a friend that is a christian or a muslim, a hindu or a jew, who also believes in things that are modern and western like acceptance of people of all faiths and sexualities.

Wait until you cross one of their internal, religiously imposed “uncrossable” limits. Let’s see how much the friendship lasts.

You have quite literally stereotyped every religious person ever.

Most of them make it very easy.

Yet I do believe it’s right for me yo stand up for the beliefs of others, even if they do not reflect my own.

Congratulations. You’re an accomplice of religions destroying many countries in the world.

richieadler,

But who am I to say, maybe you have a degree in theology?

You thing having a degree in imaginary beings makes you an authority? You’re useless, I’m done with you.

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See these quotes. Notice the order.

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