What happens in Quark’s holosuite stays in Quark’s holosuite, for a very reasonable privacy surcharge.

Edit: Now I’m thinking about how even an imagined obnoxious behavior by Quark is still somehow dramatically more ethical than average corporate policies in 2025…I need to go sit down.

True. But what about as an over the top art exhibit?

Yeah. I just mention it because I’ve generally just used VNC myself; and wondered what the fuss with fancier tools was about.

But then I realized home Internet has getting worse for some folks, and so folks might be using a service to get VPN-ed together, or whatever.

But he made up for all that by breaking the chronological prime directive, losing control of his ship to mutineers, and allowing his racism to nearly start a war with the Klingon empire.

So really, who are we to judge.

I could do the same analysis for Admiral Janeway, but I’m afraid she would shoot me, Tuvix me, or write me out of history.

The “or some such” was pretty wild.

I’m also a big VNC fan, but I imagine RustDesk is solving for CGNAT better? I’m not aware of anything in VNC that solves CGNAT being a PITA.

I’m pretty sure this is the real reason my taste for spicy food advanced so far after I became a parent.

It’s nice to have a snack that the kid won’t loot and empty.

Archie is an idiot, here.

Yes. And the awkward social situation is when they ask what I’m wearing, but I didn’t pay any attention to the brand of the urinal mat.

I don’t want that to happen again, so now I’m careful to take note of the urinal mat branding.

I always figured the ending was to get the episode to air at all during the era. Like it wasn’t obviously pro-tranistion, because no official protagonist transitioned or loved someone who did. :(

I’m thankful that Trek has managed stronger message with actual protagonists, since.

Of course, it must have also been to ensure the sacred expectations of television networks that episodes can air in any order because nothing meaningful changes.

Except there’s no non-wildcard Republican candidate.

They’ve cracked the formula for telling their voter base that this time will be different and anti-establishment.

While the Democrats have solved for how to exhaust their voter base patience. (Bombing innocent people in other countries.)

Approval based voting is the only way the Democratic party remains a player in American politics.

How does this compare to first past the post? Does it make any difference in outcomes?

Yes. It may be the only chance American Democrats have of winning any future elections.

The next wildcard candidate will attract a bunch of votes, while a Democrat who stands for shitty compeomises could still get a “better than the other asshole” approval vote.

Tagging is essentially the same as removing and not a compromise in my book.

Come check out Mastodon sometime, where we also tag movie spoilers, politics, mentions of any medical condition, and eye contact.

There’s nothing wrong with eye contact. It makes some people really uncomfortable. So we tag it so that they can filter it.

I wish I could upvote this twice! I’m actually on my way around to my second re-read of “Small Gods” during another full Discworld read-through.

Yea. Any religion that believes in a just interving diety runs into this.

If i really believe my god is perfect and all powerful, then why should I have compassion for all the unlucky people that god clearly despises?

It’s hard, because the idea of a perfect loving god is incredibly attractive.

It’s the evidence that sucks: if god is real and all powerful, then god is, at best ineffable, and at worst a terrible raging asshole who lovingly created a parasite that eats childrens eyes.

Now, if we’re willing to believe in a sort of weak impotent god, the theology gets more interesting.

why would I want this type of thing done at the community level?

I have an RSS feed for my unfiltered comics.

I read here for the community.

I’m happy to just skip the work of bigots, and have mostly blocked the users who routinely post that stuff.

That saif, if we’re going to remove credit with intent, i have a request:

let’s be clear and cedit “some random bigot”, so I’ll know i might not want to seek out the artist.

Even while aware of how little classic scifi or fsntasy covers usually have in common with the book contents… This is still surprisingly weird.

Lol.

This is a dumb strawman.

There’s basically two consumers, plus a bunch of lies told by the Epstein class.

Consumer 1: Wants a good product produced in a way they feel good about at a fair price. This typically includes preferring both locally made and fair wage pricing, as well as not-killing-the-planet.(Non-sociopaths who are currently not afraid about their finances tomorrow, tend to fall in this category.)

Consumer 2: Just needs the lowest price possible to survive another day. (People may drift btween these two modes, based on life events.)

Cosumer 3: Epstein class rapist. Wants you to believe their crimes are somehow your neighbor’s fault.

Edit: This maybe flew over my head. Is Orange man Epstein class?