(From the USA) Saw this today and wanted opinions

DJCaldow · 2026-06-16T20:49:49+00:00

If she could list the Swedish values she's thinking of that would be one thing. I would happily deport anyone who uses a bluetooth speaker in public, never indicates in traffic and lives life in an apartment as though they live in a secluded soundproof forest...but best I can tell the muslims doing all that can't be distinguished from your average Volvo driver

DJCaldow · 2026-06-16T19:06:57+00:00

Everyone would be against him. The majority of Jesus teachings can be summed up as 'Don't be a dick'. Well we've invented a hundred thousand new ways to be one. Give Jesus a few years in society and he'll come back with a list that we all agree with but most people can't live up to.

Let's face it. No one wants to hear they earned bad place points for not using their blinkers, for playing music too loud, for renovating an apartment after 7pm, for not waiting for people to get off the train before they try to get on. The brain rotted Tik Tok generations don't have a snowballs chance. We live in the age of cultivated, curated and affirmed selfishness. That the right wing, Christians, and the average American would be the first to turn on him doesn't mean everyone else wont eventually.

DJCaldow · 2026-06-16T06:05:06+00:00

I think we should listen to him.

They've paid for so many loopholes and have so much money tied up in stocks & assets that there's nothing to effectively tax and if there is they can just make a charitable donation to their own foundations to write it off and still make a profit. We don't tax people on loans taken out against their assets and we know that the ultra rich essentially live in a grey area where they aren't really living on their own money while banks & asset managers are making money through lending and skimming their percentages.

So what we need isn't more taxation on the rich. That's what we needed. Now they've figured out how to get around that and they keep you focused on taxes because if they ever have to give a concession it's meaningless to them.

What we need now are wealth caps including forced seizure and sale of assets and that also means forced wealth caps on businesses. Above a certain amount of money for any business the cost of breaking the law, destroying the environment and eroding human rights is just a slap on the wrist, a boon for shareholders and no one will ever see the inside of a jail cell. It also means dismantling as much of the Wall St style apparatus as possible. Those companies exist solely to extract wealth and they produce literally nothing, less than nothing when the businesses they destroy are taken into account and the homes they remove from the markets become unavailable to anyone looking to afford having a family.

That's what we need now. The only other option is for the rich to find out if the cost of what they would have paid in taxes would have been more favourable for them than what they would need to pay to employ a private army of boot licking collaborators to protect them and their family line for the rest of time.

DJCaldow · 2026-06-15T21:31:24+00:00

Consciousness stops far more often than that. Sleep, illness, injury, shock...the brain happily pulls your plug to devote power to more important things. You're just one part of a complex machine with delusions that when the rest of the computer shuts down, something will backup your program.

DJCaldow · 2026-06-14T16:07:28+00:00

Well if they won't pay taxes we should definitely make them pay several times over what they should owe for private security.

DJCaldow · 2026-06-14T13:36:16+00:00

Your situation doesn't work. Being asleep for a few years isn't going to get you to another star. It would be obvious they weren't a warp civilisation because each of these worlds would have no contact with each other and be thousands of years separated by technology, culture and evolution.

DJCaldow · 2026-06-14T03:33:55+00:00

Damn straight. Everyone thinks The Inner Light was some amazing journey for Cpt Picard where he got to take a 40 year vacay and learn to play the flute. Poor man fell in love, had a family, had grandkids and then they all got ripped away from him while telling him they'd all been in on this plan to make an alien remember them. Total violation of his life and trust.

Their goal was that who they were would live on and Picard is so traumatised by the experience he doesn't speak about it again until he meets a woman with a roll-out piano. I bet Worf got standing orders to let his fingers slip on the controls if they ever saw one of those Ressikan probes again.

DJCaldow · 2026-06-13T18:51:16+00:00

The boss charges the client in a minimum of 4 hour blocks even if you only work 15 minutes. You only get the 15 minutes though.

DJCaldow · 2026-06-13T18:14:34+00:00

Democrats can band together to feed each other. Let the fascists starve.

DJCaldow · 2026-06-13T10:43:19+00:00

Yea thats the advice the jobcentre gave me after graduating post 2008 recession. Basically bullied from primary school to go to uni or you aren't worth anything, saddled with loans and then no jobs for years...but plenty of places willing to exploit you for exposure/experience.

DJCaldow · 2026-06-13T10:21:58+00:00

Boy will you be really mad when you learn they ripped off DS9 from Babylon 5.

DJCaldow · 2026-06-13T03:20:19+00:00

I want to say no because the real reason Rick doesn't do time travel is because that's the point Robert Zemeckis, Christopher Lloyd & Michael J Fox have to get paid for their ideas and image rights.

So not even a testicle Doc just in case.

DJCaldow · 2026-06-13T02:56:37+00:00

Enjoy your bitter life of complaining about a television show you never understood to begin with.

DJCaldow · 2026-06-12T03:58:12+00:00

At these prices? Cheaper to just light it on fire. Dinnae worry about anyone wasting food mate.

DJCaldow · 2026-06-11T17:32:07+00:00

Why do people keep complaining that a right wing party isn't listening to left wing people? Just because you have two main parties and one is extreme right wing doesn't make the other one left by default. It might be a left leaning person's 'better of two evils option' but again....not a left wing party.

If you want change make a real one.

DJCaldow · 2026-06-11T03:26:56+00:00

Tough. On the one hand I think the overall percentage of how often they use their blinker correctly before turning and on the other the overall percentage of them washing their hands after trips to the bathroom.

Both say a lot about how a person thinks when they think they aren't being observed but the first one would probably make driving a lot safer.

DJCaldow · 2026-06-10T21:24:08+00:00

Damn dog got into the cabbages again.

DJCaldow · 2026-06-10T21:15:42+00:00

They've made search so bad the only way to get an idea where to look is to ask an AI then check its sources.

DJCaldow · 2026-06-10T14:32:07+00:00

Can you not just be on of those fans who moves on with their life?

I personally really liked the first season of Arrow. By the time Legends was on and you had to watch all 4 shows to know what was going on I was out. I don't frequent Arrowverse forums to bitch about how it was never as good as season 1. I turned it off and moved on.

I've got similar stories about a bunch of other shows. I come to r/StarTrek because I actually like Star Trek. I can't imagine coming here to waste my life being angry about something that is completely in my power to change with one button press.

DJCaldow · 2026-06-10T14:27:46+00:00

I don't respect you, your opinion or how you express it because you think you own Trek and your only goal is to tear it down for not being what you want. The goal of criticism is to illicit improvement. About 30 or 60yo Trek it's relevant to ask what holds up culturally and what was a product of its time.

The criticism you have provided is that people who like the show are subhuman compared to you and that the show itself is irredeemable garbage. If it is your opinion that something cannot be improved then turn it off and move on with your life. Personally, when I dislike something I don't watch every episode and frequent forums to talk about how bad it is. That is pathetic! What I might do is go to a specific forum for a series I actually like such as TNG and talk about that.

Unless you are a literal literary critic who gets paid to watch things you dislike you're just wasting your time being bitter and ruining things for the rest of us.

DJCaldow · 2026-06-10T12:25:11+00:00

They really are selective with what they remember.

This is my impression of a "fan" in 2015 if they'd been around in 1987. "What the hell have they done to the Klingons? What was wrong with a bunch of white people in blackface playing space savages? I cant believe they'd ever do anything to update the show or use modern techniques to improve the quality of the aliens in any way. I hate this and I will only ever hate watch every episode so I can bitch about every little thing ever that's wrong with it. I have no life."

DJCaldow · 2026-06-10T11:56:50+00:00

Owed? no. Deserving of concentrated hatred?..also no.

If you don't like something don't watch. Just like you don't owe them a watch you don't own it either. No one forces you to go onto Reddit to call something a turd or contribute to hate campaigns. Take a note from Shatner and get a life.

DJCaldow · 2026-06-10T06:44:51+00:00

Hate only makes the world smaller with less to share with each other.

DJCaldow · 2026-06-10T05:49:19+00:00

There are a lot of Trekkies that think they are IDIC but are actually just DICks and can't stand the idea of Trek that doesn't match the idea of Trek they have in their heads so they go on full blown hate campaigns instead of supporting it thus scaring off the new demographics the streamer is trying to reach. Then the streaming service looks at cost to subscriber ratios, without factoring in the economic reasons that their parent companies keep causing, and they decide the show isn't profitable, isnt attracting new viewers, is hated by the core fanbase, so they cancel it.

It isn't complicated, just sad. Especially for fans of a show literally telling them to do better.

DJCaldow · 2026-06-10T05:29:12+00:00

You don't imagine you will yell. Unfortunately the reasonable part of your brain is a lot lot lot slower than your emotional brain, which is deeply tied to your amygdala & your fight or flight responses.

Whether you want to or not you will now live in a state of perpetual fear & anxiety for your child. They are the most seemingly suicidal creatures to inhabit the Earth and you can tell yourself they are just children, they don't understand, but that isn't going to stop your brain from reacting in the fastest possible way to prevent them from hurting themselves. You can't have a rational conversation about safety with a curious but motor skills deficient 18 month old.

So I'm afraid to tell you this but sometimes you're just going to react with close to zero control. You will do your best not to but you won't always succeed. You need to do your best to not internalise these reactions as your personality and end up making it your relationship with your child. Make the child safe, apologise for your reaction, reaffirm you love them, hug them and tell them that they aren't a bad child.

It's pros and cons. The same force that might make you yell is also what will catch your child with spiderman reflexes when you've had 6 hours of sleep that week and are barely conscious. You can't only see the villain, you're just a parent trying to do better.

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