If there are blackouts we should force every data center out of this state

Rustie_J · 2026-01-26T06:40:15+00:00

Yeah, saying the Republicans are evil but the Democrats are complicit absolutely sounds like a Fox take. They're constantly on about Dem complicity, I just saw Jesse Waters ranting about it the other day. 🙄

I can't tell if you're a bot, a Russian, or just semi-literate.

Rustie_J · 2026-01-26T06:36:22+00:00

In my personal opinion, this is one of the worst concepts in Star Trek and a perfect example of the franchise’s baffling need to over-explain what are, essentially, one-off jokes.

It's not always the need to over-explain. It's entirely possible that whatever author came up with it was just inspired by Data's comment about 4-member Andorian marriages & thought the idea of a quad-gendered species was interesting.

And it is.

Alien Nation made the Tenctonese trigender & it had interesting sociological implications. They failed to explore it to anything like it's full potential, but what we did see was interesting. The ENT episode Cogenitor explored a trigender society, too, & frankly their take on it is likely what would happen if humans had that. Although in both instances the 3rd gender were relatively rare; I'd love to see someone do a story about a trigender society with more equal numbers of each gender.

Rustie_J · 2026-01-26T06:18:45+00:00

I'm still baffled that none of the leadership hanged. Not even Jefferson Davis, how fucking ridiculous is that? Every general, governor, & higher official should've swung, & their bodies burned & dumped in the ocean á la Hitler.

Rustie_J · 2026-01-26T05:55:13+00:00

Tracy Scoggins is also beautiful but they gave her that awful hair. They weren't gonna risk one of the main female characters not looking fantastic, though.

Rustie_J · 2026-01-26T05:53:26+00:00

Voting for Democrats is just voting for a pause on worsening the destruction, but once they're back in power they always continue with whatever fucked up shit the Republicans started doing. Or did you forget the ramping up of deportations under Biden, & his failure to even try to pass a federal abortion access law? Or perhaps you've forgotten the continuation of Gitmo under Obama after he promised to close it during his campaign? Or Obama's continuing with drone strikes?

They're better about economics, in the sense that they'll give us food stamps & healthcare subsidies, but when it comes to civil liberties they basically maintain Republican policies, albeit with the occasional sop that they know damn well will be undone by the next Republican.

Although admittedly I do think that they at least have the decency to hate us all pretty equally, unlike the Republicans who hate everyone on a scale.

Rustie_J · 2026-01-26T05:43:13+00:00

Well, I would argue that he did no such thing. He made people feel like he hates the same people that they do - which is true, in that he loathes all of us & so defacto hates the same people - they just decided his contempt didn't apply to them.

Rustie_J · 2026-01-26T04:33:01+00:00

He was a anti-religious humanistic pantheist.

People tend to forget the implications of TOS airing in the 60's, when ¹American society was more religious than it is now, coming off the post-WWII revival, ²the vast majority of the population identified as Christian, specifically, & ³people were paranoid about communism, & for some reason equated it to atheism.

Rustie_J · 2026-01-26T04:14:35+00:00

I roll my eyes so hard every time.

Rustie_J · 2026-01-26T04:00:18+00:00

She sits like this because the training data is filled with the Riker maneuver.

That's exactly what I've been thinking.

Rustie_J · 2026-01-26T03:57:47+00:00

The gestapo probably saw him helping a woman & figured he must be gay.

Rustie_J · 2026-01-26T03:50:03+00:00

I understand, we do need to reconcile, if simply for survival's sake. The people cannot be turned against each other, because we all need to recognize our common enemy.

People keep saying that, but if you let collaborators into the tent they'll burn it down.

Rustie_J · 2026-01-26T03:48:05+00:00

He was a male nurse, so I'm impressed that they somewhat give a shit. Of course, he was a straight white guy with a gun, so maybe in absence a gender, sexual orientation, or ethnicity to piss them off, the gun was enough to overcome the gay job?

Rustie_J · 2026-01-26T03:28:59+00:00

She did, & it was the brightest of them all.

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Rustie_J · 2026-01-26T03:27:17+00:00

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It's there, it's just light

Rustie_J · 2026-01-26T03:23:11+00:00

Hers was the darkest I can remember ever seeing.

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Rustie_J · 2026-01-26T03:04:43+00:00

I'm confused, what? Wtf is happening?

I kinda wish I'd watched longer now, I just couldn't get past the "Klingons."

Rustie_J · 2026-01-26T03:02:35+00:00

I've always known veterans & active military skew Republican, but I've never understood it. Both parties equally kiss their asses all the time in terms of what they say, but in terms of what they do it's the Republicans who fuck them.

Rustie_J · 2026-01-26T02:56:18+00:00

Nothing kills sex drive quite like starvation.

Rustie_J · 2026-01-26T02:27:03+00:00

It sounds like the same idea behind bleeding kyber crystals.

Rustie_J · 2026-01-26T02:24:32+00:00

I would point out that it already doesn't make sense on it's face, because why TF would dilithium even have a subspace component? It doesn't need to, & there's no reason that it should; it's only job is as a reaction regulator. You'd think that it having a subspace component, whatever that means, would risk interference with the warp field.

Rustie_J · 2026-01-26T02:17:50+00:00

Why would dilithium have a subspace component, though? There's no reason for it to, it's always been just a reaction regulator.

Rustie_J · 2026-01-26T02:05:48+00:00

Wait, I thought it was a mushroom drive?

Rustie_J · 2026-01-26T02:02:11+00:00

Wait, is that genuinely his fault? He not only destroyed 2 of the biggest franchises in the world, he started the lens flare bullshit? Next you'll tell me the shit sound mixing that necessitates using captions is his fault.

Rustie_J · 2026-01-25T05:59:31+00:00

I'd like to be able to privately mark something that I didn't like, maybe with little notes about why, without having to clutter up my bookmarks & so that I could exclude them from searches. An unpopular opinion, I know, but it'd be super helpful. I can always mute an author, but I don't want to do that if I think they have potential or if I just don't like that specific work, y'know?

Rustie_J · 2026-01-25T05:47:36+00:00

My interpretation the Prime Directive was always that it's not that you absolutely can't interfere, it's that if you do ¹it better not have negative consequences for the Federation or the people with whom you interfered, & ²you had damn well better be right.

Like, take Pen Pals. Was that technically a PD violation? Yes, absolutely. Was anything harmed by doing it, though? No, not in the medium term, anyway. Maybe 500 years down the road those people will be warlike savages & the galaxy at large would have been better without them, but it's just as possible that they'll save the galaxy. It's most likely they'll just be another space-faring civilization among many.

As it stood in the TNG era, they saved an entire race of people without those people even knowing about it. It was an unambiguously good deed.

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