I swear, the people obsessed with enforcing one right way to do… everything.
It looks exhausting. I feel kind of bad for them and when they start rearranging other people’s work I always think of this sad lil raccoon for some reason:
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That actually makes Sisko sound so much worse.
It certainly didn’t live up to Federation ideals.
But then again Sisko should be a war criminal for using Biogenic weapons.
If you want to see someone do the ethically correct thing 10/10, even in the face of Starfleet failing to, Jean Luc is your captain.
I’ll bet Janeway and Sisko’s music playlists are a lot more fun though.
I liked it.
Kind of tried to tie the star trek vision of common endeavor to the NASA age of common endeavor. The one we sold off to Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos.
The viewers largely didn’t, and now Trek is very pretty to look at, and even arguably more of a fun ride, but doesn’t lean into conveying the message of human aspiration and cooperation as it once had. That kind of ended with Enterprise, and I miss that.
a big one ain’t happening.
Completely agreed, that’s why there’s no point playing. Just watch the slow motion, but accelerating, murder suicide of humanity and a lot of other innocent surface life, because we ain’t changing. Best to see the gallows humor in it.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/26/climate/global-warming-accelerating.html
New players largely can’t “enter the market” without being bought out unless they have very uncharacteristic in business leaders unwilling to sell to a conglomerate, that’s usually considered victory these days, and literally every company that grows to the point of being and agrees to be publically traded must do every sociopathic thing they can to increase profit or they will be sued.
I don’t think a new group of people playing at this sick game will be any better than the last. If they were, the market ensures they won’t be better for long by design. Growth isn’t the answer. Growth is the problem. Our species needs to shrink or it will continue to suffer until it perishes by its own hands, and that is what we will do. I don’t think there is a solution, but I do know if there is, it won’t be found in economic growth/metastasis.
That’s just saying the cure to a poison is to drink… More of the same poison.
Marketing itself is fine and a healthy tool for growth
I reiterate, our species is growing/metastasizing itself and it’s habitat into oblivion.
This is a finite world with finite resources, and 3,000 or so assholes have already claimed most of its finite resources at gunpoint and are at this point swallowing one another’s empires whole in their desperation to keep growing/metastasizing on a conquered board.
We can’t grow/metastasize our way out of our species many crises caused by reckless growth/metastasis to begin with, any more than my country can solve its school shooting problem by handing every teacher and student a loaded glock.
If we cared about survival, if we cared about our children, we don’t btw, we’d be planning to reduce our species size and footprint for the next several generations to a scale this world can sustainability support without hundreds of millions living in squalor.
And tbh I do have to disagree with “people will come to you”, it’s really hard to grow if people don’t know you exist.
I’m against the concept of unnecessary growth/metastasis. I prefer homeostasis/equilibrium.
Unless you’re bringing something profoundly superior to what exists to the table that will have people who hear rumors of it coming to you, there’s no need for a 76th brand of chicken sandwich.
We’re growing/metastasizing our species and a lot of other species into oblivion. It’s a shame our species is belligerently unwilling to consider a different strategy.
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As are modern sales.
There should be a different name for people at a store that answer questions about a product on request.
No one should be trying to convince anyone to buy anything as a job. What the hell is that? If you make a cool product/service/thing for a reasonable price, people will come to you. If you don’t, stop trying to pressure people into consuming it when they otherwise wouldn’t.
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🎶 And No New Pips for Ensign Harry Kim! 🎶
I mean, it’s fine to disobey orders if it turns out obeying orders would have killed everyone.
Just as with Kirk, kind of hard to make the call to demote someone who can credibly state “you and everyone everyone loves would be a borg, dead, or living in a fascist dystopia if I followed your orders.”
It’s kind of a derivation on “If you aim to kill the king, best not miss.” if you aim to flout the rules without consequences, you better get species saving outcomes.
We’ll kill you for believing that!
Mariner, except I have a stronger commitment to delinquency.
Tuvok to be sure.
https://youtube.com/shorts/cuiecxgtxUk?si=EdQdVTdEriq7YI0s
My curiosity got the better of me, it’s the “Adam” voice from Elevenlabs
Anyone else think that AI voice that is fucking everywhere in TikTok ads and YouTube voiceovers right now sounds exactly like Tim Russ?
They’re pre-rinsed and clean enough.
If it makes you happy though, awesome!