Tankiedesantski [he/him]

I kinda see what Season 1 was trying to do. The only thing Season 2 tried to do was save production budget.

Season 3 is the worst season of Star Strek, but the best Season of Picard. Picard seasons 1 and 2 were like entirely different shows winking at Star Trek.

In my region YouTube Premium includes YouTube Music and is a dollar or two more than paying for Spotify Premium. I cancelled my Spotify sub and went over to YouTube. Seems like any okay deal to me.

I think Equinox was a really good story about what a starfleet crew looks like if they abandon their principles in order to get home.

To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand Rick and Morty the Internet…

No, he’s telling you to get into some really fucked up pedo shit with

Deep Space 9 is the first ST show to have season long arcs peppered with self-contained episodes. Since someone else already mentioned Discovery, I think DS9 is a pretty good jumping on point for “classic” Trek.

it’s peak.

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First they came for the environmentalists, and I said nothing because I didn’t want my commute to be inconvenienced…

The other half thinks the protestors should get the electric chair.

The NSDAP was wiped out in 1945 but denazification was woefully incomplete and individual Nazis held positions of power in institutions like NATO, NASA, West German intelligence, etc, well after the 50s. That’s just direct members of the NSDAP and not all the neo-nazi splinter parties which West Germany and United Germany by their own admissions never wiped out. Add onto that various explicitly neo-Nazi groups in other countries and active militant Nazi-adjacent groups overseas and I don’t think it’s accurate or productive to say that Nazism has been “largely wiped out”.

Tilly says she went to a school named after Musk.

I firmly believe that someone had to talk the writer responsible out of making Tilly a graduate of Bit Connect High School.

As much as I think Musk is dumb and shitty, von Braun was personally aware that concentration camp slave labor was being used to make his rockets and continued anyway. According to some prisoners, he also ordered corporal punishment of slave workers and had a hand in selecting who was fit to work and who would be sent to an extermination camp. However, we can’t say for sure because of lack of documentation.

Even if we assume that the prisoner allegations are mistaken identity or whatever, I think directly being in contact with and benefiting from the Nazi death machine is quite a lot worse than Elon.

I feel like they had a really good opportunity to foreshadow Lorca being from where he is by making him say Von Braun instead of Musk.

It’d be one of those “of course this guy thought an SS officer was a good guy!” Moments

Mirror Musk is our Gabriel Bell.

If you believe that then I welcome you to follow his example of April 30, 1945.

hitler was probably one of the most evil people to ever exist. However, you can certainly acknowledge that while also acknowledging that he was, in fact, an effective leader.

Effective at what? Taking Germany from the most powerful country in continental Europe to the fifth most powerful country in Berlin?

Google SGE includes … Stalin … on a list of “greatest” leaders

Well at least it got one thing correct. Terrible ratio though.

Big advertising budgets that are funded from the value alienated from exploited workers and consumers. Information asymmetry in the marketplace means that even if you make a superior product at a lower price, you could still be outcompeted by an expensive inferior product if more people know about that worse product and don’t know about your product.

That’s for most basic products anyway. Luxury products like bags and clothes are almost all marketing since the cost to create them is so low compared to their sales price. People buy them because of perceptions created by marketing and not any inherent value in the product itself.