AppleTea

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[–] AppleTea@lemmy.zip 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

This isn't something that gets solved by just hoping people's individual lifestyle choices fix it. Production has to be scaled back, and market economics is clearly not capable of that sort of conscious decision making.

[–] AppleTea@lemmy.zip 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

This is an english meme about the one event in Chinese history that gets repeated in english-speaking spaces over and over and over again. This isn't attempting to make an argument to a Chinese audience. Why shouldn't we draw comparisons to similar things in the US? What else would we talk about? Just a whole thread of "yeah, that's bad" again and again? For every time this gets trotted out?

[–] AppleTea@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 weeks ago

Pretty sure polar ice caps are still shrinking.

Sorry the consequences of industry aren't snappy enough for your short attention span, I guess?

[–] AppleTea@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The holovids always skip over Voyager's many, many detours to extract resources and manufacture replacement torpedoes. Between this, negotiating with the Borg, and massively altering the timeline, Captain Janeway is as much a popular topic of conversation outside the federation as she is within.

[–] AppleTea@lemmy.zip 0 points 3 months ago

It was organized over twitter, "big players" were not involved. Hell, Trump himself was only interested in showing up because he likes being on stage in front of people. There was no plan, no goal. It was the political equivalent of an angry sports riot.

[–] AppleTea@lemmy.zip 8 points 3 months ago (5 children)

I wanna see Curzon Dax in SNW. Pretty sure the timetables match up there, given he negotiates the Khitomer accords.

[–] AppleTea@lemmy.zip 14 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, if anything the TOS ships are more realistic in regard to their interfaces. In an emergency, when you may not have lights or gravity or whatever, buttons and knobs come with certainty. Flat, featureless touchscreens? Not so much.

[–] AppleTea@lemmy.zip 13 points 3 months ago (1 children)

isn't political violence our main export?

[–] AppleTea@lemmy.zip 27 points 3 months ago (3 children)

i hate that smooth-rectangle has become the standard

stop it with the extra cameras and the beveled edges, i'd give up half my screen space for some real goddamn buttons

[–] AppleTea@lemmy.zip 14 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

i feel like the answer to what is and isn't canon can be summed up with;

Why do the klingons look different?

They always looked like that, you just didn't notice before.

Canon has always been squishy. The Eugenics Wars takes place in the nineteen-nineties... oh but didn't Voyager's crew visit our nineties? Plus, DISCO had that Elon Musk name drop.

...so the timeline floats up as the present day does. Canon is just a vague sense of the things everyone agrees on.

Personally,


I really dislike the fungus engine. You expect me to believe the Federation developed instant, consequence free warp but gave up on using it on literally any other ship? Silly. Very silly. Oh, but the precursor civilization doing a galaxy wide Genesis project is somehow an unimaginable technological feat.

And yes, I know STE covers the klingon flu. I just think They always looked like that was more elegant.

[–] AppleTea@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

If i were gonna write the Borg going forward, I'd have the queens be a failed experiment to elevate one drone to the role of tactician specifically to deal with the Federation. It didn't work, so they don't do it anymore.

[–] AppleTea@lemmy.zip 14 points 3 months ago (5 children)

huh, reminds me of Hillary's campaign aiding Trump during the republican primaries

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