I think the difference between most of the older trek and the newer stuff is that while they did obvious stuff like this, the most impactful social stuff they did was treat revolutionary change as boring.

TOS had a black woman bridge officer, and they didn’t make a big deal about it, because in the future there was nothing remarkable about it.

I work in development and permitting, and in one of my old stories we had a gas story that I use as a warning to this day.

Guy decided to save some money when he installed a fireplace in his new backyard patio by just tapping into the gas line in the hot tub.

The thing about gas lines is that flames don’t travel backwards in them because of the positive pressure and the lack of oxygen in the gas. One day he was burning a fire when the pool heater kicked in and briefly put a vacuum on the line, allowing the fire to get inside the wall of the chimney on the deck and burning down the house.

And since he hadn’t permitted the gas line, insurance didn’t pay for the fire.

Since you’re here - we really need to find a way to spike Dad’s YouTube algorithm. I saw his feed and it was all Fox News and OANN stuff.

My even-more-pedantic take is that poisonous is correct, but imprecise. There’s lots of ways to be poisoned. Ingestion, inhalation, dermal contact, and, yes, injection. But it’s all poison.

A poison is a harmful substance. A toxin is a poison created by a living organism. A Venom is a toxin that’s delivered subcutaneously.

Poison is the parrallelogram to venom’s square.

My Mom always throws out old cables like a week before I head over there and need that specific cable.

Not to be too nitpicky, but the Iraq war started in 2003. 2001 was about California wildfires, the fallout from the dotcom bubble, then 9/11 and Enron.

Both of those men stole elections to get into office.

I’m pretty sure it’s actually a written rule.

A double-tap missile strike is actually worse than the second boat strikes. The point of them is to draw aid workers to the site and kill them for trying to help.

Double-tapping anything is a deliberate war crime. The second strike is specifically intended to kill people providing aid.

Even if the school had been a legitimate target in a legal war, double-tapping any site like that is a war crime. The second strike is specifically targeting people providing aid.

I cut my teeth on bulletin boards. We actually ran a 2-node bbs with 2 dedicated phone lines out of our house.

I absolutely remember Trillian. It’s what convinced me to finally make an AIM account to talk with my “mainstream” friends who didn’t have ICQ or IRC, since I wouldn’t actually need to run any new software.

“There’s less death from warfare and economic production diverted to support said warfare when people aren’t fighting wars” is a helluva argument in favor of fighting wars to improve lives and benefit the economy.

It’s like a financial advisor telling you that you should blow all your money in the casino, then quit gambling and start saving.

I never know if I’m doing enough for trans people. I like to think of my stance towards trans folk as “benevolent indifference.” That is - I don’t care even the smallest bit if someone is trans. They’re a person, and that’s all that’s needed for my respect.

But I also recognize that that position isn’t always enough. It’s like when people said “All Lives Matter” in response to the BLM movement. Yes, all lives do matter, and my goal for society would be one where “All lives matter” is the only stance you need, but we don’t live in that world and sometimes we have to focus on protecting specific groups.

But, as a white, male, cisgenger christian I also don’t want to fall into a “white savior” leadership mentality, so I never know how loudly to speak out on behalf of groups I’m not a part of.

You don’t know if you’re sane. Millions of people aren’t aware of their mental illness and manage to live normal lives. LLMs can trigger delusional states in vulnerable people that have never experienced them because they are essentially delision-generating machines.

That’s disrespectful.

Restaurants should offer free food to those heroes for a few days for protecting Americans from foreign criminals.

Then they can release all the pictures they took of them when they removed their masks to eat.

Not having to keep pace. They just get the competitive cars banned in the US, then charge so much fucking money here for their shit products it’s worth losing the rest of the world.

Or just wear a hoodie and mechanics gloves and don’t drive up to it.

“You need to use the app to reserve a space for the public park.”