Wanting to breath clean air on a habitable planet isn’t insanity.

It boggles my mind how my conservative father even remotely thinks anything positive about star trek, let alone being obsessed with it.

Steve absolutely nailed it. Though I think his 4th point about optimism being a core part of star trek was missing a subsection. Almost all of the characters, and especially the ones the show wants you to root for have shit loads of empathy for the people around them, and often times it even extends to outright enemies.

Whenever a crew member is losing control of their behavior because of a mind control space entity, the crew’s first reaction is a level of concern people only have for close family members. When Sisko is doing arguably immoral acts for the greater good, he is wracked with grief and empathy for those he had to hurt. Janeway on the other hand just wants her coffee lol.

Sure they could. But that’s not going to stop me from circumventing their attempts if it is reasonably possible.

All good things

https://www.npr.org/1204955269

If you think this description sounds suspiciously like Paradox Interactive’s Stellaris with a Star Trek Prime Directive attached, you’re not wrong. The mechanics of advancing your faction and winning the game (militarily, economically, or diplomatically) are nearly identical, and fans of Stellaris will recognize the game’s style in Infinite’s assets and artwork.

Why would I do that when it can be automated with a script that removes HTML and scripts responsible for ads?

I updated my original comment to make it more clear.

if you were able to ascertain with 100% accuracy that an ad was not a security or privacy violation

Security isn’t the only part of this.

if viewing ads on your PC had as little potential for harm as viewing ads in the newspaper did, would you still block them?

I basically already do this with the radio. The moment an ad plays, the radio gets shut off. I turn it back on at the next 0 or 5 minute mark and it’s over.

Advertisers do not have a right to force me to listen. The same applies for internet ad blocking. One of these is just automated.

therefore it kinda is piracy.

It’s not an illegal form or copying though. It’s the equivalent or turning off the radio when an ad comes on, then turning it back on once it’s over.

All websites are unable to be trusted.

Because ad blocking is a security and privacy feature. We have the right to choose what HTML and scripts are loaded into our browser. Without that right, we have no web security or privacy.

We also have the right to not listen to ads, turning off the radio the moment they come on. Internet ad blocking is effectively the same thing, just automated. Piracy is completely different, because it is the unlawful copying of digital data.

Sweden already has very good public transportation, bike infrastructure, and walkability. So there are plenty of other options. Nobody is going to become more poor over this.

The pollution from fossil fuel cars is a non monetary cost. That cost should not be placed on the shoulders of others.

The issue generally isn’t ads, it’s the frequency, targeted nature/data mining, and how invasive they are.

The more shitty it is to use your site, the more people use ad block. This is a problem youtube is complicit in.

And most people aren’t using 4k to begin with.

I’m fascinated to see what the next big move is for these businesses

They’re going to instill contracts just like cable companies did. Wanna watch XYZ show? Just sign this 2 year contract for noname streaming service!

People switching from service to service will not be tolerated for long. They must always extract more and more profit for their shareholders.

Ideally star or approval instead of ranked, but honestly anything is better than the current shit show.

How’s the gaming support on debian?

So the transporter destroys all the matter, recreates it somewhere else, then moves the neural energy? So during the process our neural energy is detached from our brain, despite the brain being the thing that produces said neural energy.

Seems a little far more fetched than the process of consciousness kickstarting itself/being uninterrupted by the process.

Then if replicator technology isn’t able to kick start the process, how does transporter technology do it?

Star Trek never shied away from quasi-religious concepts like “the sanctity of life”.

To be fair, those concepts aren’t unique to religion.

If consciousness/souls are a natural byproduct of our brains, and we can create brains that produce these things from the transporter/pattern buffers, then that more or less means that we could replicate life. How the transporter buffer works is another question altogether, but I’m not seeing a part here where it is impossible to use a pre-existing pattern to create a brain with consciousness if you’re able to store the pattern.

What I am saying is, I don’t think people who use duolingo are any better/worse off than most other methods.