I cannot respect showering corporations with money to buy lights to cover your already unnecessarily large mcmansion in gaudy baubles, and waste enormous amounts of electricity for over a month just so everyone can see how much more "festive" you are than your neighbor.
The money wasted on the setup in just one of these pictures alone could feed dozens of homeless for a month. And I think feeding the hungry fits in way better with the supposed theme of Christmas.
And I've seen people on lemmy going on about how it's all the US's fault because some reportclaimed us arms and supplies were discovered, but like.....
You didn't HAVE to kill thousands of people for what you still call a protest movement.
Whether protesters are backed by the west or not, the response to murder everyone at a protest is unquestionably wrong.
I've started yelling "NO PRONOUNS" and "USE HE/SHE BECAUSE HE/SHE IS NOT AN OBJECT" at my conservative relatives and acquaintances who complain about pronouns and gender-neutral anything.
No, Deborah, the non-binary person who helped you figure out your phone today is not the cause of societies' downfall, nor are they responsible for high grocery prices.
They complain about pronouns, but use them constantly. Clearly they don't truly know what a pronoun is. They complain about gender neutral stuff, but use neutral language all the time.
So I've been loudly pointing out every time they do.
I've been uninvited from a lot of future family gatherings. oh nooooooooooo
I'm not going to tell you you're wrong about having a type of advantage due to size, but I will say in actual fights, unless you're against someone the size of Halfþor Bjornsson, it won't matter enough to protect you.
And when it comes to knife fights, one person dies on the spot, the other gets to die on the way to the hospital.
Someone once said "Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth"
Keep attending self-defense classes and learn to kick assailant ass the proper way!
Tldr: Long winded way of saying "is he wrong to assume that?"
American here, I can assure you that the majority of the people around me have absolutely no idea about anything involving the UK government.
In the last month I have overheard two separate conversations in different states, asking if the UK has a "president", and at least one got the answer "no, they have a queen".
I'm not even sure most Americans are aware the queen died. I'm not sure how they could possibly have missed it, but our country is collectively under a rock, so...
I have heard many people over the years trying to argue US law for things happening in the UK.
I have had to inform a great many people that the UK includes Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland. Most people have been surprised to find out Ireland isn't united as a single country.
Americans in general are not smart. Even less informed about anything that happens outside the US than I assume most people in the EU know about the US state Ohio.
I work with a bunch of racist, everything-phobic shitwads, but one of them I work with for the majority of my day, and he is soooooo close to understanding, so close to "getting it" but then he veers to blaming the wrong group every time.
Yeah Bro, trans kids are the reason you don't have better Healthcare.
Whenever I start saying things without using "buzzwords" we are in complete agreement. He even thinks billionaires should be eradicated. Yet somehow it's not the billionaires that cause governments to be fascist, uncaring orphan grinding machines and split the people into endless anything-but-class warfare.
He acknowledges that ACAB and the whole system is corrupt by design, but it's immigrants that are causing shootings, not incompetent, untrained goons with itchy trigger fingers happily doing the bidding of the rich and powerful.
I usually skip s1&2 of tng when I re-watch except a few key episodes.
Some things just don't click with me, or are just too on-the-nose to take seriously.
TOS is particularly bad when it comes to themes that boil down to "don't be racist and sexist", but they're all a product of the times. And CLEARLY we still have those issues today, but it's preaching to the choir vibes when I watch them.
I don't have to like any of the shows, but I do feel I still need to support them, otherwise we might not get more because the corps that own the IP don't hear enough praise.
In fairness, I think everyone involved in both shows realizes they aren't meant to be the same kind of show. They aren't meant to be compared.
I enjoy both, and I think I enjoy SNW more as a trek show, but I like lower decks more as a general show. It's probably just my lowered attention span, but I do like the 20-30m format and more comedic tone of LD. Especially the comedy, since gestures wildly at the world y'know.
I watch them at different times, in different moods.
felt like a space show with Trek slapped on sometimes
So many shows in established IP feel this way because that's exactly what happens, even if not the original intent.
The Halo TV series was never intended to be Halo until it failed to get picked up as a standalone Sci fi show, and then they replaced names and locations in the same way a 5th grader might use "Find&Replace" to change names in a word document (think Michael Scarn vs Michael Scott). It's so obvious they wanted to be their own independent thing and shoehorned in all the Halo parts.
Discovery FEELS like they want to make a star trek show, but that they ALSO want to tell their own story. I think every creative wants to leave an impact on things, otherwise why bother trying to tell the same old story that's been told before? So I'm perfectly okay with each series being a different tone, with different perspectives on things (I like to think inter-series contradictions are simply results of different points of view).
That said, discovery definitely feels like the "Pick Me" kid in the IP. It's trying too hard to be "different" sometimes, and it clearly wants to be set in a "relevant" time while also being technologically on par with other shows we've seen already, two ideas that are incompatible. There's over a hundred years of difference between discovery and Voyager, which I think was the latest-running series in terms of stardate?
Discovery could have been a lot better, I think, if they had stayed closer to classic trek-type stories, but I'm still glad they tried steering away. You don't know your limits if you never test them.
Miles O'Brien @ SARGE @startrek.website Posts 7Comments 2,274Joined 1 yr. ago
I respect drag.
I cannot respect showering corporations with money to buy lights to cover your already unnecessarily large mcmansion in gaudy baubles, and waste enormous amounts of electricity for over a month just so everyone can see how much more "festive" you are than your neighbor.
The money wasted on the setup in just one of these pictures alone could feed dozens of homeless for a month. And I think feeding the hungry fits in way better with the supposed theme of Christmas.