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  • The way she contextualises it is a bit odd, but the actual thing isn't that bad. It's just accommodating him, being aware of his particulars, and helping him over his issues. The gift of a single M&M is unusual, but giving your partner something nice isn't strange. People do similar things all the time in relationships, it's just not thought of as training.

    Biggest issue is her framing it that way, because people might either get the wrong idea, or give the wrong idea. Saying she's training him like a dog gives the idea of a lead, like with an actual dog.

  • And normalising it is a good thing all-round. You want privacy to be used for trivial, unimportant things, not for it to be seen as something that only most secret vital things need, and thus something most don't.

    People would be more likely to use it that way.

  • Pragmatically, is that really any different with a passcode? Someone might not be able to physically force an unlock like with biometrics by moving the relevant body part over, but there's certainly nothing stopping someone from forcing you to unlock your phone if you had a passcode through by duress. Most thieves would have certainly wised up enough to force you to remove your passcode before leaving, or they'd watch you unlock your phone, and figured out the passcode that way.

    I rather doubt that, if in that kind of situation, there would be many who would resist. Your phone is not worth your life for most.

    Personally, if I wasn't doing anything sensitive, like travelling through some countries (like Australia/the US) or going to a protest, I'd probably keep it on. The convenience makes up for it for the most part.

  • I'd argue that it was hurt by specifically trying to fit TNG-era Star Trek, or people expecting that of it.

    It would have worked perfectly fine as a TOS/TAS show, since they never really shied away from there being unexplainable magic with the science out in the universe. Witches, wizards, and the devil are all real, and one universe away, so too is actual magic.

    Whereas TNG and post-TNG would always try and hammer that into the work of a godlike entity such as a Q, or some grounded science. Q abilities are the work of highly sophisticated subspace interactions that have yet to be technologically replicated. There are particular neurotransmitters, psychology, and brain structures involved in telepathy, and it's not simple ESP/psionics.

    And people wanted the latter. This is most notable with the cause of the Burn. People hated it because the idea of a child being able to psionically disrupt dilithium galaxy-wide would have been silly in TNG, without them being a child Q, or something like that.

    But as a TOS/TAS plot, it fits in fine. Lazarus briefly caused the entire universe to blink out of existence, and Charlie X, due to the powers bestowed upon him needed to keep him alive, could explode ships with his mind, and would have destroyed the Federation if left unchecked.

    TL;DR: It worked as Trek, but people basically wanted TNG and got TOS.

  • At least one major paper did, although it used AI images instead of text.

    There was a paper with AI generated diagrams that not only passed peer review somehow, btu was published in a pretty major reputable journal.

    You'd have normally expected them to catch it in peer review and decline to publish, especially as they took it down later.

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  • Incineration is a terrible idea indoors. At best, you've now got the smell of cooking and pyrolised human juices filling the place, and at worst, is the house being filled with carbon monoxide from the combustion.

  • If you were powerful enough, sure. The court is only as strong as its ability to enforce a punishment.

    The president is exempt from criminal prosecution for things they did as part of their duties, and if no-one is willing to impeach or impose other punishments, they can be as contemptuous as they like. How would the court stop then?

  • It's been lost in the excitement, but before the presidency, one of the concerns about a second Donald Trump presidency was that the US supreme court had ruled, not long prior, that the President just has immunity against criminal prosecution for some things.

    It would hardly be a stretch to push that into no-one can do anything about it, because it's legally permissable, as long as he does it officially.

    Not a lawyer, let alone an American Federal one, but I am rather curious if that immunity could extend to just outright ignoring parts of the legal system. Contempt of Court might well be unenforceable because of it, so the court system is basically toothless where the presidency is concerned.

  • Very far. We're not given numbers, but Deanna's range might actually be on the lower side, because she's not wholly Betazoid, and her empathic abilities are due to her telepathic abilities only being semi-functional.

    If the books and extended media are to be believed, Betazed passed First Contact restrictions because they were already reading minds for light years around.

    It's likely that most of the time, all the nearby minds just get drowned out or metaconsciously tuned out. So unless you have a condition that impairs that, you're not picking up every thought for light years.

    But type of telepathy matters too. Vulcan-type telepathy doesn't have nearly as large a range, and is good for about a few metres, or requires physical contact, for example.

    Tin Man's telepathy was able to reach across at least a whole star system.