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Corgana
Corgana @ Corgana @startrek.website
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"But when the phone inside her ribcage rings, it's not for me."

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  • Correct! Teenage Mutant Binja Gurtles.

    • Thank you Microsoft, for the final push

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  • Bitwarden

    Do you mean Bitdefender (the antivirus)? Bitwarden is free.

    Before anyone well ackhuallys me yes, there is a very cheap $0.80/mo plan if you want an authenticator.

    • Why does the Terran Empire use the Hunger Games to choose a new emperor and how is one chosen as a competitor?

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  • That sidesteps the question of why all of these comically evil people are okay with using this arbitrary contest to determine succession, instead of the usual route of organically murdering each other until someone emerges who is good enough at disposing of potential assassins that they keep the throne for a while?

    I'm saying they're not ok with it, but they are trapped in the current system. It's like, an allegory, maaan.

    I didn’t watch the movie, so I’m probably missing something. Did Georgiou also have to deal with a bunch of normal assassination plots after officially gaining the throne? Or are we to assume that by virtue of winning this contest, she is widely seen as too dangerous for anyone to attempt to usurp?

    Sort of the latter, which is kind of the central plot device.

    • In which I post a graph showing some impact of disinformation on Lemmy, a propagandist disagrees, and someone else summons mods and gets the whole thing removed

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    • In which I post a graph showing some impact of disinformation on Lemmy, a propagandist disagrees, and someone else summons mods and gets the whole thing removed

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  • Can you explain more about your data methodology? Like how did you scrape it? Specifically I'm curious which instances were and weren't included in your study.

    • Why does the Terran Empire use the Hunger Games to choose a new emperor and how is one chosen as a competitor?

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  • I'm hesitant to give the Section 31 writers this much credit, but a recurring theme from Star Trek (especially since TNG), is the notion that people are a product of the cultures they come from, and asks the question of if they can grow beyond it.

    This move showed us that Terran empire causes suffering for everyone, even for the top leaders. The system is working for nobody and yet they are all stuck within it. The system of abusing children to choose a new leader seems engineered to make sure that nobody can escape.

    Georgiou, somehow, escaped. And now she's (in her own words) "a monster with a conscious (ie: useless)" in a system that has no need for monsters. She felt useless to change the empire, and useless to do anything once she found it no longer surrounding her.

    • Film Discussion | Star Trek: Section 31

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  • That was the best Syfy-channel-pilot-for-a-show-that-ultimatley-didn't-get-picked-up-from-2002 that I've ever seen.

    • The Stars of Star Trek: Section 31 Know Why You're Nervous About the Movie

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  • What is the line?

    • "Section 31" early review round-up

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  • implies the Federation of TNG is a naive facade

    Man, is there anything more 90s scifi than this concept?

    • Welcome Redditors from the thread earlier today!

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  • Reddit mods have less power to remove unwanted speech than Lemmy admins do. If you are upset because mods would not let you say something in their communities, Lemmy is not going to be more accommodating for that.

    • The Stars of Star Trek: Section 31 Know Why You're Nervous About the Movie

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  • inb4 someone on lemmy says a single piece of media they haven't even seen is responsible for "shitting all over the entire franchise"

    EDIT: nvm

    • The Stars of Star Trek: Section 31 Know Why You're Nervous About the Movie

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  • Villains who's engineered virus forced the Dominion to the negotiating table... just saying.

    "Good and evil isn't as black and white as TNG portrayed it" is kinda DS9's whole deal.

    • The Official Philippa Georgiou backstory from the Star Trek YouTube channel

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  • I secretly wrote "star wars" in sharpie on the undercarriage of my 2002 hyundai elantra and would you believe it to my eye it looks no different whatsoever

    • CNET: Fed Up With Instagram? How to Move Your Photos to Pixelfed

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  • What bugs have you encountered lately? I've been playing around with it (only a couple of days now) and it's overall been very smooth experience for me.

    • Knowing less about AI makes people more open to having it in their lives – new research

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  • If the article doesn't define what "AI" means then the article doesn't actually mean anything. Market research studying what people know about a vague and undefined term like "AI" can ultimately only produce undefined results.

    It's like asking people their feelings on "woke" or "god". If everyone is talking about something different then nobody can have more or less understanding of it.

    • I finished watching DS9... again.

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    • I finished watching DS9... again.

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  • This hits hard. Is it your OC?

    • "Meta and X are going rogue:" European Digital Rights group (EDRi) urges EU to invest in infrastructure "like Mastodon, Peertube and other key pieces of the Fediverse" to secure Europe's independence

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    • This Aged Well

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  • Eh, if an instance allows trolls, then that instance typically gets defederated from very quickly (at least it does on my instance). The only reason it is an issue now is that two of the big three instances (.world and .ml) have very lax moderation standards. If the lemmy-verse grows to the size of Reddit, then two lax instances won't be as big of an issue.

    • This Aged Well

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  • Lemmy's design is fundamentally excellent to deal with bad actors, the whole point of ActivityPub/Federation is that moderation is much more effective while also preserving free speech. I'm not sure what that person on about.