The second one is about a hacker commune trying to take down big tech

Let’s say I go to an Invasion Day rally where thousands of people are protesting against the current date of Australia Day because it celebrates colonialism. I bring with Me a stack of flyers about the pro-Palestine rally in two weeks. I hand them out to protesters and say “There’s more colonialism happening right now in Palestine. Come to this protest too.”

1. Am I advertising?
2. Is it ethical?

Go play Watch Dogs 2 for some anarchist collective action cyberpunk.

If he was a competitive asshole because his parents made him into one, why did Kaira never see that side of him?

Looking forward to the next chapter in all of this when the FDA bans push-up bras because they can make trans women happy

But I thought he was competing so hard with Genesis during the sportsball episode because Khionia was such a competitive society.

Kaira: Jay-Den’s toast. It was beautiful. But the man he described is someone I’ve never met. The Darem I know is quiet, always trying to appease, always one step behind me, our whole lives. […] Go. Be cocky. Walk on hulls. Live the life you were meant to live.

Jay-den: Congratulations.
Darem: Thank you. For-for what?
Jay-den: For realizing that you are essentially an asshоlе.

All that stuff about Darem becoming less of an asshole since joining Starfleet has been retconned out. Now the story is that he was quiet and selfless on Khionia, and became a confident asshole since joining Starfleet Academy.

Oh, what Kaira means is that back on Khionia, Darem was really quiet and dutiful and selfless. Starfleet is the first place he’s felt cocky enough to be an asshole.

It doesn’t make any sense.

This episode is far below the standard of quality I’ve come to expect from STA. From Chancellor Ake using an ableist slur, to the bad Darem retcons, this episode brings down the whole series.

Not if some of the staff got transformed into cupboards

Riker clones can only be made on that one planet with the reflective atmosphere

And that’s why I believe these social media bans for kids are going to result in deaths

This writer needs to read the fucking chatlogs. I don’t know whether ChatGPT caused that boy to kill himself, but when it told him which methods of suicide would leave the most attractive corpse, I could tell it was abusing him.

By default, yes, but subscribers should be able to click the bell to turn it off, same as they can now.

I don’t think there are any (public) communities like that yet, but if the feature existed, then new kinds of communities would be possible. Like a private admin chat community for an instance. Or something like a crisis help community for suicidal ideation or gender dysphoria. “Post here if it’s an emergency and someone will tell you you’re valid”.

No, the pedo claimed that consent doesn’t exist before I destroyed the pedo’s audience. I got My hands on a year’s worth of private chatlogs and searched them extensively to find the most incriminating screenshots to prove beyond any doubt that Azsula was dating those kids. So I got a pretty thorough understanding of the nature of the relationship and how they justified it to themselves. They were anti-ageist political radicals, who considered age of consent laws to be ageist. The pedo has an adult body but identifies as a child internally. So that’s why it feels justified to Azsula internally. Doesn’t feel justified to Me, though.

I guess peasant farmers are bourgeoisie

What a tosser. You’re supposed to hire mathematicians to help you design a fair election system BEFORE you hold elections! Not hold a non-proportional FPTP election and then go “Uhhh, actually that election wasn’t fair”.

trying to insist that evil doesn’t exist potentially opens you up to becoming a victim in the future.

No, it doesn’t. I have battled with some vile abusers who did horrible things. I deplatformed a pedophile by releasing leaked screenshots that showed the individual online dating children. Azsula believed that Azsula’s actions were ethically okay because consent doesn’t exist. I organised a campaign to contact everyone on Azsula’s discord server and send them the article with the screenshots. I told people to leave, and not give their time or presence to abusers, and over 1/3 of them did, leading Azsula to shut down the discord server and retreat from public life. I did so in the full knowledge that Azsula’s intentions were not malicious, that Azsula didn’t mean any harm. The reason why I was able to do so is that I think ignorance of the consequences of one’s actions is itself a form of violence which must be dealt with.

And I don’t agree that sociopathy is a recognised mental condition. It doesn’t have a DSM entry. What it does have is a note in the ASPD section saying that sociopathy is sometimes used as a slang term for ASPD. ASPD is a recognised mental condition, sociopathy is not. And I have met people with ASPD who had managed to learn a little of the skill of empathy. It was hard for them to do, but not impossible.

Hi Karim! Great job playing Jay-Den!

If you were a cadet at Starfleet Academy, which electives would you pick?