Precisely, so the Federation may be anarchist, even though the member races aren’t.
With what we know about how the Federation interacts with other races and planets, real world logic would indicate that the humans could be (and live) the model that the Federation is built upon.
All this is conjecture ofc, and is probably as much an exercise in understanding post-scarcity anarchism as possible Star Trek lore :p
Which is inherently anarchist :P
As it seems a common confusion in this thread, I repeat, anarchism doesn’t have to be without government or rules, several forms of anarchism are focused on not limiting individuals freedoms and/or not allowing power over eachother (while accepting government and rules not contrary to that). Both of which I believe describe how the Federation works.
That’s one form of it, but there are plenty other schools of thought that overlap quite significantly with the Federation, check out the primer on Wikipedia.
Anarchist doesn’t need to mean without government, simply that no one is above another, which is echoed in how the Federation is structured towards the other races.
I’d say they’re post-scarcity anarchist. There’s no central/communal resource dispersal as needed for socialism, nor the central/communal resource allocation/planning needed for communism.
There’s seemingly no authority outside starfleet exerting any power, nor does anyone ever claim a motivation beyond exploration or study (to do something meaningful). The lack of money and unlimited access to replicated resources pending available dilithium also points to a society without exploitative discrepancies.
The humans also never are reported to have any resource hogging, the only tensions/stratification seem to be militarily (and against external parties also diplomatically), meritocratic, and even then the bottleneck seems mostly to be to not fall behind other races.
I don’t see neither capitalism, socialism, communism, despotism, theocracy, nor fascism, but many aspects of anarchism. If you’ve read anything about The Culture, they openly speak about being anarchist, and it’s very similar to Star Trek.
I use Newpipe, it’s not as good as Vanced, but better than reVanced. And good enough that I recoil in horror at the stock app.
Assuming the same density, about three times as much gravity.
Gravity scales linearly with volume which scales with the cube of the width, (3/2)³ is about 3,4.
Now we only have to elect decision makers that make policy on facts and not feelings.
Looks so cool!
Ah, but they gave him back story and motivation.
Spoiler warning: He wasn’t purely evil for evil"s sake, he just tried to rebuild society for the scions of humanity, and had already discarded the normies (can’t remember the term they used) as primitive, albeit barbaric, creatures.
The genius of Bester is that he was so self assured and uncontested, making him almost cartoonishly evil, but also that he was so essentially human. Driving home the major themes of the series: the dangers of unchecked power, the human drive to self determination, and that wielding power over others perpetuates a cycle of violence.
I have no experience with your particular printer, but I’ve had an issue where the bed was very sensitive due to being the edge of the adjustment range.
The bed screws on the Ultimaker 2 are manual screws with springs, and you can level the bed throughout most of the screw length. Having it at one end means the spring is quite loose, and things like weight and nozzle pressure affected the flatness of the bed.
So if you have an elastic tensioner for your bed, maybe set it at higher tension for a more robust flatness?
If you’re always adjusting in the same direction though, it’s not that, and is probably a software error where something doesn’t count Z-position right. Unless of course your printer is somehow getting longer?
Other than that, the autists I know all enjoy a wide variety of activities, although intensity and dosage will differ.
Some love martial arts, some are foodies, some enjoy hiking/sailing/outdoorsmanship, some are into tantra/burning man/hippie stuff, some love organising events, some are into animals, and almost all overlap into many different hobbies. Just like allistic people.
What they do need however is for the activity to be adaptable to the energy levels they have that day. If you’ve had an overwhelming day at work, it’s gonna be a whole different beast to go to a concert or interactive art exhibit.
If your social battery is at 4% before the event, it’s gonna be tough to mingle for an unspecified length of time. Make space for social recovery, or to pace themselves, or to vary the intensity, or to recover afterwards, and you’ll all be better off.
As many have said, it depends quite a bit on the individuals.
What I’ve tried is to give as much pertinent information as possible beforehand, and try to limit things that are commonly difficult.
A staple is a schedule/itinerary with times to endure each activity/block, when recovery is possible, and preferably with some description of what can be expected socially and stimulation wise so the participants can prepare and/or pace themselves.
You should also make sure to offer periods and spaces for limited stimuli, or even recovery. And be prepared to answer follow up questions, most questions aren’t posed to ruin surprises, but to alleviate anxiety, and I find the anxiety is almost never worth the surprise.
Can be something like:
17:00-20:00 Facilitated painting exercise.
An art therapist will talk shortly about how art is used in therapy, before inviting us to paint an exercise. The exercise is based on an emotional prompt that we’ll be painting individually for about an hour before having a walking gallery tour in the shared art hall.
20:00-22:00
Pot luck dinner in the cafeteria. We share a meal and some camaraderie after a painting well done. The cafeteria is furnished with small tables and we encourage you to find at least one person you haven’t talked with much to accompany for dinner.
During the painting exercise, the cafeteria will also be open for refreshments and breaks, and the booths offer a bit of solitude if you wish to contemplate something that came up during the exercise.
So the scientific claim is “adult participants have gotten moderately better at the d2 attention task” but the article says “people are paying more attention”. To me that seems like clickbait from what is otherwise a reasonable meta analysis.
Agreed, and unfortunately almost all science “reporting” has this problem.
Which is why we don’t listen to people who haven’t at least read the source material, and ideally have read and understood enough about the field and methods to be able to evaluate if they are reasonable for the task.
A quick read of the first paragraphs of the article also shows that it’s not the IQ tests that are the measure for concentration.
How lucky we have trained professionals employed to check if it actually is!
That way they can check on it, and you can just read their report when they’re done.
They take on all the hard work, and you can simply read if and how they figured out it’s a serious measure. What a time to be alive!
Theoretically you can put any amount of energy into a laser, as long as you can redirect and synchronise waves. And as several stars and black holes have gravities and stuff that can affect the starships, it seems evident you should be able to charge a laser enough to damage any USS starship.
And as the phase cannons seem to output 80-500 GJ, you should be able to match that fairly easily with 10 grams of matter annihilation or a second of about 10e-15 of the energy output of a sun type star.
Interestingly enough, phase modulation of a laser weapon makes more sense than of a particle beam (which the phaser weapons are), and also you don’t suffer from recoil like from phasers.
Because they are the same underlying condition, only presented at different levels of impediment.
Diagnosis works the same, treatment is the same, it's mostly the amount of support needed that differs.
A conceivable way could be to disrupt the nuclear force of the target atoms, maybe like an anti-Pion/Gluon ray that self-propagates the reaction through the released energy.
(As we might remember, splitting the atom yields a bunch of energy, and uncontrolled such reactions go Hiroshima)
It might be controlled by sub-particle lensing, probably some kind of magnetic field, to be active at a specific distance.
For the reaction to be contained, either there’s a radially limiting component (air is not particle dense enough to propagate the reaction, or atoms not energy dense enough) or it’s a cascade triggered by the beam which stops when the beam stops (or the reaction gets too far away from it)
As I believe Pions and Gluons are their own anti-particles, I don’t know how we would go about doing this, but hey, that’s for Science!™ to solve.