TNG s05e20

Every one of us has a thousand different kinds of little people inside of us, and some of them want to get out and be wild, and some want to be sad or happy or inventive, or even just go dancing! That’s why we all have so many different urges at different times. And all those different little people inside of us: we must never be afraid to take them with us wherever we go. Who knows when we may need one of them to pop up and rescue us from ourselves! Variety, my dear Alex. The great secret is not the variety of life, it’s the variety of us.

Australia tried this in the early noughties I believe - running a non-public URL blacklist. After some parliamentary accountability and commmitees got it cracked open, they found that about 10% of the sites met the definition for inclusion, with the remainder being a grab-bag of things various politicians and bureaucrats didn’t like.

Private torrent content escapes naturally because it’s often shared on other P2P tools in use by the peers.

That episode shall be Rascals

What makes you think Signal is maintaining relationship maps, and secondly, even if it is, is there any evidence they’re included in LEO subpoenas?

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Ask yourself: ‘Was Starfleet ever not woke?’ If the answer is no, congratulations – you’re ready for the truth.

No amount of memeaganda will get me to believe this. The answer is an emphatic yes.

Is it really misuse if the mechanism was designed to be misused?

I haven’t logged in for nearly three years. Has TI been overhauled again?

Dirty Bomb

I watched this episode recently. The scene’s a Worf classic

What’s your superpower, my child? I develop a migraine and take sick leave when something’s wrong, Professor

I don’t understand when these companies are going to learn that sharing their IP is going to get them more money than being so fractured.

The risk equation makes sense. The potential gain from outlasting your competition and absorbing their subscriber bases to become a near-monopoly is higher than participating in a royalty scheme, and the downside is borne by shareholders and to a lesser extent creditors (the Other People’s Money principle).

Noice, I will look forward to it

Speaking of doubles, are there any episodes with a bizarro-Picard? As in it’s legitimately Picard but this one’s got a New Jersey accent, a beer gut and he’s impolite and chauvinist and generally negligent in command, flouting the PD, etc. Time-travel Picard was cool but I want a polar opposite version.

My ability to stick the boot in on Blahaj-hosted posts is a bit like mods being able to ceaslessly whinge about their voluntary role being thankless/hard to prosecute. It’s really really really important :^)

‘Anti-religious comment’ accurately describes my scenario. Anyone who dislikes the hypothetical critique can simply hit the report button and it will get wiped if Rule 4 is read at face value.

If the mod team on this instance is going to be that prescriptive around how religion is mentioned, then they’re better off just blanket-banning any mention of it altogether, like on Whirlpool.

If you’re a <insert faith>, and in the natural course of discussion people start criticizing ideas that inform <insert faith>'s beliefs and ethics, that’s not a personal attack. It’s not ‘bigotry’ on the basis that you disagree. It’s not ‘trolling’ purely because it made you upset.

I’m going to separately post the famous Charlie Hebdo cover in this thread, the one published after Muslim extremists murdered their people over cartoons. If this instance is so straitjacketed by Australia’s ridiculous lawmaking in this area that it cannot tolerate such a post, then it’s not a forum for adults.