Flocklesscrow

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[–] Flocklesscrow@lemm.ee 4 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

A major Geordi character arc revolves around his eyesight. Yes, his prosthesis affords him additional abilities and allows him full function, but that says nothing of the otherness he has felt and psychological impact of being different throughout his whole childhood, and the challenges he faced for acceptance, even within StarFleet.

To dismiss his personal struggles while assuming that he's fulfilled and would OPT to not have regular eyes is incredibly arrogant and ablest, no? It is also deeply lacking in awareness and consideration of psychology, which is pretty bang-on for Boomers of the era that STTNG came out. "Oh, well looking at the END RESULT, he turned out fine, despite his massive trauma."

The likelihood is that he did not turn out fine, we just don't see the granular details of his psyche, on screen.

[–] Flocklesscrow@lemm.ee 5 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Early USPS delivery models gave users far more options

[–] Flocklesscrow@lemm.ee 3 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

If you can't go anywhere, another option is jumping rope. 10 minutes of jumping rope is about equivalent to jogging for 30 min.

I personally prefer a slightly weighted (.8lb) rope with the mass concentrated in the rope portion rather than the handles.

[–] Flocklesscrow@lemm.ee 7 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

You're still living in a floating petri dish for months at a time.

[–] Flocklesscrow@lemm.ee 6 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

I like this old school Cap uni with scales. The Mercury/Hermes wings I could do without.

[–] Flocklesscrow@lemm.ee 2 points 18 hours ago

City girls just seem to find out early
How to open doors with just a smile
A rich old man, and she won't have to worry
She'll dress up all in lace go in style

[–] Flocklesscrow@lemm.ee 4 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Dunning-Kruger needs to be duct taped to some people's foreheads

[–] Flocklesscrow@lemm.ee 4 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

53% of white women also voted for Trump in 2024. They also swung the vote in 2016.

But really, the DNC just fucked up, plain and simple. They're run by a quorum of dinosaurs all Group Thinking their soggy old brains to failure after failure.

[–] Flocklesscrow@lemm.ee 3 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

That's how a "free market" is actually supposed to work.

We DO NOT have a free market, nor do we have the regulations required to keep the economy on a sustainable growth track. Which is why we reliably implode. We took the worst of both economic systems and gave a few oligarchs that control conglomerate corporations free reign to enrich themselves through crisis capitalism.

[–] Flocklesscrow@lemm.ee 9 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

"But it has rained, hasn't it?" Smug look

An example of why arguing with idiots is impossible to win.

[–] Flocklesscrow@lemm.ee 2 points 18 hours ago

The key phrase here is "low effort." These movies generally take a semi-decent premise and then run it into the ground faster than a nepobaby's inherited business. That's why they all end up as schlock and give the genre a bad name.

[–] Flocklesscrow@lemm.ee 2 points 18 hours ago

The escalation is what I'm welcoming.

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