Gemini, is this true?

One extremely interesting aspect of that episode is that while Barclay DID create holographic depictions of the crew for his fantasy world, and it does weird out the staff, they don’t actually present the holodeck recreations of the crew members as a PROBLEM in and of itself. The prevailing view isn’t “This is unacceptable” - it’s that “This is a disruptive fantasy that is preventing Barclay from developing socially and fitting in as a member of the crew.” Whether you chalk that up to bad writing or the future being accepting of using the holodeck to realize one’s personal desires is up to the viewer’s interpretation, I guess. Even after all these years, I don’t think we have enough information about the Star Trek universe to know.

Yeah, if we de-meme it and really want to define it, the difference is Star Trek is a post-scarcity world, so generative AI building things doesn’t take anything away from human artists - it doesn’t affect their livelihoods because their livelihoods are guaranteed.

As always…

Hand Banana!

Hammer Brother

Ham Burger?

Incoming cease and desist from Buckee’s.

One of the pillars of the capitalism these fucks claim to love so much is that if you can’t exist on a fair playing field against competitors you don’t get the right to keep existing.

People, generally speaking, have an absolutely infuriating tendency to adapt to good things. They eventually look for more. The best way to prevent this, from an employer’s perspective, is to break their spirit. Learned helplessness is one of the only ways to permanently keep a free person in a bad situation.

The problem is the workplaces don’t want that. if you’re happier and have more energy, it also makes you more uppity and harder to control. You might even find options for other work!

If it means keeping you tired and broken, that’s worth the cost of a little productivity.

The ACTUAL site is xviiihamster.com

They should be a little bit discerning about what they paywall. It won’t kill them make public interest stories of serious value free as a public service.

Thank you.

“Our continued existence as a publication relies on people being able to freely access information, and there’s a burgeoning movement to actually make people aware of something they’ve been too arsed to bother with for decades. Wrote an artic-”

“Paywall it.”

“On it, boss.”

Data hoard enough shit to get you through however many decades you have left and get off grid.

That’s literally the only solution that’s going to be left.

Who is that???

“It’s so fast… If I just concentrate on what the boss taught me about CQC… Counterbalance the knife… Quick slash… Retract…”

More like “the building is on fire but I’m worried about tripping over the loose carpet on the second floor landing.” Yes, it WOULD be a serious problem to worry about if everything else was fine. Right now, it is not the thing that’s most likely to kill you.

I’m very specifically not getting into this argument. Everything you just said is completely right.

All I’m saying is this particular argument about taste and flavors is the worst possible one to make because it’s demonstrably illogical.