Yes. The comments bitching about the words being cross out should be modded. They're the ones ruining everything and making mountains out of molehills and derailing any discussion stemming from the actual post.
Thank you for pointing out a real problem.
I hate you. I hate you. I hate you 😆 Also well played.
Read half the title and immediately tabbed to Wikipedia to make sure "is" wasn't "was".
Like another commenter said, polarization and cemented, frequently extreme, views. You're not going to change their mind on anything, but they're constantly trying to change your mind on everything. I consider them shills and hit that block button.
I also block people who are here "on a mission" for whatever cause. Social media has enough activists, and even if I agree with them, I'm still thinking "will you shut up, man?".
I also block people who intentionally take others out of context as an excuse to attack them or inject drama into every interaction. There's plenty of that to go around, and thankfully, there doesn't seem to be a limit on the number of blocks I can issue.
Basically, I'm not here for drama or activism or circle-jerking any political cause or to suffer immature edgelords. I just wanna talk about cool stuff with rational people. Blocking helps separate the wheat from the chaff in that regard. Anyone who has a pattern of making this place unenjoyable gets blocked
The other way of looking at it:
There was (and now IS) an existential threat to our country and democracy. Everyone with 2 brain cells was trying to stop it. The other main choice may not have been perfect, but it was definitely not as bad as we ultimately ended up with. Again, everyone with two brain cells to rub together recognized the threat and was trying to stop this.
And these people were standing in the goddamned way.
Standing in the way with no foresight, with no thinking of unintended consequences. Demanding perfection when "not a dumpster fire" and "total dumpster fire" were the only viable options. Just standing in the way, single-issuing us to fascism.
I 100% blame anyone who did not take this threat seriously, sat out, stood in the way, expected someone trying to appeal to the entire country to appeal specifically to them, or single-issue protest voted us to this point.
They may or may not have made a difference in the end, but the point is they were actively working against the only non-awful outcome which ultimately came to pass.
So don't blame the least worst candidate, blame the two party system and the voters who refuse to live in or understand the reality of that. Until that's fixed, third parties have always been and will remain spoiler candidates.
So, thanks protest voters / abstainers. You saved Palestine.
It's like phone manufacturers have run out of ideas and will do anything except stop making tall, skinny phones. I miss horizontal pixels and not needing a step ladder to reach the top of the screen, dammit!
The younger one is very energetic and difficult to photograph without being a blur. Most of the pictures I have of her are sleeping, being held, or extremely blurry.
I actually did a post a while back asking for recommendations since, yeah, there's a lot of them and I really only have time for the "must reads".
https://startrek.website/post/28030285
So far, I've read two and 2/3 (one single, one trilogy, and 2/3 of another trilogy). I can recommend them all as "must reads" (unless Millennium falls apart in the 3rd book; just started it last night).
Probably next up is the first in the "Titan" series (as recommended by someone in that post). I only bought the first one in that series. If it's good, I'll buy the rest of them.
I’m not seeing any mainstream media coverage.
It really irks me when people use "mainstream media" as a pejorative like there's some kind of conspiracy. There are way more sources covering it than that, but I think that's more than enough to make my point.
Still deeply down the TrekLit rabbit hole.
Finished the Star Trek: Destiny trilogy early last week (amazing, BTW) and am now through the first two books of the DS9: Millennium trilogy.
Yes, but I'd have to crop myself out of them and I just don't feel like it.
Have to settle for this dog tax. She's the one on the left.
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It's okay. I"m just training AI.