[-] bobo1900@startrek.website 14 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I think it's more about learning to be human. He imitates other people and their mannerism not because they find his nature inconvenient, but because he think that by imitating them he can understand.

[-] bobo1900@startrek.website 10 points 4 months ago

Please don't make it a generic US high school drama. There's already enough US-defaultism in Star Trek.

Also, the image is glossy, it feels like AI generated

[-] bobo1900@startrek.website 12 points 4 months ago

On a TV series, a cowboy libertarian explains his being libertarian to a rich evil lady. She smiles and exclaims "you are all a bunch of toddlers! Wanting to suckle on other peoples tits and being treated as adults, while having none of the responsibility of being one".

[-] bobo1900@startrek.website 10 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I've known a bunch of them and I think their ideology is fine on the surface, but full of small contraddictions, for example:

  • they believe freedom is the utmost important thing, but their freedom is always threatened so they always should do what they do want, even if that limits other people freedom. For example: I should not be forced to pay taxes if I don't want to because noone should be forced to pay for a "service", it should always be a choice (but if my country gives me healthcare without paying taxes, I should also use the service). However, things like paying tolls for private highway is also bad, because one should be able to go wherever they want withou paying.
  • they don't believe in "rights" as anything imposed from the top is bad. If a category is persecuted (black people, gays, whatever) they should not be protected, but fight on their own
  • according to them, in true capitalism, free market is perfect and the most just, and monopolies will not never happen, now they do only because laws allow them to "manipulate" the market.
  • they often spiral down alt-right conspiracies theory with a libertarian flavour, like a deep-state working hard to limit even more your freedom, or everything even remotely "politically correct" (even things like protection against protection against being fired because you are homosexual) is woke propaganda and also aimed to limit your freedom.

That's my experience with a few tens of people, so I don't know if that's representative of the whole community, bu my own little consipracy theory is that libertarianism as I know it was crafted by the US alt-right to subtly manipulate people into fascism, the premises are all there: hatred for the current state, bigotry, extreme victimism, a willingness to strip down thenselves of hard-fought rights and a hustle/grinding mentality to slave yourself down to work and enrich other people

[-] bobo1900@startrek.website 11 points 4 months ago

I think this applies to everything. The "geniuses" we praise (Einstein, Newton, Galileo) are not superhumans with access to secret knowledge that only their mind could unlock, they are just very clever and astute individual that studied a lot and figured out things by applying a mix of logic and intuition to information that everybody already had.

If they didn't exist, someone else would have (likely) eventually come to the same conclusions. Heck maybe someone did years earlier but never told anybody.

[-] bobo1900@startrek.website 10 points 4 months ago

Never programmed on the z80, but a common flag in cpus is Zero or Not Zero (nz), that would be set when the result of an operation is not zero (or zero, depends on the architecture)

For example A = 0 (A being a generic register) would set Z to 1 and NZ to 0, and viceversa for A = 1

[-] bobo1900@startrek.website 15 points 5 months ago

Maybe I'm reading wrong, but your comment seems to imply that Tian'anmen Square was mainstream media lies?

[-] bobo1900@startrek.website 11 points 5 months ago

I don't want any "smart" crap in my house, I don't want my appliances to be connected to the internet and to be controlled by an app, it should all be self sufficient.

And if you really want to add the option to be controlled remotely (but should not be the only way) make it a local connection, why should my phone connect to the internet to turn on an AC located three meters away?

[-] bobo1900@startrek.website 9 points 6 months ago

Relaxed? What is the meaning of this word? My emotion is a booleam variable that is either depressed or agitated, nothing in between

[-] bobo1900@startrek.website 10 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

A later NASA mission will attempt to collect the rover's samples and bring them to Earth for closer analysis in laboratory conditions.

Damn I didn't expect thats. Sounds cool as hell, hope they manage it.

[-] bobo1900@startrek.website 9 points 7 months ago

"Energizing the romulan rubber ducky" is not something I expected to hear on a kid's show

[-] bobo1900@startrek.website 10 points 8 months ago

The most annoying thing is it blasting "battery low" every 30 seconds when the battery gets below 20%, making them absolutely unusable. At least Sony lets out a ver short beep to let you know, and only twice

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