The US is pausing a $14bn (£10.4bn) arms sale to Taiwan to ensure it has enough weapons for the Iran war, acting Navy secretary Hung Cao has said.
“The reason we can’t help fight against evil is that we’re too busy doing evil ourselves.”
Also it is not news.
He obeyed the Cardassian authorities on Terok Nor despite knowing how unjust their occupation of Bajor and their use of prisoner slaves was.
Authoritarians don’t have to seek power. The core authoritarian concept is that the people in power should be obeyed, because they are the authority.
The people at the top think that they should have essentially dictatorial control, and the people below them think that all they have to do is follow the commands of those above them and then everyone below them should be obedient to them. And it continues like that all the way down the hierarchy.
And then the people at the bottom just want to keep their heads down and survive.
But for the most part, even true believers can be cajoled into acting differently. I do feel like Odo’s true personality is fairly authoritarian, but opinions may differ.
That is an interesting way of looking at it. If you think about it, it’s really weird that aliens from completely different planets would pick up on social clues from each other. And that would make all aliens seem autistic to each other.
So maybe Odo is the most accurate portrayal of an alien in the series.
This is one area where I don’t really agree with the reasoning behind the Star Trek lore. The Prime Directive is another one.
With genetic engineering, they had one really bad experience, so they toss the baby out with the bath water. Realistically, they needed to make this rule, as well as the Prime Directive, because they thought it made for better storytelling. But the in-universe excuses don’t seem very valid to me.
Can you really be called a cult leader when you’re literally a demigod?
I think Odo isn’t technically a fascist. He is an authoritarian, but he doesn’t seem particularly nationalist or racist. Compare him with the Cardassians or with the other changelings, and it’s pretty clear he’s quite different from them in some important ways.
Unlike Moriarty?
He’s picked out the one most distinguishing feature of swordfish and copied it, which makes the swordfish accept him as a swordfish.
This would be like if you saw a swordfish on land and it thought you would accept it was human just because it was holding a cell phone.
If you were an NPC, even if you did have the permissions, would you actually notice? You’d be ending at the same time as the program, and if and when the program started back up, you would have no reason to think that your command worked.
No love for Vic Fontaine?
In 2021, there were an estimated 50 million people living as slaves, and in 2013, there were an estimated 168 million children (aged 5-17) involved in child labor. These are the numbers I found off of Wikipedia.
I wish it was possible to be inside someone else’s head and observe their thoughts and feelings in a moment
I mean, that cop is crooked to start with. So he’s probably thinking, “Oh shit. My go-to excuse for harassing people failed. It’s embarrassing if I get exposed here, so how can I make this her fault?”
Someone should ask Susan Collins why she thinks people join the military. Because based on that video, it seems like her answer would be, “because they’re idiots who want to throw their lives away on a politician’s whim.”
Let’s get real. The people who wrote the answer were fully aware that somebody might respond with “What is a hoe?” They were trying to bait it.
It’s the Jeopardy version of those Family Feud moments where they’re like, “Name something that is harder in the morning than in the afternoon,” so that they can be absolutely gobsmacked when a contestant says, “a penis.” “We really thought people would say ‘going to the gym,’ and never once considered people would say ‘penis’. OKAY SHOW ME… PENIS! What? The number one answer is penis?! I’m shocked. SHOCKED.”
Everything that has had Trump’s name on it needs to be demolished. We should find some other way to honor Kennedy that is unsullied by Trump’s name, even if it’s just in the history section of its Wikipedia article.
Did Hank ever not understand Boomhauer, though?
I tried proton-ge, using proton plus, and I got no flashing screen, even when playing a 1v1 competitive match. Hopefully, it will still work when I play with my friend later.
Thanks for the tip. I think it probably worked.
Honestly, refusing to call a person the name (and pronouns) that they wish to be called by is very much a big thing in society today.
Dr. Pulaski thinks Data is a lesser being who is not worthy of the same consideration she would give to her human colleagues, and I think that about sums up why everybody hates her.