If someone can get unlocked access to your phone, your security practices are already insufficient. If you really want to prevent something like this, you need to make this first step impossible, not add a bandaid on top of it.

What even is this thing? Everyone in here talks about as if they knew, but it looks entirely unfamiliar to me.

I just use Firefox with uBlock and don’t install apps that have ads in the first place.

Apparently, they plan to.

Probably not much anyone can do without the file in question, and I think the community rules don’t allow that?

True, and there are plenty of episodes like that. But can you write each and every episode like that? Wouldn’t it get boring fast if every episode was like some super powerful force that was just a challenge because it has such higher capabilities than your own?

I’ve been generalizing obviously in a short social media comment, not wanting to write a dissertation about it or anything. I’m aware there are some limited ways around the problem I described, but in the end, they’re very few and get old fast.

If I write “Terraria APK” in my torrent program’s search window, I get several results.

The problem is that the writers are normal humans.

Imagine this: let’s say the writers themselves do understand the highest level of competence. They write the Voyager crew in a way so that they handle all issues perfectly. How would it be possible for them to come up with any situation where this Voyager crew is challenged? - they can’t. Because they are portraying them as perfectly competent, which is based in the writer’s imagination, the definition of this perfect competency is that the writers could not come up with a way for them to be challenged.

Hence, when making any story like this, it is absolutely essential that the writers leave a flaw that the writers know about. Otherwise they literally would be unable to come up with any challenges. So the characters in Voyager necessarily need to be less competent than the writers.

But since the writers are average humans, the characters necessarily end up being less competent than average.

Maybe you didn’t see it before because TNG and DS9 actually taught you things (i.e. the writers were more competent than you), but those shows were the same. Most issues in those shows are ridiculously badly handled. Some episodes of course are better or worse in this, but that’s just the nature of having to come up with a lot of episode ideas.

The thing is, it’s not actually that important that the characters are competent in actuality. This is where your suspension of disbelief comes in. You just have to believe for the context of the show that the characters are actually super competent. The story is mostly still valid and focuses on human growth and interpersonal relationships, which would be pretty much the same if the situations portrayed would actually be handled better. Even though the characters are not actually competent, you can act as if they are and then everything works again.

No, am neurodivergent man. Rest is true though.

So weird that they wouldn’t include the full name :D

Poor Alfredo, noone asked him if he wanted to be emulsified :(

I prefer its smaller and even more inconvenient brother, Antimatter-catalyzed nuclear pulse propulsion!

There are roughly 3 trillion trees on earth. Even if they don’t replenish, at 1000/day you need roughly 8 million years to run out.

If you need 1000 trees per day, and you plant 1000 new trees per day, guess when you run out?

Luckily, you don’t have to fathom it :) Your experience is totally valid.

Different perceptions are normal, even exactly the same situation can and often is perceived differently by the different participating parties. It’s truly remarkable how humans have this ability of seeing the world through different lenses.

Maybe I’m overly positive or something and thus my experience is unnaturally skewed towards experiencing this. And there’s actually much more toxicity than I perceive. But just speaking for me, I’m glad I don’t have your experiences, because that genuinely doesn’t sound pleasant. I hope you find a way, place or people which you can feel good about :)

Exactly. I’ve had my fair share of misunderstandings, that could have been constructed as rudeness or “toxicity” by either party, but after we kept talking it never turned out to be actual hostility. Everything turned positive in some way after a better understanding was reached.

Sooo… is it weird that I participate actively here and never experienced this?

By making this post and/or commenting on it with support, does that make you a hypocrite? ;) :D

Oh these 2000 people own 2000 completely unrelated companies! They all make business with each other because the market is so healthy! All the houses are offered at the same prices because the market works so perfectly by forcing companies to compete with each other so the real value is reached!

In none of your stories anything really happened, though. Of course, it might have, but it might also just been coincidence or whatever.