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thepreciousboar

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  • Why do we continue to treat Death as an exception?

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  • Death is not unexpected on whether it will happen, but when. Everyone dies, but you might be going to work one day and you die because of a moron burning a red light, or you might ne the healthiest person and get an incurable cancer, or people die from random hearth attack.

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    Would you use the R-word if it was socially acceptable again and how do you feel about it becoming unacceptable?

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  • That's not true, "retarded" (from the latin term for delay) was intially used as a medical term to someone with lower cognitive abilities, not an insult per se. but like other similar terms (such as "cretin") it was eventually used more as an insult, until it was considered offensive by most and only the offensive meaning remained in the common speech.

  • What are you looking forward to in the near future?

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  • That is a very healthy way to look up to it, good luck!

  • What do you do when you get ghosted?

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  • It depends on the amount of time, but if they don't even have the time for a courtesy reply like "I'll get to you in a couple of days", or "please contact me in .. days and I'll be able to help you", they either don't care or are too unorganized to bother

  • Punch it! 'Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' Season 4 starts filming before Season 3 even airs

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  • I mean, this is likely an unedited picture taken with a different camera, I don't think it's reflective of the real picture we'll get in the final show

  • What series are set in African villages or cities?

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  • What happens to Firefox forks if Firefox dies?

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  • Because web browsers are stupidly complicated and expensive to maintain. The only real competitor is google who has infinite money to maintain the chrome superiority and you need resources to maintain safety, fix bugs, and adhere to new standards, which get every time more complex (also thanks to google that doesn't want competitor). You need a lot of budget for that.

  • What happens to Firefox forks if Firefox dies?

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  • I read millions of "monkey" instead of "money" and was trying to understand if you were insulting browser developers or implying that thousands monkeys could to do the same work as a developer

  • How often do you read your old conversations?

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  • Sometimes I do, when I have particularly funny and enjoyable conversation with my friends, or ones with my SO that become important for our relationship, but I find myself doing it less and less, don't really know why.

  • Are there any episode plots that bug anyone? Here's one that got me...

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  • I don't know how military trials are usually held in modern navies (where Star Trek obviously take ispiration from) but arranging Piker vs Picard is not only an asshole move (for the two, not only for Data) but also a clear conflict of interests and there's no way the judge gets a fair representation of both sides.

    Also, this episode has a very good theme, but onestly falls flat for a very simple reason: Data is already a starfleet member, he presumably applied to starfleet academy, graduated and got enrolled on a ship. He is part of a crew, has had promotions and is capable of taking command. Doesn't that mean he is already recognized as a sentient being? Or do they give ranks to computers as well?

  • For no particular reason today, here's Gabriel Bell

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  • Maybe the annals were just short of one year and 2025 is the time

  • How to stop "Fall in love" so easily?

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  • I understand how you feel. The first step to reduce the frustration is to try and give it less importance: as you said yourself, it's not falling in love, it's just infatuation. Your brain is confusing attractiveness to another person (physical or romantic) for a deep connection that doesn't come at first sight (despite what movies and tv would make you believe) but develops in time.

    You will be attracted to a lot of people in your life (assuming you're not aromantic or asexual) and, with time, you'll realize if you went deeper in many of these situation, the attraction would disappear, because the shallow opinion you have of a person you are not dating is very difficult to get right, and usually filtered positively by your monkey brain that just wants to formicate.

    Of course trying and deepening these attractions would help you realizing this, which might not be easy if you have difficult approaching other people, but try and reflect on similar situations in the past and think about them cold-hearted: to how many people are you still infatuated? Don't you see now the "bad things" that you brain was hiding and that don't make you two really compatible?

    Eventually it just becomes a nuisance. I don't know if you can change it, but you can accept it and it will bother you less if you understand the mechanism behind it.

    Maybe you just feel affection-starved and in these situations it's easy to attach to ideas of relationships rather than real ones. Nothing weird of course, everybody do it is some way or another. It's a combination of social brain and (according to your comnents) low self-esteem.

    Of course these are my 2 cents according to personal experience, a therapist would you help you more with that.

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  • I mean, I am glad you and other people are able to enjoy the show also given the inconsistencies, but the question I tried to answer was why people cared about canon and coherence. It might not be important for you, but from what I can see, it looks like it matters for a lot of people, especially in a show that except for TOS and maybe a little of the first season of TNG, tried really hard to stay coherent with itself, in the bad and the good.

    You can't really blame a show for not being coherent in their early days, but once stuff is established, you can expect faithful fans to be mad about disrupting an expansive narrative.

  • do you think we are going into ww3?

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  • Not saying any of these would cause WW3, but remeber that, depending on who you ask, WW2 started:

    • when Germany and Russia invaded Poland in 1939
    • when Germany invaded Checkoslovakia in 1938
    • when Japan invaded China in 1937

    there is no single point of start for a war, just many actions of variable intensity that escalate

  • Should I be concerned that my HDD, which seems to be working fine, is 8 years old?

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  • Hdd can live a long and happy life, but absolutely don't trust a single drive ever, independently of how rugged, old or expensive it is.

    My main hard drive lasted 5 years with 1 year of power on hours, working fine and suddenly failed. It was a good fail because I was able to get all the data from it, but it took almost one month for how slow it was.

    Always assume your data storage is going to die tomorrow and be ready to replace it.

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  • Because an expansive universe lore is enjoyable if it's coherent and there are stakes at play. If you consider the official canon, voyager as a series is pretty much to throw away, because the Federation would already have the technology to bring them home centuries ago. And yes, many times the writers played around the concept in good ways to not make Discovery a ridicolously overpowered ship, but it still suffers from big "Superman is so strong he can destroy a plenet with his mind" energy.

    Can you make the whole series good with deus ex machina superpowers? I guess. Was the writing good enough for it? Absolutely not.

    Yes, I am aware of the baby lizards warp 10 episode of Voyager, that should also be thrown away from canon as it makes no sense, but at least it was a whacky episode among many (and the showrunners ackowledged it) not the premise of an entire seriea.

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    My ex-wife on letting our 17-year-old daughter date a 38-year-old man when she's living with her

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  • That is true, for an adult issue, a serious and adult conversation must happen with this girl, even if it could be okay, the situation itself should be evaluated because it can get very gnarly. We don't know much about OPs way to handle it, but it's also possible this specific situation is fine.

    Either way, I agree that just telling your daughter to stop doing something she clearly feels like doing, even if she has a distorted view of that something, is not going to help anyone.

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    My ex-wife on letting our 17-year-old daughter date a 38-year-old man when she's living with her

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  • You are not wrong, but age gap should be considered relative to the people age. 20 years difference between 20 and 40? I guess, still not the best thing ever... Between 17 and 38? It's very very different, people mature A LOT between 17 and 20. Then of course it depends on the person, maybe this 17 years old is mature for her age, but maybe she is just being taken advantage of.

    Also, the wording of the mother really implies it's an assimetric relationship, not really one between consenting adults, of course we don't know, but still...

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  • "Fact checkers are politically sided"