juliebean,
PiratePanPan,
@PiratePanPan@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Name another tweet that has as many applications besides dril’s entire account and https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/pictrs/image/282e7fa5-4a51-412b-b103-80faebb2f4a3.jpeg

rambling_lunatic,

The orphan-crushing machine tweet

frezik,

Not only that, but there’s literally a Star Trek episode about this: …wikipedia.org/…/Hard_Time_(Star_Trek:_Deep_Space…

Of course, it’s about torturing O’Brien.

PlainSimpleGarak,

That’s in my top 5 favorite episodes. The ending is brutal.

Diplomjodler3,

But think of all the shareholder value that could be created!

hikikoma,

Can they just sort out the housing price and cost of living so we’re not forced to break the law to survive and get their thousand year sentence? Or nah?

Diplomjodler3,

I don’t think you understand how the system works.

abbadon420,

No of course, if people could understand the system, we wouldn’t need the system.

Bizarroland,
Bizarroland avatar

I think it was Confucius that said that society is best when the laws are simple and people understand the laws.

I mean what do we need with 5,000-year-old Chinese mysticism when we've got Elon musk shoving metal pellets into your medulla oblongata that can play ads at you in your dreams?

yamapikariya,
@yamapikariya@lemmyfi.com avatar

I’m pretty sure crimes like murder etc. are the ones that should be getting thousands year sentences. Has nothing to do with cost of living and housing price imo. I’m open to an explanation.

hikikoma,

People can’t afford rent and food, shouldn’t energies be put toward fixing that instead of whatever the hell problem this is aimed at?

stepanzak,

There’s a Black Mirror episode about that!

catharso,

There’s a Deep Space 9 episode about that!

Toneswirly,

There’s an episode of Torchwood about that!

Mongostein,

Which was never brought up again. Poor O’Brien

NESSI3, (edited )

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tigeruppercut,

Hey, Keiko has a name you know.

KnightontheSun,

We just saw the episode where the wraith took over Kinko’s body and threatened to kill her if O’Brien didn’t reconfigure the comm relays. I thought, “Here’s your way out, Miles!”

RootBeerGuy,
@RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

It’s why he sabotaged the plan though (OK, I don’t remember the episode anymore…)

KnightontheSun,

I am in S05 of DS9 (first watch) and saw this one recently in S04. We really enjoyed it.

Do they ever bring up that O’Brien isn’t the original O’Brien they knew, but rather the future O’Brien that swapped places? … I didn’t think so.

quinkin,

I’m in the same season in my first watch too. Having a blast.

Mongostein,

Nope.

I’m glad that O’Brien got so much focus on DS9 after being a side character on TNG, but man did they ever fuck with him.

But then if they did acknowledge all the shit the writers put him through they would have one seriously messed up officer who should probably be discharged.

frezik,

We have to assume that 24th century mental health services are much better than either Troi or Ezri makes it appear.

Mongostein,

Hahaha well with those two as our sample it’s going to take a lot of rigging to suspend my disbelief.

juliebean,

also star trek: deep space nine.

db2,

And Outer Limits 1995 iirc

thefartographer,

Also a Carey Elwes documentary about assholes with six fingers

dditty,

That Black Mirror episode still affects me to this day shudder

jballs,
@jballs@sh.itjust.works avatar

I had to give up on The Black Mirror after that episode where they have to exercise to earn credits and are forced to watch advertising. Then that girl thought she could make it out by singing but had to do porn instead. Couldn’t watch anymore after that.

jaschen,

That episode got darker after the porn part.

jballs,
@jballs@sh.itjust.works avatar

Oh yeah, I finished the episode. I couldn’t do the rest of the show after that.

Bizarroland,
Bizarroland avatar

I mean wasn't season 1 episode 1 where we all watched a guy fuck a pig? Like if that wasn't enough to get you to stop then you probably should go ahead and watch the rest of the series.

jaschen,

Ya, I watched that one too and thought it was funny. Then for some reason the workout thing really got to me hard too. I was working at a bank as a manager that was literally scamming people out of their money/ homes and hated my life. Living in a shoebox and barely able to afford my apartment. I hated my life. It really hit me hard.

clickyello,

ah yes s1e2. you almost gave it a shot

jballs,
@jballs@sh.itjust.works avatar

Was it really episode 2? I guess I watched it a bit more than that, because I can remember a few more episodes. But many though, maybe another 2 or 3.

Thief_of_Crows,

FWIW, I think that episode is one of the weakest early season episodes. It’s somehow both too explicit and not explicit enough, because their world doesn’t make any sense beyond simply “capitalism”. The rest are a lot more in the realm of existential horror and questioning the morality of things. Black mirror just isn’t a good medium for an explanation of why capitalism is evil.

Thief_of_Crows,

2 I think, though I don’t remember the other one that’s not White Christmas.

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