The artwork this meme is based on is a popular example of surrealism from 1929. I expect it was reproduced and the caption changed or reinterpreted many times before the internet was a twinkle in Al Gore’s eyes.
The scenes were emblematic of the crisis gripping the small, Oregon mountain town of Grants Pass, where a fierce fight over park space has become a battleground for a much larger, national debate on homelessness that has reached the U.S. Supreme Court....
I just watched Measure of a Man, they rule Data has the right to choose. But in Voyager the EMH gets relegated to forced servitude. Why? Doesn’t that violate precedent?
I believe that there’s simply some given understanding - probably some basic theory taught at school - that allows characters to make the distinction
If that were the case, why would we have multiple episodes about whether or not a computer is a person? Or, perhaps more significantly, why was the ‘basic theory’ not brought up when we did?
TranscriptionTumblr post by arctic-hands: > When I was a teenager and still on Neopets I was part of a pretty big Star Trek guild and eventually became part of its council, with the solemn duty of creating weekly polls. Well one day I created the poll “Which would win in a fight? Borg Cube or Death Star?”. Naturally, since...
Bathroom bills don’t even seem like they increase bathroom privacy. The only passable justification (which still relies on demonstrably false assumptions and in fact completely backfires in practice) is to “protect women” from “predators”.
In reality, trans people are less likely to be predators than cis, and bathroom bills primarily serve to increase the number of cis people being accosted in bathrooms because they don’t look “normal” enough. So it’s still completely unjustifiably stupid. But it’s the only justification that even makes any sense at the outset even when you believe the fear mongering lies.
New York’s Vessel to reopen with steel-mesh safety measures after suicides (www.theguardian.com)
Climbable sculpture in Hudson Yards in Manhattan closed in 2021 after four people died by suicide...
As bans spread, fluoride in drinking water divides communities across the US (kffhealthnews.org)
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AI generated yearbook (midwest.social)
Rule of Images (pawb.social)
There is no more honorable combat (lemmy.world)
Can homeless people be fined for sleeping outside? A rural Oregon city asks the US Supreme Court (apnews.com)
The scenes were emblematic of the crisis gripping the small, Oregon mountain town of Grants Pass, where a fierce fight over park space has become a battleground for a much larger, national debate on homelessness that has reached the U.S. Supreme Court....
Anti-trans Missouri A.G. can now access trans people’s medical records (newrepublic.com)
A judge ordered Planned Parenthood to hand records of transgender care over to Andrew Bailey....
Why your rich friend Venmo requests you for $4: People with more money 'struggle with generosity,' expert says (www.cnbc.com)
How come Data has rights but not the legacy EMH?
I just watched Measure of a Man, they rule Data has the right to choose. But in Voyager the EMH gets relegated to forced servitude. Why? Doesn’t that violate precedent?
Schools Were Just Supposed To Block Porn. Instead They Sabotaged Homework and Censored Suicide Prevention Sites (themarkup.org)
A problem-free philosophy (lemmy.world)
Fox News now accusing Scrabble of being too “woke” (www.lgbtqnation.com)
Who would win: Borg Cube or Death Star? (aussie.zone)
TranscriptionTumblr post by arctic-hands: > When I was a teenager and still on Neopets I was part of a pretty big Star Trek guild and eventually became part of its council, with the solemn duty of creating weekly polls. Well one day I created the poll “Which would win in a fight? Borg Cube or Death Star?”. Naturally, since...
As his trans daughter struggles, a father pushes past his prejudice. ‘It was like a wake-up.’ (www.nbcnews.com)
Dusty Farr is fighting for his transgender daughter’s right to use the girls’ bathroom at her Missouri high school....
Florida’s Anti-Trans Bathroom Law Spurs Harrowing Vigilante Attacks (www.thedailybeast.com)
Bill to make marrying your first cousin illegal in Tennessee passes but not without a fight (www.wsmv.com)