Absurd that pointing guns at people to get fake support would be seen as any more legitimate than just having the soldiers do the fake voting themselves.
Yes, it’s not much different from tipping. Puts the burden of responsibility in the wrong place. If a business wants to support charities and use it in marketing, just give money to charities and tell people how much it was. And/or give people the contact details of the charities if you want to promote them.
I watched some of the GWB parodies. I never had any interest in watching Trump parodies, and I’d be annoyed to have comedians do them in shows I otherwise liked.
It’s not funny anymore, and it wasn’t really that fun then, although satire is a valid method of political commentary. But week after week, there’s nothing new, nothing that’s more shocking than what was already known. They’re fully and completely terrible persons, who should never have political power. Don’t need to embody them to understand that.
Except they don’t even attempt to look like good people. Satan would think he’s been doing it all wrong, he should’ve just said “I’m here to rule over you all and destroy the world, vote for me”.
I thought the idea was that Republicans are actively working on destroying what has been working fine and is benefitting lots of people, not just on preventing more progress.
Unusually, for the actual rocket launch, the CO2 isn’t really the biggest deal here. It’s possible to use rocket fuel without any carbon in it at all – NASA has been using liquid hydrogen for decades, and Jeff Bezos’ rocket used it too. But commercial hydrogen is made in a very carbon-intensive way, although it’s...
Renters burdened by unaffordable housing costs may be at a higher risk of dying sooner, according to a new study published in the journal Social Science & Medicine....
Lord of the Rings should be public domain by now. Which should mean it’s fine to write and publish fan fiction, but also fine for everyone to do that, you writing a story with those characters and histories doesn’t mean you can stop anyone else from doing the same.
Lucky they made DS9 before TNG had even finished, then.
We didn’t really get more of the TNG side of things with the TNG movies. Then they moved on to JJA Star Trek, which wasn’t much of anything, not dark, not utopian, just references.
While Discovery was in part based around rescuing an ultra-fascist from another universe.
It took bringing back Picard himself to approach doing what they once did decades ago. And I guess not let the actor have too much say over the script, if that’s what messed up the movies.
Seriously, because she’s from a different universe, her actions of committing genocide and torture across any number of star systems are irrelevant?
If Starfleet doesn’t care what people do “in their own space”, how could they ever have a problem with anything? Just declare yourself a ruler, obviously democracy doesn’t play into it, and you decide what you can do anywhere you are.
The comparison in a recent New Yorker article was viewed as controversial in Germany, where government authorities strongly support Israel as a form of remorse and responsibility after Adolf Hitler’s Germany murdered up to 6 million Jews in the Holocaust....
Rep. Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts and Sen. Peter Welch of Vermont submitted the legislation, named the Inclusive Democracy Act, on Tuesday which would guarantee the right to vote in federal elections for all citizens regardless of their criminal record....
They should all be able to vote. From prison, too. The punishment never needs to be to take their voting rights away. If they commit fraud, stop them from committing fraud again.
Dogs mostly chose to live with us, and many have the ability to survive without us.
Wolves did, or whatever mutated variant it was, and then we created a whole bunch of different breeds. Some of them might be able to survive. Some of them can’t even breed on their own, because humans are idiots.
I’d say if we were to abolish libraries, we should abolish copyright as well, because they serve the same purpose. Copyright is an artificial barrier, a social contract to promote sharing ideas and creative works. There’s nothing inherent about copyright, it doesn’t exist if we don’t want it to. So why should we want it to?
Temporarily occupied Ukraine encouraged to vote in Russian election by armed men (www.bbc.com)
One resident complained of pro-Russian collaborators with ballot boxes going from house to house looking for voters accompanied by armed soldiers....
Missouri man fatally shoots his mother at home after mistaking her for intruder (www.theguardian.com)
A 25-year-old Missouri man says he mistook his mother for an intruder before shooting her to death at their home’s back door....
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"He is not as entertaining as he once was": Gavin Newsom has some notes for Donald Trump (www.salon.com)
In a recent interview, the California governor discusses Trump’s campaign odds, calling him “damaged goods”...
Thousands sign Christian petition urging bishops not to back Donald Trump (www.newsweek.com)
Slightly different approaches (startrek.website)
Microsoft sets 16GB default for RAM for AI PCs – machines will also need 40 TOPS of AI compute: Report (www.tomshardware.com)
Day is the anomaly (startrek.website)
Meditation is not for everyone (lemmy.world)
Oh trust me. I know your frustration better than you do. (lemmy.world)
Republicans hit Biden over St. Croix trip during border crisis (thehill.com)
How much greenhouse gas is emitted by a Space X rocket? (cosmosmagazine.com)
Unusually, for the actual rocket launch, the CO2 isn’t really the biggest deal here. It’s possible to use rocket fuel without any carbon in it at all – NASA has been using liquid hydrogen for decades, and Jeff Bezos’ rocket used it too. But commercial hydrogen is made in a very carbon-intensive way, although it’s...
Unaffordable rents are linked to premature death, Princeton study finds (www.cnbc.com)
Renters burdened by unaffordable housing costs may be at a higher risk of dying sooner, according to a new study published in the journal Social Science & Medicine....
The guy who sued Amazon for infringing on his Lord of the Rings fanfic takes a massive L, now owes $134,000 to the Tolkien Estate (www.pcgamer.com)
Author Demetrious Polychron wanted $250 million for infringement of his book The Fellowship of the King.
Quentin Tarantino's 'Star Trek' Movie Would Have Been a "Balls-Out Hard R" Movie (collider.com)
Author receives German prize in scaled-down format after comparing Gaza to Nazi-era ghettos (apnews.com)
The comparison in a recent New Yorker article was viewed as controversial in Germany, where government authorities strongly support Israel as a form of remorse and responsibility after Adolf Hitler’s Germany murdered up to 6 million Jews in the Holocaust....
Rep. Pressley introduces legislation to guarantee right to vote for people with felonies on record (apnews.com)
Rep. Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts and Sen. Peter Welch of Vermont submitted the legislation, named the Inclusive Democracy Act, on Tuesday which would guarantee the right to vote in federal elections for all citizens regardless of their criminal record....
Are you prepared to be judged? [Martin Rosner] (startrek.website)
Cats understand 'naughty' (lemmy.ml)
Why We Need Public Libraries Now More than Ever (www.bostonmagazine.com)