Yes, it can happen. Population choke points drive rapid evolution.

It’s genuinely TNG fanfic

TNG fanfic

Not only that, he said that it more closely captured his vision.

Early TNG is in fact PEAK Roddenberry.

I agree that it should no longer be used in a modern context. It’s like calling Russia the USSR; people usually know what you mean, but it doesn’t make sense, and when talking about specifically American geopolitics, it’s easy to misunderstand what is meant if you are older than 35.

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The value humanity gets from that is orders of magnitude greater

Everyone can upend their life when they genuinely don’t have another choice. People keep doing the thing they know is wrong because they DO have a choice.

External circumstances don’t turn an immoral action into a moral one. You can never make up for the harms you do in the world. The circumstances you describe sometimes exist but more often than not, there is a choice, but we lack the courage to acknowledge it even exists.

If you became disabled, and suddenly you COULDN’T do the immoral job anymore, well by god, you’d likely find a way to survive. So…

It’s a joke name, like calling a short kid “stretch”. Camels cannot sweat, you see.

It took me a while to think in lisp.

freakin casuals

You don’t even have to make sure it doesn’t exist. There are sometimes reasons for there to be multiple communities serving the same topic and/or audience.

Very true, but are there differences you think are relevant to how Canadians vote in the next federal election?

That’s Trump. Elon is extremely ideological.

Freedom of expression means that you are free from interference from the state. Never mind that we live in a de facto corporatocracy, freedom of expression does not prevent you from being silenced by private enterprise.

It sucks but sometimes it’s a pleasant change of circumstances to see the USA fucking itself, first. We’ve been dying for decades.

“political”

okay

I’m a bad human.