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  • BS. A recurring theme of DS9 was that the federation principles only exist because in times of crisis there are people willing to do what must be done to prevent annihilation.

    Both Ross and Sisco did fucked up shit. They didn’t do it because they wanted to, or because they deluded themselves into thinking they had the moral high ground. They knowingly crossed lines they swore they would never cross because that’s what they felt they needed to do to ensure the safety of their people.

    They weren’t wrong.

    Nothing Ross did when working with Section 31 was worse than what Sisco did during the events of In the Pale Moonlight. We just didn’t get a POV entry of Ross monologuing about how he hates what he’s becoming, but at the end of the day he can live with it.


  • A danish news organization will have articles about what Danes think of tariffs. The same with a Canadian news organization, a German one, etc. Yet for some reason almost all of what American sources talk about is what citizens of other countries think.

    I think the fact that American establishment publications put out more articles about what citizens of other countries think of tariffs than what Americans think of tariffs is part of the reason why Trump won.

    The upper 10 percent of liberal America seems to think of themselves as citizens of the world, and seems to spend more time caring about anything other than Americans outside their hyper-specific socioeconomic niche.

    The end result of this mentality is that Trump was able to make huge inroads with groups that were historically democrat’s bread and butter in 2024. Even if he was lying through his teeth, he and his team made real efforts to appeal to issues that were important for demographics.

    I’m willing to bet you could find people from Hawaii to Mississippi altering their spending habits in fear of Trump’s tarrifs. Maybe the press should spend more time reporting on them.

    Obviously, neither Trump nor MAGA is the answer. However there needs to be a way to talk with how out of touch so much of our establishment is without sounding like a Trump supporter.



  • Honestly, LinkedIn influencers aside, AI art seems to be dominated by two types of people

    1. Techies. Not “tech bros”, like people genuinely excited about the technology. They often create AI art as a way to better understand the technology, push the limits of what is possible, and produce art that exists in their head, but they wouldn’t otherwise have the skill to create.

    2. Degenerate gooners. Basically they’ve spent so much of their life gooning that they’ve come to hate the current state of online porn. Not like in a “I need a weirder fetish” sort of way, but in a “modern porn is often low effort, and you have to sift through a lot of crap to find something you like”. They work tirelessly to adapt AI image models that weren’t meant for any sort of nudity into their own personal spankbank generators. They are also extremely willing to share all their tricks and tuning, because their idea of a perfect world is where everyone has their ability to casually generate personalized porn.

    The two things those groups have in common is that they aren’t making money, and they put in hours and hours a day to perfect their craft. I don’t know if I would call it art, but I would definitely say those people can do things a layman can’t.



  • I mean sure but on some level you need to accept that the world can be terrible and you need to make the best of the circumstances you are in.

    I’m not saying those people lighting Teslas on fire are right or mentally sound, but they are better off than the people who want to do that only to doomscroll all day before crying themselves to sleep.



  • You’re right. At least doctors have actual experience in the field. There are legions of academics who have never actually attempted to apply any of their knowledge to any sort of real life situation, have an extremely limited ability to function in the real world, and somehow are even more arrogant than medical doctors by an order of magnitude.

    Case and point, this comment. The natural conclusion of anyone without an extreme superiority complex is that I just mildly misread the OC because, like the vast majority of people, I spent like 10s glancing at this post before commenting

    Meanwhile you have your head so far up your ass that you immediately launch into an incredibly pretentious rant that somehow manages to stretch a three sentence point into three paragraphs, each of which is somehow more insufferable than the last.

    Everything about you gives off the energy of someone who thinks they are better than everyone else because they can quote Foucault at will, and thinks the reason why they can’t seem to make connections outside of their field is because people are too intimidated by an “intellectual”.


  • Joe Rogan is a caveman, but I hate this mentality.

    I’ve had a ton of horrible experiences with doctors. Misdiagnosis, given bad medication, bad medical advice, etc. A common trait all of them had extreme arrogance. They all thought they had all the answers, and that modern medicine was infallible.

    If you had an issue they couldn’t put a clear label on fairly quick or weren’t responding to treatment in a textbook way, then that was somehow your fault. Either you were lying, or exaggerating, or it was all just in your head.

    I’m not alone in this experience. Basically every American with any sort of complex health issues has had a bad experience at the hands of someone who claims to be an expert. That’s on top of the medical establishment letting bad medicine go on for years, because they are extremely reluctant to admit they don’t have all the answers.

    Obviously, none of that makes Joe Rogan any sort of intellectual or trusted authority on anything except bro science. How you can’t expect people to have unflinching trust in doctors when doctors let people down so often.