To me, its comparative success is evidence that good writing can conceal many sins.
It’s actually not so much the politics that’s the problem, it’s the smugness, heavy-handedness, and preachiness of most woke stuff that bothers me.
I like to think I’d feel the same way if my own politics were depicted in the star trek universe in that way. I think I’d cringe pretty hard if captain Kirk looked off into space at the end of an episode and said “with gods help, we shall never surrender our precious 2nd amendment and thus suffer the fate of those poor bastards on cucktonia prime’
Well, you made an analogy to the Soviet Union. If you lived there, you’d have to spew the party talking points publicly.
It is maybe possible that some business still survives in San Francisco without having ever actually bought into the insanity (or alternately they’re a different kind of insane like maybe hardcore feminists who lean toward TERF). Such a business who have to speak the language of woke and do it publicly.
She’s in some cyberpunk dystopia where McDonalds is a corpo faction that owns whole planets out on the rim. She’s just competed a mission to infiltrate the Arby’s bio weapons lab on New Haiti and steal the plans for an AI-powered roast beef slicer.
She’s in McDonald’s to turn in her mission and receive the reward of 300 chicken nugget crystals, which will somehow all fit into her backpack inventory.
I doubt any government would let someone like him operate inside their borders without controlling him.
Like if some guy was farming blackmail material on US politicians and selling it to China, or even possibly might sell it to China, I think their plane crashes the next time they fly in it.
I just don’t think the CIA knows about something like that and just stands back and lets it happen.
I saw a video right when the war broke out of Muslims fleeing Ukraine for places like Germany. Someone asked them, “since you had been living in Ukraine, why don’t you stay and fight?”
They acted like that was the dumbest question they’d ever heard. “We're not Ukrainians!” they said. “Of course we won’t stay and fight!”
Absolutely useless. Only there for the gibs. The idea that any country ever tolerated this is astounding
See now, that’s a satire I’d pay to go see. A satire of modern leftist idiocy set in the starship troopers universe.
Every time a bug kills a human, there’d be other humans saying it’s really our fault because we oppress them with our xenophobia, and besides that, humans kill humans all the time too.
Also, replace the propaganda videos with ads featuring bugs married to human women, and Netflix documentaries about how George Washington was actually a bug.
Yes but for it to cause the effect we see with galaxy rotation, there would have to be an absolute shit-ton of it; way more than any theory predicted.
Every type of matter that is floating around out there gets incorporated into stars. The reason for this is that there’s nothing special about the process that makes stars. It’s just a gravitational collapse. It can’t select for one type of matter and exclude another. So for example, if carbon atoms are floating around, they end up in stars. Make sense?
We can use spectrographs to get the proportion of different types of matter in stars, and (with some adjustments for the age of stars) the proportion that should be in the rest of the galaxy.
But then, based on the anomalous spin, there must be a lot more - a lot more.
Or, theories of gravity are wrong, or maybe the speed of light isn’t constant. There are several possibilities, but “missing matter we can’t see” is definitely the simplest. It’s just that, after all these years we haven’t found it.
Dark matter is a pretty reasonable guess to explain a very clear observation.
You’ve seen animations of the solar system, right? The inner planets are wizzing around really fast, but the outer planets are going quite slow. A galaxy should work the same way. But when you measure the speed of stars at various distances (using red shift and blue shift) the speed is a lot more uniform.
So, something is missing. Maybe red shift/blue shift doesn’t work the way we think it does. Maybe gravity doesn’t work the way we think it does. Or maybe there’s a lot of extra mass we can’t see.
For a long time (and mostly still today) people thought the most likely explanation was missing mass. We know there are particles we haven’t discovered. The discovery of the neutrino happened just like this: an experiment got a strange result, and someone proposed a new particle to explain it.
But with the neutrino, they came up with a clever way to test the hypothesis, and when they did, they found neutrinos.
Actually, I suppose a similar thing has been done with dark matter. Given the hypothesis called dark matter, they make a prediction: light should bend around galaxies a lot more than it would otherwise. They set out to find examples and it took the resolution of the HST to finally find any. “Gravitational lenses” they’re called.
But unlike with the neutrino, this doesn’t give us any insight into what dark matter actually is. So, people are still open to other possibilities. MOND is one.
As a modern example, “dark matter” was proposed as an explanation for the observation that galaxies weren’t spinning the way models predict they should be. But after decades of searching for dark matter, no candidate particles (for example, “wimps”) have been found.
So, maybe the initial hypothesis is wrong. Maybe it’s not dark matter. Maybe the answer is “mond” (modified Newtonian)
Isn’t that cool? When science gets something wrong, we correct. We move forward.
…but, for some reason, which makes no sense at all but trust me on this… if you refuse to bend the knee and accept global warming and dismantle your entire economy to “fix” it …. For some reason that stops astronomers from considering other explanations for dark matter.
QED
The founders didn’t want us venerating presidents.
They actually invented the word “president” specifically to signify a minimal role. Early drafts of the constitution named the position king. They also considered emperor. It was always going to be an elected position, but that’s what it might have been called. Even “governor” was deemed too important-sounding.
In the end, they went with a word that just means “presides over” - the federal government was never meant to be very powerful.