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Spoilers Star Trek: Picard 3x09 - "Võx"

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As I mentioned in another thread, my husband is a professor. We are both ultra-lefties, but he does share some of your frustrations with how phone-addicted and fickle some of the current students are. But none of what you said really addresses the main economic problem facing gen z, which is the colossal cost of housing.

I agree. The cost of housing is absurd. But I am trying to adapt as a businesswoman. I used to pay $18 an hour starting wage full time, I recently raised it to $28 an hour full time with full benefits. With dedication it can go to $45 an hour after 3 years. I am not greedy.
 
I have always been independent as a voter, and I voted for Trump simply because as a woman I detest Hillary Clinton. Is that wrong?

Of course it's not wrong, vote for whoever you want.

Last post because I don't want to derail, but you have to ask yourself whether you really are an independent, or do you 'just happen' to vote Republican every time? If you really do vote Democrat like 1/3 of the time or more, then sure why not you are independent.
 
It is, deadnaming Seven still acknowledges that she is human; Seven dumbnaming Data demeans him by calling him something lesser. It's shameful and absurd, and Geordi should have reamed Seven out for it.

Is Data human? Not really. He’s something different. In a way, he’s a biological machine. Was it simplistic? Yeah. Was it stupid? Sure. Was it worse than deadnaming someone? Absolutely not.
 
I believe there are other places to discuss politics on this site.

I was answering his question. I was talking about the commentary on current society regarding the 25 and under aspect of episode 9, and how the older generation is going to save them in episode 10.
 
Is Data human? Not really. He’s something different. In a way, he’s a biological machine. Was it simplistic? Yeah. Was it stupid? Sure. Was it worse than deadnaming someone? Absolutely not.

I think it's as bad, to be honest. But they could have developed it more - in the past we saw that Locutus was quite anti-Data, calling him 'primitive'. Maybe the Borg are prejudiced against full-blown robots?
 
Anyone notice at the CGI for the D was much better done than what we got for the Titan? I suspect they put a lot more time into it because they knew that was a ship everybody was going to scrutinize. They did a great job with it honestly and I have absolutely no complaints.
I have complaints... to be honest, it wasn't the best they could have done. Honestly, Enterprise had better CGI than this whole series.
I don't blame them, comes down to Price, Time, and Quality.. Pick 2. To me it looks more like a game cut scene level of quality. but as said, Money and time was limited, so I'm happy that we got anything.
 
Of course it's not wrong, vote for whoever you want.

Last post because I don't want to derail, but you have to ask yourself whether you really are an independent, or do you 'just happen' to vote Republican every time? If you really do vote Democrat like 1/3 of the time or more, then sure why not you are independent.

I will answer you as a last post as well politcally unless it's directed towards the episode. I voted for Bush 41', Clinton, Obama, and then Trump as independent.
 
Nahh it is a real phenomenon. Notice that back until about 2015 there were loads of people in the USA who claimed to be 'independent' libertarians who were 'neither left nor right' and 'social liberals, fiscal conservatives'. When it came down to it they broke something like 90% for the Trump Republicans. That's why you don't hear so much from libertarians anymore, they've pretty openly just become conservatives (in the 'alt-right').

I’m British, and mostly left, though not as far left as some would like. XD
Part of the Blair years, who didn’t mind Cameron and the coalition.
I am the guy who pisses off both sides, and strongly dislikes the purity control and hypocrisy in operation on both sides of politics.
 
You're being a bully. Nothing more, nothing less.
I've heard that song before. Second Warning, take a break. I'll also toss in a permanent reply ban to this thread. Congrats, you got there ahead of at least one very likely contender.

ETA: It won't let me reply ban you while you're on vacation, so I'll put that on my to do list.
 
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It is, deadnaming Seven still acknowledges that she is human; Seven dumbnaming Data demeans him by calling him something lesser. It's shameful and absurd, and Geordi should have reamed Seven out for it.

With all due respect, calling Data a robot is not worse than dead naming someone. The latter is consciously refusing to accept the desired name of an individual, it is constantly malicious.
 
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