And you don’t even want to know how many copies of that leg he has…

Oof no man, too soon (:-P)

And in that pilot, Leonard Nimoy’s Spock character hadn’t yet been decided to be emotionless, thus even though they tried to reuse as much footage as they could from the pilot in TOS (to save costs:-), they had to be careful to not ruin that carefully built up cannon for him.

Having to hang out with Derek - it’s so much worse than The Bad Place!!

What is wrong with becoming a transporter clone so that a nearly infinite supply of Ensign Kims you can serve your glorious overlords by dying over and over again… - uh, I mean, “go get coffee” - until the sweet release of ultimate death?

Pro-Tip: did you know that deactivation and reactivation of a holographic lifeform is basically akin to death and reincarnation? Each time they are shut off, they really have no clue if this time will be their last…

Insufficient?! That’s not what she said?!

What’s that, you want to feel up Captain Picard!? Who do you think you are, Beverly? :-P

I am now so torn between my distrust of corporations and my distrust of the media - perhaps really I should not trust either!? :-P

It didn’t ask for Riker, it opened for you Picard, GET IN THERE!:-)

Why feel guilt? Whether we were created by a God or by nature, we were built this way, and you did not choose to build yourself:-). Instead, I see that you are honest about your feelings, which is more than I can say for a good fraction of the people that I have ever met.

We here are learning: there’s a LOT that we can no longer control, a good bit of which we used to if not be able to then at least we lied to ourselves that we could try to influence things by our votes. Long ago that used to be true, somewhere in the past few decades it changed and now we finally have the opportunity to be honest with ourselves. A chance which we are refusing to do btw.:-)

We will toughen up. Or die. Probably a bit of both.:-)

Just imagine a toddler talking: they throw out whatever they think will work - the sad part is that somehow it manages to actually do so, see e.g. the last election:-(.

Oh shit, sounds like the polar opposite of Costco.

Fair, but also I am not sure how clear cut the situation is: workers do have a legit need to actually use the toilets for their intended purposes. It’s natural to assume that the company is merely being a dick here, but it also makes a certain kind of sense to me that it at least could have been trying to ensure that workers have toilets available to poop in (even more so for women). I lack the context here to accurately judge, I just see an article that like all the other articles is trying to make me angry. Okay.

“Patriot Lighting” 🤡

Oops, hit send way too early. Yeah life is not fair, and if it helps, the citizens of the USA are much more likely to die in nuclear fire and radiation than a nation that has already stabilized into an authoritian regime.

It’s worth being angry if that helps consider the various possibilities, but also there are small joys to be found in life that anger often destroys, so it helps to try to set it aside even if only for an hour or two each day if at all possible, so as to allow room for life itself to breathe in those spaces.

As you said. Bc being in your country keeps you always “on edge” (another way to phrase that is keeping you “sharp”). The decadence of the West was always going to be a temporary thing, and many of us are going to be shocked, Shocked I say, SHOCKED to find out that the real world does not function as we hoped. But we should not have been so shocked, or really shocked at all. It’s just another kind of sickness - a different form than what your country has but similar in causing stress in life.

My thing is: in order to cure a disease you have to first understand it. I don’t, personally. And then second you have to know where you want to head towards. And again I don’t know that either. Maybe I could recognize a good plan if I heard one told, but even there, I am so cynical that I don’t even trust my own self there, based on past experiences. So… I wait to see what happens.

Well, tbf the EU does seem the singular holdout. Which helps explain why the UK was targeted for Brexit, and the USA by Faux News for takeover by its own internal right-wingers, and now the rest of the EU might have to stand up to Russia + USA (& maybe Xi will manage to charm Trump to extend that alliance still further?), at which point how could it hold out for long? Though it still would remain as it is for a few more years yet (even possibly measured in decades?), so for you personally that idea might still hold merit. And, possibly none of my worst fears here may come to pass, America (and the UK) could “wake up” and resist fascism after all? I doubt it, bc the way technology is changing makes it favorable for a tech bro to gain authoritarian control - globalization and automation and especially corporatization have all radically altered the landscape compared to the 60s and 70s when democracies were more favorable.

But that’s apparently the problem: there are people NEEDING to poop (some perhaps desperately?), but they can’t get in bc the stalls are full of people smoking or playing games.

One solution could be to normalize taking a real honest break somewhere else that doesn’t use up a toilet facility.

The title is extremely misleading here: it’s not company vs. workers, it rather reads like workers who took photos of other workers?

Notably, when the worker would not open the bathroom door for long, the other staffer would stand on the ladder and use the phone to click the pictures.

I don’t know the details, just various comments that would obliquely reference the incident from presumably the more distant past, like this one: https://hexbear.net/post/1712067/4540345.

You see what you do bc you are an intelligent person, who has learned to trust only what you see with your very own eyes. “1+1=2”, not bc you or I say it is, but bc it’s TRUE, and you have bothered to seek an understanding of such things. However, others are not this way.

Ironically they can be just as and oddly enough even more intelligent than us in some ways, but when confronted with new facts, choose to suspend their critical thinking facilities and trust “daddy” or “mommy” to have made the right choices for them. “1+1=whatever authority says” for these folks.

It’s a wonderful adaptation that lowers the energy to have to think through every single tiny thing, and in a society where the leaders actually care about their people can work out extremely well, however given the real world especially the one we live in today… these “sheeple” have made themselves into being highly dependent upon the good faith of their leaders.

And they are the ones happier and more emotionally well adjusted than we are, who are constantly unhappy, watching our brethren getting eaten alive and caring not one tiny bit about it all, but just being taken care of. They are the ones who are “correct”. Btw, did you believe me just then? Good. Freedom requires eternal vigilance.

These people btw are more likely to keep their jobs and do well in society, rising to higher positions of authority themselves and are thus “better adjusted” than we are. That is a true fact. Our critical thinking doesn’t “help” us, if our goal is to rise in our authoritarian societies. However, evolution seeks not just one but a variety of solutions, and society always hedges its best to keep others around that don’t match the prevailing trends - outside of an authoritian regime, those who are authoritian still existed, while inside of such a regime, we remained as the hold-outs, in case we were ever needed.

Notice in my prior response my use of democracy in the past tense. We may never have elections again in the USA, but even if we do, we seem unwilling to pay the price of education of our populace and especially the critical thinking facilities that would be required for it to function. We will die as a nation due to our negligence and arrogance to have ignored literally the most important and basic things that would have been necessary to have continued to function.

Our media in particular cannot be trusted as all the variety of sides lie. 1+1=3, 1+1=-5, 1+1=πei√, they’ll say anything at all if it gets them clicks and therefore attention. And not even merely for money - for some, the fame alone is enough, and then algorithms refuse to put forth excellent content that is true, and instead promotes cute people who wiggle their butts or whatever. Btw what I’m saying here is a lie too, surely, in the sense that not all of it is the truth. The latter is so hard to find, in that the tiniest misstep throws it all off - i.e. 1+1=1.1? no wait, was it =2.1, perhaps 2.01? Even the smallest mistake allows someone to criticize and say “nuh uh, you are inaccurate in this point!”… and therefore they are correct in their criticism, and have proven my words to be “false”. There are an infinity of ways to be wrong, and I’m not even sure if there is even so much as one way to be correct.

Anyway, make no mistake: Lemmy is not immune to this, we are right there along with all of the other platforms - we (collectively at least) don’t want to hear the truth. You and I might, and like 10 other people too, but collectively, out of the tens of thousands on this platform, “we”, overall, do not. Instead, we spit upon it, and repeat our talking points, and exist inside of our echo chambers, parroting things we’ve heard others say. I know this to be true bc it’s human nature, and bc we are humans - there is no shame in it, in a sense, bc it’s simply true.

Though occasionally I would hope for better. And it is better, slightly, as in better than Reddit, even if not perfect overall (which again, nothing is).

As for leaving the USA, look around: the entire fucking world is moving this way. Fascism has won. The top holdout now is Germany, and they just had that enormous protest against their own far-right party rising. Russia is active again, at this point it looks like the USA will join it, and WWIII is around the corner, unless other nations simply capitulate preemptively, which at this point looks strongly as if they might. Or perhaps I’m wrong and none of this will happen. The powerful people cover their tracks well, and perhaps my overactive conspiracy-addled brain sees patterns where none exist. It’s so terribly complex that people need decades to study such matters, but the rest of us have to go to work in the morning so don’t have the time to solve the entire world’s problems. And then those who actually do, can’t manage to get the word out, bc nobody is listening. Except us crazy folks, who don’t know what to actually do about any of it. Probably bc there is nothing to be done. In part bc we’d have to start by acknowledging that our enemies have some intelligence or at least strategic thinking ability of their own, and to say something like that about the likes of Huffman (of Reddit), Musk, or Trump, receives tens of downvotes, hence makes us pause to speak, or if & whenever we do, profoundly limits the reach of the audience. Study history, if you want to be more depressed than you already are, like Machiavelli - it’s very sad (to me) but also true, it would seem.