I mean, there are art pieces(the urinal) and movements (found object) based around that. Books written about it. (the design of everyday things)

I’ve written this in a pro-ai art way before, but when you get feelings from seeing natural landscapes, who is the artist?

If you find an expression in an everyday event or object, good on you.

Yes.

Bots are permissable to grow communities that could do with boosting engagement by posting relevant news , but for a community based on asking questions by people won’t be improved by that kind of post

Sometimes you need a real good slice of humble pie to remember what’s important in life.

digital watches

They drew or shoved into ai?

… my wife had to warn me not to put linux on certain computers.

With Gnome-boxes, I can safely shove random versions of linux on MY computer without hurting anyone else!

Now I know what an MX box with fluxbox is like! And I didn’t have to make my father in law’s business collapse to do it!

https://xkcd.com/1105/

Yeah, it can prevent surveillance cameras from detecting you… but it sticks out like a sore thumb to cops.

I wonder if they can do that with Charlie Kirk? I wouldn’t put it past them, and his wife is very likely to go along with it.

yep. One of the reasons I stick to debian based (vanilla Deb) is so that any dumbass tutorial works for me, because I am not smart.

If ind it quite funny that the majority of the posts are about the text editor and not about the blatant hitchhiker’s guide reference to the point where I had to specify it in the OP and then the thread exploded after that point.

Oh, you mean layout and decoration, and not music?..
You Will Be Reincarnated As An Imperial Attack Space Turtle

Space I guess?

… are they getting more well known?

Either way, I’m glad you already knew about them.

Me no love nano, me brain only can use nano.

E macs scary. vim no let me leave :(

I guess I need to shitpost harder for you to notice me senpai.

In case you haven’t had previous exposure :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOQHZeBvkgc&t=132s

how dare you disrespect the delicious Şiş Köfte?

I will give you a taste of my shoe.

All we wanted to know was whether a hot dog is a sandwich…

I don’t know anymore man, it’s a sausage? 😭

In a fully-automated luxury communist utopia, the Maquis are selfish assholes. Clinging to a planet because of the inconvenience of having to relocate. A planet which was never theirs to give or take in the first place.

fucking a-men!

great take, especially

The way some of the Maquis stories are told in late TNG and then DS9 is not the best Trek has to offer.

OK… but it very much feels like a protracted escalation that is to lay at the feet at the Colonists refusing the fucking leave, and the Cardassians acting, predictably like assholes.

HUDSON: I knew him. Bill Samuels was a farmer. He cultivated his land for twenty years. He raised two kids on that land. He made something out of that land and the Federation told him he had to give it all up to the Cardassians. Well, he just was not willing to do that

SISKO: And it was people like him who made both sides realise that some accommodation had to be made for the colonies so they could stay.

I mean, this nails the fucking thing on the head. Bill wanted to take advantage of the hard work he did, which is fair. He was warned the Cardassians owned the planet now, and that if he wants to stay safe, he needs to leave, and that the Cardassians are assholes. He says no. Ok. The federations says “Look, we have this treaty, but we aren’t going to do jack to enforce it. You’re on your own”. He says OK. The Cardassians act like assholes. Shock , horror. Now Bill is mad, that the people he was told was going to fuck him over , fucked him over.

Let’s pan over to somewhere else now.

Imagine you are a Cardassian Colonist, and you are working on a terraforming mission. You’ve been on Unnamed Planetopia for 15 years and worked on a mine so that your family in Cardassia could afford a house or fucking whatever. Then, some human asshole bombs your planet with cobalt diselenide, and you gurgle to death as your lungs turn to liquid.

Your Cousin on Bill’s planet hears the news about yet another human acting like shit on an planet owned by Cardassia, and how you , and your entire colony was wiped out by that fearsome maverick, Michael Eddington, and he has enough of that poison to kill every Cardassian in the DMZ.

Eddington has attacked a Cardassian colony with a biogenic weapon. The chemical used was cobalt diselenide, created from the selenium and rhodium nitrite, which is lethal to Cardassians but harmless to most humanoids. The Maquis have already announced an intention to reclaim the planet. Also, with the amount of biogenic weapons the Maquis have, they can poison every Cardassian colony world in the Demilitarized Zone.

https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/For_the_Uniform_(episode)

Do you really think that this shit is making things any better for anyone? Does anyone expect Gul Generic to act civilised towards Bill getting in his face when his cousin and the entire fucking colony choked to death in agony?

Obviously, the tales in Star Trek, are morality plays based on things in history. The problem is that the federation is meant to be fair, just and able to provide everything people need.

It boils down to a few ideas :

• Personal risk management
• Post war border settlements and their adjustments to the new borders.
• The “inevitability of the federation”

Personal risk management

The colonists accepted the risk that the Cardassians would treat them unfairly, and the risk came out badly for them. Just like when people go skydiving or rock climbing and sign waivers to accept a personal risk, the colonists accepted the risk that the cardassians would treat them like shit. The federation can try to rescue them, and I’m sure the cardassians would let them flee, but they want to fight, and they fucking ask the federation for assistance. Bruh, fuck off. There are more controversial ways of looking at this, but , if you choose to take risks, don’t act out cry “unfair” when the risks don’t go your way. There are people like this IRL that gamble or make risky choices, and cry foul when it goes sour; it’s part and parcel of that risk. I’m not saying those people shouldn’t be offered assistance after, but insisting on validation that they didn’t make a mistake and to continue whatever lifestyle they want is bullshit.

Post war border settlements and their adjustments to the new borders

In IRL there are places that end up in the “wrong country” due to a settlement post war/conflict/treaty. The well being of those places are almost always dependent on what happens between the two countries in the following years. Some examples can be seen on wikipedia :

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_divided_cities

Some places of note to think about :

• Dahagram–Angarpota
• Baarle-Hertog/Nassau
• Alsace
• Tyrol

One of the weirdes enclave/exclave situations were set up in the border between India and Bangladesh, which literally lead to people dying and services being completely busted and inaccessible to local people. Its exact opposite would be Baarle-(Hertog/Nassau), where due to the Schangen agreement and the peace and co-operation between Belgium and the Netherlands, life in the village is peaceful and largely indifferent to the notions of enclaves and exclaves.

Alsace(–Lorraine) was a disputed territory between france and germany, especially during WW1, and a thorn in the side for negociations for peace. At present, similarly to Baarle, due to the peace between france and germany and the EU, things seem to be going all right for them. Same goes for Tyrol and Austria/Italy. There are contentions, but no one is getting blown up over it.

The “inevitability of the federation”

While this is not something that’s part of IRL, it is an interesting idea I saw in a video :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbys9HJvSXA (this fucking things is half an hour long)

Bottom line : The federation is too damn efficient for other cultures to not eventually make peace and trade with it instead of being a pain in their ass. They will inevitably stop wars with you, and start being your allies, one way or the other. It happened to the Klingons, and it “is happening” to

NB: I am not talking about post burn. Fuck you, I’m not going to cover an entire millenia of fake history.

Eventually, the federation will settle the disputes with cardassia, and establish more amicable relationships with them. Then the DMZ will be pacified, things will get bettter for the inhabitants of planets in and around the DMZ, both federation and cardassian.

But you gotta let go man. Diplomacy can’t continue when you’re polluting entire fucking planets and harming civilians on either side.

I’m tired. What was the question again?

They do plenty of terraforming adjacent tasks in TNG, mainly for planets that have recently joined the federation, or are undergoing some kind of collapse prevention. I think the issue with Project Genesis and similar is that they were “bombs” that would instantly overwrite the ecological system on a planet with a predetermined one, wiping out the existing ecological system in the process, to put plainly, killing everything.

The terraforming I’m talking about is stuff like earthquake mitigation, adjusting “atmospheric conditions” to stop greenhouse effects or similar, etc. And it’s all signed off in triplicate from the federation etc, not just lobbing a terraforming bomb at a planet on a whim.

https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Terraforming

IDK, the universe is pretty vast, and they seem to be tripping over M class planets. Also, there are several other classes of planet available and they do some terraforming, it wouldn’t be too far fetched to say they took a “not quite M-Class” planet and did a little terraforming and had that up for grabs.