I like them both a lot but the original is a classic I keep going back to. Maybe I’m just the right age for it.

I wanted to downvote your stupid ass but op asked for unpopular opinions. So fuck you here’s an upvote.

I’m not trying to tell you “keep at it, it gets better”, because it doesn’t. It starts out awesome and stays that way, in my opinion.

But if you had watched more you’d see Mariner’s persona is a front. She might be the most Starfleet motherfucker in the show.

That’s a tautological statement. We define words like sentient and sapient in terms of what we are.

Saying “this lifeform that we can’t communicate with in any meaningful way (for these purposes) has emotional or cognitive experiences that we would recognize as meeting those definitions” isn’t falsifiable and therefore isn’t science.

If at some point someone invents a human to mollusk translator so we can discuss our experiences, this topic can be revisited.

Until then words like “may” and “possible” should be used.

I searched for it and didn’t see it but one of the top results is “Boycott - Israeli Products”

Social security has been 10-15 years away from being insolvent for 80 years. It will always be 10-15 years away from being insolvent because of the way it’s calculated.

When the CBO or whoever scores it they can predict certain things like the number of recipients, the size of their payments, and inflation. They aren’t allowed to take into account things that Congress may (but definitely will) do in the future, like raising the cap on social security taxes roughly with inflation. It went up from $160200 in 2023 to $168600 in 2024. This is a rare bipartisan, uncontroversial thing. Congress almost always follows the SSA recommendation exactly.

It would be more accurate to say “if the social security cap stays at $168600 for 10 years, social security will be insolvent.”

The people pushing this bullshit know it’s bullshit. They do it to make people think they’ll never get social security so they can get enough voters on board with killing it, like they’ve been trying to do for 88 years.

Don’t fall for it.

Google says (I know) total wealth in the US is 135T.

2% of the total (almost half of millennial’s 4.6% share) would be 2.7T.

2% of millennial’s 4.6% would be 124.2B. (Google says he has 111.6B)

Unless you think the robot has 2.7T, it’s 2% of millennial’s wealth, not 2% of the total.

Still fucking insane of course.

Damn you for reminding me about him. I’m going to be mad for like an hour now.