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  • Amelia Earhart’s Long-Lost Plane Discovered On Auxiliary Runway At LaGuardia

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  • If someone wasn't in the comments saying this, or "that asphalt isn't the right type for La Guardia", or "based on the sky in the background, this is actually somewhere in the southern hemisphere", then I'd be on the wrong website.

  • Are We All Too Cynical for Star Trek?

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  • This is why I love TNG so much. Even though TOS is the original that laid the groundwork for everything, TNG took that "boundless optimism" and ran with it. Watching TNG inspires me to continue to self-improve and encourage it in others.

  • Amelia Earhart’s Long-Lost Plane Discovered On Auxiliary Runway At LaGuardia

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  • The Lindbergh baby has been wandering around La Guardia for decades like Tom Hanks in The Terminal.

  • Time gets away from me

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  • Every night. It can't be helped.

  • I totally meant to do that

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  • Lol, there are just so many random variations of every opening that it's virtually impossible to know them all. It's sometimes helpful to see what an opening is called so that you can potentially look it up later, but 99% of the time I feel like Michael in the meme.

  • Just a friendly chat with an AI

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  • I'm lost and genuinely can't tell if you're joking or mad.

  • Just a friendly chat with an AI

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  • I've still not tried it. I should probably turn off chat and give it a go.

  • Are We All Too Cynical for Star Trek?

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  • Yeah, there's a singular implied "universal morality" throughout Star Trek of accepting diversity and learning to not impose on other civilizations or each other on the basis of one's biological differences or culture, even for Klingons! I'd say the rest is hard to define and subjective, as @ValueSubtracted@startrek.website said above, but post-scarcity and free agency in life to follow your passions has to be pretty close!

  • Are We All Too Cynical for Star Trek?

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  • That's a good point. I think this contrast between individual (often flawed) human judgment vs collectivist ideals has always been a theme. In TOS, you see Kirk calming McCoy's knee-jerk reactions almost every episode. In TNG, it was Yar or Worf. In DS9, probably Kira.

    Even then, I would say the collectivist ideals (i.e. Starfleet regulations) were more often portrayed as overly-cumbersome in implementation, which leads to someone like Kirk violating the rules in place of the ideals that they stand for. For example, how many naïve (but well-meaning) diplomats do we see in TOS or TNG? However, rules being restrictive or imperfect in an effort to support larger agreed-upon morals can still be trusted, compared to corrupt power structures, which cannot.

  • Are We All Too Cynical for Star Trek?

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  • Ah damn, sorry about the paywall. It let me hit "continue reading" on mobile, but I know sometimes these types of sites can be inconsistent.

  • Are We All Too Cynical for Star Trek?

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  • It’s just another tired bit about how following orders and perfect institutions are what Star Trek is really about, to hell with any evidence to the contrary.

    I'd argue that the theme is less about following orders and more We are all individually flawed and are at our best when we follow our shared values - which is represented by both Starfleet and the utopian setting as a whole.

    I can see the argument (for fiction and real life), that as we trust institutions less, our focus becomes more on individual judgement rather than collectivist ideas. It also tracks for me that as this occurs in real life, our media would reflect individualism more and more.

  • Are We All Too Cynical for Star Trek?

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  • I've admittedly still only watched up through the 90s, but I'd definitely say that DS9 depicted a significantly more "morally gray" version of Starfleet than TOS or TNG.

    I think the point the author is making is that the extent to which this idea gets explored is reflective of our society's growing mistrust of institutions IRL, rather than suggesting the theme has never been explored.

  • Comfort show [elder cactus]

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  • I used to when it was easier to watch it on streaming without ads... As soon as I set up a media server and acquire it somehow, I'll be back in business!

  • It's very important to protect your ruler.

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  • Thanks for the input - that's exactly my dilemma. I've been posting on AnarchyChess too, but the AnarchyChess from reddit that inspired the AnarchyChess community on lemmy was more for highly ironic shitposting, so depending on how strict we want to be, this comic and normal memes wouldn't really work there.

    There doesn't seem to be a separate "Chess Memes" community on Lemmy yet, and I suppose I could just create one, but I also don't know if the need is there to split the already small communities again. For now, I figure I'll just feel out what the mods/communities in @chess@lemmy.ml and @AnarchyChess@sopuli.xyz want.

  • Comfort show [elder cactus]

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  • Comfort show [elder cactus]

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  • Elder Cactus is the best out there if it's your sense of humor. I can't get enough of it.

  • A cheap imitation

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  • Perfection, haha

  • How do you counter this?

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  • Well I'll be damned.

    Also, if you're going to tell me that an opening is called either the "Polish Opening" or the "Orangutan Opening", it's no contest which one I'm going to remember.

  • Find your match [Deliberatelyburied]

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  • Good question!

    The Tetris board is 10 x 20, while a chess board is only 8 x 8. Although if you ever place two chess boards next to each other by accident, you'll have to buy another, so be careful.