Georgiou also got fridged for Michael's character development. And then we follow Michael over the timeskip. Right out the gate, the universe exists to tell a story about Michael.

Ew.

You're a murderer of children.

Personally I think we should be giving kids a lot more support in not transitioning. And by transitioning, I mean transitioning from a girl to a woman or from a boy to a man. If the child isn't 100% certain they want to go through with massive irreversible hormonal changes, they shouldn't. I don't care whether those hormones come from a pill or from a gonad. They can make an informed decision whether to continue with puberty when they're 16-18

No, all pawns are trans. They can end up either as a queen or a knight.

Okay so the lesson to learn from the mainstream success of StarCraft is to put sexy submissive and breedable murderous bugs in your game

I've never been toxic on Lemmy, and I've never violated the rules of an instance or community I was commenting on. I do however have a disability I've been banned for, and I've espoused pro-trans political views that certain admins have taken issue with.

I actually got banned from startrek.website, the instance I'm leaving this comment from, for a while. They thought I was faking being trans. After a few months, it became clear I'm not faking, and they apologised and here I am.

But it says it's from the 8th of may 2024. Are you saying the posting bot would lie to me?

Well, that's two religions, which are both part of the same family and are even arguably the same religion. That data doesn't tell us anything about Shintos, Haudenosaunee, Sihks, Maori, Hellenists, Aztecs, realists, pantheists, Buddhists, Celts, or any number of other religions I could name.

The problem is that people go their whole lives where the only religious people they interact with are Abrahamists, so they think Abrahamism is representative of all religions. But that's an extraordinarily sheltered viewpoint, and no good has ever come of dismissing foreign cultures out of hand with no relevant data.

You're talking about cancer breakthroughs like they're not politics. Cancer breakthroughs are political. The allocation of resources towards particular kinds of research and its payoff is a contentious subject. The breakthrough serves to justify money that has been spent on cancer research. Although critics may say that there's too much focus on cancer research when other illnesses are more widespread and more pressing. And for that matter, should we be putting more effort into limiting carcinogens in the first place instead of researching cures? An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. Maybe I'd prefer the government subsidize induction stoves so that I don't have to inhale carcinogenic stove fumes and later get my cancer cured in a hospital. That sure sounds like less stress for the patient, and it has the side benefit of improving climate change. Ultimately cancer breakthroughs are a deeply political subject, with a lot of different conflicting opinions on the subject.

Mastodon just doesn't have any users compared to Lemmy I guess.

Yeah no shit. You think if everyone's mind was wiped we'd still call a quark a quark? Nah, we'd have a different name for it. Maybe the political tensions in psychology wouldn't be between the psychoanalysts and the behaviourists, but between the diagnosticists and the freewillists. Maybe we'd skip the plum pudding model and decide rotating reference frames should be the default and centripedal force is an imaginary force that only exists when you use a silly linear reference frame. A LOT of science is subjective and culturally determined, mate. We're all just making this shit up as we go along. Theories persist because they're easy to arrive at and understand. Different interpretations of the same results appear all the time, like the many worlds interpretation saying superpositions can't actually collapse. That shit is subjective AF, there's no way of determining a "right" interpretation of quantum theory, at least not that we know of. We assume the universe's spacetime is flat because we haven't found a curve yet and we think we've looked really hard, but we don't know that. There are cultural contexts where proposing the existence of dark matter just because our math on the gravitational pull of galaxies turns out funky is a laughable idea.