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[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

And I 1000% Believe my mom and her mom can take partial credit for my achievements.

And I'll all but guarantee you they did those things simply because they love you, not because of some grandiose idea of a "legacy" or a desperate need to live beyond their death.

Planning for the future in order to care for your family and friends is an expression of love, not ambition.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Nope, Pixel 6 running Android 14. It's highly variable but I'd say it happens... every two or three days, sometimes multiple times a day. To say it's aggravating is putting it very mildly.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (4 children)

Given for months now I keep randomly experiencing UI hangs requiring me to kill Nova, that day may have finally come...

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (3 children)

Never had any ambition or dreams that was greater than 1 life time

Nope. That way lies delusions of grandeur. Life is short and I'd rather focus on living it today rather than worrying about a "legacy" I'll never experience.

If you want any part of you to achieve something past the one life you have, children are the only way ambition can continue

And that way lies the kind of entitlement that leads parents to think their children's lives are their own.

You aren't achieving anything past your life. Your kids are. Their ambition is theirs, not yours. Stop thinking you can take credit for it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

No, Spock guided him through the back half of the surgery when the effects of the teacher wore off. He literally told him which instruments to use (oh that tri-laser connector!) and how to proceed. Here's the dialog:

SPOCK: If you will finish reconnecting my speech centre, I might be able to help.

MCCOY: Speech centre.

SPOCK: Yes. That's correct. One thing at a time. Ah, ah, mmm. (normal voice) That's better. Now, Doctor. Try the sonic separator.

MCCOY: Sonic separator.

SPOCK: Yes, I believe I already have some sensation of feeling. Please stimulate the nerve endings and observe the physical reactions, one by one. In each case, I shall tell you when the probe is correct. You will then seal using the tri-laser connector.

MCCOY: Tri-laser connector. Ready?

SPOCK: Ready.

Of course, what the text fails to convey is McCoy's hesitation and confusion, or Spock's confidence as he instructs him on how to complete the surgery.

I... watch far too much TOS...

Edit:

By the way, there is one bit of headcanon, here, that could explain this specific example, so yes, I'm gonna undermine my own point, but hey, what's a pedantic conversation about Trek without circling back and contradicting oneself??

So, the one bit of headcanon is: Spock seems to have had access to the knowledge of the people of Sigma Draconis, given that at the end he starts lecturing the group about the history of those people, with knowledge he presumably acquired by being wired up as the Controller. So maybe he also had full access to the knowledge of the teacher, including the knowledge needed to reattach a brain.

Have I mentioned I watch far too much TOS?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

My tenants are living in a house that they wouldn't be able to afford on their own in today's market.

Yes, but: why is the market in the state it's in? It couldn't be because a large supply of housing is locked up by landlords, thereby artificially curtailing supply and driving up prices...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (3 children)

It would've certainly made a lot more sense! Which, granted, for that episode is a fairly low bar (as much as I love it for it's campy absurdity).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (5 children)

Now I'm certain you're just making up reasons to be mad.

Spock is repeatedly depicted as being an established expert across a truly improbable range of topics (including, of all things, brain reattachment surgery). Spock is to basically everything else what Kirk is to "talking computers into killing themselves".

If you can accept that you can accept Pulaski.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (7 children)

I assume you hated Spock, then. Buddy was literally an expert in everything! McCoy needs help reinstalling Spock's own brain? Spock is on it! Computer seems to show Kirk killed a guy by accident? Nbd, Spock is a computer expert, he'll figure it out with chess (did I mention he's a chess master?). Need to implode the engines to escape from a collapsing planet? Also warp engine specialist! Oh and he can play the piano, that Vulcan guitar thing, and also happens to be deeply knowledgeable in earth history and culture as the needs require (including being able to recognize Brahms handwriting by sight).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

You're right. In the former case it's utterly implausible that every ship doctor would not be an expert in a thing but still somehow be able to cure that thing. Every. Damn. Time.

At least with Pulaski they gave an excuse (well, assuming I buy your claims; frankly, I think you're overstating things quite a bit).

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (3 children)

LOL you've described literally every doctor in Star Trek ever. I mean, Christ, they lampshaded this with McCoy when he exclaimed "By golly, Jim - I'm beginning to think I can cure a rainy day!" when he treated a fucking silicon rock monster.

Honestly at this point this is just making up reasons to be mad.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

It's mainly about protection of the people from the government.

Lol sure there John Wayne.

I legit can't think of another country with people that LARP more about revolution than the US. Most affluent country in the world and you're constantly imagining youselves forming up and fighting back against tanks and helicopters (or your fellow citizens who happen to vote for the other team). It'd be funny if it wasn't so tragic and bizarre.

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