Kim‽ @kimpegasus@awoo.space

@ripp_ Yes. Voyager does, in fact.

They never use it though, because it was apparently not finished yet when it left spacedock.

That the government in the UK continually insists that their actions are right and the actions of nearly every other country on Earth are wrong, really speaks of the ludicrous attitude of English exceptionalism they have going on.

Barring legislation proposed in the budget today, the government response to all this has been hella weak, honestly.

Bit rich of Matt Hancock to say the government is strictly following expert medical advice, but also sees the need to "correct" England's Deputy CMO's professional opinion.

And now he's said that people who are symptomatic but haven't knowingly been in contact with an infected person should call 111—which is the exact opposite of what the NHS 111 website advises you do.

Health Secretary statement basically boiled down to "We are going to fight the virus, but also we aren't changing anything" despite the current advice being roundly criticised as inadequate by several medical professionals. 🤔️

Thinking of redesigning my bat fursona a little. 🤔

Science has gone too far.

Ruh roh. https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-health-coronavirus-britain-death/first-coronavirus-death-in-britain-confirmed-idUKKBN20S2CG?il=0

Is mine or their definition of these terms just way off? Or does the lexicon of the LGBTI+ community just ascribe totally different meanings to them?

I'd quite like some other views on this, if folks are willing to provide them.

There were a lot of other arguments that ultimately spun off that I didn't agree with and won't entertain here, but it is pretty interesting that so many people fell over one another on this single semantic difference.

And I had never really heard it described like that before. I, personally, have always seen gender *identity* and gender *roles* to be separate things. To me, gender and gender identity has always been a personal issue, largely unrelated to the social construct.

It was pretty weird to see statements as seemingly self-contradictory as "I am a woman. I don't identify as a woman." I questioned why they opposed to the term. They said that they rejected gender as a whole, because gender was a socially-enforced construct that oppressed women.

The thing that first got me into it was seeing women who insisted that they are not cisgender. This was... weird to me. To me and probably a lot of other people, cisgender is just the opposite to transgender—just as heterosexual is to homosexual and yin to yang.

So hey, I've just spent several hours in the quagmire that is the comments section of a post about transgender issues. Let's talk about that.

(Note: This might get a bit heavy.)

@ripp_
TOS has an episode where they test an almost entirely autonomous ship computer and it ends up killing a lot of people, so ship computers being kinda dumb could be a conscious design choice.

Again contradicted by Voyager, where the USS Prometheus is essentially entirely automated/

@ripp_ Fanon theory for this is that holodecks tend to be tied into main computers, aka, they have vastly more computing power available than a self contained android, so it's mostly a miniaturisation issue.

There are holes with that theory though, notably that Moriarty episode of TNG and to a lesser degree the mobile emitter in Voyager.

Just dancing around my flat with headphones on miming to Lady Marmalade nbd.