I would never have known if you hadn't told me. XD
thebardingreen
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Model: Wizard-Vicuna-13B-Uncensored (running locally).
Prompt: Give me a list of 10 good "average" sounding usernames, such as Reddit or Discord users might use. Try to pick names that will blend in with the crowd, rather than stand out or draw attention to themselves, but they should still be clever or witty, rather than boring or random. Please do NOT use actual reddit users names. Come up with original names. Blend in some random words, if you have to.
Response: Okay, here are ten good "average" sounding usernames that I came up with by blending some random words with some average usernames:
- AverageJoeBookworm
- EverydayMikeCasual
- CommonSarahSimpleton
- NormalNickEasygoing
- OrdinaryOliviaBasic
- BasicBrianHumble
- StandardSamanthaNormal
- TypicalTommyAverage
- RegularRachelCommon
- TraditionalTaylorEveryday
Just watch the last season of Picard. Forget the other two seasons and pretend they don't exist. You don't need them, the final seasons stands on it's own.
They were always shown as the sort of cool, James Bond/Batman-like agents that everyone admires for getting their hands dirty for the sake of everyone else.
I don't think I've ever encountered anyone but you with this take. I've certainly never heard anyone say "Oooh, Section 31 is cool, I admire them," but I've had LOTS of conversations about how uncool they are. The main characters don't like them, they're ALWAYS an antagonist / obstacle. I understand that's what you see, but I don't think the experience you're having is very universal.
The lack of accountability for me shows that starfleet does not mind a group above the law, which immediately removes the idea of starfleet/the federation working on democratic principles.
Star Fleet DOESN'T work on democratic principles, it's absolutely a military organization, with a military hierarchy and agenda, that has a STRONG scientific, exploration and humanitarian mandate.
The FEDERATION works on democratic principals, but Section 31 has ALWAYS been portrayed as an illegal, unsanctioned organization working within Star Fleet, that simply lots of factions and elements with Star Fleet support or align with (Fascists gonna fasc, even in the Utopian future, and people with that mind set are going to be drawn to the closest thing to a military organization around).
It WOULD be nice to see a story where the assholes behind Section 31 are revealed as assholes and held accountable though. I would get behind that.
Yes, it echoes with a lot of modern things. But what is the point of making science fiction if all you show is a world that didn’t evolve in over 300 years?
Um... there's a LOT wrong with this, as there are all kinds of points to making Science Fiction, and showing all sorts of things. And one of them is VERY MUCH showing the kinds of things that are wrong with our world, starting conversations and raising awareness. There are lots of points to making Science Fiction. You don't have to like all of them. You don't have to like Chuck Tingle or Space Raptor Butt Invasion, but it has a point (and it's actually a really positive one, if you look past all the pounding and dinosaur love).
I don't think the message of Section 31 has EVER been that it was "good / necessary." It's always been cautionary. Like: Even in a Utopia, this thing can exist, people will support it, people will argue it's necessary. I've always thought the message was "Why do we tolerate this shit and you assholes who insist it's necessary?? Why do we let you get away with it? Why do we pull the wool over our own eyes and look the other way?" It continues to be a good story to make Americans talk about.
In DS9, Section 31's machinations badly backfired and stealing the cure from them and giving it freely to the Changlings is what ended the war.
In Picard, Section 31's bullshit literally created a terrorist who brought the Borg back and set them loose on Starfleet, again.
In Disco... IDK. I don't like Disco and I only half watched that season. They made um... an AI that tried to take over?? I guess, it was bad and Star Fleet was complicit.
One of the most important parts of the story, I think is how even in the Utopia of the Federation, we never see anyone being held accountable for Section 31's actions. My takeaway from this is "a call to action that perpetually goes unheeded and is never heard in numbers great enough to make a real difference" which is a VERY true and tragic lens for the modern world.
I don't think I've ever thought of S31 as being pushed as a GOOD thing. More like shown to us in the spirit of "Stop, children, what's that sound, everybody look what's goin' down."
Because of the nature of Trek, it was easy to retcon into an alternate universe. The world building in Star Wars didn't leave much room for that.
Maybe they can keep ignoring it for another decade, then write it off as a vision from the Dark Side.
The real treasure was the friends Peanut Hamper made along the way...
We tried this same solution six months ago. It works, ish, but it can still be circumvented. It's not foolproof enough to trust with any situation where you need real security / confidentiality.
If you haven't played Gandalf try it out. It will teach you how to craft attacks against these kinds of strategies.
I wish man, I'm doing the electrical for the new Quark's Express at Star Fleet Academy.
Yep.
I have an old Google account from like 2012 that was a spam trap account I made back when you could easily sign up anonymously for gmail over Tor. It will not let me log into it anymore unless I connect a phone number to it. It hems and haws about how this is "for your protection" but really it's pretty simple that your activity has no value to Google unless they can tie it to your identity and connect it to other activity and then bundle that and sell it to advertisers. (And fuck you Google, I'm not protecting that account from anyone except you... hackers are WELCOME to know I types a throwaway email into some online medical insurance shit...)
In fact, if you don't want companies to collect your data, you're more and more locked out of any app, service or platform that asks for a verified email. I've encountered things recently that won't accept protonmail emails (and invite you to use OAuth to sign in with Google, Facebook, LinkedIn or Twitter, fuck that noise).
I actually imagine that OAuth locked to a major provider FOR EVERYTHING is the future those guys would all like to see.
I run my own Lemmy instance, I already pay $23.00 a month just to be here.
The most recent On The Media podcast has a section about this (Trump reporting and why people don't get it that he's stupid, crazy AND evil) that I feel like didn't go far enough. They have a guest talking who literally says "The journalists aren't doing their job, to inform the public." I wanted to respond "NO, they ARE doing their job. Their job isn't to inform the public, it's to make $$$ by creating content that maximizes consumer engagement, while pushing narratives that appeal to their CEOs and shareholders. They're doing EXACTLY their job. THAT'S the problem."