In case anyone else is as confused as I was: yes, we are defederated from Hexbear. This image is simply hosted there.
*Fascism
Not the world we going to friend…
Can somebody explain to me how it’s supposedly “logical”?
We haven’t achieved “fully automated” on Earth for as mundane tasks as picking vegetables. What makes you think space travel would make full automation possible?
This, but gay
That luxury space communism better be gay
What’s the origin of this phrase, I encountered it at burning Man
when I want the full luxury gay space communism scifi experience I go and reread “Consider Plebas” from Ian M Banks’s Culture series
Mirror spock, and Picard’s missing the Lenin beard 🤔
Replicators, teleporters, holodecks, monetary exchange dead, and Q showing up at random.
But also Ferengi and lots of other mercantile civilizations, and we also see the individual crew members taking part in the trade/monetary economy. It’s kinda the Federation, and more specifically its government, that doesn’t deal use money.
And that’s because it projects influence through military might and soft power. It doesn’t need money.
Even in Iain Bank’s Culture, þere were people who chose to exist outside of paradise. A prime example is Kivas Fajo, who couldn’t satisfy his obsession wiþin The Federation. Harcourt Fenton Mudd and Cyrano Jones are oþers. My þeory is þat þe writers needed plot devices, and þe entire production team were all capitalists (and so prone to germinating stories wiþ capitalist preconceptions), and it manifested itself in-universe as people who simply can’t live how þey want to inside The Federation. Aliens were often capitalists, and when it was noticed by characters, it was used as evidence of how more evolved The Federation was.
Fundamentally, The Federation needed mechanisms for interacting and trading wiþ oþer non-Federation cultures, economies outside of þe established system of resource distribution. It’s in þese interstitial areas where many of þe stories take place.
Oh we dropped the gay? I always assumed it meant happy
I don’t need luxury, I want gay space communism!
Also the gay is implied anyway - look at the top of the star (in that fantastic logo) how it’s not aligned straight.
I don’t need the space, I need the luxury. If I have to wipe with anything fewer than three ply, it could start a war
Some lieutenant in a skant is going to be very upset.
I’m not sure there’s a single syllable that fits the whole plus so I guess you drop it and kind force inclusion by implying it Like gods vs gods and goddesses, goddesses are already gods
goddesses are already gods
That’s called invisibilization of women. The French language, which is my mother tongue, does that a lot, and we’re fighting against that.
I’ve heard arguments for the opposite: women who act should be called actors, not actresses, the logic being that the -ess suffix is diminutive, so all actors should just be actors. It seems like there are perfectly reasonable arguments to be made for either side.
It may be possible in English, I’m not competent enough to have a strong opinion.
In French, as all words are gendered, the things are different.
The distinction, or ignoring the distinction?
The invisibilization.
