culpritus [any]

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Joined 4 years ago
Cake day: October 20th, 2020
  • culpritus [any]@hexbear.nettoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•What's going on with hexbearsEnglish
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    10 months ago

    mostly just folks very resistant to learn some quite simple things due to their overly propagandized worldview

    I’m talking about people that have trouble with basic understandings of political economy like:

    leftism : anti-capitalist :: liberal : anti-communist

    I can only imagine the shock they are experiencing

    we’re mostly pretty chill if people can be chill with each other, unfortunately some folks are just uncomfortable with understanding the complexity of the world I guess

  • culpritus [any]@hexbear.nettoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•Can you drive a manual transmission?English
    3·
    10 months ago

    I mostly use index trigger shifters, but I’m open to trying non-indexed friction shifters. Supposedly less maintenance due to cable stretch with them. I guess those are both considered manual though.

    Oh you mean on automobiles?

    I learned to drive stick in a very hilly and traffic congested city. It was pretty intense. Haven’t driven a stick vehicle in a while though.

  • culpritus [any]@hexbear.netOPtoStar Trek@startrek.website•waiting for the super-cut of SNW Gorn scenes and the Alien(s) scenes they referenceEnglish
    8·
    11 months ago

    Also a Hemmer scene is also very similar to an Alien 3 scene iirc.

    e: Looks like there’s some folks noticing. https://www.geekgirlauthority.com/star-trek-strange-new-world-alien-franchise/

    This whole article is just about the first Gorn episode and has references detailed out pretty well. The conclusion is such wholesome trek though.

    Throughout the first three Alien movies, the recurring and omnipresent true antagonist is the Weyland-Yutani Corporation. This corrupt stand-in for capitalism is responsible for repeatedly placing the crews in danger. The motivation? To harness the profit potential in the difficult-to-contain xenomorphs, of course.

    This leads to plenty of self-serving behavior. This is embodied by company-programed android Ash (Ian Holm) and company man Carter Burke (Paul Reiser). In both cases, the characters are not motivated by survival. They instead serve only themselves and capitalism. Thus they often prove to be equally or more dangerous than the xenomorphs themselves.

    But in Strange New Worlds, capitalism isn’t a problem. In the post-scarcity society of the Federation, it isn’t necessary to turn on one another to solve problems. As a direct result, more members of the Enterprise away team survive than make it through any of the Alien movies.

    The tagline for Alien states, “In space, no one can hear you scream.” But that’s only true if you aren’t surrounded by members of your tight-knit, utopian community, as is true for the Enterprise crew. Ripley deserved to have people like this watching her back.