Capitalist media only cares about sexy tragedies and expensive dangers. Focusing on 500 poors gasping their last breaths far from view only serves to remind viewers of how unfair things are on a basic level - and that threatens power.

The thing is, I’ve never seen such an overwhelmingly bored response from the general public to a Sexy Tragedy like this before. The only person in my life who expressed any iota of distress over the Titan is my dear mother, but she cried when we dropped off our old TV at Goodwill, so.

People are, I think, getting a little bit harder to trick with the song-and-dance of the hyper-rich dying in outstanding ways.

“When the rich are too rich there are ways, and when the poor are too poor there are ways… This is one of the ways when the poor are too poor. When the rich are too rich there is a way, and if I am not mistaken, that way will come soon.” - Pearl S. Buck

The only way I’d go back to reddit at all is if they entirely walk back their new API rules and if Spez steps down.

Or maybe Glenn Howerton, if she’s not available.

I would imagine that there is a pretty wide gulf between simply being critical of Discovery vs. engaging in bannable behavior.

I have been openly and severely critical of Discovery for years on the subreddit and was never banned, so it might be worth examining the nature of your critique.

Good-faith arguments and critiques are always welcome.

Remember a few years ago when MySpace did a faceplant during a server migration, and lost literally every single piece of music that had ever been uploaded? It was one of the single-largest losses of Internet history and it’s just… not talked about at all anymore.

Far Beyond the Stars is probably DS9’s best episode IMO - but it’s funny, I never considered it a time-travel ep before. I guess it fits that bill too.

My far-and-away favorite is Paste Tense from DS9. The conversation between Bashir and Sisko in the tent city hits me like a hammer on the heart every time.

Least-favorite would have to be the lion’s share of Picard s2, but specifically the episode where the gang tries to pull an Ocean’s 11 at that gala event and Picard gets run over by a car.

+1 for Carbon Creek. I guess it’s technically not exactly a time-travel episode, but it scratches that itch better than most.

But his haircut is so goofy! He’s just a silly goose! He didn’t mean it!

ahem /s

Holy shit lol. He’s so mad!

Add a month to the blackout each time Spez refers to Reddit’s employees as “Snoos”

This has been deeply frustrating, but since that’s the whole point, I support this collective inconvenience.