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I don't remember atng episode with that premise though there was a Black mirror that came out a few months before it
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The whole concept is pretty ham-fisted, and the crew act like loving morons repeatedly, which gets them in deeper trouble (and I don't even mean the initial statue-humping). Claim you fell off a ladder when you were a teenager and it hosed with your head or something. There's a million ways to believably hand-wave/lie away a dumb move, it happens a hundred times a day on the news. Same with Alara and the hat. When the native girl sees her head in the bathroom, she should have said something like "no it's a gross birth defect, are you really gonna go make fun of my weird forehead to everyone outside?" I dunno, it was just overall kind of dumb.
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The whole concept is literally becoming law in China this year
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I don't see what that has to do with my criticisms of them handling the concept in a mediocre way, or the stupidity of the crew tho
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Nov 30, 2018 23:49
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AlBorlantern Corps posted:The whole concept is literally becoming law in China this year
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numberoneposter posted:literally china is going to be governed by reddit style upvotes. kiiiiiiind of https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/theworldpost/wp/2018/11/29/social-credit/?utm_term=.a900e25c2133
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Nov 30, 2018 23:57
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so chinese rice farmers will have equal voting power as a factory owner
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Snow Cone Capone posted:I don't see what that has to do with my criticisms of them handling the concept in a mediocre way, or the stupidity of the crew tho Well you said the concept itself was ham fisted
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Yeah, there was some sloppy writing and the concept needed some fine-tuning, but as I've said before, I'd rather watch them fall on their face trying to do some fresh sci-fi allegory than... well, most other TV I can think of. There was one part that left a weird taste in my mouth, wherein the Captain unironically gives a lecture about the dangers of pure democracy and champions the concept of representative government as more ethically pure. Bortus then says "a voice must be earned, not given away." Like, what? That's the high horse you want to get on, telling the idiot proletariat they need to shut up unless they've "earned" their voice?
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Ghostlight posted:male pattern baldness is matrilineal No it's not, not even a little bit.
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There are a whole bunch of genes that are responsible for hair loss. The major ones associated with male pattern baldness are located on the X chromosome. Men can only inherit these genes from their mother; however, it isn't strictly matrilineal because you can inherit the x chromosome of your mother's father or mother and either can contain said genes.
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i’m glad i’m not going bald because my head is weird and pointy
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can someone draw me a chart on how you can inherit an x gene directly from your mother's father because that sounds loving wild
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I think you are confused
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Dec 1, 2018 01:53
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first you have to gently caress your dad
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Ghostlight posted:can someone draw me a chart on how you can inherit an x gene directly from your mother's father because that sounds loving wild xy | xx | you
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McSpanky posted:The dress uniforms weren't developed yet, and might not even have been conceived of at that point. They first appeared in "Court Martial", a fair number of eps further along in the season. Nope, Kirk was in gold-braid-trimmed pyjamas in the 2 episodes before where Spock's on trial Hell even Spock broke out his Sunday best for that occssion
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Facebook Aunt posted:xy but y tho?
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I'm not sure what the problem is because that's exactly how it works. Father: *50/50 probability passes X or Y* Daughter: *inherited the X from father, or barring unusual genetic edge cases would have been a son having inherited the Y* Grandchild: *has a 50/50 of receiving either of mother's X chromosomes, 1 of which was from her father*
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Bobby Deluxe posted:ds9 4x23 - oh cool i was pretty sure this episode was going to end with the evil doctor leading a mob to kill bashir I kinda liked that episode for showing people trying to make the best of an absurdly awful situation and Bashir's optimism ultimately turning out alright in the end while not disrespecting the right to die on one's own terms
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Ghost Leviathan posted:I kinda liked that episode for showing people trying to make the best of an absurdly awful situation and Bashir's optimism ultimately turning out alright in the end while not disrespecting the right to die on one's own terms its a good episode
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Pick posted:I'm not sure what the problem is because that's exactly how it works. It was a joke about "y"
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AlBorlantern Corps posted:Well you said the concept itself was ham fisted Yes, it was a clumsy attempt at social commentary
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Snow Cone Capone posted:Yes, it was a clumsy attempt at social commentary welcome to
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anyway holy poo poo    
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Refresh my memory...did Kai Winn know she was banging Dukat?
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Gatts posted:Refresh my memory...did Kai Winn know she was banging Dukat? No. Not while she was banging him, at least She thought he was just a Bajoran farmer. Her aide finds out he's Dukat, and that they're trying to read the Evil Book, so she kills the aide. Dukat gets blinded and she throws him out. Then later she decides, "Eh, series is ending. Better summon a demon", they make up and they go down to the Fire Caves to set the Pah-wraiths free.
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Snow Cone Capone posted:anyway holy poo poo hell yeah exactly, dude's smokin af
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Everything I hate about DS9 is directly caused by the pah wraiths  the best Dukat episodes were when he was obviously an rear end in a top hat, but had just enough integrity to like in 'devil you know' way compared to the rest of Cardassia, like when he helped foil the plot to frame the federation for supplying weapons to the Maquis (I think? He definitely helped Sisko stop some cardassian plot. Maybe I should rewatch the series again soon  )
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i like how one episode ends with him about to shoot his own daughter and then the next time he turns up everyone is like 'ah good old dukat, you scamp'
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imagine marrying that and having 40 years of that waking up next to you every day
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Meh, I'd probably end up getting bored and going to a sex dungeon or something
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naem posted:imagine marrying that and having 40 years of that waking up next to you every day Imagine marrying her and then thinking, "Hey, I know what I'm going to do! I'm going to make my beautiful wife go to a sex club with me, and then I'm going to pressure her into having sex in public! With other people! Because this totally won't ruin our marriage or my political career!" Edit: Clark Nova posted:Meh, I'd probably end up getting bored and going to a sex dungeon or something Dammit, you beat me to it
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oh i forgot i absolutely fuckin love the idea that the cardassian idea of a sauna is lying on a nice warm rock for a bit
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Danaru posted:Everything I hate about DS9 is directly caused by the pah wraiths dukat's way more of a wildcard going in, and that's where he's best imho. a completely separate alignment. ("cardassia, but also im stupid")
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AlBorlantern Corps posted:His tough guy approach to the Cardassians and constantly trying to neg them in negotiations was a complete failure as a strategy. He was acting like they were tellarites. it worked because the Cardassians interpret being an irritable jerk as being down to gently caress
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