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Liz's garbage blog

[mouse-doubleo100]

the more i watch star trek tos, the more it becomes abundantly clear that the reason why modern trek doesnt get kirk at all is because they dont utilise mccoy nearly as much anymore

in modern trek, they always present the idea of logic vs emotion, with spock being logic and kirk being emotion, but thats not how tos has it. in tos, the logic vs emption debate is spock vs mccoy. kirk is supposed to be the mediator between the two, sometimes siding with one side over the other, sometimes finding a middle ground between the two. thats why hes the captain, hes able to see all angles and pick the best course

when you make kirk the emotional one, it completely breaks the format, because 9 time out of 10, it means kirk has to be correct. theres no more balance

mccoy is just as important to tos as spock is, and while i do understand why spock is as popular as he is, without mccoy, the show doesnt work. you need them both. kirk spock and mccoy are the three leads of the show, and removing one requires you to change the others, which is whats happened to kirk

[trek-tracks]

I have been saying this for approximately 400 years, thank you.

When I teach rhetoric in my college essay writing/analysis course, it's always with the example of Kirk, Spock, AND McCoy. Ethos, Logos, Pathos--you need all three. Kirk isn't the counterweight to Spock; he's the fulcrum that balances Spock and McCoy.

Kirk isn't emotion. Kirk is ethos: credibility, authority. Spock and McCoy are there to stop him from damaging that credibility by falling back on an authority he doesn't actually have in the situation, to remind him of the logic or compassion that's lacking when an abuse of power would be the easy or basely satisfying thing to do.

What keeps Kirk credible is that he usually chooses the most ethical thing to do based on the information he has; what makes him a good leader, outside of his own innate abilities, is his understanding that he requires these two trusted advisors to keep him on an even keel. When Kirk says "I need you" to both Spock AND Bones, he means it.

[unamccormack]

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[storm-of-feathers]

yeah yeah rainbow capitalism is bad and whatever but like. when I was a child, being pro gay was not the popular or lucrative choice. I'm happy that times have changed.

[storm-of-feathers]

I miss rainbow capitalism. I do. I miss when it felt like public opinion was still pro gay. I understand it was always an empty gesture, but it mattered in a sense of knowing how socially acceptable being queer is. If that makes sense.

[sosooley]

the scars born out of fear

[chortache]

[alswearengen]

interview with the vampire (amc) / half his age (jennette mccurdy)

[greelin]

being alive is great because there are so many different vegetables you can sauté. but then there are also the horrors

[yves-and-scessernee]

with faith and perseverance, one day we will sauté the horrors

[so-much-to-read-deactivated2025]

[half-giant-fighter]

[all-time-rho]

[conpreciv]

Serious question: Would you drop social media, smartphones, and all modern tech... to go back and live in the 1970s?

[ralfmaximus]

Fuck no.

The air was polluted so badly we had "smog days" during which it was unsafe to go outside. The sky was frequently yellow.

The water was so polluted you couldn't eat any fish you caught. Rivers routinely caught fire. Gasoline contained lead which got turned into exhaust fumes we all breathed.

No-fault divorce wasn't a thing yet, and many women were trapped in dangerous relationships. Marital rape was legal most places until the mid 1990s.

Being openly gay, bi, or transgender (or just looking non-heterosexual) was extremely dangerous. Most states had anti-sodomy laws on their books throughout the 1980s. Same sex marriage was not legal.

Corporal punishment (hitting your children) was widely accepted as normal and good. Public schools routinely beat children for minor rules violations.

Automobile safety sucked; no airbags, ABS braking, and crumple zones were a new concept. Seatbelts existed but people routinely "protested" by refusing to wear them. Even minor accidents resulted in death & dismemberment.

Long distance phone calls cost $3+ dollars per minute, and in many cases "long distance" was calling somebody in the next zip code. 911 service wouldn't be adopted nationwide for most of the decade. If you had an emergency, you needed to know the local numbers to call because simply dialing 0 meant having to trust a telephone operator (an AT&T employee) to know what they're doing. Also, they had no way to know your location. GPS would not exist until the 1980s.

There were three (3) television channels, with maybe two (2) more "local" channels, and you looked at them on tiny, fuzzy CRT screens. The largest made at the time were 25". All channels went off the air every night around 1am, and there was no easy way to avoid or skip commercials. VCRs started becoming available, but cost many thousands of dollars adjusted for inflation. There would not be video rental stores until the 1980s, so no easy way to rewatch shows or movies.

Air travel cost thousands of dollars adjusted for inflation, and planes were so routinely hijacked by terrorists it became a meme.

And so on.

The 1970s sucked. Don't fucking romanticize things that were actively terrible just because there are some pretty pictures of girls.

[argent-gale]

I remember being a little girl and the mills were still up and running. Driving through Duquesne and the sky was ORANGE at night. The weird smell in the mornings from Clairton Cokeworks.

[baptism-baby]

thinking about slut trent reznor and his fishnets

[punkrock-bottom]

It’s important to occasionally be a horny pervert on main so your mutuals know it’s okay to be a horny pervert with you

[c9x-deactivated20230223]

Dog and Priest [1978] Alex Colville Acrylic polymer emulsion on hardboard 52 x 90 cm

[natalieironside]

You ever notice how many of those FBI's Most Wanted south american narco-terrorist dudes are also School of the Americas alumni

[natalieironside]

Like with how much the republicans are bringing up MS-13 maybe more people should know about how a lot of early foundational MS-13 members were former CIA assets. That's our tax dollars at work 👍

[sqiddylala]

[swarnpert]

*right clicks on you*

[swarnpert]

*views your properties*

[gummiehell]

[falseknees]

Hold On Tight

[freakoutgirl]

the internet seems like a distant dream

[freakoutgirl]

whatever we are on rn is not the internet. It's ads

[kakashke-69]