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in my heart i'll always be the dancing queen | Sonny | 25 | them/they/whatever |

[startrekprodigyfan]

One of the most common complaints about Star Trek I saw growing up was “why don’t they use the holodeck more? If you were living in that time period and you could just make anything you wanted anytime you wanted and live out fantasies forever, why aren’t more people addicted to the holodeck?”

And then generative ai was created.

And now I get it. I get why nobody on Star Trek spends all their free time in the holodeck. I get why all the crew are putting on stage plays, and holding music recitals, and building models, and playing poker. I get why everyone was so skeptical and mean to the Doctor on Voyager. I get why the ONE TIME we see someone obsessed with the holodeck it infringes on people’s likeness rights and permissions.

Because fundamentally at the end of the day we are human beings and we ENJOY working with our hands and making REAL human connections. A person who learns to play an instrument is always going to be viewed as an artist over someone who asks the computer to generate music for them.

Even as recent as Lower Decks they were making fun of the fact that the crew were putting on amateurish plays and holding music recitals. But after living with Ai for so long and seeing how detrimental it’s been to the world… I’d much rather watch my friends put on a stage play than “participate” in a holodeck movie.

What’s most amazing about this is that it was completely unintentional. I do not for one second think that the writers of the time in the 90’s were really thinking about the larger issues that generative ai and chatGTP would cause. How could they? Text to speech back then was still robotic as heck. More likely they wrote that stuff in because it was cheaper to film on sets the owned than try to build, film, or rent out different locations each week.

That’s the down to earth logistical real reason Data is reciting poems about his cat or Riker is in a play put on in ten forward. It’s just cheaper to do that than to build a whole new set or move production to a new location.

Yet at the end of the day, I think that unintentionally speaks to a very human need that ai is making more and more prevalent to us day in and day out.

And that’s the fact nobody wants to deal with generative SLOP.

[nemfrog]

Attraction and Repulsion. Modern views of electricity. 1892.

Internet Archive

[civilbedrest]

waiter, waiter! some more life in my eyes please?

[tethered-heartstrings]

"stress" by yoan capote - made of bronze and concrete

[tethered-heartstrings]

[sorry-ipanicked]

Are we still talking about Dracula? Cause I need everyone to see this copy of Dracula I found in the back of an antique store in Bavaria

[katistrophe]

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

love how no one on this site says "doctor frankenstein" anymore. his name is VICTOR and he is UNLICENSED

[omegaverse]

He's like a newborn animal

[curioscurio]

i'll do it for sam

[curioscurio]

And when there was only one pair of footprints in the sand, that's when Samwise Gamgee carried me

[tinyjordan]

[curioscurio]

I think we need sam more than ever this year. But we WILL get through it.

[hometoursandotherstuff]

[ectoimp]

[cameoappearance]

A small price to pay for mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

im just not convinced humans were ever meant to be this busy

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

every day i am surrounded by people who need more naptime, and more playtime, and more storytime, and more playdates and parties and sleepovers. when it comes to worktime, however

[the-orion-scribe]

This Calvin and Hobbes strip is as timeless as always

[lun4cat]

the "be not afraid"

[escuerzoresucitado]

cuddling

[quark-nova-deactivated20260116]

Important addition:

[spaceboytoy]

Hello bisexual community

[spaceboytoy]

Begin killing

[tartrazeen]

[dinopant]

Love the universe need of all babies human and animal to just lay on adults

[dinopant]

A collection

[dinopant]

Further proof

[gothiccharmschool]

Let’s flop on mama.

[hokanovastella]

The mama mattress

[couldnt-think-of-a-funny-name]

when I was a little kid at some point I got upset with my parents because I didn't have a crucifix in my bedroom and they did- I was like why do YOU get to be safe from vampires??? you're okay with me getting my blood sucked???? so we took a little trip to the catholic store but the one closest to us was run by a group of nuns that had been moved here from romania. I got a little baby pink cross and this sweet old nun was like 'aww, is this a baptism gift?' and I was like no. I need to be protected from vampires. and she immediately got SO serious and was like 'this is the best one we've got, you'll definitely be safe' and since she was literally from vampire land I was convinced she was like, van helsing. like the whole time my parents had been laughing about how cute my fear was but she literally Knew dracula and was taking my concerns seriously I held this over my parents for so long lmfao

[wlwaluigi]

listen she may have just been humoring you but even my limited experience with Romanian nuns has taught me that there is one thing they are absolutely dead serious about and it is their multi-generational fear of vampires

[sabertoothwalrus]

who’s more peggable

howl

fujimoto

Voting ended onMay 24, 2025

not who YOUD peg ☝️ but who seems more likely to be getting the strap

[sabertoothwalrus]

propaganda. it is important that my research is fair and unbiased

Howl

against: sophie doesn’t really seem like she’d top him

for: BOOK sophie would though ☝️also howl probably really really wants it

Fujimoto

against: being shorter than your partner doesn’t automatically make you a bottom

for: just look at him

[mortalityplays]

hi, a lot of you need a perspective reset

the average human lifespan globally is 70+ years

taking the threshold of adulthood as 18, you are likely to spend at least 52 years as a fully grown adult

at the age of 30 you have lived less than one quarter of your adult life (12/52 years)

'middle age' is typically considered to be between 45-65

it is extremely common to switch careers, start new relationships, emigrate, go to college for the first or second time, or make other life-changing decisions in middle age

it's wild that I even have to spell it out, but older adults (60+) still have social lives and hobbies and interests.

you can still date when you get old. you can still fuck. you can still learn new skills, fashionable, be competitive. you can still gossip, you can still travel, you can still read. you can still transition. you can still come out.

young doesn't mean peaked. you're inexperienced in your 20s! you're still learning and practicing! you're developing social skills and muscle memory that will last decades!

there are a million things to do in the world, and they don't vanish overnight because an imaginary number gets too big