I consider myself a Star Trek fan, but I don't understand the Starfleet's relationship to the Federation. Is Starfleet the military arm of the entire Federation? Or is it just the Earth's military force, like the US Armed Forces is just one part of NATO's military force?
Why don't we ever see ships built by other races conducting Starfleet operations? In canon we see Vulcan ships and others representing other Federation worlds, but none ever seem part of Starfleet ops.
The more that the right-wing media rails on the Trans Day of Visibility, the more their followers become aware of it. And since not all right-leaning people are anti-Trans, they’re actually helping the cause more than they’re hurting it.
It’s not surprising that so many on the right are unaware that the Trans Day of Visibility is an international holiday that has been celebrated on March 31st since 2009. I didn’t hear them make a fuss the last time it overlapped with Easter in 2013.
The thing most people don’t realize about GenX is that we didn’t even have a name for ourselves until most of us were out of high school.
The term “Generation X” was used occasionally in various contexts since the 1950s but it wasn’t until 1991 that Douglas Coupland’s book of that title cemented “Generation X” as our generation’s label.
So while y’all were born into your labels, we lived nameless for decades. Which might be why we’re so often overlooked now.
Some might argue that before ‘GenX’ we were the ‘latch-key generation’ but you have to understand that while we might have identified as ‘latch-key kids’ we didn’t see it as a generational thing because we didn’t see the term as tied to a generation. It felt like ‘latch-key kid’ was a socioeconomic term, not one with an expiration date.
@ben@evan Thinking about whether algorithmic bias is as dangerous in the hands of a domestic media company or individual as it is in the hands of a foreign power, I feel it’s the same as foreign contributions to domestic political campaigns, and while we allow domestic dark money contributions, they have shown to have the same levels of influence against the public good as any foreign contribution could.