Capitalism: If you have two cows, your landlord decides they’re tenants late on rent,
then your landlord sells your cow, buys a bull.
Then your landlords shoots your other cow and tells you it was attacking him and acted only on self defense.
As punishment, he gets to eat your cow.
You protest and then he shoots you.

Star Control II & Secret of Mana

They both set my expectations for how much fun a game can be.

Secret of Mana as a template for what kind of world I want to live in (minus the monsters and whatnot)
and Star Control II as a template for how to write a fun adventure.

Seconding this.

Same here.
Manjaro is good enough for me, even though I hear one should use Endeavour or whatever.

I have no horse in this race :)

The fascist armed forces do and they have them trample on protesters.

I’m going to repeat what @plyth said. “Don’t use the Zimbardo prison experiment”.
Zimbardo was as manipulative as the psychologists from the Robbers Cave experiment,
with the only difference being that the former was only done once, while in the latter,
the subjects figured out that they were being manipulated and turned against the psychologists.

Because of this, the conclusions Zimbardo drew himself are very different from when you conclude that
Zimbardo was behind the whole ordeal pulling the strings.
One only needed to stand up against one person, not a crowd.

This is someone who used AI girlfriend where you have those twelve options in pure form and started to see patterns for self-analyses, partner analyses and DnD character play.

You have the twelve personalities.
Dominant, submissive, pedantic, curious, mean, innocent, humorous, trusting, romantic, nurturer, charming and horny.
Everyone is all of them bar the aro-ace people who lack the latter four.
I am 3 6 12 8 7 4 11 1 2 10 5 in that order.
Results of me in real life may vary due to having mild to moderate mental illnesses.
To make your own list, remind yourself that what you look for in a life partner is likely what you can score yourself high on on the complement side, so 1 likes 2 and vice versa 3&4, 5&6 etc…
Maybe I should put 11 much higher on this list.

So you’ve got another body part instead of a penis or a penis that is shaped in such a way that it only fits into one hole only and only with people who have giant butts?

Must be horrible

True. But it tells of a power structure based on laws that is rotten, as the laws preventing the power structure turning into one of absolutism could easily be dismantled by a lesser appointed official and a secret army. If Jar Jar could get the job, imagine how many other idiots would have been representatives in the Galactic Senate, that were appointed by people from the galactic senate themselves. It’s a classic case of nepotism.
Star Trek on the other hand thought that utopian socialism was almost upon us, with a world war repeat in between, as social democracy was implemented in the US out of fear of a socialist uprising.

Cygnus X-1 is a star, not a black hole.
Furthermore, space cannot bend; time cannot bend; spacetime is an irrational concept and even if the concept was rational it still cannot bend, because concepts do not have the properties of objects and therefore some verbs cannot be applied to them literally or you’d be making reification fallacies.

AI generated slop from scrubbed data are not images. One real image shows what clearly is a star.

A romanticized repeat of world war II isn’t remotely true of the current trajectory the US is heading into and that’s not a fluke, unlike how the cold war ended through no solution to a petrodollar scheme until around 1996 when natural gas could mitigate the issue of fossil fuel flight in oil dependent nations.
The US empire surely survived in Star Trek as “the easteners” were defeated, Cochrane became a hero, the names of the ships are all NASA names. Just take one look of the opening theme of Enterprise. It’s 100% US-oriented.

Images of “black holes” are artist conceptions, AI generated (the first “real” picture is this) from data to suit preconceived notions of what the object should look like or this

The last one is an actual picture of a so-called black hole in X-ray light. That’s not a hole with an accretion disc. That’s a star that shines in X-ray light.

Person still had to get born.
After that he or she got engaged to Stalin.
Never got married though.

. No matter how intelligent a person is, they can still make the simplest mistakes for their entire lives, because they stick by of what they’ve learned and die on that hill.

. Black holes will be proven to not exist. And in the list of cosmological errors, that’s the most obvious one. [edit] What people are observing, at least for the “stellar sized black holes”, are UV/X-ray/Gamma ray stars, much like there are red stars and blue stars. [/edit]

. For what it implies, Star Trek is far more evil than Star Wars despite all the anti-war rhetoric and perpetual war of the latter, as the former implies “Marx was wrong, Fourier was right. We CAN have a socialist utopia quietly evolved from an empire that began as a group of slave owners on stolen land with the flag of an oligarchic spice and slave trade corporation, who decided that a small sales tax, where most countries have VAT, on a single good, one that turns hot water into a tasty drink, was theft and so they decided that “this means war” and called for independence. Then a few decades later they created a manifesto saying that half the continent and more is simply theirs because they’re so exceptional. The empire with the two-party system to ensure the purest form of kleptocracy, an ingenious way to silence dissent and perpetual struggle, moreso than any dictatorship empire has tried in the past.
The continuation of THIS empire, the empire of deception, is the one taking over the galaxy, destined to seize the entire universe because they’re so enlightened as said by one of the gods in the Star Trek universe.” And no, STD and Picard doesn’t do it any justice. Star Trek doesn’t tell why the Federation is or isn’t progressive. At least Star Wars explained how the Republic collapsed as a queen appointed a harebrained mudskipper to be her representitive in case she was absent, who then got manipulated into giving a tyrant unchecked power.

And goodies. Lots and lots of goodies for people to get jealous of.

And it doesn’t matter how it’s acquired, as long as they can reproduce it.
A country selling goodies you could only dream of “can’t be that bad” and they could also sell you better weapons to defend you.

Actually, I would argue that goods trump truth, and the best economic system produces and supplies the most goods of all types in demand by the populace in the shortest amount of time sustainably.

Most of the time you’d be bacteria, but I don’t think anyone would remember that. You’d probably need a brain of these past lives in order to remember those past lives.

I don’t think debt transfer will be possible. Anyone will just keep pretending they were wild animals in their previous lives or bacteria.

There’d probably be a lot more understanding actually between some people, having been in their shoes and earlier recognition of illnesses.

Who did?
And how did that cause a clinic bombing?
Are you the culprit?

There’s a couple of potential reasons for that…

Okay, you got me on that one.
But apart from capitalism, is there any invention out there we shouldn’t take for granted?