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Or they could use other Congressional powers. For example, they should be reading banned books, censored scientific articles, and information deleted from government web pages directly into the Congressional record.

I really like this one. A "climate change report filibuster" would be an excellent way to obstruct and protest.

Yup. At the same time: a messianic hero rises to lead the chosen people.

They're literally incapable of imagining anything else. Otherwise, we'd have radically different outcomes from all this.

It also didn't take long for the aftermath to become racially charged, either.

As it turns out, the folks most impacted by hurricanes and other weather events (e.g. flooding) are people of color. So, sending FEMA late to these sorts of things just reeks of malicious compliance.

• https://journals.plos.org/climate/article?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pclm.0000026
• https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9574315/

This is why I'm mostly okay with hunting deer, here in the US. We displaced their predators so it's on us to make up the balance. I say "mostly" since, like others are saying in this thread about taking habitat away from kangaroos, the better answer is to give them an actual functional ecosystem to live in.

The trick is to find the right message and tone for the moment. I also think change like this is necessarily incremental. It's possible that with enough doom-and-gloom around a pending "market correcting event", that helping everyone reduce grocery bills by eating vegetarian a few nights a week, would be the right message.

Yes, but with Moopsy, and Orion shenanigans.

I'm going to say that every layoff has a cover story. The goal, reduce the workforce make/save money, is really the only justification needed. Everything else is PR, and an attempt to stay out of legal hot water.

That's always worth considering. A phone app doesn't take a big operating budget to launch and maintain. Especially for state-actors.

You take that back.

That's easy. It's more dull here, and there's less lock-in.

No, really. Social media without the dopamine-pump-style algorithm behind it is far less stimulating. Meanwhile, the Federation model itself allows us to abandon nodes that are co-opted by bad actors. So there's always somewhere else to go with all your favorite stuff when things go sour.

I was going to say that this idea doesn't fit in with the lore at all. But when I think about how a lot of Trek tech has hilariously bad failure modes built in (e.g. transporter malfunctions, rogue holodeck programs, consoles that double as fireworks storage lockers, flame-throwers on the bridge), accidentally cooking crew-members insides for want of perpetually hot coffee is weirdly on brand here.