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when I want the full luxury gay space communism scifi experience I go and reread “Consider Plebas” from Ian M Banks’s Culture series
Oh we dropped the gay? I always assumed it meant happy
I don’t need luxury, I want gay space communism!
Also the gay is implied anyway - look at the top of the star (in that fantastic logo) how it’s not aligned straight.
Some lieutenant in a skant is going to be very upset.
I’m not sure there’s a single syllable that fits the whole plus so I guess you drop it and kind force inclusion by implying it Like gods vs gods and goddesses, goddesses are already gods
goddesses are already gods
That’s called invisibilization of women. The French language, which is my mother tongue, does that a lot, and we’re fighting against that.
I’ve heard arguments for the opposite: women who act should be called actors, not actresses, the logic being that the -ess suffix is diminutive, so all actors should just be actors. It seems like there are perfectly reasonable arguments to be made for either side.
The distinction, or ignoring the distinction?
The invisibilization.
In case anyone else is as confused as I was: yes, we are defederated from Hexbear.net. This image is simply hosted there.
Replicators, teleporters, holodecks, monetary exchange dead, and Q showing up at random.
But also Ferengi and lots of other mercantile civilizations, and we also see the individual crew members taking part in the trade/monetary economy. It’s kinda the Federation, and more specifically its government, that doesn’t deal use money.
And that’s because it projects influence through military might and soft power. It doesn’t need money.
Mirror spock, and Picard’s missing the Lenin beard 🤔
