Same. There was something that felt really radical about having a TV hero whose superpower was not just intelligence but thoughtfulness, and a kind of moral seriousness. Who showed from that first episode that you “win” by seeking to understand what seems like a threat.

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The starkest thing about TNG compared to most space opera today is how much it presents the eruption of violence as a total catastrophe, rather than something awesome bsky.app/profile/norm...

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one good thing about the boys is that it does a good job showing how the type of personality willing to fight hopeless battles against all odds is also usually profoundly fucked up and dysfunctional in ways that make them a liability long term

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Meta is incredibly evil, and I'd never work for them (not that it's an option in the first place) but if they'd backed up a dump truck of money to my house and asked me to discredit Jonathan Haidt, I don't think I'd be able to resist

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I just want the Pope to excommunicate JD Vance specifically.

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