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A Jewish comedian made a joke about how jews (only in the US*) were offended that Ferengi in Star Trek were based on them - "why would we assume these ugly greedy people are _us_?" *Outside the US, it looks like the Ferengi are mocking American capitalist culture.
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Sidestepping your original premise - how do the Ferengi even make sense in Star Trek? Its supposed to be a post-scarcity society, at least on an individual level - and an imperialist one on a civilization-scale, the latter being a step back even from how the modern world works.
Not everything is post-scarcity, mostly food and clothes. Land, fuel, weapons, art, fame, and labor are still limited resources in the Star Trek world. Also, not everywhere is post-scarcity, as we see many "poor" or restricted societies. The post-scarcity bit is mostly about a social safety net for individuals in the Federation.
The Federation is a post-scarcity utopia until the writers want something interesting to write about. Then the Federation gives some colonies to the Cardassians and you get the Maquis.
I'm always fascinated by these tricks of game theory. e.g. in business school, the dean of the undergraduate school had this story: "When I was a practicing lawyer working on wills and estates, people would often ask me to cut someone completely out of their will. I would always say that a better option was to write something like 'To my daughter Susan, I leave $1,000. She always said that she wanted to be financiall…
I'm always fascinated by these tricks of game theory. e.g. in business school, the dean of the undergraduate school had this story: "When I was a practicing lawyer working on wills and estates, people would often ask me to cut someone completely out of their will. I would always say that a better option was to write something like 'To my daughter Susan, I leave $1,000. She always said that she wanted to be financiall…
idk if that would work in real life. there are cases where one sibling gets less than another and judges still rule things have to be split equitably and children should be provided for.
If you accuse someone (not me) of having a small penis (I don't) they (not me) don't have to show that they (not me) have a large penis (like me). Just the accusation they made (to you, not me) is slander enough. But I'd gladly drop-trousers in a court.
I don’t think you’d get to use the courts anymore.
I'm always fascinated by these tricks of game theory. e.g. in business school, the dean of the undergraduate school had this story: "When I was a practicing lawyer working on wills and estates, people would often ask me to cut someone completely out of their will. I would always say that a better option was to write something like 'To my daughter Susan, I leave $1,000. She always said that she wanted to be financiall…
There’s A Hacker's Mind: How the Powerful Bend Society's Rules, and How to Bend Them Back by Bruce Schneier https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393866667
I'm always fascinated by these tricks of game theory. e.g. in business school, the dean of the undergraduate school had this story: "When I was a practicing lawyer working on wills and estates, people would often ask me to cut someone completely out of their will. I would always say that a better option was to write something like 'To my daughter Susan, I leave $1,000. She always said that she wanted to be financiall…
I'm sure South Park had no idea about any of this
It's pretty amazing that South Park hasn't been sued (or lost?) I wonder if Peter Thiel took umbrage at how South Park portrayed him recently [0] and is lurking in the shadows planning Gawker v2 [1] [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfSOC6-G044 [1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/mattdrange/2016/06/21/peter-thi...
A Jewish comedian made a joke about how jews (only in the US*) were offended that Ferengi in Star Trek were based on them - "why would we assume these ugly greedy people are _us_?" *Outside the US, it looks like the Ferengi are mocking American capitalist culture.
When being defensive about the genocide, some people invoke against the protesters, e.g. "Where were you when the atrocities in Sudan were happening?", admitting that the genocide being committed is as bad as the Sudan conflict...
> For a fictional portrait to be actionable, it must be so accurate that a reader of the book would have no problem linking the two Sorry this argument makes no sense. If I (or any average reader) read a passage dissing a public figure (not me), which describes them with a small penis, I wouldn't consider the description as not fitting - I have no way of telling how big their penis is. If the public person in questio…