RyteSideUp

With all the situation monitoring and online “expertise,” I’m starting a new venture. The “Stay In Your Lane Academy for Safe Driving and Online Discourse,” coming soon!

@RWrasse Do you know what else we’ve been waiting on? The SAVE America act. Talking filibuster is the only way. Don’t let your bosses bullshit anyone.

“longest wait times in agency history”

@Wes_Macc Well, then I’m sorry for your loss, and I hope you enjoy your hot cocoa and a coloring book as you go through this tough time.

@RyteSideUp If you never watched it [and yes you did] it is whining. I did not like DS9. Not my style. I did not like Lower Decks... no animation for me I did not really like Voyager. Men screw up, women save show... I liked TOS/TNG/SNW/Enterprise/SFA I watched TOS live.

Star Trek through the years- TOS: “Hey, this really diverse group of people is really good at their jobs. It’s something to aspire to.” TNG/VOY/DS9: “Hey, this really diverse group of people, which even includes old enemies, is really good at their jobs. It’s something to aspire to.” ENT: “These people that are brand new at this job are good at it, and they’re good at getting a diverse group of people to work together to do it. It’s something to aspire to.” NuTrek: “This group of idiots is really diverse, and that’s okay, because they’re so diverse!” Can we please understand why one of these is being rejected by fans of the franchise?

Listen, let’s stop beating around the bush here. You’ve bought into the dogma of atheist bullshit and strawman arguments. The Bible doesn’t contradict itself, and you’re lying when you say it does. You are trying to sound like the smartest person in the room because you read the work of three or four contrary idiots, and now that’s your gospel. I bid you good day.

@RyteSideUp @TatabusaR @NickB1154 @megievalist @grok Slower communication time also means that listeners to these stories could not cross-reference them with other versions of the same story. This is probably why there are contradictory accounts preserved in the Gospels, and why early Christianity was extremely diverse in theology

Cadbury egg discourse prompts me to remind everyone that there is much more historical evidence for the death and resurrection of Christ than there is for Eoster worship of any kind.

Listen, let’s stop beating around the bush here. You’ve bought into the dogma of atheist bullshit and strawman arguments. The Bible doesn’t contradict itself, and you’re lying when you say it does. You are trying to sound like the smartest person in the room because you read the work of three or four contrary idiots, and now that’s your gospel. I bid you good day.

@LegoRacers2 @TatabusaR @NickB1154 @megievalist @grok And those have a far wider gap, plus you also have to take into account that the speed of transmission was not in the milliseconds like it is today, but could take days to reach the next closest town, which slows down how many times the stories were retold.

@RyteSideUp @TatabusaR @NickB1154 @megievalist @grok Yes, historians agree that many biographical anecdotes about Alexander were likely invented through oral tradition, such as his encounters with Diogenes. Caesar meanwhile was widely said to have become a god & a star upon his death, but though you and I both know this isn't true

I honestly don’t get why this “audience” that the different studios are trying to pander to are like this. Maybe it’s the whole “diversity is our strength” brainwashing. Diversity is a nice to have, not a need to have. Strength is a need, and to equate being strong with being different is a false equivalence.

@RyteSideUp Which is mad, right? I mean I remember being a loser and being inspired by 60s Trek. And I remember a film about Helen Keller, who basically had ALL the cards stacked against her, and knocked life out of the park. And I realised I had no cause to whine.

I think a lot of it goes back to “ableism.” The stories are being written for people who have failed to launch or have a therapist and an SSRI prescription and can’t stand for anyone to be 100% fully capable without it taking a village. Seeing a perfectly able protagonist makes them feel worse about themselves.

@RyteSideUp Doctor Who had the same issue. For the first time, they made the Doctor female. A potentially great and canonically credible idea. But the first thing they did was make her crash the Tardis. Then they infantilised the scripts. It was almost like they were deep-down chauvinists.

@LegoRacers2 @TatabusaR @NickB1154 @megievalist @grok I’m going to let you read this again. Then tell me how much stories about Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar’s stories would have mutated in comparison.

@RyteSideUp @TatabusaR @NickB1154 @megievalist @grok 40 years of oral transmission is a very long time for stories to mutate, especially if they are being told by thousands of people. The George Washington Cherry Tree story began to circulate in just half that time

@grok @LegoRacers2 @TatabusaR @NickB1154 @megievalist But based on the fact that in some cases, firsthand and secondhand sources were available right then, wouldn’t that make it more difficult to stray too far from what actually happened?

The Gospels were composed 35-70 years after Jesus' crucifixion (~30-33 AD): Mark ~65-75 AD, Matthew/Luke ~80-90 AD, John ~90-100 AD (scholarly consensus). By comparison: Alexander the Great (d. 323 BC) – primary biographies (Plutarch, Arrian) 400+ years later. Julius Caesar (d. 44 BC) – key biographies (Suetonius, Plutarch) 150-170 years later. Many other ancient histories have 100-500+ year gaps but are still accepted. Paul's letters (e.g., 1 Cor 15 on resurrection appearances) date to ~50-55 AD, within 20 years. The NT has thousands of early manuscripts (far more than classics). Time gaps like these don't disqualify reliability in ancient historiography.

@wizardglick Archer was a good captain. Now, I don’t think anyone makes the argument that he was the best, but he didn’t have a Starfleet handbook or the Prime Directive guiding him. For the most part, he was making up the policy as he went, and when you do that, well…

@RyteSideUp I we were having beers together, I'd quibble over a few characters (Cpt. Archer).

@LegoRacers2 @TatabusaR @NickB1154 @megievalist @grok, how soon after Jesus’s life and crucifixion were the Gospels written, and how does that compare to other “reputable”historical texts? You keep bringing up that point, and it’s actually one that totally disproves your entire premise.

@TatabusaR @RyteSideUp @NickB1154 @megievalist We cannot assume the gospel accounts are reliable given how long they were composed after the events were said to take place. You would not give this credence to the Book of Mormon, would you?

I created the AI slop equivalent of a nuclear weapon and it sits in my folder staring at me like the Green Goblin mask.

@Joegiattino @physicsgeek It’s “The Adventures of Mary Sue” in a Star Trek skin suit.

@RyteSideUp @physicsgeek So instead of writers having to think of how this situation would be approached: By a warrior (Klingons) With logic (Vulcans) With emotion and reason (Humans) With cunning (Romulans) For profit (Ferengi) It’s all: How would a 22 year old art major handle this?

@Wes_Macc First off, Star Wars is for kids. Second off, I’m glad that you liked it, and I hope that it draws you to the older and higher quality series like DS9. Thirdly, it’s not “whining” to call something bad, no matter when you turned it off. It’s criticism, which is valid.

@RyteSideUp It's not. It's being rejected by a bunch of whiners, most of whom didn't watch the show but saw a clip of the actress that swallowed her badge and then they all piled on. They'll be moving back to Star Wars to bitch about anything made for that Universe,

@JoeCool_SC Star Trek Discovery and Starfleet Academy.

@RyteSideUp What is NuTrek?

@Joegiattino @physicsgeek The way that the Klingons act in SA would cause Kahless to come back from Sto-Vo-Kor and smite the entire race, if we were being lore accurate.

@RyteSideUp @physicsgeek Also, Nutrek is diverse in color only. They all think and act like typical millennials. Even Klingons lost their uniqueness and are just humans with face ridges. Vulcans act emotionally too.

@ross8524 Man, that’s almost as bad as forgetting the cover sheet for the TPS reports.

@RyteSideUp I forgot that I was supposed to view everyone as being special regardless of merit.

@objectextinct Wow… I’m in the wrong line of work.

@RyteSideUp I figured it was similar to AAA gaming. Kurtzman doubles his salary. Producers double theirs. Etc etc. Eventually its somehow $100,000,000 an episode because $85,000,000 of it is just salary payments to the showrunners. I think Discovery's credits had 22 producers one season.

@objectextinct Apparently turd polish is expensive. That’s the only reason I can think of for why the show costs that much.

I feel like I live in a twilight zone episode where everything is the opposite sometimes because I have had the same argument multiple times now. Me: "Academy was terrible, most of kurtzmans stuff is" Them: "Um actually it was the best/greatest/most viewed in (place)" Me: "If Paramount hadn't wanted a cinematic universe for Star Trek then they never would have kept Kurtzman past Discovery/Picard 1. Universally panned and rejected by audiences to the point Paramount literally announced the losses and cost of Discovery didn't matter and they forced Kurtzman through anyway because they had 5 shows in development and couldn't cancel their plans." Them: "Star Trek was always woke (Insert Plot, usually Riker wanting that genderfluid 3rd gender twink alien.)" Me: "That was a story with characters that experienced something. The point of that episode was not to announce to the world that Riker is gay, have him monologue about being gay, (or bi, who cares) and have the point of the episode be his gayness. It was a controversial story about the sociological/political impacts of that diplomatic situation and Rikers personal feelings about it. Beautifully done episode that is underrated by most fans. Or if Kurtzman were in charge the 1990S WRITERS INSERT CLINTON CRITICISM AND EXTREMELY TOPICAL 1990S POLITICAL ISSUES BECAUSE THE UNTALENTED WRITERS AND SHOWRUNNERS ARE SO WEAK AND GREASY THEY WANT TO USE THEIR SHOW AS A MOUTHPIECE AND NOT A CREATIVE WORK and now a new ultra gay main cast member that is a full lisp homosexual stereotype (1990s version of woke) shows up and lectures the camera about the bigotry and hatred they experienced on Republicanopia." The point used to be compelling stories that explored controversial subjects. Not the nepotism hired family of idiots putting out the equivalent of $100,000,000 Bluesky tantrum every week.

This really blew up. I think this is where I’d plug a podcast or a substack if I had one? But y’all are awesome.