Lore and Legend: Tales From Our Mythic Past

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@christiwhittem @DrFrancisYoung 😩

@ofloreandlegend @DrFrancisYoung If we start to think of everything that was destroyed in the Dissolution of the Monasteries—well, that way madness lies.

W. H. Barrett loses volumes of handwritten notes on Fenland folklore in a flood, 1918

@SwinnCity @loishh @Kickstarter The project was intended to enable production of AI porn, which often ends up being used to harass, demean and exploit women and other groups who are targeted. Beyond the obvious exploitation of artists.

@loishh @Kickstarter The full statement is bizarre. How is this AI-related at all: "Does a project exploit a particular community or put anyone at risk of harm? ... Our rules prohibit projects that promote discrimination, bigotry, or intolerance towards marginalized groups"

whomst among us has a paracosm poll below

@Pandapinecone @thomasthecat 6) I said destroying a Death Star might devastate a few planets. Because it’s moon sized. Resources again. Why build something big enough to destroy planets and kamikaze it when you can build one DS with a super laser?

@Pandapinecone @thomasthecat Oh, 5) New SW seems have abandoned the ‘hyperspace mass shadow idea’ in Awakens and TROS - not a fan of that. But if we decided that was some kind of super tech workaround, maybe usually you can’t hit a planet. Much bigger gravity shadow than a ship drags you out of hyper.

@photog_al @Jabz257 @ThegreensGreen @NoContextBrits Same energy as that story about the home office rejecting a lad’s bank documents because of spelling mistakes that they said made them doubt it’s authenticity: the home office’s own letter stating this contained multiple grammatical errors.

@Jabz257 @ThegreensGreen @NoContextBrits I worked for a major high street bank. We were the first site to be visited by the new CEO. I had to point out a spelling mistake in the foot-high letters on the banner above the main entrance (& was then criticized for being pedantic). They'd neither notice this nor care.

@Pandapinecone @plandefeld410 @thomasthecat Why don’t we see rebels use nukes or chemical warfare. It’s a war, right? Probably for the reasons we don’t, now that everyone has them. The Empire’s willingness to use indiscriminate weapons is what makes them evil.

@Pandapinecone @plandefeld410 @thomasthecat He just wrote a whole thread about this. And you don’t know that no-one ever has used it. Very easy to write a story about a rebel ship taking out a Star Destroyer, but the next day a piece of hyper-shrapnel hits an innocent ship/city/planet and support for the rebels tanks.

@thomasthecat So ramming the Death Star might have torn up a few planets in itself.

@thomasthecat I think The High Republic came up with a very good justification that hyperspace ramming was also extremely unethical because it sent debris spinning through hyperspace that could hit non-combatants, planets, space stations.

@DebiCady Thank you Debi. This seems to be case for most of the people we have contacted. Thank you for confirming!

@ofloreandlegend Hi, thanks for contacting me! I pretty much wrote all I could find about Cat Bayun in my blog post - unfortunately, while I found references to other stories he appears in, I couldn’t find the stories themselves. So I only know that one story in detail. Not sure if this helps?

@DebiCady Hello! We’re interested in talking to you about Cat Bayun stories for a podcast we are working on. Would you be happy to talk to us?

@Concandycorn @Titus_Esq Right? Peak Performance, Picard is opposed to war games on principal. ‘Conundrum’, they realise they’ve been taken over because they realise Enterprise isn’t a warship. Deep Space Nine episodes explore the trauma of having to become soldiers *because they are not soldiers*.

@Titus_Esq @Concandycorn @ExplorerRowan It’s always funny when people spin their bad logic as ‘you don’t watch Star Trek’. You literally don’t get the point of Star Trek if you think Starfleet is a war machine.

@Concandycorn @ofloreandlegend @ExplorerRowan OF COURSE MORE WERE BUILT! There was an entire WING of Defiant vessels fighting at the Battle of Cardassia. Do you even Stat Trek???

@Titus_Esq @Concandycorn @ExplorerRowan But you are defining Starfleet by a fraction of what its ships were purposed for, within a narrow band of its history, and against the specific content of its charter.

@Titus_Esq @Concandycorn @ExplorerRowan I was arguing at the point of the creation of the Defiant, which you were quoting, and ‘one ship’ = 1 class. Prometheus might count - I don’t know if it ever had a profile beyond fighting the Borg.