I’m gonna be dead honest with you. The reason you think that high bodycount means that you’re somehow fundamentally different as a person e.g. incapable of being a “housewife” is because you do not have a high bodycount yourself and its incomprehensible for you, when in reality it’s really just not that big a deal.

No one with a high bodycount thinks of themselves as having a high bodycount. At one time all those people had a low bodycount and they were the same people then as they were after they had a high bodycount.

At most they’re “sexually experienced”, in gamer terms they’re the people with 500 games in their steam library and to them the average person is kinda like the person who only plays F2P mobile gachas, so yeah they’ll have higher standards but they also probably know what’s good and what works.

None of this is inherently good or bad, it just is.

I hate nu-trek because beyond the obvious shitty writing, lack of an ensemble cast and true standalone episodes, extremely lame and cheap special effects and just the way it is made (legacy series fitting into a canon rather than actual new events i.e. ENT) - its just very apolitical, bland and not very woke at all. TNG, DS9, ENT - all had real hard hitting stuff to say, stuff thats more relevant now than ever, and is always timeless.

Disco has a nonbinary person just kinda be there, such enthralling commentary, wow! It’s almost a self-parody y’know. Picard has the romulan refugee thing be kinda swept under the rug in favour of the ME3 synthetics vs organics vs giant space octopus doohickey plot, and then the 2nd season invents a new alternate universe that doesn’t actually seem much different from the future picard itself portrays in the first season.

There will never he anything quite like ‘Far Beyond The Stars’ in Trek again, sadly. Nor will there be a ‘Who Mourns for Morn’ for that matter, now we mourn for trek.

That’s okay by me though, All Good Things and all that, and especially so because For All Mankind took up the actual woke space sci-fi mantle, unsurprisingly so since it’s made by Trek and Expanse alumni like RDM, Menosky, Okudas, Shankar etc.

>start cyber security job

>am 27, BSc, MSc, 4 years of xp

>entire team is over 50 with one youngling at 45

>none of them have any formal IT qualifications whatsoever

>boss does not know how to read

>clearly just reads the first few words of a sentence and guesses the rest

>only writes in 3-4 word sentences without punctuation and capitalization

>only time anyone writes any detailed amount of text is obviously with copilot

>they refuse to use Jira because it’s “too complicated” even though we all have licenses to it and there’s a security project already set up

>have me log ticket statuses in a spreadsheet instead

>but only for 2 weeks, after no one checks it

>all communication is 3-4 sentence emails in threads with 20+ people 100+ emails each going back years

>boss proceeds to talk in a 1-2-1 about how he feels for the fact women don’t get to speak while not letting me utter a single word in said meeting

>almost every time I try to add to a conversation in a group meeting it’s taken as an attack

>team’s main project is to put the password manager behind the same password manager

>half of them are constantly having very basic computer problems

>boss opens group convo on teams only to complain there’s “too many messages” and that he can’t keep up

>I provide summaries in a few short paragraphs but he doesn’t read them

>Boss says he doesn’t have access to a system but he’s really just unable or unwilling to locate the sign in button

>I complete tasks, but they’re never checked on by anyone or followed up by anyone

>sometimes I’m expected to elaborate in detail immediately on random things from 3-4 months ago

>at annual review receive complaints that I’m not doing enough but no specifics

>how positively I’m perceived on a given day seems to not correlate with any work done

>seems to mostly depend on how I look in meetings

>try to make small talk

>most don’t seem to understand the concept

>one proceeds to show me his entire house, room by room

>it’s completely empty and unfurnished

>wut.jpg

>ask them if they like to do self-hosting or play ctfs or hackthebox

>no one has any idea what any of what I said is

>ask one if he’s seen movie_name

>Very awkward pause

>barks: “No”

>Drops off meeting because he had a windows update

>He uses a Mac

>One talks about crypto

>Huge crypto guy

>I somewhat jokingly ask him if he’s got a stash of XMR

>he doesn’t know what that is

Honestly bros I don’t wanna be fired because job searching is hell but there’s a part of me that will breathe a sigh of relief when I eventually am. Quirky star wars shit here I come.

Sorry for the formatting, I have to add extra newlines and backslashes to make it half-decent. this site sucks sometimes

I did explore some stuff on the Gemini circumlunar ring but it was all just endless hyper-niche microblogs about tech, and not even fun home/side project stuff, but more like some kind of specially configured redis caching solution they implemented at work once, described like something you’d bring up in a job interview. I’m too normal to be any kind of specialist and unfortunately I find specialists to be the most boring people on Earth, they all give me the vibe of the onion anteater guy, so I couldn’t get into it.