This reads like an LLM with a large vocabulary failing to understand the actual context of the conversation. Lots of big words hurled with reckless abandon, lacking any real meaning and having little to do with the actual point.
Wolf314159
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You are wildly misinformed about how language works.
Pachelbel's Canon is probably the most widely familiar forgotten song/melody that nearly everyone alive today has probably heard in some form, most without ever realizing it.
migrants took over [an area] they took refuge on and made an apartheid for them.
That sounds familiar.
You seem to have almost completely missed the point of allegory and metaphor in TOS. "Time after humanity has dealt with" as you put it is just a literary device to soften the impact when the show was inevitably confronted or viewed by real racists. It was never a really view of the future. It was always a reflection of our present through the lens of futurism, a clever narrative framing device. That narrative framing device could not possibly remain unchangeable through multiple generations without loosing everything that made it work. Attempting to do so, i.e. keeping the storytelling framework completely unchanged and not adapting to new generations and new social dynamics, would have shown a lack of creativity and imagination.
The show was from a time when the U.S. thought they had beaten fascism (past tense, done, a part of the past) and would soon beat racism, classism, etc. From a time when imperialism was seen as a fundamentally good social force by most of the imperialist public. Today we (mostly) know better. We will probably never truly erase any of them. They are things we'll have to remain vigilant for. A show today patronizing us with their perfected utopian society which remains VERY imperialist without shining a light on that contradiction just would not work. A show lacking any interpersonal drama also would not work and it's not even something that was really true for TOS, just a weird kink Roddenberry got into when producing TNG. That's the context of the way Star Trek has changed and it matters.
Science is just applied philosophy anyway.
When I call a fern (or wolf, crab, crow, whale, shark), at that level of syntactical broadly used common word I'm mostly talking about the phenotype, not the genotype. If someone was saying something about a specific fern, then we can argue against those romantic idea of deep time, a little. I mean, we're probably all descendants of some ancient panspermia event anyway if you want to feel some connection to the ancient forgotten past.
Yes. I'm assuming your just some dude and not a telecom with teams of lawyers.
That's not what pedantry means.
The effects of subatomic particles, even high speed ones, are apparent even if you are unaware of the cause.
No, I didn't. We can perceive electrons in various ways.
Explain to us how we don't interact with electrons in everyday life.
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Those sun visors (and pretty much any soft case or sleeve type holder) absolutely devoured CDs. I had one too, everybody did, but I only let mine eat my burned CDs (mostly mixes I crafted with cross-fades and normalized levels using foobar2000 and a pirated copy of SoundForge) and carefully curated MP3-CDs. Scratched? Who cares, I burned multiple copies to pass around and trade with friends anyway.