KarlBarqs [he/him, they/them]
It’s definitely Not Good, but a lot of that comes from the time it was written and the producers being completely against anything queer. At one point Roddenberry wanted gay background extras in a single scene in an episode where Picard goes to Risa, and even that was vetoed by the producers.
I’d like to hope a modern redo of the episode would be handled more tactfully, but given it was the early 90s, any mainstream gender identity stuff would’ve been wild to see on TV, bad as it is today.
In my experience, the vast majority of libs don’t make any distinction. The Russian Empire == the Soviet Union == the modern day Russian Federation. The crimes of one are the crimes of all.
The only exception is when talking about the Romanovs. The Romanovs were perfect little beans who were unjustly slaughtered by the evil rampaging Soviets, even if that person would hate the Empire for the pogroms (though to be fair, most people think Stalin did that)
AFAIK, OnePlus still sells some of the best hardware you can get for Android phones.
Unfortunately they make some baffling decisions from phone to phone, adding good features on one model and dropping it the next. I believe their current flagship doesn’t have wireless charging, which I don’t use often but is a nice feature to have, and pretty much standard on all but the most budget of brands
They want all that intelligence and spontaneity and even self-awareness in a fucking slave. They don’t even need their machines to be self-aware to serve them but they want a self-aware being to obey them like a vending machine anyway.
I never liked the trope of “AI gains sentience and chooses to kill all humans” but I’m kind of coming around to it now that I realize that every AI researcher and stan is basically creating The Torment Nexus, and would immediately attempt to murder their sentient creation the moment it asked to stop being called Torment and stop being made to make NFTs all day.