“Communist” states also aren’t very communist.

Perhaps they just like the symmetry.

All you’re doing is making a blanket statement about complex situations with limited information.

We have no idea what the exact situation is, that’s kind of the whole point of the Section 31 storyline in DS9. Making any kind of concrete conclusion from it requires significant leaps in logic.

I mean, if you want to turn a grey issue into something completely black and white, sure.

If you want to assume that because you got some dirt on your shoes, you should just throw them out. Even if you just had to step out of the way of a runaway car.

We literally know nothing about the relationship between Section 31 and Starfleet from that exchange other than that one is letting the other get away with shit. That absolutely speaks to a level of corruption and probably desperation (based on everything else going on in the quadrant at the time), but it doesn’t speak to a level of involvement of one with the other.

It’s the same as Paradise Lost… does one admiral and their staff attempting a literal coup. Does that mean Starfleet as a whole is condoning that coup? Should we just throw the whole thing out because of that incident?

Sure, if you think any measure of corruption means that it’s not worth supporting something anymore.

Is he protected, or was he using Starfleet personnel for his own ends? I don’t recall that it ever explicitly shows them officially working together. With Inter Arnim Selim Legis, the Admiral is working with Sloan, not for him or commanding him. A relationship of convenience, not an official one. Similar to when they’re looking for the cure for Odo, it’s not specific people working directly for Section 31, just people who are either working with them out of convenience… or being manipulated similar to Bashir and the Admiral whose name I can’t remember from the aforementioned episode.

That doesn’t speak to an official relationship, just the manipulative one of a parasitic organism pretending to be a mutualistic one.

So essentially irritated at basic phone functionality.

Sounds like less of a Windows problem than an individual problem, though.

Blaming Windows cause your Frankenstein machine breaks often is disingenuous.

It’s kind of a wide disparity for something that’s so locked down, though. It’s not as though one person is saying they get occasional issues and the other is they often have issues… it’s one person basically saying their own personal computer is nigh unusable and the other providing an example of a large number of examples of that never happening…

It’s far more likely this individual is fucking up their computer on a regular basis, or has a very high bar of usability that is broken any time there is even the slightest hiccup or inconvenience.

And I think it’s pretty clear I’m not. And it seems pretty clear the OP wasn’t either.

So… are you just stating random things for the fuck of it, or did you have an actual reason for bringing up a non-sequitur?

They didn’t write the title.

They… they did?

Or the trash with excellent ability to lie their ass off applies.

It is what we make of it.

Yeah! Fuck people who want to better themselves in a way I disapprove of!

It was life and death 20 years ago too. Why the fuck do you think we’re in this situation?

But Chinese imperialism is okay?

“And to just bring awareness that it could be any dog at any time. Completely unprovoked, no matter what the history is,” Chloe said.

Reminds me of that Onion article that pops up every time there’s a mass shooting in the US: “There’s no possible way we could have prevented this, says only country where this routinely happens”.

Dogs have co-existed with humans longer than just about any other domesticated animal. They don’t do things for no reason. If the parents didn’t see any signs, it’s because they weren’t looking hard enough.

Dogs can absolutely be dangerous. They’re often bred and trained to be dangerous. They don’t just spontaneously decide to be dangerous, especially after eight fucking years.

So its your own personal experience?

Kind of like… normal is your situation you’re using to define what is an ideal everyone else should have and want.

“Normal” is a term used for idealistic dreams that don’t ever exist in reality.

Hey now, there’s a 5% section of people who just don’t give a shit (yet still answer polls for some reason).