Duamerthrax
If you say the lie often enough, it becomes the excepted truth.
I mostly agree with you, but protections aren't the same thing as rights. Protections are a one way street, rights are a two way street.
If they're as smart, communicatable and capable of social responsibilities, then yes. There are some species that may be "differently" smart as humans, but lack a common lanuage and can't take on shared social responsibilities, so giving them rights is difficult to say the least.
They're not really right wing. Very suburban, sheltered and privileged, but I've never heard them talk politics. I can say extra privileged because one of them wanted to put an Battlefield sound board in their car. Sure, that's what you want. Making it easy to accidentally make the sounds of gunfire if you ever get pulled over by a cop because your taillight is out.
As far as star trek goes, they're rather talk about the power output of the phasers then character arcs. They're very basic.
"NFTs will protect artists!"
You can't name a single court case where nft receipts won the case, but it's very easy to find nft bros minting other people's work.
I know a bunch of trekkies, a fandom around a post scarcity, pseudo communist utopia, embrace crypto despite it being an artificial scarcity concept that doesn't really fix any of the issues of the preceding system. I make fun of them whenever nfts come up, including posting any negative nft news into the humor channel of their discord.
None and I installed an emoji blocked on firefox.
Because the color gradient is relative. A large enough banana would also light up. Also exposure time is another factor and this will dissipate very quickly. You can play it safe by abstain of seafood and swimming for a week.
Though previously all such cases used to happen gradually, giving most people enough time to adapt to the changes.
The Luddites would like to have a word with you.
Then post tech news from your country.
Automatic transmissions are essentially hydraulic computers.