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Re:The naughty username checking system used by Twitch by CRConrad on Saturday October 09, 2021 @10:35AM (#28810227)
Yeah, that only shows how stupid the original Star Trek often was. Just because they hadn't yet had a Trump or a Hitler in Uhura's century is no reason for her not to know that "words" are exactly what scum like that rises to the top on.
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Re:The naughty username checking system used by Twitch by imglorp on Monday October 11, 2021 @09:21AM (#28828019)
Agree, the scum is leveraging wetware vulnerabilities in our species around sound bites, tribes, labels, and twisted facts.

But I think that was Roddenberry's point: we can only advance after excising that primitive baggage.

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