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Madeadeleine 💀 @pbastronaut.bsky.social · 2h

Fortunately not a single one of them will derail your ability to devote 100% of your time to studying delta particles and playing the violin.

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Madeadeleine 💀 @pbastronaut.bsky.social · 5h

Tutorial voiceover: Good job, Ensign, those chairs are perfectly understated. Now let's set set up a control panel. {pause} Not bad, but we can do better. Listen to Suvuk of Vulcan's six-part opera "Contemplations" to better understand the concept of spacial harmony. We'll reconvene in four days.

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Madeadeleine 💀 @pbastronaut.bsky.social · 5h

We can probably all agree that Star Trek video games are almost universally terrible. They shouldn't be about things like shooting or resource gathering. They should be about designing a new briefing room on the Enterprise in accordance with Starfleet's 23 principles of aesthetic universalism.

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Madeadeleine 💀 @pbastronaut.bsky.social · 6h

There's no point arguing with genocide lovers at this point, so I'll leave you with a merry go fuck yourself.

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Madeadeleine 💀 @pbastronaut.bsky.social · 6h

I'd love you to discover the surprising benefits of shutting the fuck up.

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Madeadeleine 💀 @pbastronaut.bsky.social · 9h

I was in the closed beta for this. It felt immediately disappointing in the way most Star Trek games do. I tried it again a couple of years ago and it was way better but I think Star Trek's inherently incompatible with this style of game.

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Madeadeleine 💀 @pbastronaut.bsky.social · 10h

They should sell twixes in a one-yard variety.

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Madeadeleine 💀 @pbastronaut.bsky.social · 11h

"We don't want the dolls protected," the BBC explained in a statement. "Because we hate them."

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Madeadeleine 💀 @pbastronaut.bsky.social · 12h

It took me forever, but I finally got to the end of season 8 of Doctor Who (Pertwee). It rules that we got exactly one serial where the titular time traveller of the famous time travel TV show gets to use his time machine to travel through time.

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Madeadeleine 💀 @pbastronaut.bsky.social · 15h

You'd think it'd be worth installing a few seats around that thing.

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Madeadeleine 💀 @pbastronaut.bsky.social · 16h

I accept the main motive here is that defence spending is really just money laundering, but to a certain degree I'm starting to believe that the Labour Party is ideologically opposed to making anyone's lives better, even if it cost them nothing.

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Madeadeleine 💀 @pbastronaut.bsky.social · 16h

"And that, my leige, is how we know the earth to be banana-shaped."

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Madeadeleine 💀 @pbastronaut.bsky.social · 17h

Less talking, more bombing data centres please.

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Madeadeleine 💀 @pbastronaut.bsky.social · 17h

I always feel guilty if I spot another trans woman in public because I get to look at a beautiful trans woman but they have to look at me.

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Madeadeleine 💀 @pbastronaut.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

If you don't vote you don't get a say. If 99.6% of the membership didn't care enough to vote, then they can't be too bothered by the outcome.

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Madeadeleine 💀 @pbastronaut.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Where's *my* personal veto over every dipshit decision the party makes that I disagree with?

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Madeadeleine 💀 @pbastronaut.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Once you start going down the "maybe we need less democracy" road the only destination is Starmerism. If you only raise the spectre of limiting member democracy when the membership make a decision you wouldn't have made, you're already half way there.

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Madeadeleine 💀 @pbastronaut.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Well, that's because you can't do cocaine and smash up a high street from a pew. I'm much less concerned with how sincere their religiosity is than eradicating these fuckers from our streets and public discourse.

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Madeadeleine 💀 @pbastronaut.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Some of you on here.

Finn the Human from Adventure time lying on the floor, surrounded by photos of Princess Bubblegum and clutching a wad of her hair while looking sad.

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Madeadeleine 💀 @pbastronaut.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Weird, all the Labour voters we asked said he should resign immediately.

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Madeadeleine 💀 @pbastronaut.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Sure seems like this would've been nice to know before the leader of Camden counsel stood in a parliamentary election.

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Madeadeleine 💀 @pbastronaut.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Okay it's bullshit that I'm a size 12 at the waist, a size 10 at the hips, but a size 16-18 in dresses. Fuck this.

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Madeadeleine 💀 @pbastronaut.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

They're always gathering some kind of fucking magic these days.

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Madeadeleine 💀 @pbastronaut.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

-- I'll have a gadgetini and she'll have the girliest drink in the house. -- Two gadgetinis coming right up.

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Madeadeleine 💀 @pbastronaut.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

If I were an investor in these companies I'd probably consider whether human civilization still existing in a year would be good or bad for my portfolio.

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Madeadeleine 💀 @pbastronaut.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

The fact that they're not doing a single thing to make voters better off suggests they're not quite so worried about it after all.

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Madeadeleine 💀 @pbastronaut.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

You probably shouldn't have to tell people not to watch a snuff film.

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Madeadeleine 💀 @pbastronaut.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

"Acting on their own". Yeah, that's probably what my lawyer would say if I'd just committed a spree of serious cyber crimes too.

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Madeadeleine 💀 @pbastronaut.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

If that's a reference to something I didn't get it. I'm going to bed.

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Madeadeleine 💀 @pbastronaut.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

To conclude, my ranked choices are a, b, and c, with the order selected by drawing lots. Followed by all other business of government. Followed by joining the EU.

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Madeadeleine 💀 @pbastronaut.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

This is a good reminder that this is a waste of time. I really need to stop getting provoked into this shit. Ultimately it doesn't even matter why you believe your question was a trolley problem.

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Madeadeleine 💀 @pbastronaut.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Would it surprise you at all to learn that he doesn't understand the trolley problem?

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Madeadeleine 💀 @pbastronaut.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Oh my god. It is a thought experiment, not a scientific principle or fact. Do you also believe the ship of Theseus has evolved?

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Madeadeleine 💀 @pbastronaut.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Well, you'll have to forgive me if "as far as I'm concerned" doesn't convince me. And that you consider it science does not mean that it "evolves". The trolley problem is still a thought experiment with a moral dilemma between action and inaction. That's just what it is.

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Madeadeleine 💀 @pbastronaut.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I'll admit, I'm too stupid to leave well alone.

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Madeadeleine 💀 @pbastronaut.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

And you have read this all the way through, and it says that the trolley problem itself is, in fact, a scientific principle?

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Madeadeleine 💀 @pbastronaut.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Literally the first sentence of the summary says it's about using the trolley problem to test moral thinking. Not that the problem itself is scientific.

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Madeadeleine 💀 @pbastronaut.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

"Burglars breaking into your house and stealing your TV was a huge missed opportunity."

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Madeadeleine 💀 @pbastronaut.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

There's nothing invalid about asking people if they'd rather eliminate their choice of bigotry over joining the EU, except that basically everyone will pick eliminating bigotry. But it's not a moral dilemma of any kind.

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Madeadeleine 💀 @pbastronaut.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

You don't understand the trolley problem. I'm sorry, but you just don't. It has been used in studies of moral psychology but it is not a science experiment. It doesn't evolve. It's not a choice of preferences. And you haven't presented a trolley problem.

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Madeadeleine 💀 @pbastronaut.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

The trolly problem is not science, it's philosophy.

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Madeadeleine 💀 @pbastronaut.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

There are variants to the trolley problem but you haven't done those either. Again, all you've done is given a list of unrelated things and asked people to vote for their favourite one. By that standard deciding what to have for a dinner is a trolley problem.

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Madeadeleine 💀 @pbastronaut.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

What do you mean "it is now"? It's a famous thought experiment. It doesn't evolve. You can't just declare it to be something completely different and then announce you've successfully done a trolley problem.

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Madeadeleine 💀 @pbastronaut.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

No, the trolly problem is a dilemma between making an active choice that to sacrifice one person versus allowing a greater number of people to die from inaction. It is not "pick your favourite outcome from a list".

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Madeadeleine 💀 @pbastronaut.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

That's not how the trolley problem works. The trolley problem gives a choice between action and inaction. What you're doing is asking people to rank a bunch of arbitrary choices.

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Madeadeleine 💀 @pbastronaut.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I like the idea of a trolly problem where there are three lines with thousands or millions of people tied to each of them and then another line where it's the chance to go skiing without having to queue at the airport and presenting it as a tough choice.

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Madeadeleine 💀 @pbastronaut.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

That's a point. Who's holding a gun to the government's head in this scenario and demanding they do nothing to eliminate two of those three prejudices?

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