Hopefully he at least doesn’t try eating it…

If I had my big boi in school I probably could have legitimately said he ate my homework.

And free.

This is literally mocking that take. It is saying, even if you drop those little dopamine hits you won’t be magically transported into a lavish fantasy life.

The worms themselves don’t seem to have personalities unto themselves, they basically only hold on to the personalities of their past hosts. So, in that way they do change… but only if their hosts do. If the hosts just fall back into the personalities of their past hosts, it defeats the entire purpose. That’s not just a romantic relationship thing, that’s something that’s covered in a number of other episodes. One in particular that I just re-watched was where Jadzia was hosting an initiate, and pushed back on their acceptance because they had defined themselves by the joining.

Polyamory is potentially an option (it’s at least implied for different races/cultures in the show), but you’d still have to overcome general societal prejudices. Provided that individuals can even handle that kind of relationship personally. Sometimes it’s just too much for someone to accept.

People can have different relationships. Heck, relationships evolve within a single lifetime to a great degree.

But that’s really just specific things they’re discouraging because it’s one aspect of the whole of a person. They’re not just trying to prevent past relationships from being relived, they’re trying to avoid entire lives from being relived. And, while it’s not a guarantee that that’s what’d happen… it’s a very real risk.

It’s similar to risky behaviors being illegal in our society. It’s not that they’re guaranteed to cause harm, it’s that they increase the risk of harm happening. You could speed down every road in the world at ten times the highest speed limit and never hit anyone… but it’s still incredibly risky.

Always has been. They just used to call it something else.

The thing with past relationships is that they give the worms to people so that the worms can learn new experiences and pass them on to the next generation. If the worms are basically just living the same generation over and over again it defeats the purpose (in their eyes). I think the whole banishment thing was a bit harsh of a punishment, though.

Gotta build near geothermal vents anyways for power, why not get a good sweat going too?

For consumer electronics? Probably a long time. For industrial applications? Quite often.

It appears to be a music album. I didn’t even know they were plants, much less vegetables!

Lots of states don’t require inspections, FYI.

Blood of the innocent.

THE TOESIES

But it was ten buzzes! What is she supposed to do, not glance?!

Though, if she’s driving close enough to a person that a quick glance is going to cause an accident, she’s definitely a bad driver.

I mean it’s a living ship, clearly it’s Moya

Is this how they design carpets for hotel hallways?

Have you seen the Love, Death, and Robots episode Zima Blue?

There’s a significant difference between “I want to do popular thing!” and “I want to delve into this topic so deeply that I take a road trip to Wisconsin”.

You’re right, if you can’t boil an argument down to a tweet it’s clearly not worth listening to :)

Not a single person in the world can fix all issues all at once. Most people can barely keep one important thing in their mind at a time. We have too many things to worry about to obsess about a group of people who have almost no power anymore. If the time comes when the pendulum swings back in their direction, sure, it’s worth making it an issue… but the world is on fire and you seem to be spending an inordinate amount of time buying gasoline.

Stop trying to fight every battle all at once, and most importantly stop trying to get everyone else to care about every battle you’re obsessed with fighting. They’ll just end up treating it like everything else, too much to deal with.

You can’t learn from the past if you spend too much time living in it.