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I believe it uses your browser history to gauge your interests and bases its responses partly on the type of stuff you participate in repeatedly.
So if for example you browse websites related to privacy more than anything else, it takes that into account and gets all creepy about it.

They’re programmed to follow the data. And we should be thankful for that. Imagine if they were programmed to follow the lore.

It’s neat.

Better.

Kira was a rebel at heart.

Bashir was in the “I’ve been genetically modified, which is illegal, so should I have kids?” camp, if I remember correctly.

Sisko loved his wife.

Odo was a gelatinous blob.

Jadzia was influenced by past multiple personalities, so she likely loved pans and pots.

O’Brien was a weeb. He only loved his waifu, the transporter room.

Jake was a reporter. He loved crawling into holes he shouldn’t have been crawling into.

Quark was a businessman. He loved risky ventures.

Online sovereign citizen?

Makes bing your default search engine.

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Silly. Prison shanks mix paper and plastic with poop, not just poop alone.

Any limitations we have are either created by available resources or self-imposed.
I believe humans as a whole are willing to do anything and everything in every possible way.

I don’t remember, did the voyager split into two or did the second voyager splinter from the first?

We’re all copies of each other and memory sync isn’t that far away. But it comes with ads.

Ugh. Now you got me thinking about hearing my heart beats.

Eat healthily, exercise.

Nothing proven. Much documentary about it though.

There’s a vine/TikTok dude that made a short about it somewhat recently in a shallow and humorous fashion.
Basically, the Jackson dad was an asshole who beat his kids. Michael being the most successful one got the worst of it, as per the documentary. Not sure if his brothers covered him and how often.
He didn’t have a childhood, he had beatings, training and concerts.
His soft-spoken voice was beaten into him, only allowed to use his full voice for singing.
His Neverland was built for that which he never had and he tried to give that to other children he felt were like him.
Whether something happened is only known by the the people involved, but odds are that unless Michael himself was molested as a child, it’s far more likely that he was deeply traumatized, cried himself to sleep and had recurring night terrors.

I’ll repeat, only the people involved know what happened and they’re not talking.

It definitely will. Past CSAM spam used abandoned or ignored instances to smuggle into the larger ones.
When you build something yourself, you also become responsible for what goes through it.

You really don’t know much about HP goblins, do you?
They aren’t just there to look funny. They hold the wizards bank because they’re master craftsmen. They’re defeated rivals who still rebel from time to time whenever able to. They can use magic just as well as wizards if not better and were banned from using wands as a matter of status, something they didn’t much care for anyway because they prefer using violence in combat over magic. The half-goblin professor is a master duelist and attributes part of that to his aggressive goblin blood.
That’s just basic stuff you learn from the movies.

Sure, the exposition is poor, but it makes sense considering it’s being done from the perspective of wizards.

look at the funny little greedy men with big noses, aren’t they annoying and mean, haha?

That’s exactly how the wizards see them. Bravo to the directors for instilling that notion so well in the viewers. It means they did their job well in this regard.

You say the protagonists in Star Trek had a system of values they respected, but didn’t they also have to respect the culture of other species? To impose their own views and values on another was also considered self-serving and foolish.

Also the human civilization was post-enlightenment. Is the wizard society in HP also enlightened? Not really. Rowling calls them backwards, centuries behind the rest of civilization.
How were we a century ago, let alone two?

This is why I said similar. Circumstances are different. The world, the lore, the setting.
The goblins were given a foundation and it was built on in accordance with the rest of the world it was in. With the type of background the story portrayed. In line with every other exposition of that world.

In the first movie they were there to scare a newcomer, but it also showed they took their role in that bank seriously. And with each movie beyond that, more and more was uncovered of their culture, their history and their way of life. To anyone who cared to look at least.
Goblins didn’t just remain funny little greedy men with big noses until the end, but at the same time they also didn’t change much of their culture. And neither did the wizards. Only a little. A small step forward. Together. Because they’re long-lived, don’t like each other all that much and change is slow.

The point we’re dancing around is whether to boycott a work of fiction due to its use of uncomfortable topics and under which circumstances.
The comparison between Harry Potter and Star Trek is that both had persons in charge that are considered to have or have had extreme views in regards to those topics.

The views on Ferengi traditions were within the lore of its fictional universe. The practices outside of it were very much not in line with those same beliefs at the time.

And we’re remembering different things. The practice was not outdated, but very much in use within the Ferengi core space. Even at the end it became a tradition that could be practiced freely, not eliminated completely. And not because of morals, but because of profit.

I’ll concede on Troi’s mother because I’m vague on the details of her circumstances.

The core idea remains. Women treated poorly on one side, Jewish people treated poorly on the other. One side praised, the other shunned. Both in the same place.

Note that I am treating the HP goblins and jews as different entities. I never saw them as synonymous. The goblins’ culture in the story was theirs and theirs alone and you won’t get me to see otherwise because that’s what it is to me, a story.

That being said, if we attribute goblins as representative to Jewish people, then we should do the same over the entire series. Which culture do the wizards represent? The giants? The werewolves? The mer people? Pure bloods? Mudbloods?

Every other representative is ignored. The portrayal of society is ignored. The goblins are pulled out of that story and their role within, put under a spotlight and given a sign saying “pity us”.
Because the Jewish were marginalized? They were. Many times, in many countries. Across many centuries.
This isn’t antisemitism, it’s fact of history. Don’t like history? Too bad, it still happened.

Have you actually seen the movies or read the books? Rowling ridicules wizard society. Who does that society represent I wonder? And in what context?

Extract the Jewish from the goblins, then extract the society that treats them poorly. Is it still antisemitism or is it a reflection of reality at one point?

Dunno, maybe collect the news of every private digital data leak in recent years and show how unsafe it really is?