You had to choose between a small set of approved groups you could belong to. It was especially bad in my small village in western Germany: you could be either a fashion victim (all with the same hair, clothing style, one year they ALL dyed their hair red), a computer nerd, a sporty person, a hip-hop or a techno fan. If you didn’t belong to any of the approved groups, you were an outsider and bullied.

Obviously I’m writing this because my best friend and I were among the outcast. We bought our stuff at thrift shops and didn’t care much for fashion, neither what was ‘in style’ nor the geek/techno/hip-hop fashion. One year I cut my hair really short and got so much shit for it, because apparently you could only do that if you 100% subscribed to a matching Goth aesthetic. (Still have short hair, so take that stupid mean girls!)

It was probably partially a small-town-thing, but if you look at the media from the 90s you’ll rarely see characters that don’t neatly fit a certain type.

Die verweigern es, so weit zu denken. Aus eigener Erfahrung: “Ja, wird sich dann schon regeln.” “Dann müssen halt mal ein paar von den faulen Hartzern schuften gehen.” “Ach, wird schon nicht passieren.” Das ist alles, was denen zum Thema Konsequenzen einfällt.

That’s a cool concept, hadn’t heard of it. Nanotech might also be an option for this. You have a bunch of nanobots in your brain and when you encounter a new language, some AI will decipher it and rewire your brain to understand it.

The Webshifter Series might be a good start (Book 1 is Beholder’s eye). The main character is a shape shifter, so we get to see the world from the point of view of someone who can change her form between different alien races. The book has a lot of interesting descriptions about her changing senses, e.g. suddenly being able to perceive different colors or having an organ to feel the magnetic field etc.

Star Trek has a common language in the federation or not? It would be cool if they encountered a new species and get out their communicators, record for a bit and have an AI figure out the new language. Wouldn’t take up a lot of screen time and explain the communication.

That’s a good point. Or even poorer parts of the population not being able to afford the newest tech.

I like that. They had a ton of cameras on all Star Trek ships - but then a scandal involving sex tapes and an illegal porn trade between Star Fleet officers happened and cameras in Star Fleet ships were completely outlawed.

Exploding anything I would say, though this seems to be a general TV problem. Your device got shaken up a tiny bit? EXPLOSION!

I get what you mean, but on the other hand I want to be able to out myself into the story and relate to the characters. If the characters are behaving in a dumb way or the problems they face are too unrealistic, that takes away from the enjoyment. Let me put it like that: I can suspend my disbelieve to accept that an allien artifact can create a wormhole to another planet or that intelligent parasitic life forms exist. I find it hard to believe the US military would send poeple to alien planets without cautioning them about eating the local food. Because to me it is inconsistent with the premise: A military operation would at least address this problem in some form. As I said, it’s just a minor annoyance to me, not a big plot hole or anything. But I find it hard to enjoy media where part of the storytelling is based on the premise “let’s just assume this advanced human/alien civilisation hasn’t thought about an easy solution that we have been using for decades”.

I’ve been listening to the audiobook of Dirk Van den Boem “Sternkreuzer Proxima” (“Starcruiser Proxima”, couldn’t find the actual English titel on a quick search). He has some very good descriptions of the gruelingly long times any maneuver in space takes. Also being cramped in a small space ship with no fresh air, tasteless food rations and not knowing what is going to happen, while your ship and the enemy ship spend the next 50 hours getting in position for their attack.

That’s true. I already mentioned Julie E. Czerneda, her books have female main characters that are pretty well written. I’d recommend looking into her books.

Ich bin neu hier. Hallo :) Wir waren gestern wandern. Heute ist überhaupt nichts zu tun auf der Arbeit, mein Kollege ignoriert mich und ich schau mich auf feddit um.

Ich arbeite im ÖD und wir haben das Projekt eines Kundenportals zum digitalen Abruf von Bescheiden (Müllabfuhr und sowas) eingestampft, weil hinten und vorne das Personal für die Umsetzung fehlt. Sowohl Entwickler fehlen als auch die Kapazitäten bei den Ämtern, um das Projekt fachlich zu begleiten. Bevor man so ein Mammutprojekt wie einen Daten-Vault auch nur anfängt, müsste man massiv das Personal erhöhen. Aber das kriegst du den Wählern und Politikern nicht erklärt, dass wir erstmal deutlich mehr Beamte und ÖD-Angestellte bräuchten, bevor wir im großen Stil Digitalisierungsprojekte realisieren können.

“Das kann (…) ein Stück einer Gubor-Packung (sein).” "“Wenn Ihr schönstes Blau in etwa das Blau unserer Gubor-Packung trifft”

Sehe ich das richtig, dass man einfach nur die Packung einschicken muss?