#tachyons

if i had a week or so to prepare i would do one of these or something connecting them

the unnecessary hate on spiders

the unnecessary hate on people who don’t hate spiders (ties heavily into the first point)

uhhhh

the growing popularity of the concept of “nonchalance” and how it is ruining middle school society (ties into the first and second points)

the use of various mental disabilities as insults (particularly dyslexia, autism, and schizophrenia as those are the ones i hear used most frequently irl)

the euphemism treadmill and how it is making it harder to solve the problems it renames

the over reliance of modern society on generative ai

the normalization of bullying in schools and society in general (ties into pretty much everything else)

and then these are things that i would do a general infodump on if i could from coherent thoughts about them fast enough to talk about in casual conversation (or, i realized that by ted talk, the list did not mean go to a TEDx conference with a presentation to present to a large group of people, but just a large infodump with little breaks, often compared to a ted talk due to the nature of such a speech.)

the degree to which snw fucks up spock and chapel’s characters and how the overall show is a giant polished turd

the similarities between starfleet and the navy (especially in the naming of ships and ship classes)

how fucking awesome (and horrifying) the mongolian empire was

the fall of Constantinople and the byzantine empire

the split of the roman empire and how the two sides diverged over time

russian town names

the IXS enterprise and the mathematics behind how it might actually work

tachyons (idfk i just love tachyons)

language families and how languages are related to each other