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  • how can i live peacfully knowing that i can be suspected of anything just because i made a joke here or said something there?

    You’ve never been able to say things publicly (or, since the internet, publish something that the entire world can read) and expect to be shielded from the consequences. There is always a risk that comes with speaking freely, especially if powerful people perceive your words as a challenge to their power.

    The erosion of privacy protections is a reason to despair, but it is also a reason to speak more.








  • They wanted to avoid another entrance/exit on screen to keep us guessing how this Star Trek Inception works.

    I understand the reasoning from a suspense perspective but manufactured suspense does not feel suspenseful. Think about it: why show the entire long debate about leaving or not if none of them actually care? The only thing that makes sense is that once they understood the danger was real there was an off-camera conversation with Pike or Una wherein Pike or Una presumably told them that the danger was acceptable and to proceed. But if we accept that the conversation happened off-camera, then the presence of the debate scene doesn’t make sense from a storytelling standpoint.