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What's a piece of fanon that you suspect the writers believe? OR, What's a piece of fanon that has been recently (ish) canonized?

Star Trek has always talked about Starfleet and the Federation as organizations that are worthy of trust. But practically every series has had examples of badmirals and evil bureaucracy, typically with 'our' heroes being the ones to fight against it. From stealing the Enterprise in TSFS to The Drumhead to Section 31 to petty theft Archer to Control and the Zhat Vash to the Illyrians, being and/or fighting against a compromised or infiltrated or just simply bad Starfleet has been a long recurring theme. That's why I loved when they turned that theme on its head in Lower Decks, with an entire episode based around fighting the evil Starfleet ended up superfluous because Starfleet was actually a fundamentally good organization and, as it turned out, the system actually works. I feel like the writers of Lower Decks are the only ones who really believe that...everybody else seems to want to scratch at the surface to see what they feel really lies beneath. Although, having said that, they ended the same season with a badmiral, so idk.

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CEOs are having their worst year in decades

In unrelated news, this corresponds directly to a record low in the both the breadth and the depth of the quantity of fucks I have to give about them and their bad year. Insiders are reporting the level to be at or near zero, and expect that level to maintain, for at least my natural lifespan. Film at 11.

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With Google & Meta blocking Canadian news, what next?

This whole situation is really showing me how weak Canada and Canadians are. Yes, this is a dumb law, and Google and Facebook are right to be angry about it. But the hyperbole about how Canadians just won't be able to find any news afterward is embarrassing. It just comes off as lazy, entitled people whining about how their spoonfeeder has weaned them off and now expects them to spoonfeed themselves. Are we really a nation of children? Cmon.

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B.C. family evicted for demolition but found new tenants were moved in - BC | Globalnews.ca

Renoviction should involve some sort of lien, discharged when proof of renovations, sufficiently disruptive to need vacancy, are available. If the landlord can't prove they did that kind of work in say, 3 years, then they automatically owe the tenant as if it were a bad faith renoviction. Because, cmon, if they didn't do the work they had to kick you out to do, in three whole years, they evicted you in bad faith.