Looking forward to the scandal when one of the winners turns out to be a photograph of a living, breathing, human.
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Wait… I thought this was the anti-Quark…
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I think that’s the neutral Quark. 
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Well, but if you remember from the show, the character was a socialist… so… anti-Quark… maybe I’m taking this too literally? I am, aren’t I?
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I’m slightly divided on this one. Is the effect of beauty pageants on the surrounding environment sufficiently bad that having one break off from the limits of human feasibility and start producing on an automated scale the bigger problem; or is it a net positive to have something that’s basically negative for its participants lose interest in humans and just turn into a bot-fight?
It’s not good, or reflective of positive attitudes, either way; I’m just not sure whether trying to bot it up is worse than a traditional implementation, or whether the effects of human participation are bad enough that the same unpleasant motives are less-worse when they require fewer human participants.
We could just… start treating women like people and stop objectifying them maybe? 
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No disagreement on that being a good thing; but it seems sufficiently unlikely that the collective ‘we’ is going to start doing it uniformly that I can’t really dismiss questions of what flavors of failure to do so are more and less destructive, and why, just by appealing to the possibility.
Hairy Quark was a member of the Nox, a post-scarcity civilization, with top-tier technology, that believed in peaceful coexistence with everything. Stargate-SG1 mistook them for primitive tree-huggers, of course, until the big reveal of cloaked floating cities as they kicked SG1 and the Goa’uld off-planet.
If they were told about socialism, they’d probably say “You need a system for that? Weird.”
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Oof, yeah, that’s a wee bit disturbing
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A beauty pageant in particular always strikes me such a weird atavism now, a piece of the 1920s dropped into the 2020s.
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