I just started a DS9 rewatch. I find it more interesting focusing on the more alien side characters in that show. The human and bajoran stuff not so much.

Dead internet theory for a dead world.

So emperor wasn’t exactly a title at first. It just kind of evolved over time. I’m going off of memory from college lectures here.

I think it took about 300 years after Cesar for the term emperor to be applied. There was Imperator but that was a title given by the soldiers and lost after they had a triumph.

IIRC the main original legal power was they could order the death of anybody in the empire. Like in the meme lots of other unofficial powers arise because of the implications.

Hey guy who can legally have me killed. We are planning on passing this law. I would love to hear if you have any objections. Because of the implications.

Lineage and graphene don’t force updates. They could but that’s not their mo. If they did they would presumably lose 90% of their users.

Stock android even if rooted easily can and does force updates.

My culture is not your costume.

People who are overly proud of their heritage often have little to be proud of in their life.

Yes. They require stereoscopic vision. When I was doing research on 3D displays about 10% of subjects had to be rejected because they were stereo blind. They had no idea they were that way.

One woman said that explains why she had the nickname clunk in high school. She had a habit of rearending cars.