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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The best ones are thoughts that many people can relate to and they find something funny or interesting in regular stuff.

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In Star Trek, Commander Data is socially awkward because he lacks training data. This might be because he was built and developed in isolation from the rest of society. (lemmy.zip)

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[–] [email protected] 53 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Could’ve sworn Data was built specifically to be that way because the prior model unnerved people, and also conspired to kill an entire camp of federation colonists.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Correct. Lore was too human in some ways, but he lacked empathy.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

You can't have empathy if you don't have emotions.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Lore had anger, hatred, jealousy, etc... plenty of emotions.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Didn't he only get those later after he stole the emotion chip from Data?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

He stole it to get access to more emotions and to try and fix his defective ones iirc

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Ah okay. It has been a few years since I last watched it.