I’m reading my post on BLM, on the day that Roe v. Wade is over turned by the Supreme Court. My SMS is abuzz with requests from my governor, senator and president tot air action (donate $) to fix this wrong.

I’m honest on the fence about this. I remember a very bubbly social studies teacher in 7th grade explaining to me for the first time the significance of Roe V. Wade. (She also ran the high school cheerleader squad) it was the norm in Pennsylvania to present both side all in one lesson. She was pro-choice, however, when challenged by my classmate who seem to be in the knows, she had to back down and acknowledge that pro-life has significant merits. (Man, talk about indoctrination, these prepubescent boys were taught that new lives are more valuable than girl’s choice) There were a lot of Churches in Pennsylvania. My dad even took after King Richard and tried the Kingdom Hall.🤪Seriously though, they only learn from the Bible, real teachings of Jesus Christ… better than everyone else who don’t do that, these were some devout folks we met.

There is certainly a problem of practical enforcement d monitoring of metric that we may value. For example, I mentioned only BLM post that we should approach racial justice with a reasonable mind. We cannot start by saying every white American man is part of a scheme to hurt minorities here. But I am immediately attacked by unlimited amount of evidence that that’s all they do. Some of these evidence maybe true, some of it may be circumstantial. The reality of our world is that we humans do need to update our believes and behaviors in response to our externalities. The challenge is that often, we do not have a commonly accepted metric for fairness, or freedom. So we resort to the simplest predicate for our brains to evaluate: are we equal?

My past work had proposed QIM, BETAM fairness, and action spaces. In the prior, we sought out a way to achieve a population-wide equality by using quadratic loss on the measurable metric of service. (Service was all the craze back then, so I casted government as a governance service side by side with employer as an employment service…) In BETAM equality, we set the mental expectation in our populace, the ETA of complete equality in a metric of import. Note, although we use statistical expectation in the calculations, it is meant to help the human participants understand what they should expect to happen, or even what they should try to make happen. Finally, our analysis of action spaces available to each individual reveals that there actually is an objective measure of freedom—the size of one’s action space. In the end, we reach equality, fairness and freedom of a higher level than what founders of our country was able to write in sciences they had. We still reach for equality, fairness, and liberty. Only now we have the ability to measure them over an entire population. We have the ability to plan and communicate realistic progress of these measurable metrics in the time axis so as to not induce violent and useless social strife, and to avoid angst and hatred amongst peoples.

So how can we apply this to Roe v Wade? Well simplest matter is that freedom is removed from a swath of recognized citizens—women are no longer given constitutional guarantee of abortion. Infants, whether they are citizen and deserve same kind of protection is still up for debate, and plus their action space is so limited that this change in law does not add liberty to them.

Is this fair?

Is there A BETAM solution?

Okay, let me just come out and say it. Having Capitan Lorca hint at Asian heritage because he loves fortune cookies, and the name Una Chin-Reilly looks like some Chinese girl married an English gentleman and then went to some remote galaxy…

But honestly, this is just an yellow face on white actor, and we should say it as it is.

I personally have zero zeal to exfoliate these matters due to some present physical ailments. But I do think of the trouble Asian actors… nay, Chinese-American actors and actresses had in America… Once eminent Chinese movie star Zhangziyi once said something to the effect that Chinese female actresses can only get roles for “whores and prostitutes…” echoing centuries of “exotic play thing” stereo type for all Asian women. This, really, sucks!

Anyways, it needs to be said because there’s still something really kinky about employing a Chinese women. Like, I don’t know how showbiz works, with revelation of decades of Weinstein, Spacey, I mean even Hanks… the all time wholesome guy that may have been role model to many young kids growing up, myself not completely excluded..

Would it be fair to say that the world has been merciful to Chinese women that they’re not lured and welcomed into this money and fame making machine? Lest they have to regularly perform these degrading sexual acts that they know their family, friends, countryman an ancestors would not tolerate. Would it be unreasonable to express gratitude to the world that these women were not entrenched in backstabbing business practices of this world? That they’re remain the wholesome persons that we think of?

Many will disagree with me. There might even be a (distinctively derogatory) name for the condition that brings about these thoughts in Chinese, and in English…

There’s yellow face in Trek. But it’s okay. I think the people involved are already working extra hard to enhance the world-view of its fans, broadening their ideal works to include Asian people. The fact this fictional future now seem to have Asian descendants of higher proportion, more close to present day proportion than there ever have been in this franchise, is something that we Asian Americans must celebrate.

That the producers and CBS/Paramount have to work in the early 21st century America does not in anyway diminish the significance in demographic shift, even if only in name, is very very heart warming. I never could have imagined today. An Asian Chief petty officer—one of O’Brien caliber, Another Asian face at Ops named Mitchell, a Muslim looking head of section 31, Capital Sulu,… every little bit is worth celebration. Our lives are wonderful. We live in a most marvelous century, best there have ever been!

But yes, there’re some very futuristic yellow faces here as well.

Btw, has anyone noticed that the story writing on this show is quite a different genre than Discovery and Picard? It’s back to more being about the collective known as the Federation discovering and experiencing as it’s individual constituents discover and experience. This vital element of Trek, where the growth of our volkseist hums along with the growth of individual. When Capital Pike grimaces and expresses disgust and intolerance at the child sacrifice in S1E6, it mirrors not only the audience’s feelings but also the feeling of Federation. I don’t see a doomed human fighting to lessen a child’s survival, I see myself and the future humanity fighting for him. This complex projection of tiny flickering pixels onto our psyches.

That is not to say the other shows lack German descriptions. Certainly Picard aims at the zeitgeist at its time of production, and Discovery attempts to attain weltgeist of our galaxy… and all in good fun. Picard calls the Jurati the “Doctor!”, like you know, in the British fantasy Dr. Who where everyone calls the protagonist the doctor. And of course Dr Who series 13 E5-6 just had to use a Trekkie Vulcan long-life-and-prosperity gesture for opening Sontaran ship doors. Great! Which btw, honestly, despite the words coming out of the mouths of the characters, I feel that Dr. Who is more of the Horror Fantasy genre, having poltergeists… I mean what’s with English creative people? Got too much fog? Harry Potter was so horrifying to read, for Ajish’s sake, is this really children’s literature? What in the name of all that’s good and wholesome are they smoking from their smog? Why they make evil Asure so absurdly revolting in a pretty way? That this happens in the founding place of the industrial revolution begs the thoughts that these must be result of multi-generational smog inhalation, exotic heavy metal poisoning and alien manipulation amongst many others. But I digress…

For older busy people who live stressful and sedentary lives, sometimes one develops constipation. Sometimes lasting for years leading to hemorrhoids and other problems. It seems that consumption of OTC fiber is not recommended for long term use as it can either cause one’s nerves to forget either how to detect the need to defecate., or cause the relevant muscles to forget how to do it.

I think I had accidentally watched some YouTube videos about a miracle formula mixed with a full cup of water. I started drinking large cup full of water just before sleeping. This seems to wake me at wee hours of the day with urgency to use the bathroom. And everything that needs to go passes easily at that time.

So, if you have aforementioned problems, and you are desperate enough to forsake an uninterrupted night of sleep for some regularity, give this trick a try. It might do you some good.