[-] Corgana@startrek.website 17 points 1 day ago

I appreciate their efforts, but if we want Lemmy to succeed as a network it needs to be something other than just another endless feed of mindless content.

[-] Corgana@startrek.website 2 points 1 day ago

It's a really good well made philosophical movie, it just doesn't have a lot of the action and drama I think a lot of fans expect in a "movie". I appreciate that Trek's film debut wasn't just some extended episode but a bold™ move.

[-] Corgana@startrek.website 6 points 1 day ago

Yes! But not in a very long time.

[-] Corgana@startrek.website 7 points 1 day ago

I like "Waking Moments" (the one where Chakotay knows if he sees Earth's moon then it's not real). It's creepy!

Also I like "These are the Voyages". I await your ridicule.

[-] Corgana@startrek.website 3 points 2 days ago

I was just thinking the same thing. It's rare that the bullshit from tech companies is so quickly identified packaged and labeled like that (even if we are still calling it "AI").

[-] Corgana@startrek.website 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I agree! Don't run your mouth in public then complain when someone asks you how do you know the thing you're running your mouth about is true. If in 2034 someone who has never seen snow wants more evidence than some idiot on the Internet's feelings on the topic then asking is totally justified.

[-] Corgana@startrek.website 15 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I think it's totally reasonable to ask for a source about a historical claim if something hasn't been true for over a decade?

EDIT: My source for this opinion is here

[-] Corgana@startrek.website 7 points 3 days ago

The average Joe or Jane have no idea about ad blocking possibilities. They think ads are just the normal price you pay for surfing the web.

Actually about a third of all users have an adblocker installed. Adblocking has been mainstream for a while, no doubt why Google finally stopped pretending they were OK with it.

[-] Corgana@startrek.website 11 points 5 days ago

I do not think the future of the fediverse lies in general purpose instances but that said, IMO Beehaw is the gold standard of a general purpose instance.

[-] Corgana@startrek.website 6 points 5 days ago

Post scheduling is huge! Lots of good stuff in here.

[-] Corgana@startrek.website 5 points 5 days ago

This is one of those features that might not seem very huge but is a core thing that Reddit can't have. Very cool.

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I quit as the top mod of /r/StarTrek in 2021 in protest against Reddit's platforming of vaccine disinformation subreddits. Then in 2023 during the API protest, myself and several of the remaining mods (including mods from /r/Risa and /r/DaystromInstitute) started StarTrek.website.

The consensus I've seen on Lemmy has been largely "we don't need to spread the word about our open platforms because Reddit will do something stupid again and there will be another protest and Lemmy will be promoted there". So I hope we can take this as a lesson that we can't rely on platforms being shitty in order to switch society over to open standards. We need to do our best to make Lemmy/Mbin/Piefed good as well as known.

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For most of this episode I thought it was a good (if a bit on-the-nose) commentary about our societal distraction sickness and everyone living literally in a bubble. The hero was someone who literally able to walk on his own two legs, etc. But once they went underground everything kind of went loopy?

Where did the slug monsters come from? The idea that they came from "outside the (city's) bubble" kind of reinforced the idea that it's dangerous to hide from what's scary. But then we see the homeworld was also eaten destroyed by the same slug-monsters? If the slugs are controlled or created by the dots, are we meant to understand that the people of the home world are similarly walking around in bubbles? If so, then why does Finetime exist? The whole premise of an off-world "perfect" colony seemed to imply they were providing some service to the home-worlders beyond their 2 hours of "work". Why would a society of people living in bubbles send their youth to a faraway planet?

Then we see that the dots are capable of quickly killing the inhabitants. So where did the slug monsters come from? Why did the dots not just kill zippoty zop? Were the slugs obeying the dots alphabetical order parameters? Were they created by the dots?

At this point I was like "whatever it's Doctor Who, the plots are never as consistent as the vibes!" But then the vibes changed completely when it's revealed everyone is racist?!

My best guess is that this is some bungled way of comparing the people of Finetime to our modern social problem with radicalization on social media, like "look beyond yourself man" but that feels a bit of a stretch. I feel like I'm missing something big here!

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Until Disco S3, "Living witness" was the furthest future we had seen in Star Trek. But Academy takes place after Discovery. At the end of "Living Witness" the Doctor is described as heading towards Earth.

Assuming the burn didn't get them, it's entirely possible two EMHs are surviving in Discovery's time. I think it would be a fun twist if it wasn't the EMH we expect!

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This was mentioned elsewhere but I thought it was cool enough to deserve it's own post. The artist is Dusty Abell and they are selling copies on their website here: https://www.dustyabell.com/products/star-trek-doctor-who-friendship-is-universal-print

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