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- Comment on Recently I haven't even opened Lemmy 3 weeks ago:
If you think you can make a better lemmy instance than anyone else, just start one up. It's free and open source, and there's good tutorials out there.
Since it seems that you're convinced that with your ideas you can create massive communities, you should surely be able to become the largest Lemmy instance out there.
- Comment on Just some fun size comparisons 4 weeks ago:
I appreciate the link. I've seen the phrase "The end of History" before, but after reading about it, I can't help but think the phrase has a quaint "Manifest destiny" vibe to it, people making some really powerful proclamations they'll regret later.
- Comment on Enterprise-F in all her glory 4 weeks ago:
I didn't even know it was there. Honestly, having a phaser emitter right next to a hinged point only raises way more questions for me!
- Comment on Enterprise-F in all her glory 4 weeks ago:
I feel like phaser emitters on nacelle pylons is a general nono.
Typically you see them on thicker areas and further from the warp nacelles.
I imagine having a bunch of phased energy next to the source of your warp field could be tricky.
It would also be particularly bad if your phasers had some sort of catastrophic failure and it blew off one of your warp nacelles, or if the enemy ship was targeting phasers and blew a hole through your pylon in the process.
Unless I'm misreading the image and someone is trying to shoot the pylon.
- Comment on Just some fun size comparisons 4 weeks ago:
Interesting thing is that everything shrunk after the Galaxy Class.
I'm thinking it's because the galaxy class was a relic of Star Fleet's golden age. Most of their enemies were either allies or quiet, they started to think this little war thing was beneath them and turned their flagship into a luxury cruise liner.
I wonder what post-Wolf 359 Picard would say if he met Season 1 Picard. Hell, I wonder what post dominion war Picard would say to both of them?
- Comment on House elects Rep. Mike Johnson as new speaker, breaking weekslong stalemate 5 weeks ago:
It's sorta funny that the other guy lost the vote and instead of pulling a Kevin McCarthy and going "how about now?" 16 times, the guy took his hat out of the ring and before you know it bam -- there's a new speaker.
https://video.fbxl.net/w/oFthi6CFmxGvSr15VAJR7W
Nobody else likes it but this combination of politics and anime makes me laugh every time.
- Comment on Hamas says over 700 Gazans killed in past day in widened Israeli strikes 5 weeks ago:
Interesting, I guess kbin can interact with lotide communities even though lotide can't interact with kbin communities yet.
- Comment on A touching quote from Nimoy's "I am Spock" book (1995) 5 weeks ago:
I remember reading that book. His first book was called "I am not Spock" and was talking about all the stuff that's Leonard Nimoy alone, but this one was about how he'd internalized a voice from his character who would have the Vulcan point of view.
One of the most interesting parts of the book was where Spock pointed out there's no need to fear death because it's non-existence, and you won't be there to care. Considering I read this when I was still in grade school, it was a pretty big revelation.
- Comment on Prime minister, defense minister and IDF chief deny reports of beef 1 month ago:
I might be the only one who thinks this, but it feels odd using american urban vernacular in an Israeli newspaper discussing something between two Israelis.
I thought the message was truncated. Like "reports of beef what? Shortages? Shipments? What's going on with the beef?!!?!?!"
- Comment on White House: Israel will decide on Gaza strategy, we’re just asking questions 1 month ago:
"No I'm not telling anyone what to do, I'm just asking questions, that's all!"
You remember hearing this on the Fediverse anywhere?
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- Comment on Tesla cuts prices on Model 3 and Y after dwindling deliveries 1 month ago:
That makes the most sense to me. I'd prefer something I can mostly use in EV mode but can use gasoline or diesel when the chips are down and you need to deal with non-ideal conditions.
- Comment on Tesla cuts prices on Model 3 and Y after dwindling deliveries 1 month ago:
They're just going to be a limited number of people who want to buy these EVs, and what we're starting to see is more and more companies producing their own.
- Comment on Government shutdown updates: Biden signs 45-day funding bill to keep government open 2 months ago:
My viewpoint is that right now the United States federal government is headed towards total destruction. I started worrying about the US debt when it was about 8 trillion dollars. Over the course of an incredibly short period of time, that is ballooned to 32 trillion dollars.
This isn't sustainable. The United States is already past a point that most economists agree is a point of no return. Passing 100% of GDP in debt is a certified bad thing.
So what's going to eventually happen is all the money coming in from taxes is just going to go to Banks. Interest rates have only risen a little bit, and I believe interest payments this year are going to be greater than the cost of the entire military. It's on track to get even worse.
At the rate the US is going, everything's going to get shut down. All of your friends will either be unemployed or getting paid in valueless money that can't be used to buy anything. Meanwhile taxes will have to continue to increase to pay bankers in New York and Beijing.
Stuff like social security and Medicare are going to just go away because there just won't be any money for it.
I would not be surprised to see a massive sovereign debt crisis in the next 5 years. Then we're going to get to see just how ugly things can get. It'll be a lot uglier than a government shutdown that takes place for a few weeks or a few months.
- Comment on Government shutdown updates: Biden signs 45-day funding bill to keep government open 2 months ago:
That's a shame.
- Comment on 3 men found not guilty of supporting plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Whitmer 2 months ago:
Leftists still claiming to be liberals ought to be terrified at the implications of the levels of corruption on display.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
I notice that hexbear is defederated from exploding-heads.
Let's just say "similar reasons manifested differently"
- Comment on Neelix calling Tuvok "Mr.s Vulcan" Is actually Tuvok's fault! 2 months ago:
I still don't understand why they thought Neelix would be the breakout character when every breakout character has been something like a Vulcan or an android who looks in on humanity from the outside and acts to comment on the human condition from the point of view of someone with a completely different way of being.
Oh and look at that! The breakout character in Voyager ended up being a former Borg struggling to deal with humanity and individuality! (People go "hot girl in catsuit" but there were plenty of hot girls in Voyager)
I guess it just goes to show that by this era the people running trek didn't really understand it.
- Comment on U.S. State Dept refuses to answer questions about US AID funding "to make Coronaviruses that are weaponized" in Wuhan. 2 months ago:
I'm not saying woodchippers, but woodchippers.
- Comment on Comparing Air Fryer Prices: Finding the Perfect Fit for Your Budget 2 months ago:
Clearly you don't own an air fryer.
- Comment on Star Trek: Infinite could be the grand strategy game Trekkies need 2 months ago:
I dunno. I don't really feel like the character of Star Trek fits within the typical combat game template.
The whole point of the franchise is exploration, finding out what's out there, and expanding the realm of the possible. If I'm in charge of a Starfleet starship, I fully expect some number of my encounters to be techtech'd away or for many of the challenges to be moral rather than tactical.
The enterprise no bloody a b c or d was in constant peril, but the enterprise d was only very rarely in a situation they couldn't shoot their way out of.
- Comment on Riker sits down 2 months ago:
Til!
- Comment on The Louder the Monkey, the Smaller Its Balls, Study Finds 2 months ago:
As someone who drives a subcompact car, I can get behind this.
But if I ever buy a truck we'll have some words.
- Comment on Riker sits down 2 months ago:
I wonder if this is a riker thing or a frakes thing?
- Comment on Opinions wanted: defederating with bot spam instances 2 months ago:
Defederation is a big deal because it's a solution that acts like a bomb, indiscriminate and destructive.
"I don't like this" great. Lots of people don't like stuff, and they shouldn't sub to stuff they don't like, and unsub or block users and communities they don't like.
The problem is that someone is making a final decision for everyone on that instance, about everyone on the other instance.
Person A on instance A doesn't like something Person B on instance B said. So they call for defederate. Suddenly, nobody on Instance A can see anything anyone on Instance B says and vice versa. Person C on instance A wasn't offended, Person D on Instance A liked Person B's content. Persons E and F on Instance B are perfectly fine people who never did anything wrong.
But nope, Person A defederates, and now nobody on either instance can talk unless they want to either hop around instances trying to find instances that are neutral to both(and there is such a thing as "guilt by association" on the fediverse so Instances might defederate just for not defederating with Instance B), or they'll need to have a bunch of accounts to get onto a bunch of different parts of the fediverse.
Defederation in anything but the most extreme of circumstances is actively damaging to the fediverse. Prior to the reddit migration, most lemmy instances were highly trigger happy with defederation, and fairly ban happy too. Thus, the system just stagnated. People still actively avoid the threadiverse because nobody wants to be walking on eggshells wondering what incorrect political opinion is going to get everyone on their instance dumped.
It's particularly bad with lemmy, because communities are server-centered instead of being decentralized. If you're subscribed to a bunch of communities on an instance and that instance defederates from you, then you're not only disconnected from the people on that instance, you're disconnected from all the other people on all the other instances connected to that community.
So rather than "I'm unsubscribing from this newsletter I don't like", it's "I don't like some of the articles in this newsletter, so I'm going to force everyone on my block to unsubscribe whether they want to or not"
- Comment on What's Your Favorite, Not at All Epic, Star Trek Quote 2 months ago:
I just mentioned it yesterday: "the thing to know about dealing with romulans is that they are without honor."
Thanks for the hot tip, worf.
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- Comment on lemmy.world admins handing out petty bans to people criticizing yesterday's controversial decision 3 months ago:
I had a big story for you, but the bottom line is you can take redditors away from reddit, but he can't take the Reddit out of the redditors. Still very smug, a shockingly ignorant about the rest of the world in spite of acting as if they know about everything going on in the world. And even though they are wrong about many many things, they're all there to group think so objectively incorrect things will be heavily supported.
Since the reddit migration, I've seen so many instances where they just deny reality because it doesn't matter if they deny reality because everyone around them agrees with them. And if you don't agree with them, maybe it's time to be defederated.
Really annoying. They should all go back to reddit, just like how you can read about how much Twitter sucks on twitter, they can just make a new subredded about how much reddit sucks.
- Comment on Fallout 4 has been released on GOG 3 months ago:
You only really own a PC game you bought on gog. Everywhere else you're just renting.