fireweed
@fireweed@lemmy.world
- Comment on Guidelines for dancing 1 week ago:
Why does the girl have a Klingon forehead growing out of the crown of her head?
- Comment on *Throws grenade and runs* 1 week ago:
Actually Star Trek: Lower Decks covers the issue of using AI for nefarious purposes. In the series finale, an enemy Klingon superimposes video of a Starfleet admiral over herself making a message ordering the handover of a Klingon asylum seeker (second-in-command smells something fishy and hides the asylum seeker, until the video is confirmed a fake). Then in the comic Shax’s Worst Day, the head security officer, Shax, uses the holodeck to recreate the bridge of a ship he just commandeered to pretend to be the captain he just killed while communicating with evil universe Starfleet command.
It should be noted that Lower Decks was made in the last decade, and not only incorporates a lot of contemporary social/technological issues and concerns, but also is a comedic reflection on the Star Trek franchise, and freely calls out things that have made fans go “huh?”
- Comment on SBA #243 Sins and Virtues 1 week ago:
I always enjoy seeing these. Why do they inevitably get so many downvotes?
- Comment on I’m doing my part! 2 weeks ago:
I will readily admit, I feel a sense of pride cross-posting a meme from a general community to a niche community that fits the content perfectly. Sometimes they end up out-performing the original post!
- Comment on Anyone know where to find an archive of the "@TNG_S8" parody twitter account? 3 weeks ago:
Oh sweet, I’ll go check it out!
- Submitted 3 weeks ago to startrek@startrek.website | 3 comments
- Comment on It's Burning Man 2026 week... 4 weeks ago:
Don’t forget the air pollution!
- Comment on When life gives you lemons sell them. 5 weeks ago:
How dare you use my likeness for such filth.
- Comment on Doorless showers just make a mess and everything ends up wet 5 weeks ago:
There’s diversity for sure. Old, rural, traditional Japanese homes are huge, most apartments are tiny, and standard single-family homes are usually somewhere in-between. The layout pictured here is most common in houses and apartments with multiple occupants; single-person apartments (especially cheaper or more modern ones) often have a more western-style “unit” bathroom with everything shoved into one room. But there’s a lot of variety; for instance some places have the sink and tub/shower together while the toilet is separate. Japanese homes (especially apartments) often only have one bathroom, so separating out the bath, toilet, and sink/vanity is actually a space-saving compromise, because one person can be using the toilet, one taking a bath, and another brushing their teeth all at the same time with relative privacy without the need for a second (or third) bathroom.
- Comment on Attorney general: ‘Everyone is Welcome Here’ sign cannot be displayed in Idaho schools 5 weeks ago:
I wonder what it takes to really piss OP off if they only consider this “mildly” infuriating.
- Comment on Doorless showers just make a mess and everything ends up wet 5 weeks ago:
This is the way most Japanese showers are set up, and it works well because the shower/tub, toilet, and sink/storage area are three separate rooms.
Here is a (simplified approximation of a) common layout:
- Comment on 'Tis the season 5 weeks ago:
I’m sorry to hear that; I hope you’re doing well.
- Submitted 5 weeks ago to science_memes@mander.xyz | 15 comments
- Comment on New Delhi - during lockdown vs now 5 weeks ago:
I’ve cross-posted this to “Actually Infuriating” where it belongs.
- Comment on 'Tis the season 5 weeks ago:
Sorry, but it’s too fucking hot most places to even think about spooky season right now.
- Comment on The Price of this Candy Bar 5 weeks ago:
Making tortillas from scratch is also not that hard, and that way you never have to worry about pre-cooking shelf life, as long as you generally have flour, oil, and baking powder kicking around.
- Comment on Smile and grit your teeth. 5 weeks ago:
I’ve always heard the phrase as “kneading biscuits.” Muffins are made by stirring/folding in ingredients.
- Comment on Those moutains are so quaint 1 month ago:
That I have but one upvote to give!
Here, have some Lemmy gold 🥫 (it’s a can of beans)
- Comment on Those moutains are so quaint 1 month ago:
… How did we get here from mountains?
- Comment on onions 1 month ago:
Interesting, I wonder if it’s a stress hormone withdrawal thing (kind of like caffeine withdrawal, another common headache/migraine trigger). I hope you are able to find a good balance! Not being able to relax sounds like it’s own kind of hell.
- Comment on onions 1 month ago:
How is relaxation a trigger? I’ve never heard of that and am genuinely curious, because usually triggers are the opposite: lack of rest, overexertion, etc.
- Comment on onions 1 month ago:
Both raw and cooked? I’ve heard some people can tolerate cooked but not raw. Either way that’s a rough deal; onions are in so many dishes.
- Comment on Time flies 1 month ago:
This meme so old it’s now 30 years
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Ha! In my case I noticed that my comment basically duplicated another and was redundant. I want to make an Ariana Grande comparison but I simply don’t know enough about celebrities to do so and you know what, I’m okay with that.
- Comment on Please critique this in terms of its raising awareness of the less aware. It's old news to us, but will it help people wake up a little? 1 month ago:
Just from a graphic design perspective, it’s way too busy. Too many slogans; pick one or at most two messages (e.g. one at top as into and one at bottom as outro). The text is way too small to read on mobile. When everything is highlighted text, nothing is highlighted text. The art style for the icons is not consistent. The rightmost column has to go; either put the info at the bottom of the image or delete.
- Comment on the Home Alone house then and now 2 months ago:
There’s a whole trove of portrayals of happy, loving single-child families out there! You just have to look to China’s one-child policy era.
“But Fireweed! This is literally propaganda!” It’s all propaganda, whether it’s “be content with one child” or “be fruitful and multiply.” Media depictions of large families appear fun and loving because the creators make it that way (the more kids the more you have to work with: there’s the jock kid, the geek kid, the uptight kid, the…). Even media about the difficulties of large families (e.g. Cheaper by the Dozen) still end with everyone being happy and loving because it makes for a feel-good ending; that doesn’t mean it reflects reality in the slightest. Society doesn’t like to talk about the darker sides of large families because of heteronormativity, but there’s some media out there portraying large families as hopelessly dysfunctional (Shameless for instance, or you can read about any of the large family “reality TV” shows that have ended in scandal).
Remember that we’re in unprecedented times; large families used to not only be the norm but were practically required (have lots of kids to work the farm, or because you don’t know how many are going to survive to adulthood, or because there’s no social safety net for when you become old/sick/injured except your family members). Nowadays it’s the opposite: more kids equals less resources to go around, and unchecked population growth combined with unchecked consumption is wrecking the planet. But media hasn’t caught up yet, and with influential, wealthy people out there screaming racist nonsense about “crashing birth rates” and “great replacement theory,” there’s pressure to continue to portray large families positively and small families poorly. It’s the same situation as the propaganda I linked above, but in reverse.
In other words, rejoice that you’ve eschewed the media narrative and done the right thing for your family! Also forget visual media (where creators use large families to portray the appearance of a happy family, because more kids = more hugs and smiling faces in the shot = more love, right?) and look to books, where there are plenty of depictions of loving, functional, single-child households.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
The bird on the left hand side is actually a shoebill, a fellow Pelecaniforme.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
I assume it wasn’t drilled into them by whoever taught them to drive. Using turn signals is so natural to me that I don’t think I could stop using them without an extended effort at deprogramming myself.
- Comment on Fr Fr on.... God 2 months ago:
What is this painting? A gay knockoff of The Last Supper?
- Comment on This Apple Lie at the grocery store 2 months ago:
I was planning to eat this pie as my sole food over the course of 2 days for my One-Meal-A-Day (OMAD)
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