Would be much more interesting to hear your own thoughts instead of just lazily pasting a link to people who are paid to be haters.

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If anyone else was confused, this is Rochester New Hampshire, a city of ~30K people and the 4th largest American Rochester.

in my culture shitting on anything except the three kelvinverse films is a no no

they tried to take our word and they tried to take our culture away

California can still block the deal but I agree it does not look good right now.

At some point I think we will just have to accept that these old guard institutions are dinosaurs that will eventually die because they cannot adapt to the times. The supply of conservative media is already outstripping demand. And unless we get a genuine taxpayer funded fascist media people just aren’t going to watch.

I already started watching Doctor Who, does this mean I’ll need to add on a third franchise? Honestly this is getting in the way of me going through the entire Star Trek franchise for the 47th time.

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Great points all around. “Hope and Kindness” may seem like obvious cliche lessons, but one could argue that in today’s political climate they are as important as TOS calling out societal racism.

“Datalore” is another one that’s important, but it’s not very good. Most of the episode is Wesley running around trying to convince the grown-ups that Data is being weird and being ignored. It’s the one where Picard tells him to “shut up”.

And again in “The Menagerie”!

Implying Spock is fictional

I haven’t loved the post-Burn setting but the way this show is already contextualizing it, and the optimism it’s doing it with is already starting to change my mind.

Same. A lot of that stuff just feels more comfortable with time and I appreciate how Star Trek always pushes it a little bit. People FREAKED OUT with the Klingon changes in TMP/TNG. Then FREAKED OUT that DS9 was on a space station with a “politically correct” captain. Now we think of those things as normal, nostalgic even.

I liked it too, but I find rebuilding to be aspirational. Like maybe the most aspirational thing possible.

im absolutely calling it that from now on

Learning that the Lemmy.world team will capitulate to whatever it’s loudest users want explains a LOT.

Lemmy is just software that anyone can use. Each Lemmy instance with open sign ups has their own rules. But even so- there would be no way of knowing which Lemmy users are equivalent to any reddit user without the user itself making it known.

Yep. IMO, the experience of using social media was pretty good (far from perfect but pretty good) going into 2014, but 2014 set in motion what became 2015. When gamergate-style ““debate”” tactics took over well, everything.

EDIT: And more importantly those tactics weren’t banned by most subreddits

I did the same. Thank goodness for personal block lists.