JWBananas @ JWBananas @startrek.website

aka @JWBananas@lemmy.world

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Oh, great! So it's going to restore all that state funding that universities used to get? The funding that student loans were used to make up after it was cut?

No?

Oh well.

Mastodon is like Twitter. Lemmy is like Reddit. And they both live on the ActivityPub network.

Kbin also lives on ActivityPub. But it has separate Lemmy-style and Mastodon-style areas in its UI.

If you want microblogging and communities, and you want them all in one place, you might like kbin better. If you don't, you might be fine with Lemmy. But since they're federated, you should be able to access most of the content from either side.

Try sorting by Top-Day

I feel like I have waited so long

[Skip Intro]

Kbin. What you want is kbin.

The Cage (in which Spock smiles and laughs) was set prior to season 2 of Discovery (in which Spock is an emotional mess) which was in turn set prior to season 1 of Strange New Worlds.

You probably mean The Menagerie in which he effortlessly and stoicly steals the Enterprise to return Pike to Talos IV (under penalty of death, no less).

But those events are several years away, and it should not come as a surprise to anyone but the most devout of Voyager fans that characters should develop and change over time.

Spock is a dyslexic half human who also just lost his adoptive sister only about a year ago, in a very traumatic and very classified fashion at that. And on top of that, he, like Burnham, is still learning what it means to be human after a youth of being forced to be exclusively Vulcan.

It is logical to assume that one's ability to conquer one's emotions should improve with age and with experience (outside of Trellium-induced brain damage or plot-device geriatric diseases). He certainly seems a lot more in control now than when he was throwing a temper tantrum in Burnham's quarters (despite his setback in SNW s01).

The whole point is experiencing the journey that gets Spock to that point. It is no different than Cadet Uhura versus Lieutenant Uhura.

Isn't that what Trek is supposed to be about? The human[oid] condition?

You might like kbin better. It's like a hybrid of Lemmy and Mastodon.

Surely someone has already written a browser extension to automatically redirect reddit links to archive.[org|is]

Not at all. I love the new. I want more new.

This show is great. But I wish the title had gone to something different.

I would like the strange and new to go. Now.

Forget the Space PCP. Where did they get the training?

I suppose on that moon where it rained blood?

It's a ship shuttle that goes through the gate wormhole. It's a wormhole-shuttle.

...okay, now I understand why he isn't allowed to name things anymore.

The two biggest surprises I've had so far:

1. Lack of federated login / single sign on. It seems bizarre in a land of federated instances to not have the identity provider decoupled (or even truly decentralized). Instance goes away? Poof, there goes your identity. "Backed up" your data and want to import it into another instance? That functionality doesn't exist today. And even if it were added, how do you validate?

I hate to even suggest it just because of how much of a buzzword it has become. But blockchain feels like a possible answer to the identity problem. It would couple one's identity to the network as opposed to the instance.

That's not to say that instance-level identities shouldn't be allowed as well; but it would be nice to have the option. Right now one basically needs to sign up for separate accounts on as many instances as possible to prevent bad actors from posing as them. A universal ID would solve that.

2. Lack of historical data. Are you the first subscriber to !bobswidgets@feder.icio.us through lemmy.world? Doesn't matter if the original community had fiftyleven posts. You only get to see any created after you subscribe?

From Prodigy 1x17 Ghost in the Machine (go to 06:15):

Gwyn: "If we're all stuck in one room, how is Zero all the way over there?"

Rok-Tahk: "Motion floor tracking, visual horizon manipulation. The Holodeck tricks the mind to create any scenario!"

Could have sworn there was a visual in the episode as well, but I can't find it.

It makes sense for topical instances. For example, startrek.website is where /r/startrek and /r/daystrominstitute and /r/risa landed. I saw a post earlier about some all-things-gardening instance as well.

And just in general, I certainly wouldn't want to drink from the firehose. The whole reason I created an account on reddit over a decade ago was to limit what I saw on the front page. Aside from occasional usage for discoverability, I cannot imagine wanting to drink from every firehose, everywhere, all at once.

Most of them. That was the whole reason I created an account in the first place: the home page was too many pictures and not enough text.

In all seriousness, if people add their finds in the comments, I'll aggregate them above. I don't have the knowledge or the time to do it on my own.

Reddit: implodes

USSBurritoTruck: Thank goodness! Now I don't have to rewatch Picard s03e10!

Lemmy: ahem

Edit to add: We again thank you for your service!

It works for me on startrek.website but not in Jerboa