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Yeah, that’s another thing. Especially common among “exiled Cubans”/Cuban immigrants, who all seem to talk shit about Cuba and support conservative anti-Cuba organizations - well duh, if they had liked it in their home country, they would not be in the US today.

It’s a selection bias. It reminds me of the times transphobes started picking apart transfeminine subreddits detailing how much misogyny, hentai, sexualization and typically male socialization things like hardcore gaming, programming, fringe ideologies and “edgy dank memes” were common there and that it supposedly shows that trans women are only really men. Well, duh, you’re on Reddit! Probably the most male dominated mainstream social media site! It’s not a trans thing, it’s a Reddit thing, and by just looking at Reddit, you are just looking at a subset of people who were socialized male and stay in those socialization spots. If they went looking for transfeminine people on more traditionally feminine-dominated social media sites like Tumblr or Instagram, they would find a completely different group of people who might look at the Reddit community with animosity. It’s like looking at women on 4chan for women’s issues.

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Go back to Reddit, I thought we were beyond blatant woman hating shit

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For a reason.

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“I just want to avoid a problem I made up”

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I don’t mind this.

LtLiana ,
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?? I specifically don’t use KDE because I cannot stand its modern design. I’m on Trinity DE because I want something more 2012. This is not 2012 at all.

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Or he didn’t know and it was just another appointment to cross off his calendar, most likely.

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The more you “they/them” this guy and conflate this with transphobia, the more you equate men with a crossdressing fetish with trans women. He did not deserve this obviously, and kinks are good and nice, but I am really, really over “allies” who constantly equate crossdressers and fetishists with trans people.

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Sexual harassment is not funny just because the victim is a straight guy. If this happened to a woman, everyone would be rightfully up in arms.

LtLiana ,
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That’s how I met my girlfriend, unironically, lol. Since then I have to explain to family why I have a huge-ass dog crate in my bedroom. :3

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aww that’s cute!

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TOS really hasn’t aged well, but Discovery isn’t even up that low bar.

LtLiana ,
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From campy 60s sci-fi written by a visionary, to upper class rich Hollywood writers’ idea of what’s “brave”? I feel more represented in the first one than in the high-fidelity America advertisement in the second picture. Not by much though, TOS hasn’t aged well.

DS9 is the pinnacle of queer Trek.

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I don’t mean the political takes or anything, I meant more the super-stiff acting, the campy premises and the lacklustre “world building”, even though I dislike the term. All not the fault of the show at the time or anything, but I cannot enjoy any TOS rewatch these days.

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How did we get from “in the future, humanity can build a utopia if we leave conservatism in the past and boldly go to explore the wonders of space” to “the power of friendship and believing in good® is the only thing saving humanity from the cruel world we have built”?

I mean, it fits the Americanized capitalist realism of new Trek, but it’s depressing. When did we downgrade back to platitudes and traditionalist values?

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Yarr, her head full of goo.

Just wanted to thank this community for helping me have the best birthday I've had in years

Going to lie down because it’s hot as balls in my apartment and also because I’m just exhausted from not sleeping great. Thus why this is being posted randomly in the middle of the day. I was going to post this tonight but god knows if I’ll even be awake....

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I’m glad! Happy (belated) birthday!

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I feel so talked down to by these. They’re even more unfunny/more quippy than the first season of Orville, and that’s saying something.

Why can’t some writers these days not just let something absurd be played straight and let the viewers laugh? Why do we need a character explaining the joke out loud? “Uh-oh, that alert isn’t part of the song! Guyss!” How to ruin a decently funny situation in one easy step.

Imagine if movies like “The Naked Gun”/“Police Squad” or “Airplane!” made the characters explain and comment on every funny moment.

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CBS just really, really wants to drive home the point that they loathe golden age Trek. From erasing Janeway, Dax, Kira et al from “strong women of Trek” (before Prodigy) to constantly reinventing the wheel, to this.

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Two people can be literally the same person. Your argument only works if there’s a magic law that says there can be only one real ‘you’.

LtLiana ,
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Am I not the same person as I was yesterday?

Sure, I am now different both to a molecular level and due to the experiences I have made since, but for all linguistic and social intents and purposes, I am the same person I was yesterday. Because “person” is already an arbitrary term we put on this collection of atoms merely based on continuity, like the Ship of Theseus. If we went by “spatial-temporal space”, then I would be space dust, a collection of bacteria, fluids, cells, proteins… and who “I” am would change every few seconds.

The same is true for two Rikers. That’s the entire point of the episode; that despite them diverging at the point of the cloning into two different people, they are still the same person and need to live with that.

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You’re the kind of guy to argue that when I cut a sandwich in half then there are two sandwiches.

LtLiana OP ,
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But Fandom is not operating the wiki, the community is. They couldn’t care less about “the cash cow” it is. Being the largest wiki by far makes them a prime contender to move over to another solution.

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… which other projects easily manage with donations.

LtLiana OP ,
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The Memory Alpha “bureaucrat” is user “sulfur”, who has their Discord listed as sulfur#3610 on their user page.

The Memory Beta head administrator I believe is Captainmike, who has their Discord listed as Captainmike#1381 on the user profile page.

Other than that, there’s also the List of Administrators on Memory Alpha.

The GamingWikiProject, while largely about game wikis, also helps people who want to build up an indie wiki project: Click here

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I don’t see a reason why any self-respecting editor of an extensive wiki would like to stay on Fandom. It provides no benefits, and they have regularly sabotaged wiki projects.

LtLiana ,
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On Lemmy, on the Fediverse at large, or Star Trek communities in general?

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Moneyless society doesn’t mean a post-scarcity society. There’s clearly poverty on some Federation fringe worlds. Only Earth and the other core worlds really are paradise. The others have always been implied to work towards their bettering but not being quite there yet.

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Plus given the track record of how the Federation is represented in recent Trek especially, I don’t trust them to portray actual paradise.

In Picard we see car-centric Americanized cities, the FNN just being a thinly veiled once-again American CNN clone, everything’s about the West and its culture again (this was already bad in old Trek, like why San Fran and Paris are the most important cities and how the Xindi weapon fucked up the USA instead of literally any other place on Earth). It’s like they think being in space and having technology makes paradise, and culture wouldn’t change at all.

I trust single novel authors more than huge production companies and writing rooms.

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When I write fan fiction I make a point out of exploring parts of the Trek universe we have not seen at all or only very little of. It’s very fun, especially because you can finally subvert some of the more illogical things, like why almost every species seems to be monocultural under one flag and name with one home planet that’s named after the species, why humanity is so over-represented in the Federation, why there are no spacefaring nation states, and all.

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That’s difficult, honestly. Most of the novels I read don’t put much of a focus on the societies they live in, more on the characters or cool phenomena. I personally liked the depiction of Earth in the Department of Temporal Investigation novel series (which, by the way, is excellent anyway), but even that wasn’t very specific.

As for fan fiction, I personally try to write much more plausible fiction that doesn’t take “human-ish” patterns for granted; e. g. some of the species we explore don’t even form nation states, I put more of a focus on non-humanoids, I try to make Starfleet and Federation names and representation equally distributed among member species (e. g. no USS Einstein, but instead like USS Rogra jav Baur, after the Tellarite diplomat), and look at super underrepresented peoples, subcultures, professions and areas to flesh them out a bit. I also assume that in the future we are talking about, important places are all over Earth, not just in the USA and Europe. Like, the hero ship freighter that I am writing about currently is called the SS Kyakhta, after the Russia-China trade route in the late middle ages. The Captain is a non-binary elderly Kaferian. And the only human crewmate is from Daşoguz, Turkmenistan; which developed into quite a bustling center for high-quality engineering schools.

But I haven’t read much other fan fiction with the same values; most Trek fan fiction is centered around the main characters of the shows, usually in a romantic or sexual manner. Not that that’s bad, I just wish there was more general, plausible-for-a-show fiction too.

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I’ll start:

If you love the Department of Temporal Investigations and resolving all kinds of one-off time-related plot lines, check out the DTI novel series, starting with Watching The Clock!

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yay -Rns cancer cancer-lib32

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Hope he gets well soon. An inspiration to us all.

LtLiana ,
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-R removes a package. -Rs makes sure that all the then-unused dependencies are also removed along with it. -Rns is not really recommended for general use, but the -n flag removes configuration backup files (in case you consider those bloat).

For more info, check: wiki.archlinux.org/title/Pacman#Usage

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“I’m not reselling your book, I am selling a machine that holds a mathematical formula that partly represents your entire book word for word and can reprint it on command!”

LtLiana ,
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Either we make all art a common freely licensed good and pay artists a flat solidarity wage to feed them, or we don’t do that and keep it how it is, but having a loophole exception for some AI corporations is not the way to go.

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Hey, computational linguist here who works with large language models. This is the most ridiculous thing I ever read.

LtLiana ,
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Have you looked at male cops lately? They don’t go into the career to help people, they go there because it gives them power, weapons and authority.

LtLiana ,
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It wasn’t this way before. Lemmy had existed for years before Eternal September.

LtLiana ,
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This blog post makes a point about how the strength of the Fediverse is that things can be decentralized into topic-specific instances instead of general use communities.

I am on StarTrek.Website. We only host Star Trek communities. It is much nicer there than on Lemmy.World.

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The more content, the more people check regularly, the more content. It’s a cycle. Because there’s not much there currently, there aren’t many people. We all have a duty to post things.

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By that logic, we should extinguish humans too.

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Did anything ever genuinely happen since Net Neutrality has been repealed? None of the things that people warned of really happened.

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I have to agree here, there’s a pub around the corner here (Germany) that consistently gives away free beer to recovering alcoholics because they think it’s the funny and manly thing to do.

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