Imagine being born 10000 years ago where chances that you died before adulthood were significant and even a minor infected cut would likely mean your death, not to mention any more serious injury such as a broken bone 🥰

Don’t get me wrong I hate modern wage slavery just as you do but I also appreciate not being dead yet just because I had a rough accident three years ago.

Any show that tries to paint the federation as less than aspirational has entirely missed the point of trek, and the product is a stillbirth.

Pointing out flaws, or highlighting the morally grey areas like ds9 did is fine, because it still preserves the federation as a multicultural utopia.

E: always nice to get downvotes without further discourse. How does anyone consider “the office but in the alpha quadrant” star trek? I don’t want to watch random people doing a mediocre job in some bureaucratic apparatus while they wear trek uniforms. I don’t want to watch s31 as some sort of idiot CIA. I want to watch modern TNG.

A sense of wonder and optimism, the exploration of fantastic things never seen before. Engagement with philosophy and real world issues through a sci fi lense. A hopeful tomorrow, a ideological roadmap to utopia.

Don’t forget that really only a small part of the global population lives in the west / “wealthy” countries. Our presumably western perspective is just biased even if we don’t like to think so. And then, of those few, a bunch are so much more rich than the others that they skew the average. And half of the people living in those wealthy countries have considerably less than that skewed average.

If you think about it, it helps understanding how absolutely dirt poor literal billions of people really are on the global scale. Even the poors in rich countries don’t have it much better.

Unironically the mindset of guys like cm002.

Nooo we can’t do that because I don’t 100% align with the beliefs of lemmys devs so I’d rather see the project go broke

Why? UK doesn’t have the american Gestapo.

Well I guess it comes down to probability. How often does the average social media user delete their uploaded pictures because their phone storage is full? Or why would they delete those if they just got a new phone? If they are degoogling, why would they delete content on Facebook? (I know this one is pedantic, sorry). Also, transforming? What

Point being, chances a 14 year old insecure girl will delete pictures of her face off Facebook are like a hundred times more likely because she thinks she looks bad in them than for any of your odd reasons.

Why are you skipping over the alternative venues of revenue I suggested that wouldn’t be as problematic? Because without you couldn’t paint me as irrational, asking the poor corpo to not make more money than last quarter at their customers expense 😔

They can pay their employees just fine. They do this because the investors want their returns.

First of all, I don’t have a horse in this race. My media is stored locally and used only by my household. I really don’t give a shit if a corporation needs more revenue to satisfy their infinite growthTM.

My issue is with how they are doing it. Provide an extra service or function, introduce a higher tier with priority treatment or so. Thats fine with me.

What’s not fine is taking something away people used to get for free, because the shitty venture capital business model isn’t feasible and only provided these things to capture the market, and now comes the nickel and diming part of providing ever fewer services and functions for ever increasing amounts of money.

As for jellyfin, thats open source AFAIK. So why even mention that here as some sort of gotcha? If it enshittifies people will fork it and move on.

I’m just curious, why are you so vehemently defending a shitty move by a corporation? No matter how you tackle the issue, taking away a function that used to be free and evidently has no costs associated to the corp is a textbook example of enshittification.

It is pretty damn obvious how this will continue.

You ever watched any of the mirror universe episodes?

Because that’s basically what happens. Vulcans make first contact, humans shoot them in the face, loot their tech and use it to build an interstellar racist empire.

Huh. Meanwhile I always found that scene awkward, brooks trying his best to sound melodic but contrasted by an actual singer.

Where is the “i time traveled to the 21st century social unrests and all I got was this lousy role in history” face?

Don’t aggregate me pal

Oh yeah that’s probably a thing, right. Didn’t think of external relations

Isn’t that what the stardate is for? Since it seems unlikely humans would adopt a wildly confusing system that also doesn’t seem to be related in any way to earth or its culture.

At least that’s what I always assumed, the stardate is the unified federation calendar.

I’d say it is more notoriety than popularity.

Thinking of it perhaps it is the client I use that does it, voyager. I have never not been using it ever since I joined lemmy so i often forget that i might have a different experience than other users.

I have a sum total displayed in my profile which works as I described, and assumed that is what everyone gets to see.

If it is the same as for me it should be the sum of your posts and comments. What and how popular wouldn’t matter, just each submission equals one point.