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Tagger, in In honor of the late William Anders, here's a really great video on the "Earthrise" photo and how improbable it is that we have it at all

ELI5?

Corgana, (edited )
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my dude it is a youtube video and I am not chatgpt

magic_lobster_party,

Why spend 15 minutes to get the answer when it can be explained in a few paragraphs?

Corgana, (edited )
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the answer to what?

lunarul,

Most people don’t like a paragraph worth of information being stretched out into a 14 minute video. Luckily someone already provided the info in another comment.

FiskFisk33,

Because the video is nice in and of itself. You do you though, no one’s forcing you to do anything.

magic_lobster_party,

There’s nothing wrong with wanting a short TL;DW summary. I’ve already seen the video a while ago, but I don’t remember all the exact details.

frauddogg,
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I’m convinced this is what death of attention span looks like

porous_grey_matter,

Death of attention span is real but not wanting to listen to ten minutes of bullshit waffle, please like and subscribe, for two minutes of information is not it.

frauddogg,
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That could be someone’s creative output. Hell, that could be the paycheck someone’s eating off of-- and you and others like you out here “can it be condensed? I rly don’t wanna hear it”. If it’s not death of attention span, then it’s atomized, anti-social fuckshit; so either way this ain’t the defense strat you think it is

porous_grey_matter,

Ok? We’re not obligated to watch stuff just because it’s someone’s creative output. We don’t owe this person a paycheck through YouTube ads. Everyone’s got the right to have the necessities of life but that’s got nothing to do with this. Different people have different interests, and someone who’s really into this subject or this creator might want to watch the whole thing, but not everyone has to.

frauddogg, (edited )
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It’s the principle of the thing. You clearly have the free-time, otherwise you wouldn’t be here. You clearly have the interest, otherwise you wouldn’t be in this thread. And yet, you demand an abridging of someone’s creative output to suit your entitlement. Tfu.

If you only have the time to demand abridgings of people’s work, maybe you shouldn’t be on this site. I’m sure twitter or reddit would be more your speed.

Corgana, (edited )
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Nobody is obligating anyone to watch this video.

magic_lobster_party,

When the internet is riddled with clickbait and sensational headlines, we’re getting quite protective of where we want to put our attention.

frauddogg,
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Still not a defense for demanding abridgings to suit one’s entitlement. If I think something is sensationalized or clickbait, I move the fuck on without demanding somebody else play stenographer for me.

blackwateropeth,

No it you’re sensitive af, just don’t respond next time.

Corgana,
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https://media.tenor.com/ZohSx_-2oCMAAAAd/wtf-what.gif

tf u smoking? that dude responded to me

blackwateropeth,

Tf you smoking, he wasn’t asking you directly. That’s not how these platforms work. Go outside you’ll feel better.

Taako_Tuesday,

Basically they weren’t originally planning on taking a photo of earth from the moon. The fact that they even had a camera was due to interest from a few astronauts in the earlier missions. The camera had its viewfinder stripped to save weight, so the astronauts couldnt see what they were filming. On that mission they were only planning to take photos of the moon’s surface. And then they decided in the moment as the earthrise happened, that it needed to be photographed, and out of tons of shots they only got one clear image.

Maybe a little clickbaity but “It’s highly imporbable that they got this shot” doesn’t ring the same

Tagger,

Brilliant, thanks.

DrBob,

Doing God’s work.

Admin, in The Doctor Who wiki has forked from Fandom and is now self-hosted
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Good for them! I have said this before, but I would be more than happy to have a chat about providing hosting to M-A or at least offering them wiki.startrek.website (or whatever) assuming it’s sustainable of course.

askryan,

I hope they’re open to it. Man what I wouldn’t give to use Memory Alpha without all the annoying Fandom garbage.

factolvictor,
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@askryan @Admin Fandom excessive ad policy is really annoying.

JoMiran, in Amazon Will Inject Ads Into Prime Video Starting Jan. 29th
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I got Prime for the shipping, so I won’t cancel. If there is anything I really want to watch…🏴‍☠️

BolexForSoup,
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They’re getting your money anyway and you aren’t putting any load on their servers. I don’t think they mind.

JoMiran,
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Yeah, that was the point. The service I signed up for remains unchanged and I am still pleased with it. Prime Video was originally a quirky perk full of awful low budget content. If there is anything I like, I will pirate anyway because streaming services cannot be trusted to keep content available. So ultimately nothing has changed for myself or Amazon.

Other than The Boys and Wheel of Time, is there anything else worth watching on Prime?

PS: Never “buy” digital content with DRM. Buy physical media of the stuff you love. It supports the creators and it safeguards your purchase.

ShadowRam,

Grand Tour, Expanse, Clarkson Farm

iMastari,

The Expanse is a great series.

JoMiran,
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I forgot about Expanse. Amazing series. Amos Burton is one of the best SciFi characters of all time.

wesker, in Reddit has a new AI training deal to sell user content
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Enshitification Phase 2.

SpaceNoodle,

Phase 4

Cold_Brew_Enema, in Jon Stewart Returns to "The Daily Show" as Host and Executive Producer

Fuck yeah, man. He was the best

rdyoung,

I’ve had major respect for him since he was on crossfire way back in the day. He took those guys to school and then beat them (verbally) like a rented mule. Crossfire went off the air shortly after his appearance. If you have never seen that episode do yourself a favor and go watch it.

Endorkend,
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And the painful thing is that all that dressdown, which should have ended careers, resulted in was to set Tucker Carlson on a path of becoming the face of the extreme right.

rdyoung,

I really hope he changes his mind and runs for office at some point. I’d vote for him for president.

And shit. I just realized where this was posted. This isn’t related to trek at all but why the fuck not.

Corgana,
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Come to Quark’s, Quark’s is fun!

rdyoung,

I’m not really a bar kind of guy but if there was a quarks type place near me I might hang out there. There are a couple of “barcades” in my city and at least one of them has some punk and other rock shows on the regular, I keep meaning to take the time and check them out.

fsxylo,

His face looks like he forgot how to drool.

Cold_Brew_Enema,

Same. That clip is gold. Made tucker Carlson look like a total moron

fsxylo,

You don’t see him wearing a bowtie much anymore.

princessnorah,
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oscardejarjayes, in Where do you fall politically?

I’m an anarchist, and very much into industrial unions.

Catradora_Stalinism,

anarcho syndicalist?

oscardejarjayes,

That would probably be an accurate description of me, but I think simply “Anarchist” has wider implications. I do more than unions and I think eco-anarchism and popular assemblies might possibly be a more effective path towards the eradication of unjust hierarchies.

HumanBehaviorByBjork, in Jon Stewart Returns to "The Daily Show" as Host and Executive Producer
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you can’t even get him to host it daily? at this point just shutter the show. there’s plenty of people doing good lib/progressive political comedy (and way more doing it badly), but a legacy network like Comedy Central has nothing to offer them.

bionicjoey, in I'm getting tired of making generally bad OC

Nobody wants OC for OC’s sake. They want entertaining content. Effort is irrelevant. Frankly I looked at your post history and your risa posts aren’t that funny to me. Which makes sense if you’ve been forcing yourself to make them. Humour should come naturally.

canis_majoris, in "This is a tremendous achievement" - Lemmy is sitting at ~36K active daily users across all instances
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It’s like the entire site is the size of a small subreddit.

Corgana,
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36k is referring to daily active users, not total accounts, so the whole network is more comperable to a single medium-large subreddit.

canis_majoris,
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I’m happy with that, honestly.

I have quality conversations with quality users because it hasn’t been diluted.

RGB3x3,

I miss the larger conversations on smaller communities that Reddit had, just due to its size as a site. For example, r/BeachHouse or r/HighQualityGifs or any miscellaneous game subreddit.

But I’d bet Lemmy can get there over time. It’ll just be fairly slow-going at first.

CeruleanRuin,

Which is weirdly ideal, if what you want is a sense of actual community.

Once you get to metropolitan numbers, you get the same paradoxical disconnectedness that you find in a densely-populated city.

lung, in What's the consensus here regarding Babylon Five?
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Yeah aside from the hard continuity issue where the main character’s actor in season one developed mental illness and had to quit - one of the most engaging sci fi universes

They really go into ideas that other shows skim over, like aliens having to breathe different atmospheres, being radically different lifeforms that need mysterious suits to interact with humans

The show is primarily a political drama, which is actually refreshing. It’s not all shootouts, it’s a lot of diplomacy. But not so incredibly serious that it’s tedious, Babylon 5 is often comical, with its outrageous alien characters

Basically a hidden gem, maybe on par with Andromeda or something. A unique b-list cult series. Has been a few years, might be time to watch it again for me

startrekexplained,

Never saw Andromeda either, should try it out as well

lung,
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Kevin Sorbo (Hercules) got into some weird shit later in life, but it’s a great “lost in space” style show anyway. They cruise around in their lil space shippy solving mysteries or whatever. Nothing too original but fun

startrekexplained,

Yeah Kevin Sorbo is some Christian fundie now who does anti-atheist propaganda, lol

StillPaisleyCat,
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I can’t recommend Andromeda.

I attempted unsuccessfully to slog alone through the first season. Our kids bailed after a few episodes.

The fact that it’s fans say the early seasons are the better ones gave me no incentive to persevere.

KingSlareXIV,

Damn that’s insulting, putting B5 and Andromeda on the same level. And I say that as someone who enjoyed the first 1.5 seasons of Andromeda.

The worst B5 episodes are vastly better than anything in the last three years of Andromeda.

lung,
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Yeah it’s worse, but hey, they both made 5 seasons lmao

ShranTheWaterPoloFan,

The worst B5 episode is probably the technomagus one, and I was going to argue, but you are very right.

Andromeda is so much worse than B5.

StillPaisleyCat,
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The first season can be hard to slog through due to the alternating wooden performance / theatre extreme facial expressions of the principal character.

I had really enjoyed the 90 minute pilot (with a different first officer) and was surprised how stiff he was when the first season.

While there’s a lot of important set up in the first season, if it’s too much of a barrier that you’re not watching B5 at all, better to skip ahead to season two.

lung,
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Weirdly enough I was all aboard the season one captain, really loved the show right away. I was super disappointed that he didn’t make it back for season 2 - but eventually it was fine

VindictiveJudge,

Michael O’Hare was pretty healthy when they filmed the pilot, but got worse after, which is part of why season 1 was delayed; he took some time for treatment and JMS held off on filming until he was ready to come back. He took a turn while they were filming the season and it affected his acting. He came back for a guest appearance later on when he was feeling better and put in his best performance as the character. He retired shortly after, though.

Shadow, in "For All Mankind" season ending coming up - Star Trek fan thoughts?
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Hi Bob!

corsicanguppy,

Hi Bob.

Rom, in Amazon Will Inject Ads Into Prime Video Starting Jan. 29th
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The enshittification of the internet continues unabated.

StillPaisleyCat,
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Remember viewers are again a product to sell to advertisers rather than customers of a streaming service.

Bonehead, in Tech Billionaires Need to Stop Trying to Make the Science Fiction They Grew Up on Real

All I want is for one of these super rich fucks to start obsessing about preserving Earth and building massive carbon capture plants that also generate clean drinking water from the air. Dump billions into pulse fusion reactors and build them into every carbon capture plant. Create a stable biodome...right here, on Earth. And use the entire planet for the experiment. Can someone please get on that?

reagansrottencorpse,

You don’t get super rich by thinking of others.

Stamets, in StarTrek.website now has a wiki (and mission statement)!
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S-tier blank Trek meme templates

Well, I have access to every episode of Trek. I’m not great at making new memes but if you want a template re-made or cleaned up then I can definitely do that. Otherwise… @The_Picard_Maneuver I think this is a job for you, my man.

patreon shill link

Nah. Make that bigger. Put a header tag in front of it at the bottom. Y’all deserve it for making this place as awesome as it is! This wiki only being an example of it.

Thank you all for being awesome and giving me a new home that I have utterly ruined with memes.

Admin,
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Thanks for the kind words, I was just throwing random ideas out there to get juices flowing about wiki potential.

Perhaps we should rename the instance to “Stamets’ no bloody A, B, C or D-tier meme emporium and other minor associated Star Trek communities”

Stamets,
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But of course. Y’all deserve it!

As for the name change, I don’t know if that domain is available

negativenull,

BTW: stamets.website is available ;)

Stamets,
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If I had the money I would in a heart beat…

tkn,
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If I might gently offer an alternative suggestion for how to fund ST:WEB, check out my post on Medium (link below). It’s the first in a series on my ideas about how to reshape the internet for better human survivability with tools we’ve had in our open-source toolkits for years. tl;dr: reduce the friction between the consumer and the content by focusing on cost and cutting out the ridiculous proliferation of middle-men while eliminating the need for advertising revenue.

medium.com/…/saving-the-internet-for-humanity-dol…

And hilariously enough, my wife JUST sent me this post: cbsnews.com/…/irs-delay-600-reporting-form-venmo-…

This means that with my plan, no tax burden… :)

deegeese, in All hear this, all hear this: On July 10th, c/Quarks will become "local only" and participation will be limited to users with StarTrek.website accounts.

That’s a total bummer but I’m not moving my whole identity for one single community. If everyone did this, Fedi would be an ever lonelier place.

Bye 👋

Admin,
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ValueSubtracted,
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I’m legitimately curious: what is the appeal of this community to a remote user?

deegeese,

On my home instance, the community !meta is for discussing issues specific to the instance, it’s not really relevant to people not using the instance.

On startrek.website, the Quarks community seems to primarily discuss Star Trek adjacent topics which are of interest to many Trek fans.

I think it’s great that you guys want a private community for discussing things only relevant to the instance. I just wish you hadn’t chosen to close a community with broad external interest.

ValueSubtracted,
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Thanks for the response.

We’ll probably relax the rules on c/startrek a bit to allow a degree of Trek-adjacent content that we might have previously punted to Quark’s.

I’m thinking of stuff like the Paramount acquisition drama, which is off-topic but clearly still relevant.

Expanding outward from there into stuff like “here’s what Frakes is up to,” we approach territory that can be covered just as well elsewhere in the Fediverse.

deegeese,

Trek-adjacent discussions

Literally the first topic of this community, according to the sidebar. Sales of expired Yamok sauce are also relevant to Trek fans on other instances.

ValueSubtracted,
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And to be clear, Trek-adjacent discussions will continue to be allowed in Quark’s. I just don’t think making the community private will be some great blow to the Fediverse.

If it helps, we will allow sales of expired Yamok sauce in c/startrek, provided the seller can produce a certificate of authenticity.

deegeese,

I just don’t see how closing everyone else out from Trek adjacent discussions helps the community.

The whole point of federation is letting people with varied interests come together. It doesn’t work if every niche interest makes their “general” board private.

ValueSubtracted, (edited )
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I mean, if we’re talking about the sidebar…

General off-topic chat for the crew of startrek.website.

But I do understand and appreciate the perspective. It’s in-line with the internal discussion we had when making the decision.

deegeese,

But aren’t all Trek-related discussions on-topic?

If you’re going to ban “outsiders” from off-topic chat, you should also ban on-topic chat from the off-topic community.

ValueSubtracted,
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If the concern is that we’re going to have a sooper secret, members-only Star Trek discussion group, that is not the intent. If we were going to do that, we’d just make the instance private.

deegeese,

No, I’m concerned about balkanization of the community of Trek fans.

ValueSubtracted,
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Oh. Okay.

starkraving666,
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@ValueSubtracted @deegeese you're joking, right?

I only discovered this place after I was on fedi for 3+ years. It's incredible and amazing to be able to participate remotely. I honestly can't fathom why you WOULDN'T want that. But hey if they want to close it then bye I guess.

ValueSubtracted,
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From what I can see, you’ve only participated in this community once, nine months ago.

The other communities (StarTrek, Daystrom, Risa, etc.) are all staying open and federated.

starkraving666,
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@ValueSubtracted oh I didn't realize there were requirements for "participation" my bad

ValueSubtracted,
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It was just a point of clarification in case you misunderstood.

starkraving666,
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@ValueSubtracted oh I completely understand now that liking, boosting, or privately enjoying posts is not an acceptable level of engagement in an online community where "participation" is required. Thanks 🖖💫

ValueSubtracted,
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OK

jonny,
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@starkraving666
@ValueSubtracted
Never trust an instance with a closed governance process

jonny,
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@starkraving666
@ValueSubtracted
Except jorts which transcends governance entirely

DakkiReads,
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@jonny @starkraving666 @ValueSubtracted wait, we have governance?

I thought the owner of this instance just set it up in some substance-induced euphoria and then forgot it existed

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