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That boat show, made by the same people who made Dark, was pretty good. Think like LOTR's first movie - it does wrap up, even if it had also meant to go onwards (and in this case did not).

Midwest.social has The Onion and Lord of the Memes, another Memes community (~1 post per day) and so on. That may not be a ton of content but it's something so I leave it.

Also people may choose a server based on geographic proximity for low ping, so there is whatever future content they may add as well. I tend to never run into those individual-city communities even on All, and when I do I block them. I gotta admit that I am conflicted about that and might do differently one day, especially as the sort algorithms improve - like perhaps I should switch from Subscribed for the stuff I really want, then All for things that I normally would not be exposed to like what's going on in Sydney Australia (to pick one example!:-P). But I can always get that by logging out, and right now using All already offers a wider experience, without having to see every other post be for sports.:-D

I felt the same. Fortunately my first experience on the Fediverse was on Kbin.social - where those were already blocked for me, so I got a sense already of what the Fediverse could be, without them - but when Kbin.social virtually stopped working and nobody had heard from its owner Ernst for weeks at a time I gave up on it and shifted to Lemmy. Which was HORRIBLE, until v0.19 allowed me to block lemmygrad and hexbear.

For anyone wondering how (these directions are for the webpage version, desktop or mobile I think): go into your "Settings" (not Profile), click Blocks on the right tab, scroll WAAAAAAAAAY down (at least for me it's a long scroll b/c I've blocked a ton of individual communities as well), and type in the name of each instance you want to block. So lemmygrad.ml, and hexbear.net, and whatever else you want. I put up with lemmy.ml for the memes it brings - but yeah, most of the time when someone retorts with the most child-like attitudes, it is them:-).

The Fediverse is more wild frontier territory right now - on Reddit daddy spez "takes care of you", and ngl it's a fairly high-end experience, one which we cannot begin to replicate right now, from the technical standpoint. Then again, I will never ever go back: there just isn't anyone that I want to talk to there ("and my axe", "I also choose this guy's wife", and so on leave little room for anything else, especially if it deviates one single iota from the Group-Think), whereas here I sometimes find more quality conversations that seem worth my time.

If it helps, here is what Kansas did: went bankrupt, thought about it, then decided to do it again. Thought about it some more... well you get the drift.

What a time to be alive! Actually probably all times are this way, but climate change does put a bit of a new twist on that old theme:-(.

The problems that robots face are not unique to them.

True, but he was built for a purpose: to emulate humans. So ask yourself: would a human ever do that? Uh oh... you're right, they're screwed, aack!? :-D

I think I was "wordy" - I appreciate your thoughtfulness and conciseness both.:-)

I have heard of this "touching grass" phenomenon, it's supposed to be really good:-). I think I will try it myself too, when it is a bit less brutally cold though:-P. So then instead of meditating inside, I can meditate outside!?

Probably bc even though you are fine, you are aware that most others aren't:-(. Empathy is good... even though it hurts.

Ironically it's the people who just DGAF who feel fine, but aren't.

It's arguably better to be aware of it than not then?

Meditation may help.

Most of the humans and other aliens there could also kill everyone there, if they wanted to - e.g. Capt. Picard, or Geordi La Forge, or Beverly Crusher. Data is a bit of an exception in that without anyone else around, he could still fly the ship on his lonesome. He could also just float around in the cold empty wastes of space for a few hundred years first, to avoid being caught by any authorities.

What stopped him wasn't some "override" - or if one existed, he demonstrated multiple times how he could also override the override - but the simple and plain fact that he did not want to. They knew him, they trusted him, they understood his motivations. And, e.g. if he ever did kill everyone, his career in Starfleet would most definitely be over. Plus, they were his friends. That is a powerful blocker:-).

I get you.

Even toddlers learn to speak first by babbling, and only later to converse and communicate with someone rather than talk at them. Some technological platforms have even evolved to facilitate that - like instead of "^This" and "I also choose this guy's wife", what about emoji reactions that do not extend the length that you have to scroll through to find the next substantive comment? Except that - this is the enshittification part - when ads can be placed in-between comments, or even someone hopes that they could be in the future, or more likely they want to purposefully obscure the signal so that "x number of comments appear on this post", rather than "x number of comments + y number of emoji reactions", that works against their profit model. (and yeah, there was "awards", but who even used those, plus they just were not... good, especially for this purpose)

About both that and being combative: fwiw, we all are that way - the good thing is that some of us are honest about it, which gives hope for change.:-) But we all will have bad days when we are cranky and especially when we feel "attacked" we feel the need to strike back, and the feelings at least are not wrong, just how we handle them may not be so productive.

So I get you - I am the same way, though fortunately less and less over time. Leaving Reddit truly has helped me leave a lot of that behind. Over there that is just the "expectation" that people encourage you to do, but the culture is better here.:-)

Spez did manage to understand something real about Reddit: that many people (not all but enough for the sake of his profits, he hoped) want to speak, rather than listen. Never mind about feeling heard or it being worthwhile by adding anything to the conversation, just simply, plainly, shouting your opinions into the void. Like Discord chat except based on topics rather than channels.

Those of us who HATE that about Reddit, and want a greater balance, enjoy it here much more.:-)