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  • Did you mean "open ocean creatures"? While tuna can dive 500-1000 meters, and while technically "deep sea" refers to >200 meters, I generally consider "deep sea creatures" to be those that live primarily/exclusively in environments with no light and high pressure, like on the sea floor (~3500m) or in trenches (down to ~11,000m).

    But I could be wrong! Maybe a marine biologist or oceanographer can clarify? (Lemmy needs a Unidan, minus the ego and voting fraud.)

    Either way, zero overlap with any feline habitats.

  • I haven't seen this mentioned (sorry if it was and I missed it), but I want to question rule 2a:

    Comics should be a full story, from start to finish, in one post.

    Even in the newspaper days, it was common for comic strips to have ongoing plots, with each day's strip presenting the next part in the story (with the plot usually starting on Monday and being resolved by week's end, although some were ongoing serials, iirc Dick Tracy was like this). So the way this rule reads, it sounds like you would need to publish all strips from the same storyline together.

    I think the rule is intended to prevent someone from breaking up comics that were initially presented together and intended to be read in one chunk, or otherwise truncating a comic (e.g. the meme version of "this is fine"). If that's the case, it's a reasonable expectation, but the current wording is unclear. It's hard to recommend alternative text since so many exceptions exist (what if the panels were originally posted one at a time? what about bonus panels? What if the bonus panel was only published to patreons? What if the strip was reformatted from a graphic novel for mobile-friendly re-publication? etc etc.) But maybe something like this would work: comics should be posted in their original format (e.g. multi-panel strips should not be split up). But this is already covered somewhat by rule 4a: "Comics should [...] be unmodified." So maybe rule 2a is unneeded and only causes unnecessary confusion?

  • Japanese speaker here, confirming the translation 👍

  • Human life spans do increase substantially (although not to 300) in the Star Trek universe. From Memory Alpha:

    The average Human life span had gradually increased during their history. The average life spans during the 22nd century was about one hundred years. (ENT: "Observer Effect") This average age was still roughly the same during the 2250, but had risen to 120 by the mid-24th century. (citation needed • edit) However, at some point in history the average life span for Humans was only 35, and by 1999 it had become higher than a millennium earlier. (ENT: "Similitude"; VOY: "11:59") Leonard McCoy had by 2364 reached the age of 137. (TNG: "Encounter at Farpoint")

  • Nearly every isekai I've watched/read has involved a lot of brushes with death and/or having to repeatedly pull yourself out of near-impossible situations. Not sure it's worth the magic and elf-girl harems...

  • Conundrum: STNG overlaps in time with DS9 (even if they didn't, they're both part of the same "universe" as posed by the question), so by selecting the universe of STNG, does that mean having to live through the Dominion war? Not sure that makes it a deal breaker either way but definitely takes some of the utopian edge off.

  • Yes, but with many more sorting options. (What does "newbie-friendly" even mean?)

  • Instance selection at sign-up remains the primary barrier to entry.

    I think there needs to be a quick question form upon sign-up, going over the biggest differences between instances. Such as: "do you want downvotes activated? Do you want to see NSFW? Do you want little, moderate, or heavy automated blocking of potentially objectionable material?" etc, then have the sign-up page provide you with up to three instance options based on your selected preferences.

    Otherwise you're either forcing users to do this research on their own ("ew, homework just to sign up for social media? no thanks") or they're going in blind and selecting at random, very likely ending up on an instance with qualities/features they don't like.

    A separate issue: during the big 2023 rexit (when I moved over), the primary instance that most new users joined, lemmy.world, was a buggy, buggy mess, practically unusable for the first few days. I don't know if that was specifically because of the influx of new users or if it just worsened problems that had skated by when there were only a handful of users before, but I imagine the bugs turned away quite a few potential new Lemmings. Hopefully that won't be an issue this time around, but I guess that depends on how big the exodus is and how much Lemmy infra has strengthened in the 2.5 years since.

  • This will never happen for the simple reason that Texas's outline is too damn iconic.

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  • We saw what happened when Internet platforms tried to be inclusive of differing viewpoints:

    Nazis

    Is it any surprise, then, that people started doubling-down on their echo chambers?

  • Happy Meal toys are usually franchise tie-ins with popular kids movies and other media, right? (I haven't actually seen a Happy Meal since the turn of the millennium so idk).

    Are there any series that show in-universe media? I feel like the closest thing is maybe that drug-game from STNG (s5e6).

  • I don't care, I'm not giving up the em-dash in my own writing. Good luck reading half of my run-on sentences without it~~~

  • Giving you an upvote because I think this is a legitimate position, but I strongly disagree. AI has become so pervasive in our lives that it's extremely difficult to avoid even offline, so I see no problem with someone saying in an irl conversation, "I wish my mom would stop sending me AI slop videos" or "I can't help but feel paranoid I'm going to wake up one morning and find out I've lost my thesis work to the latest microslop update" or "I've started dreading work ever since they hired 'workslop Bill'"

  • My comment was more about the use of "female" as a noun, but your comment about which to use as an adjective raises an interesting point, especially because, as you mention, the generation to regularly say things like "woman doctor" in a not-so-great way has mostly died out. I'm not sure where things stand currently on which adjective is preferred; I think it's mostly contextual at the moment? (Like "I would feel more comfortable being examined by a woman doctor" sounds grammatically a touch clunky but connotatively fine to me, whereas "I can't believe what that idiot female doctor diagnosed me with" sounds grammatically correct but otherwise awful)

  • I agree that

    Jinx's actions are extreme, but I think the writers do a satisfactory job of setting up the final scenes. They show Jinx overhearing Silco and her misunderstanding that he will turn her in to show her feeling cornered, they show her losing previous allies like Vi and Ekko to emphasize how she feels completely abandoned, and they show her suffering hallucinations to demonstrate her fragile mental state. What she does is sad but completely tracks with her character and the setup from previous scenes. Then her attack on the council is (I interpreted) a means of lashing out after Silco dies, while also to get revenge and honor him in a way that she thinks would have made him proud. Again, completely tracks with the setup.

  • "Female" instead of woman or girl.

    Edit: as in, where "woman" or "girl" would be grammatically correct. e.g. "a lot of females work at that company" vs "a lot of women work at that company" or "that company has a lot of female employees"

  • I actually thought the ending to S1 was brilliant, especially for a cliff hanger, and that the first arc of S1 was the weakest of the three (although E3 was quite good), and that S2E7 was just okay, so it's likely that we have different tastes.