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The Bard in Green

@ thebardingreen @lemmy.starlightkel.xyz

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  • Technology Consultant.
  • Software Developer.
  • Musician.
  • Burner.
  • Game Master.
  • Non-theistic Pagan.
  • Cishet White Male Feminist.
  • Father.
  • Fountain Maker.
  • Aquarium Builder.
  • Hamster Daddy.
  • Resident of Colorado.
  • Anti-Capitalist.
  • Hackerspace Regular.
  • Traveler of the American West.

  • As an average OG ex-redditor, Lemmy needs to move away from it's base barebones UI to something like Photon by default, here's why.

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  • I love the Lemmy UI.

    But I'm a gen Xer.

    There's some great analysis floating around of how different generations actually interpret UIs (and make decisions about how or whether to engage with them) very differently. So there is no "one size fits all" that will make everybody happy. Change the Lemmy UI to something like Photon and I'd be like... "this is dumb." Making a bunch of very different options is a lot of work. If you want to do it... no one is stopping you. The Lemmy project is opensource and you could go start contributing and making pull requests today. You could go run your own instance and make it look like whatever you want and get the average redditors to join that. I run my own instance. We have a whole two users. It works exactly the way I want it to and federates with exactly who I want it to.

    Frankly, I'm not sure Lemmy needs to go out of it's way to appeal to the average redditor in order to have a thriving, healthy community. Sure, there are some things I miss about having a giant user base to engage with, but honestly, I'll trade them for the MUCH MUCH lower toxicity. I don't know that "growing Lemmy" should be our focus. It's not like we're getting paid.

  • Run amok time

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  • Run amok time

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  • Dun dun dun dun dun dundundun dundundun.

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  • I once experienced the carpet morphing into a fractalized Aztec mandala, which I then fell into and spiraled downwards through into a vast lime colored underground sea in a cavern full of purple bats.

    This happened while I was trying to have sex (amazingly, we succeeded, it helped that my wife was sober).

  • James. Fucking. Holden

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  • Ah yes Jean Luc "the Hero of Canton" Skywalker. My very favorite member of Commander Shepherd's squad.

  • You know what, K'mpec, if you want me to wear 37 pieces of flair, like your pretty boy over there, Gowron, why don't you just make the minimum 37 pieces of flair?

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  • "And of course, the bombs and the rockets and the bullets are all shaped like dicks. It's a subconscious need to project the penis into other people's affairs. It's called: “FUCKING WITH PEOPLE!!!” -George Carlin

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  • Tekeli-li!

  • Yeast

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  • marmite

    yummy

    I'm really sorry, but you lost me.

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  • Indeed.

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  • I could see a world where all politicians are required to do a guided LSD trip prior to taking office being better than this one.

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  • I actually met this mother fucker in Mexico in 1999, giving a talk on habitat preservation at Lagoona San Ignacio to a bunch of C list celebrities who were there to support the Natural Resource Defense Council and it's efforts to stop Mitsubishi from building a salt extraction plant in the middle of a gray whale breeding sanctuary (super good cause).

    I was there with a bunch of high school students who's rich white parents paid for them to go on an expensive ass field trip to watch whales fuck (and do eco protest activist tourism). Coincidentally, the NRDC was there too and they got really excited to invite a bunch of American highschool students to their media shindig.

    RFK Jr. got SUPER drunk and gave a sloppy, rambling, barely coherent speech, thanking people for their generosity. The kids were like "WTF is up with this dude? We've never seen grownups act like this!"

    We did get to hear some really cool marine biologists talk about gray whales. Then one of THEM (Roger Payne, I think) got really drunk too and told us "Whales are people damn it! But you can't publish that! You can't fucking publish that!"

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  • Silly human, clams are for squids.

  • I have a bad feeling about this.

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  • R2 and Chewbacca, secretly running the entire Rebellion together since RoS.

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  • I think I've dated a couple of those and narrowly avoided dating a couple more.

  • ♬ But when your a professional pirate… You don't have to wear a suit. ♬

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  • They are actually the evil ones and they enjoy slavery

    That's not it. They don't enjoy slavery, they aren't slaves. Orion culture is strictly matriarchal. Those women in the dancing girl costumes, they OWN that ship, set it's agenda and define it's targets. Given what we've seen of Orion culture in other shows more recently, it's extremely likely that they are sisters and nobility on Orion, that their mom runs an arm of a major interstellar crime syndicate, they literally own that "slave trader" dude and could kill him or have him killed with zero consequences. But it's more profitable to control him and others like him with sex drugs.

    They make men into their mouth pieces and prey on the misogynist assumptions of the galaxy by showing patriarchal cultures what they expect to see from slave traders, then turning the tables on them.

    Lower Decks did an awesome job of showing what the culture would evolve into given a few hundred more years and some more modern attitudes (and did it hilariously, and with a sex positive, feminist take on it).

    Yes, the imagery is problematic and stems from artistic choices made in the 60s (literally more than half a century ago). But even in the Enterprise era, they were looking for ways to reinterpret that imagery and turn your assumptions about the power dynamics it implies upside down. That was the whole point of that episode. That's why people "think it's cool".

  • Spock discovers Rule 34.

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  • Why anyone would depict you, myself and Doctor McCoy in such a position captain, frankly defies logic.

  • Quarks: The best burgers and a whole lot more!

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  • Come to Quarks, Quarks is fun, Where's the beef? Don't walk run!

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  • It is indeed EDS. 🙁

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  • My wife has a genetic disorder that (among many other things) causes her spine to herniate at the drop of a hat. She's had to have emergency surgery multiple times.

    About a year and a half ago, a neurosurgeon was operating on her and came to talk to me and my mom who were waiting. She was extremely excited, in that like "academic who just saw something new" kind of way, because my wife had the third biggest herniation she'd ever seen, and the largest in a patient under 70 (my wife was 34 at the time). She asked if it would be OK if she invited a professor from the local university and a couple of his grad students to come look at it.