Welcome to the party!

Some people here may be watching Star Trek for the first time.

Whatever do you mean? I’ve been under the distinct impression that all Star Trek fans came pre-installed with at least one TV/movie series already under their belt from watching it as a kid.

Anyway, I cannot watch this episode without also dwelling on DS9’s Trials and Tribble-ations, and all the other additions to the franchise featuring the troublesome fuzzballs or references thereabouts. The Trouble with Tribbles such a dumb, silly episode, but it manages to hit enough of the right notes to be memorable and likeable. I find TOS a bit difficult to watch compared to basically everything that came after it, but I always enjoy TTwT.

Nice! My first thought seeing the photos was “now replace the grass with creeping thyme”

The fact* that no one ever comments on or reacts in surprise to Data’s body temp following physical contact with him (even though many people react to his appearance, especially on first meeting) leads me to assume that it’s actual pretty close to standard humanoid temps. Perhaps his circuits run warm.

*IIRC; please correct me if I’m wrong

Article is from a month ago

“Rave Ramsey” makes him sound too cool

To learn more about earth-eating in animals and humans, check out the Wikipedia page on geophagia.

I feel like I had what wasn’t quite a stroke, but perhaps a minor brain bleed while reading that.

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Can I take a second to swoon over your instance name?

I’m pretty sure this is a typo, but something about “just deserts for Trump” feels more appropriate.

Do you mean “intrinsic” and “extrinsic”?

This was my favorite strip on the comics page when I was a child. Significantly better kid-humor to Boomer-humor ratio than the legacy strips that often dominated newspapers. You could definitely tell the author was on the younger side (basically the only places to find video game related strips that side of the webcomic revolution). Still had the stereotypical golfer dad that was inexplicably universal in the late 20th century comic strip world, though (yet another reason why Calvin and Hobbes is the GOAT). Zits was another strip actually geared toward children/youth.

For whatever reason Twitter chuds ignore all animated shows.

Velma

I have heard that bee hotels can spread disease (can anyone verify?). Any thoughts/plans on cleaning or refreshing the rooms?

Accidentally leaving an appliance running sure hits differently when you’re a farmer

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.

For Japanese cooking the resource I’ve been very happy with is https://www.justonecookbook.com/

But I’ll have to check yours out too!

You got newts and salamanders (somewhat) backward:

From Wikipedia: Unlike other members of the family Salamandridae, newts are semiaquatic, alternating between aquatic and terrestrial habitats. Not all aquatic salamanders are considered newts, however.

Not to take away from your experience (seriously, I’m glad you enjoyed the episode), however I recently rewatched the first few episodes of Voyager, and I thought Janeway’s character (or at least the portrayal of her) had aged really poorly.

For example, there’s a scene between her and B’Elanna where they’re manically finishing each other’s thoughts on some technobabble, and all I could think was “the writers felt this conversation was necessary to show the audience that both these characters are more than qualified for their positions in spite of their gender.” It felt performative rather than empowering. I get a vibe from Janeway that’s more “this is a woman trying to be a male captain” than “this is a female captain” or even “this is a captain who happens to be female.”

Granted it’s not like the other main characters are necessarily much better (Star Trek, why you always gotta start off so rough?), but Janeway feels like she’s trying too hard to prove something, which would be fine if that were part of the plot/character description, but this is Starfleet, they’re supposed to be past gender issues. There are a lot of things that date the show, but I think Janeway is possibly the biggest example. Which is frustrating, because I really want to like her.