fireweed

@ fireweed @lemmy.world

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Bon Voyage lemmy.world

1mo ago

What movie franchise gets worse with each new film?
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fireweed @lemmy.world 1mo ago
Star Trek? (Specifically the original series movies)

1mo ago

What movie franchise gets worse with each new film?

Guardians, absolutely. First was brilliant, second starts to fall to Marvel tropes, and by the third I just couldn't wait for it to be over.

1mo ago

What movie franchise gets worse with each new film?

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fireweed @lemmy.world 1mo ago

Glass Onion was disappointing?

1mo ago

What movie franchise gets worse with each new film?

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fireweed @lemmy.world 1mo ago

I thought 3 was a deal better than 2. 2 was generic Hollywood schlock that dragged in the middle; 3 at least attempted some interesting things, and even bordered on artsy at times.

1 was, of course, the best. Haven't seen 4 and 5.

1mo ago

What are some words where the "opposite" one means the same thing?

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fireweed @lemmy.world 1mo ago

Two examples where erroneous usage has resulted in this paradox:

Regardless and irregardless
"I couldn't care less" and "I could care less"

1mo ago

What's your experience?

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fireweed @lemmy.world 1mo ago

Unenviable.

1mo ago

Go. Reverse. Stop.

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fireweed @lemmy.world 1mo ago

I haven't seen Voyager recently though to comment on that series, but you're right about STNG (I had forgotten about the Traveler). The Enterprise wins.

1mo ago

Go. Reverse. Stop.

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fireweed @lemmy.world 1mo ago

I mean, wrap drive itself is kind of a cheat...

1mo ago

Go. Reverse. Stop.

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fireweed @lemmy.world 1mo ago

Ironically the DS9 crew, aided by their numerous trips through the wormhole, covered several times greater distances throughout the series than either Enterprise or Voyager.

1mo ago

George Washington could get impeached by Rakai 👀

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fireweed @lemmy.world 1mo ago

Why do they both look like they're in middle school?

1mo ago

Update: anarchist.nexus has been refederated

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fireweed @lemmy.world 1mo ago

I see. Thank you for clarifying; the timing was unclear in the original post.

1mo ago

Update: anarchist.nexus has been refederated

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fireweed @lemmy.world 1mo ago

I am confused. If the admin in question is no longer an admin, what's the need for defederation?

1mo ago

Spider walking

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fireweed @lemmy.world 1mo ago

This is the Internet. We are all exposed to things that we don't like but that don't bother other people.

I despise seeing photos of needles (especially in use), but especially ever since COVID, I've been frequently exposed to photos of needles, such as with articles about vaccination. When I see such an image, I squint and keep scrolling. Because this is my particular dislike, and therefore my responsibility to minimize personal exposure. But I would never suggest, nor even want, such images be censored. Putting NSFW on a vaccination image might make me more comfortable, but it would also further stigmatize what is actually a good thing at a time when it's being attacked by anti-vax people and orgs. Similarly, spiders are good things (they fill important ecological roles, and are living creatures that deserve respect), yet many people squash them with disregard because they're "icky" or "scary." By censoring a completely normal photo of a spider on a general public forum, you are only serving to further the narrative that spiders are scary, unpleasant things that humans should actively separate themselves from.

If you're still concerned, you can always put "warning: spider" in the title, or only post spider photos to bug-oriented communities and similar. But frankly I think you are unnecessarily babying a small, arbitrarily selected portion of the population. Again, do you similarly try to protect people with other phobias, or just arachnophobia?

1mo ago

Spider walking

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fireweed @lemmy.world 1mo ago

What about people who fear snakes? Mice? Dogs? Clowns? The open ocean?

NSFW is specifically for separating out material that could get someone in trouble in a setting such as work, school, or public transit. It is also used as a NSFL filter for gore and other highly unpleasant things that users may want to self-censor (although the two really should be distinct, but most platforms don't support that).

Unlike many other old Internet customs, NSFW has survived and continues on to this day because people recognize its importance and are generally good about using the tool appropriately. Marking posts that do not actually fall under standard definitions of "inappropriate" (e.g. nudity) only serves to dilute NSFW, to weaken it as an Internet self-censoring tool, and to weaken it means to increase the likelihood that it will be discarded.

NSFW is a critical element to keeping the Internet free and open, because it provides people with a way to control their experience and modify it as needed (for instance, allowing a user to easily avoid images when in a public space like a waiting room and not when in a more private environment). Once you start applying this tool willy-nilly, not only does that increase the likelihood of people ignoring the warning in a future ("I'm going to click this link because it's probably just a spider or something.... and it's boobs"), but it also opens the door to pressure to use the NSFW label in malicious ways (such as to censor a gay couple kissing because "it bothers some people and doesn't hurt to blur the image for them").

Without tools such as the ability to effectively self-label material as NSFW, the inevitable conclusion is the banning of said material ("users aren't using NSFW filters appropriately, so we just won't allow that content at all, problem solved").

tl;dr: overapplication of the NSFW filter is bad

1mo ago

What are some foods that LOOK awful but TASTE great?

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fireweed @lemmy.world 1mo ago

I didn't mean all supermarket apples, just certain varieties (such as the so-called "red delicious"), but I'll edit my comment to clarify.

1mo ago

What are some foods that LOOK awful but TASTE great?

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fireweed @lemmy.world 1mo ago

"Looks great tastes awful" -- fruits that have been bred/engineered for shelf appearance over taste (e.g. certain varieties of supermarket tomatoes and apples), and desserts like cakes that have all manner of pretty and intricate decorations on them, but then taste bland or off.

1mo ago

Spider walking

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fireweed @lemmy.world 1mo ago

Why is this marked NSFW?

1mo ago

According to an MIT study, relying on ChatGPT for stuff like essays and creativity leads to cognitive atrophy and such. What should I do when writing stories without ChatGPT and other AI chatbots?

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fireweed @lemmy.world 1mo ago

This is the second unhelpfully vague question you've posed today about writing.

So it would seem the first thing you need to do is to look up resources on effective communication and on accurately identifying problems/goals. Because I'm unclear as to whether the problem is that you don't know what you're looking for when asking these questions, or that you do know and for some reason assume that we can read your mind and know it too even without your properly describing it.

1mo ago

How do people force themselves to write something, even if they're NOT inspired?

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fireweed @lemmy.world 1mo ago

Are we talking fiction or non-fiction? Obligated writing (school, work) or voluntary writing (journaling, fun)? Getting over a hump (dealing with writer's block) or getting started in the first place?

It's really hard to give advice without knowing the context of the problem.

1mo ago

Humans are part of the ecosystem.

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fireweed @lemmy.world 1mo ago

My understanding is the food production excess is "thanks" to unsustainable, damaging methods that rely heavily on synthetic fertilizer and have massive downsides like agricultural runoff and topsoil erosion (in addition to the wide-scale habitat loss required for those acres upon acres of farmland).