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[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Don't forget about GNU and Linux mememery.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

Wait, it's all socialism?

Always has been.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Don't get me started on Star Trek

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (6 children)

Ok, I've never watched Star Trek and feel left out. Where do I start?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

deep breath So I'm not the most star trek nerd by any measure, but I grew up watching the next generation (TNG), but also some of the original star trek series. And then deep space 9 (DS9) and enterprise. Also the one with the one which is not the enterprise and they got lost (forgot the name). But I've lost interest with the recent series. So not a uber nerd but I've watched quite a bit.

I think starting with the MOVIES of the first series is good. But also starting with the series of TNG is ok.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

which is not the enterprise and they got lost (forgot the name

Voyager.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

As others have said, DS9, Lower Decks, TNG, Voyager, are all great choices. Strange New Worlds isn't bad either.

Now some potential dealbreakers: Lower Decks is a cartoon and heavily references other shows (but does explain most of those references), TNG is very libbed up and side-steps a lot of the moral questions Startrek is known for, Voy solves those questions with warcrimes, SNW tries to be too inoffensive and is very much directed at fans. I can't think of anything bad to say about DS9.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

@alcoholicorn

Sisko intentionally bombed an entire planet into uninhabitability. He's no stranger to war crimes.

@Opisek

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

That's different

spoilerbecause he was preventing settlers from colonizing it, he wasn't actually attacking civilians, just preventing them from colonizing a couple planets.
When they assassinated that Vulcan (no spoilers), that was a pretty good example of Perfidy though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Is there any order to watch Star Trek in or can I just pick any and roll with it. Will I be missing any important information?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Nah, no order.

When the shows bring in stuff from older shows, they explain it in episode, or you'll figure out the gist of it from the framing, the writers themselves often hadn't watched every single episode of the older shows.

I think SNW and LD are the only ones where the writers actually bothered to watch everything.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

I literally started due to lemmy posts. I just went in order and watched TOS and TNG. Now I'm going through DS9. I'm really glad I did, because it's amazing!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Lower decks! Lower decks!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Start with the original and tng. The beginning.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

It's okay it's Spock-tember.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Linux is just Socialism: The Operating System.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

It's also voluntarism: the OS, as it is entirely maintained by willing members of the community.

Honestly, probably moreso in most cases, as while socialism is fine with getting funding from taxation voluntarism sees that as coercive by nature, advocating for voluntary donations (time/money/labor) to help out the community instead. Some stuff was developed with tax funding for sure, and some directly by the NSA like SELinux iirc, but I think it's still mainly private citizens/corpo donations and volunteers/people that get paid using those donations.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Thank you 5714! My new favorite word: Memerery