You're being downvoted, but I just wanted to let you know you're not alone in noticing what you have. There is indeed a significant difference in the approach of classic Trek vs. what we have now. In the past, the story was the focus, and the wokeness was an addition to it. Now, the woke seems to be the focus, and it's at the expense of the storytelling.

I actually hate the word "woke." I'm about the most left leaning person I know and agree with the liberal messages in all Trek. But it really has destroyed the storytelling in the new stuff. It should primarily be a science fiction show, not a morality lecture.

I'm not going to argue with anyone who disagrees, I'll just accept the downvotes, I just wanted to show a little support.

You say you'll disable the ad blocker for sites that don't push malicious ads? I've reported half a dozen deepfake "investment" ads on YouTube in the last couple of months, and they have done nothing about it. The ads YouTube pushes are horrible!

Thank you for putting this into words. I have come to realise the same thing over the years but have never been able to properly verbalise it!

I'm a heterosexual male. My sister is a lesbian, and through her, I was introduced to many lesbian (and gay) friends from a young age. And since then, I've often had lesbisn friends or acquaintances, and I've always found that I get on so much better with lesbians than straight women.

I feel with most lesbian women that I'm in the company of another man. It's so much easier to talk to them, without the background hum of sexuality that seems to come from interactions with straight women. I'm not blaming women for this, btw. I think it's just a male brain thing for me, but there is certainly some extra element when interacting with straight women that is absent around lesbians and that absence allows me to relax more and just be myself.

How very Christian of them... sickening 🤢

Believe me, I get it. 20+ years of advocacy, though, have earned me exactly 1 convert, and that's my old man. Who is arguably already a bigger geek than I am, and spending his retirement teaching himself x86-64 assembly "for fun" whilst doing a much better job of de-googling himself than I ever have.

All I'm saying here is that I can see where the OP is coming from. There is an awful lot of Linux talk (and Star Trek talk!) here on Lemmy. I can see how it might feel a little alienating to those who are from outside of that world.

That said, I agree with a lot of other commentors here that have pointed out that any new platform typically attracts the geeks firstly (reddit was no different). In time, I hope to see a much greater variety of peoples on Lemmy!

Are you referring to those stripey sock wearers? Because I'm far too old to actually understand any of that. Plus, I wouldn't even look very good in stripey socks anyway

I've exclusively used Linux on my computers since about 2001. At this point, I don't care to see this much talk about it either.

It's an operating system, it's free (in both senses), it's very powerful and ,frankly, it's all I know how to use these days. However, I just don't see the appeal of harping on about all the time. I use it exclusively, and I spend zero minutes per day actually thinking about it, the way a good operating system should be IMHO.

Some things being conserved is absolutely good. However, the "Conservative" government isn't really all that conservative, is it? Unless you refer to conserving their own self interests, I'll grant you they're really good at that...

Oh and I am 40 years old and educated to masters level, not that that really should matter in the slightest. I do admit that I am pretty short sighted though, damn eyes just ain't what they used to be. Thankfully I can fix that with glasses through our wonderful national health service... at least for now until the "conservatives" get rid of that too...

Bloody helfire. If I had $1,000,000 I would never have to work or worry about money again. I can't even comprehend 20 million.

So I guess I'd take 1 million, and then stuff the rest in some charity trust thing that could help my local community.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfHbsMa_wao

You say "simply train," but really, the training of these models is The most intensive part. Once they are trained, they require less power (relatively) to actually run for inference.

That time I came inside her while drunk. 19 years later, I don't regret the daughter I have, but the child support payments haven't exactly been easy...