My condolences, but Florida immediately voted for Flexit

Is this arguably anticompetitive and illegal?

The Star Trek community has been going strong for nearly 60 years for a reason - Star Trek rocks.

When it started in the 60s (and continued especially strong with TNG in the 80s), it was unique in depicting a hopeful look at how things could be rather than a reflection of how things are, differing from how most shows do social commentary. It's refreshing.

Star Trek is attractive to people who want to see a world where people work together toward great things in a post-scarcity utopia, with current day conversations of race, nationality, sex, gender, etc. being so far in the rear-view mirror that they're non-issues. Plus cool technology. I think that appeals to the Lemmy crowd.

Haha, what can I say? I just want to help things grow.

Wow, when they were practically giving those away, I figured they were washing their hands of it. It's amazing that it's still being supported.

LAN party

I think as it grows, we'll see more and more of the same crowd, but the structure of Lemmy will help the culture feel different.

Nobody can own Lemmy, by design. (Even the creators just have the .ml instance)

No ads, and no corporate pressures to be advertiser friendly.

No weird profit-driven decisions.

It's totally replaced reddit for me. Every community I'm interested is smaller than I'm used to, but much more positive. It's cool even seeing a lot of the same names occasionally as I navigate around the site.

I hope it keeps this level of quality as it grows.

I'm sure that's what it said before someone edited it into a shitpost. It's so dumb that it got a laugh out of me.

I'm convinced that no matter how many times I watch through Futurama, there will always be subtle jokes that I've missed.

It must be really hard living life this way.

Wouldn't that cause the bullets to not fly straight?

Oh!

61 is so young and unexpected. What incredibly sad news.

At first glance of the headline, I saw the word "homicide" and thought the worst. Articles are saying "a brief illness" was the cause.

You have an unfortunate username for this conversation.

If management hadn't created that PR disaster, these people would probably still have jobs.

Can I add RGB?

I've noticed that some people do use other filters than "Hot" or they scroll back in smaller communities, because I'll occasionally get comment replies to posts I made months ago. It's cool to see.

I'm afraid you're not counting all 100 minutes in an hour.

Hey, don't be so cruel. These machines are paid below minimum wage, and if you don't tip, they won't be able to pay their rent and student loans.

Someone's cat got access to a keyboard

<3

When you break the subscription cost down into weekly payments, it seems very reasonable.

You also can't adjust the volume in browser. You have to go to a normal video, change it, and then go back.

How are you going to disrespect Jotassium like that?

Now I'm imagining someone legitimately putting their Jan6 involvement on a resume.

Window Structural Integrity Tester (Jan 6th, 2021): Responsibilities included - unconventional team-building activities, conditioning, navigating unfamiliar territory, and breaking down barriers.

The pawns unionize.

For whatever anecdotal observations are worth, I've recently been seeing a huge uptick in activity from the userbase that is here. Maybe it's been driven by posts like this one or memes about growing Lemmy, but people seem to be posting and commenting more than usual.

It's called mutual respect!

These types of articles bother me. Almost every game, movie, and product has an initial unsustainable level of hype, then comes back down from it.

But these articles inevitably try to frame it as if it's an indication that something's failing.

That's great to hear, although I can't help but imagine someone getting a letter saying "The Pope would like to have you over for spaghetti." and thinking it was some sort of absurdist humor.

We need to publish these findings.

Modern Warfare III

It's a meta meme. There are a few popular memes out there showing the divide between "Potato Europe" and "Tomato Europe"

But this one is showing neither because it predates their arrival in Europe, I guess.

Surely it would be less redundant to just say 'hackers'

Originally saw this posted by The Picard Maneuver. I can’t figure out how to tag him on Voyager.

Don't worry, I'm here too!

Also, I've mentioned it elsewhere, but might as well say here too: Anything I post to Lemmy (including stuff I've made) is totally fair game to post/repost/share anywhere you'd like. I love seeing content spread around the fediverse.