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Only real problems I had with episode one were some geek nitpicks.

They were headed for the Borg cube super fast, if a cube was that close to Federation space I feel like that would have been a huge issue for Starfleet. Second I dislie that it seems the writers are totally against Janeway's solution to Tuvix. Tuvix was a trolley problem, there was no 100% right answer and Janeway chose the solution that saved the most lives. It's great fodder for philosophical and ethical debate but to come down and declare either choice as definitively right seems wrong. But then they did ultimately have their cake and eat it too by forcing a situation where no technically sentient life was lost splitting up the blob creature in then end so shrug I guess. In any even revisiting Voyager is aalway very welcome.

Episode 2 I gotta admit, I loved Moopsie. It's the cute bone-drinking Pokemon I never knew I wanted. Rest of the episode was meh, I'm so over Mariner's disrespect for chain of command, rebelious schtick. If they could just drop that from now on the show would improve a lot.

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The problem here isn't really features, it's the Empty Restaurant Problem. Mainchan lacks the social proof to attract new users. They come, see just a few users making posts with no replies and few upvotes and they leave thinking this isn't a place where they'll find any social interaction. Then they go to a place like Lemmy/Kbin and see many users making many posts with many upvotes and many replies and they join there because Lemmy has demonstrated social proof that a mass of users will interact with them which is after all what social media sites are for.

Now one can fake social proof, there's companies for that that'll flood the place with real-looking traffic to eliminate the empty restaurant look. That's basically what Reddit did, they had everyone in the company posting and commenting under multiple accounts and employed bots to make even more posts and comments so that the site looked like it was hopping on day one. So, when Digg imploded Reddit looked like the happening place to be for the real users looking for a new platform.

For large scale growth you need users to get users. Most sites and influencers choose to fake it til they make it by using Social Proof services to boost their numbers at the start. The other route is a big ad campaign which may or may not work on it's own. A combo of the two though usually does it. That or have the one in a billion luck that your unique content goes viral (which is kinda advertising in it's own way).

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After so much time spent railing against Reddit mods it feels so weird to be called "the mod" now. But yeah no this sub is a ghost town. I've linked back here from Star Trek subs on Reddit and Lemmy but no one is taking the bait. I think it's equal parts Mainchan not having a lot of users, nuTrek sucking double Klingon dicks for so long it's eroded the fan base, and other Star Trek forums already having dedicated users that aren't really looking for a new home base.

Guess the plan is just to keep this sub stocked with Trek news and reviews and take an "If you build it they will come" type approach. Thanks for being the first regular 'round here BTW. If we ever get single user flairs I'll anoint you with a title or something.

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Never saw that, must be the inspiration. I've just been posting random stuff I have saved in my memes folder.

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Translation: Calls on C3.ai

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I really don't like the thought of Lower Decks deciding Star Trek canon. Following and expanding upon known canon sure. But making up new canon that presumably now has to be payed forward for the rest of Trek in perpetuity that's a job for serious live-action Trek. I get that the Orion home world is whatever, it's not like they're mucking with Vulcan or Klingon lore but they're still a major species so I'd rather their lore be established in a serious context with regard given to making their civilization as plausible and realistic as possible.

All that said this was another pretty mid episode. Tendi backstory ok but this felt weightless, like going through the motions. The funny wasn't funny enough to excuse the plot being Lower Decks boilerplate. This show has proven to be at it's best when it combines it's comedic aspirations with serious plotting. This was just fluff. That works for some but I hold Trek to a higher standard.

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Dude dodged a bullet, the girl in that song is the crazy artist type. As a former musician the smoldering battlefields of my love life are littered with those girls. They're all fire and passion at the start but by the end you're questioning your own sanity and likely in worse position in life. Those are the kinda girls where you hear their name and it makes you stare off into the distance for a moment dreaming of how much better it would have been to have never met them.

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Ha cool! My anon posts would probably add like another few hundred.

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One of my crazier ex GFs got back at a guy who was stealing food out of the fridge at her job by mixing in a ton of the longest lasting laxatives she could find into a tuna sub. When she saw which guy kept having to run to the bathroom she purposefully occupied it for so long the guy shit himself and had to be sent home (grocery store). I've never bothered other people's food in communal fridges but if I did I would have stopped after hearing that story.

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It has been (or worse) since 2009.

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The biggest implementation of it was probably r/cryptocurrency's "Moon" tokens. Before this announcement moons were worth around 25 cents each and were trading on major exchanges like Kraken (which means some people were paying for moons and not just earning them on Reddit for free). Reddit basically just did a rugpull. There's people in that sub who lost thousands of dollars since the announcement tanked the price who knows how many people lost money outside of Reddit. I only had about 40 dollars worth earned myself so no sweat for me but I wouldn't be surprised if some people sue Reddit over this.

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NVDA is a long term hold for me. So long as they are THE chipmaker for AI there's major room for growth. If AI stagnates and PC gaming retracts then I'll reassess.

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Sounds like anal involving furries.

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Welcome back. I'm contrary take my upvote.

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My stonks remain mostly untouched by the tumble. They would have been offset by the crypto bull run regardless. One thing's for sure Michael Bury got a boner seeing his puts on everything stop bleeding for a while.

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If Cramer said the sky was blue I'd buy puts on the sky.

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"Hard" agree. Problem is the site is only set up to display image posts. Any adult video content gets linked off site with no previews. Previews are the lifeblood of pron vids. Would have to fix that before the horny blokes would start posting here.

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You cannot use Catbox for commercial services without prior approval. Examples include: a CDN (Content Delivery Network); image host for your business/ecommerce site (embedding hotlinks to Catbox files on your Wordpress site); or as source for videos that are streamed on sites other than files.catbox.moe directly.

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For some reason I read that as "ear ape"

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wutchumean?

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At the hospital one of the IVs they put in my right arm caused a bruise that went from the middle of my arm to my wrist. Didn't hurt just felt like when a muscle gets sore from working out. But it shocked people who saw it, that was fun.

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I don't have a picture of it's final size but here's how it was before it covered my whole forearm.

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Fucking hell. I didn't eat at Friday's often but I enjoyed their Jack Daniels menu a lot when I did. They're closing like all of their locations anywhere near me. Won't even be able to Doordash/UberEats from them anymore. Their new CEO is an idiot.

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