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The entire point of a backup is to overwrite and replace bad data, though. If a backup was kept, it would logically follow that it would be possible to overwrite the damaged parts of the pattern, since we know that transports can succeed even if a portion if the pattern is lost.

Geordi specigically brings up it being impossible to materialise Franklin because his pattern had degraded too much, not that it was degraded at all, and would suggest that there's a threshold before repairs are no longer possible.

Episodes like Threshold and that one where the Enterprise crew turn into children come to mind. The latter actually involves transporters.

They don't usually revert the crew using the backup data, though. They just program it to make changes to their bodies, like removing things. It wouldn't be any stranger than removing an alien pathogen.

The backup data, I think was only used for Pulaski when she got the ageing disease (where it might have been a reference pattern to correct errors, and they had to actually compare with a known good genome), and for Tuvix.

We do also know that a bad transport can't just be retried either. The Motion Picture had a transport go wrong, and Starbase One couldn't just restart the transport with backup data, or repair what they got back. Similarly, Scotty couldn't just load up Franklin's backup from the Jenolan's computers and transport him in either.

You do see it sometimes, where people complain that dinosaurs are no longer fearsome giant lizards because we found out that they might have feathers and aren't SUV height, on social media and places.

It generally becomes obvious that they have never met a goose, chicken, or been at risk of swooping before.

Let's compromise and call them both fish.

It's been that for a while. Tumblr's had it a while, between the earlier days of the user base, and the site not being the most well-coded thing compared to Twitter or Reddit.

You also can't exactly get ethical approval to put microplastics into people for the purposes of scientific experimentation. Or at least, it would be very difficult. More so when current evidence shows that it does have actively harmful effects.

Linking to the evergreen College Dropout GoFundMe CEO skit.

"I run a website that hosts popularity contests, and if you lose, you die!"

Maybe it's cascade effects? Something depends on something else, which depends on a third thing that depends on AWS for something?

It would be interesting what kind of effects this might have on the mice, since they would be used to mouse estrous cycles, rather than human ones.

What do you like better here than on Reddit?

The interfaces are better, and being able to integrate with mastodon is interesting.

What do you miss from Reddit?

The size of the communities, really. On Reddit, a lot of the subs have grown big enough that they can maintain themselves, whereas here, they're pretty much dead without input. A few of the more interesting counterpart communities that I would frequent a tonne on Reddit are dead now, and if you're just one user, it does feel like spam to try and contribute to it constantly.

It's really only a limit subset of communities that seem very active at all, and they are generally news or politics based.

Do you feel the culture here is genuinely different, or does it eventually drift the same way?

Bit of both. The culture in the larger communities would drift the way of Reddit just by volume, but the smaller ones are a bit more unique, and not always in a good way. Because Lemmy is a bit more tech-focused, I find a lot of the main medium-sized communities tend to have similar abrasiveness you see a bit in tech, though it can depend on both community and server.

They do call it a Hellsite for many reasons. Not being profitable is one of them.

At the same time, it has calmed down a bit as the user base has aged up, and the more volatile elements have left for bluer skies.

Oddly enough, other than the mess of the NSFW filter, it's been fairly controversy free. You can still use their API without paying globs of money, for example. Twitter and Facebook have all thrown that out, and Reddit has made other bad decisions, in addition to imploding their third party app ecosystem.

IMO the appeal isn't the actual breakfast in bed, it's having your partner care for you enough to make you breakfast and bring it to you.