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Not everyone. But it's definitely very overrepresented here, including some large communities of extremists that I don't typically see elsewhere.

The browser solves the problem of not having any open API. Each platform wants to handle things in its own way, and the browser is the perfect way to do that. Each service, including both the open and the proprietary ones, can present the feed in the way that they decide is right. The browser already does handle rudimentary account management via form auto fill, as well as a unified notification system.

But as for a unified feed... I think the best example is the issues with that come from Lemmy/Mastodon integration. Mastodon posts have a different mentality than Lemmy posts do, not to mention with structure of responses. I just don't think it does us any favors to have them share the same feed. Now we have replies that have a clear structure of who they are responding to, but Mastodon users come in adding the user tag into the comment, which is messy at best, and bordering obnoxious at worst.

But I get it, I'm not the audience you're looking to cater to. I don't particularly understand the value of RSS readers at all, because I just go directly to the services I want to see the feeds from. Hell, I don't even use bookmarks. I type in the web address for my services every time

You got Jadzia's kiss, you got Riker and the androgynous species, and all of Intendant Kira.

I'm not saying those few cases are enough representation (Kira being arguably a bad example, making her sexuality into a more "evil" trait), but they were definitely overt. On the other hand, there's zero basis for saying Prime Kira was bi, and Doctor Twink was quite straight, no matter how gay Garak was.

Honestly, I thought Julian and Garak was perfectly executed. Garak may have been flirty, but Julian was obviously more enamored with the spy scenario and intrigue (as we delved deeper into in Our Man Bashir and to some degree, the Section 31 episodes).

Isn't this what a web browser already does?

This is my problem with this meme whenever it comes up.

There are so many direct occasions to bring up representation and acceptance in Star Trek, so why do people always jump straight into platonic erasure and make up sexualities that aren't there?

I for one always loved the ability for people in Trek to work and live close to each other and develop deep friendships without resorting to coupling up. Turning every friendship into something more romantic just seems disrespectful, because people are perfectly capable of being friends without needing to make something more of it

See, I preferred to save that for the end, so it ended on a high note. Being stuck with boring ice in the end just left me feeling like the whole thing was a bummer.

Like chewing a stick of Fruit Stripe gum

That's a whole other question. The replicators of TNG era weren't protein resequencers like they were in Enterprise. They were simple matter/energy conversion. They would reclaim the matter and store any remaining energy in the ship's reserves.

In Voyager they said the holodecks ran on a completely separate power supply than the rest of the ship, so maybe they never really intermingled with the replicator systems

That's what I mean, I didn't!

The plastic wasn't a danger unless you were doing something absurd like putting plastic in your mouth and then tightening your lips to a dangerous degree. And that would be very easy to stop doing, you just... Don't hold so tight with your mouth.

It's not like you eat these like drinking a thick milkshake. You suck too hard, you pull all the flavor out and are left with flavorless ice. I would always rather have flavored juice left over

It's not a person, the holodecks are just designed in a horrifying way. We learned from an early TNG episode that when the holodecks do an uncontrolled shut down, they reclaim all the matter within them. It requires a special intentional function to leave the people behind.

So don't worry about it, they're self-cleaning

I can't be the only one who didn't hurt himself on these as a kid.

Like... I wasn't the smartest kid in the world, but learning to be careful with anything you put in your mouth, that was a lesson I learned early.

Wtf were you people doing with these, anyway? It took me only like 3 tries before I decided these weren't worth trying to open with my teeth. It was scissors from that point on.

I didn't hate watching it. If you just enjoy the fun parts and don't think too hard about how it all works out how it could have been better, it's not a terrible time.

But I was just putting something on Netflix, I wasn't really expecting or looking for the highest of quality

I thought Morbius was not as much fun to watch