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Including one of its two cofounders. They agreed they they would use puppets but never CGI, and they said that they would remain pure to the storyline rather than "sell out" for the sake of profits.

But then season 1 was a success and one but not the other cofounder wanted moar monay, so as soon as the second season it had already begun to lose everything that it spent that first season building up.

The magic was gone, not entirely, but mostly, having been sacrificed for the sake of chasing profits "above all else".

Or worse, after a successful first season, enshittify the entire thing for the sake of moar profitz. Stranger Things...

That boat show, made by the same people who made Dark, was pretty good. Think like LOTR's first movie - it does wrap up, even if it had also meant to go onwards (and in this case did not).

Midwest.social has The Onion and Lord of the Memes, another Memes community (~1 post per day) and so on. That may not be a ton of content but it's something so I leave it.

Also people may choose a server based on geographic proximity for low ping, so there is whatever future content they may add as well. I tend to never run into those individual-city communities even on All, and when I do I block them. I gotta admit that I am conflicted about that and might do differently one day, especially as the sort algorithms improve - like perhaps I should switch from Subscribed for the stuff I really want, then All for things that I normally would not be exposed to like what's going on in Sydney Australia (to pick one example!:-P). But I can always get that by logging out, and right now using All already offers a wider experience, without having to see every other post be for sports.:-D

I felt the same. Fortunately my first experience on the Fediverse was on Kbin.social - where those were already blocked for me, so I got a sense already of what the Fediverse could be, without them - but when Kbin.social virtually stopped working and nobody had heard from its owner Ernst for weeks at a time I gave up on it and shifted to Lemmy. Which was HORRIBLE, until v0.19 allowed me to block lemmygrad and hexbear.

For anyone wondering how (these directions are for the webpage version, desktop or mobile I think): go into your "Settings" (not Profile), click Blocks on the right tab, scroll WAAAAAAAAAY down (at least for me it's a long scroll b/c I've blocked a ton of individual communities as well), and type in the name of each instance you want to block. So lemmygrad.ml, and hexbear.net, and whatever else you want. I put up with lemmy.ml for the memes it brings - but yeah, most of the time when someone retorts with the most child-like attitudes, it is them:-).

The Fediverse is more wild frontier territory right now - on Reddit daddy spez "takes care of you", and ngl it's a fairly high-end experience, one which we cannot begin to replicate right now, from the technical standpoint. Then again, I will never ever go back: there just isn't anyone that I want to talk to there ("and my axe", "I also choose this guy's wife", and so on leave little room for anything else, especially if it deviates one single iota from the Group-Think), whereas here I sometimes find more quality conversations that seem worth my time.

If it helps, here is what Kansas did: went bankrupt, thought about it, then decided to do it again. Thought about it some more... well you get the drift.

What a time to be alive! Actually probably all times are this way, but climate change does put a bit of a new twist on that old theme:-(.

The problems that robots face are not unique to them.

True, but he was built for a purpose: to emulate humans. So ask yourself: would a human ever do that? Uh oh... you're right, they're screwed, aack!? :-D

I think I was "wordy" - I appreciate your thoughtfulness and conciseness both.:-)

I have heard of this "touching grass" phenomenon, it's supposed to be really good:-). I think I will try it myself too, when it is a bit less brutally cold though:-P. So then instead of meditating inside, I can meditate outside!?

Probably bc even though you are fine, you are aware that most others aren't:-(. Empathy is good... even though it hurts.

Ironically it's the people who just DGAF who feel fine, but aren't.

It's arguably better to be aware of it than not then?

Meditation may help.

Most of the humans and other aliens there could also kill everyone there, if they wanted to - e.g. Capt. Picard, or Geordi La Forge, or Beverly Crusher. Data is a bit of an exception in that without anyone else around, he could still fly the ship on his lonesome. He could also just float around in the cold empty wastes of space for a few hundred years first, to avoid being caught by any authorities.

What stopped him wasn't some "override" - or if one existed, he demonstrated multiple times how he could also override the override - but the simple and plain fact that he did not want to. They knew him, they trusted him, they understood his motivations. And, e.g. if he ever did kill everyone, his career in Starfleet would most definitely be over. Plus, they were his friends. That is a powerful blocker:-).