I feel ya. The anti-US xenophobia has really been rising here lately and I’ve just been blocking and blocking and blocking. I’m fine and on board with criticizing what the current regime is doing, but the way they lump you (presumably?), me, and everyone together as if we all have cabinet level positions and personally signed off on each and every thing in the news is just straight-up ignorant xenophobia.

Why that gets a pass is beyond me. Moderation failures all around, IMO.

Yeah, to pretty much all that.

My experience here is generally pretty pleasant, but it took a LOT of work blocking untold numbers of communities, users, and instances to get here. Other on-boarding difficulties aside (for less savvy users), it’s just a big ask to expect them to do all that work just to not be hit in the face with all the negativity and raging and dig deep for everything else. Reddit may have numerous flaws, but at least I can go to the front page and it doesn’t feel like I’m walking into the midst of an angry mob.

My two cents is basically this: We did this to ourselves here. Elsewhere, we might have blamed the algorithms for pushing rage-bait front and center, but here it’s 100% organic (unless there’s just a massive bot problem which I don’t have reason to suspect).

I only say there needs to be less because that’s all that seems to get pushed to the top. Ever since I saw the few posts asking how to get new users here, I’ve been trying to put myself in their shoes and look at things raw and unfiltered like a brand new user would see. Sadly, now that I’ve looked, I can’t un-see.

The rest of us just need to get on their level with all our other hobbies and interests.

100% agree :) But those don’t seem to get the rage clicks like all the bad news stuff and get buried even on scaled sort.

there aren’t other NWSL/MLS fans out here, but could you please stop doing drive-bys and downvoting all my articles?

I don’t know what either of those are, but I just went and threw some upvotes to some of your stuff because it was non-political / non-news. And one of them was highly downvoted for reasons I cannot possibly fathom.

Item #10: Don’t be this person.☝️

Like, wow. None of what I said has anything to do with that. This is the kind of jumping to insane conclusions, putting words in peoples’ mouths shit that turns people away.

Us shit.

Good catch. Fixed!

What do you call Jeffrey Combs standing around by himself?

“A Star Trek convention”

And also Secretary of Treasury

Star Trek but without the show’s lessons…isn’t that basically just the Dominion from DS9?

The only reason I haven’t printed one yet is because I just cannot get a coat of paint to look good on PLA. Someone suggested acrylic paint, so I bought a set, and it just doesn’t look good no matter how many coats I apply.

Though this is big enough I might be able to get by with a can of spray paint.

if you have any inappropriate comments you’ve always wanted to make, now is the time to risk making them because they might not get caught in the backup!

https://www.printables.com/model/744653-horgahn-idol-from-star-trek-composite-for-tall-pri

Some assembly required :P

Loudly saying “Computer, end program” is basically part of my morning routine now. So far it hasn’t worked, but I keep hoping

Oh no offense taken at all, haha. Was just making a confession and trying to be funny about it.

Ah. I’ll admit, my TOS lore is lacking. Was trying to deflect with a smile and nod, but you caught me lol.

Yes!

And Worf tells this highly embellished story of honor and victory, everyone reacts in awe, and he folds.

Right? I feel like it would be a high quality, low budget, low stress series. No CGI, minimal costume and make up, the writers may just have to give them some in-character stuff to work into their otherwise ad-libbed banter. The cast’s age wouldn’t be a concern since they’d be comfortably seated the whole time.

The framing device could be that after PIC S3, they decide to meet up for a weekly game of poker and we’re just spectators to it.

It could work 😆

Unless the player on the right is Worf who gets none because he’s just going to fold anyway.

Well, Kosst Amojan is one of the True Prophets (deep reference from “DS9: Millennium”).

My earbuds are the over-the-ear style, but I am now thinking about adding a chain to one of them and it would sort of look like this.