I don’t think we’ve let user apps get any older than 24 or so hours, but we are just people! If someone slipped through the cracks and had to wait longer, I’m sorry.

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This is inaccurate. It did not say “childlike” at the time that Ada complained. After we got defederated, I asked a new mod of that community to update the sidebar because it was very light on rules, purpose, etc. and I thought that maybe our conflict with blahaj could have been avoided if the sidebar was more explicit about what the community was about. As part of his revision, on his first pass he copied and pasted a dictionary definition of “adorable” which included the word “childlike”, then went back and re-edited it to remove that word on a later editing pass. I want to say it was in there for about two hours? During that time, a couple of people spotted it and made some unwarranted assumptions.

Whyyyy would Vulcan kitchens run cooler than starships? Vulcan is a desert planet and Vulcans as a species are accustomed to high temps – which is even obliquely referenced in the ep when Amanda says that a Vulcan wouldn’t even notice the heat from holding a boiling hot teapot barehanded. I would assume Vulcan kitchens to be higher temperature than even Vulcan living quarters, which should be higher than human-standard room temp. I can’t think of any legitimate reasons why a Vulcan kitchen would be cooler than Pike’s quarters at all, let alone so much cooler that it makes a manifest difference in fermentation rates.

Yeah! I was wondering that too. Either it was a flub that they left in because it was funny, or it was a flub that they left in because they didn’t have another good take, or it’s a breadcrumb for a weird AI-takes-over-the-Enterprise season finale.

Revised Rules for Sidebar

Rules

Before you start participating, please take a moment to familiarize yourself with our rules:

• 🔞 Age Requirement: All users and lurkers MUST be age 18 or over.

  • Posting content involving any person who is under 18 is strictly forbidden. This includes real, drawn, and fictional content.
  • All loli/shota/cub or similar content is strictly forbidden.

• Respect and Consent: Treat all members with respect and obtain consent when sharing explicit content involving others. No doxxing. No soliciting or sharing personal info. No homophobia, transphobia, body shaming, or kinkshaming. Don’t be an asshole.

• No NSFL/Gore/Snuff Content: We strictly forbid the sharing or promotion of NSFL (Not Safe For Life) or gore content. This includes fictional snuff scenarios.

• No Bestiality/Zoophilia: We strictly forbid any NSFW content involving animals.

• No Non-Consensual Content: We strictly forbid content made or released without consent of everyone in the content, including revenge porn / deepfakes / leaked content / NC / true voyeur / rape content.

• No Illegal Content: - We strictly forbid promotion and detailed discussion of things that are broadly illegal in most of the world, like murder, animal cruelty, money laundering, and so on. Our policy on mind-altering substances is more complicated – see the FAQ (link to FAQ pending).

  • Solicitation of sexual services (either way, asking or offering) is strictly forbidden.

• NSFW Flag: All NSFW communities and posts must be flagged as NSFW.

• No Rules Lawyering: Admin/Moderator decisions are final and arguing with them can result in suspension or banning of your account and purging of your content.

If any material is ambiguous or borderline forbidden content, we’re usually going to err on the side of caution. Please use your common sense.

All users and communities must follow and respect these general instance-wide rules. Any violations could result in suspension or banning of your account or community and purging of your content.

Community Guidelines

• Stay Relevant: Share relevant content in the relevant communities and ensure your content complies with the rules of those communities.
• Self-Promotion: Self-Promotion is only okay as long as the community you are posting in allows it, and you don’t spam it.
• Content Sourcing - We would strongly prefer all content be credited and sourced if possible, to make it easier to keep CSAM and noncon off of the instance. See the FAQ for more info. (link to FAQ pending).
• Furry Content - Furry content is allowed (unless it conflicts with any other rules) but furries may be better served at https://pawb.social/ or https://yiffit.net/.

Temporary Rules

Because of technical limitations of the Lemmy platform, we are forced to implement some restrictions on content. These are restrictions that don’t necessarily fit with our larger philosophy. We hope to revise this section once Lemmy evolves as a platform and moderation tools improve.

• NSFW User Avatar: NSFW user avatars are prohibited as it is currently not possible to mark users as NSFW.
• Temporary Content Restrictions: The following content is temporarily restricted: Hot lunch (🤮), blood, scat, CNC.

If you are the admin of another instance and you have any issues with Lemmy NSFW please raise it with one of our admins so we can communicate on how we can improve this instance. We would prefer to work with you before either of us consider defederation.

… and then the rest of the stuff currently on the sidebar: Contact info and the Donations info

Bjo Trimble is turning 90 in a month.

As a general policy we have decided that we are going to treat irl depictions of forbidden content and drawn depictions of forbidden content in the same way. We acknowledge that there are many excellent arguments for why this should not be the case, and to be frank it was a close call, but that’s the way the policy shook out.

As moderation tools improve, and the community evolves, this policy may be revisited. I wouldn’t expect that to happen anytime soon, though.

Listen Tuvix was an annoying little goblin person and everyone justifiably hated him, but that doesn’t mean he deserved to be cold-bloodedly murdered by Janeway as he begged desperately for his life. #justice4tuvix

Captain Janeway deserved to spend the rest of her miserable life on a penal colony for murdering Tuvix. Now that’s a show I would watch! Plus, Kate Mulgrew is good at prison shows. #justice4tuvix

Hey just a quick FYI, if anyone here in the US is thinking of taking this instance over, I would strongly recommend becoming extremely familiar with correctly implementing section 230 of the Communications Decency Act and related laws. And I don’t mean just reading it and thinking “I am a smart person, I get this now”. I mean learning how large social media sites and their T&S teams actually implement it for real. Otherwise you will very possibly go to a PMITA prison and wind up on the sex offender registry.

I’m not messing with you. The feds do not fuck around with this stuff.

Tribbles are an excellent lesson in doing more with less. What an iconic creature that’s nothing more than a fistful of rabbit fur on a string.

The false Balok from The Corombite Maneuver deeply freaked me out as a child, but heart forever belongs to the Horta

Hey, now I have two Star Trek tattoos!

You’re right!

Jeffrey Coombs hasn’t been in Lower Decks, Prodigy or SNW yet. He needs to get on that!

Also, doesn’t the term date back to the Age of Sail? And TOS was explicitly supposed to be Horatio Hornblower in Space. It makes sense thematically to use nautical terms.

Does LD have WGA writers? I thought they were TAG, not WGA. TAG isn’t on strike.

If there’s one thing that is consistent about the Federation show-to-show and season-to-season is that they pretty much always allow officers to break literally any of the rules as long as the outcome is good. How many times has a ship been stolen for a rescue mission, orders been ignored, senior officers been bamboozled and sidelined, and it’s almost always totally forgiven because it turned out OK in the end. Hell, Janeway straight-up murdered Tuvix as he begged for his life and everyone was like “oh, um, fine?”

I used to think it was lazy writing, but now I think it’s actually just the way the Federation is characterized. The Federation being theoretically utopian and egalitarian but functionally utilitarian makes things like Section 31 make sense, the same way that TNG Klingons claim to be about honor but really they’re treacherous schemers no better than any other species.