LLMs, image generators like Stable Diffusion etc, and other of what's come lately to be called "generative AI" should have no place on the Fediverse or anywhere else.
Hey! A truly unpopular opinion that I wholeheartedly agree with.
But I'll take it one step further: I unironically believe that if you prefer your chocolate sweetened, you don't really like chocolate. You like sugar.
And, yes, I love just sucking on 100% unsweetened baker's chocolate.
...except for two things. 1) caffeine, even in the quantities in which it exists in an ounce of baker's chocolate per day, doesn't agree with me, so I don't do any form of chocolate any more (but I often crave unsweetened baker's chocolate) and 2) I have a severe, violent sensitivity to sugar, so I basically never eat anything even a little sweet.
Whoever gave you that advice has sound judgement and good taste.
I'd say start with TNG. DS9 is probably objectively "the best", but I think TNG is a better "entry point" if that makes sense? I think if I'd started with DS9 before watching TNG, I'd start wishing not too far into DS9 that I'd seen TNG already. Voyager gets some flack, but it's what I have the most nostalgia for.
After Voyager, I think most of the shows are either "for the fans" (and contain tons of references that only established "fans" are going to get) or... kindof a pale imitation. If you really into Star Trek and run out of TNG, DS9, and Voyager to watch, by all means go on. (I'd probably do TOS next, honestly.) Discovery and Strange New Worlds and Lower Decks are great! But a lot of their charm (Discovery's yet-another-fuck-up-of-Klingons notwithstanding) is about how they tie in to and reference the other shows more so than how they stand on their own.
Enterprise was... not my favorite. It was nice that it answered some questions other series left open, but they spent a lot of the show trying their hardest not to be Star Trek in ways that I say detracted from the experience. I'd say watch it before you watch Lower Decks, but aside from that, I don't think it's really worth watching unless you're that level of fan already.
Oh, and the movies are amazing. Honestly, it might be good to watch the TOS cast movies before moving on from TNG to DS9. My favorite of all the Star Trek movies (and it's not an TOS cast movie) is First Contact.
So, I guess if I were to recommend an order:
TNG
All the movies in release order, though the Chris Pine movies are optional at this point. I'd also skip Section 31 until later.
DS9
Voyager
TOS
Discovery
Section 31
Brave New Worlds
Enterprise
Lower Decks
The Chris Pine movies if you're still in the mood
The Animated Series
Then start watching non-official/non-canon stuff like Star Trek Renegades and Star Trek Continues
Anywhere in that progression that you decide to stop, I'd say you'll have gotten the most impact you could have gotten from the portion you've already watched.
But of course, that's just my take! The other opinions in this thread are all valid as well!
I was always one of the youngest in my class. My birthday is very late in the year. I also graduated high school a year early and entered college while I was still technically 16. I got the occasional joke/comment about not being able to drink until I was a senior in college.
Yeah, that's fucked. With some serious reverse engineering and reimplementing, it sounds like it could be a pretty great product, but even if something like a FOSS implementation of the protocol StarVision uses or something like Valetudo but for the Vega existed, I wouldn't feel right about patronizing a company that does that kind of shit.
First off, be careful. Make sure you aren't putting yourself in danger. Don't talk to them. Talk to someone who can do something to protect you. HR if it's a work thing or the police if it rises to that level. If in doubt, err on the side of caution. If something like HR or police aren't an option, ghost them.
I hesitate to even go on. So let me reiterate. Aggressiveness is the kind of red flag you don't want to take lightly.
All that said, if none of the above helps; if you're talking about something other than fear for your personal safety (and again, please don't let denial blind you here), then: don't talk about their behavior. Talk about how you feel. Say that you feel nervous/on edge/scared when they behave in whatever way you're alluding to.
Last I heard, Pewdiepie has been trying to pass it off as jokes, but if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck. (And whether or not he's "a nazi" deep in his heart doesn't matter. He's doing and spreading naziism.)
Why do people say more people didn't vote for Trump than did?
Because more people didn't vote for Trump than did.
Trump got more of the popular vote in the U.S. in 2024 than any other candidate did, but he still didn't get 50% of the vote. He got like 49.80% of the popular vote. And that isn't even considering those who didn't vote.
LLMs, image generators like Stable Diffusion etc, and other of what's come lately to be called "generative AI" should have no place on the Fediverse or anywhere else.