I would like to point out that Tuvok is not the only prominent Vulcan who has let emotions get the better of him once in a while.
I would go further and argue that Vulcans all recognize that they are inherently emotional, and strict denialism is just part of the way they build the logical society and mindset that they desire. Tuvok is honestly the first Vulcan they showed properly dealing with that, despite his attempts to blow it off by refusing to talk about it with others.
The other Vulcans we saw tended to leave it at the surface level, and then we didn't get to see the internal struggles like we did with Tuvok
I'm with you, the only part of this that's based on faith is the last statement, and that's easily attributed to Tuvok recognizing that the more emotional humans tend to respond well to faith.
He's served with humans for decades, and he knows strict Vulcan mentality won't help this situation. (A lesson he continued to learn during voyager's run, despite the decades of experience under his belt)
For what it's worth, all of HP's business hardware is very good, whether it's printers or PC systems. It's just the cheap consumer-oriented products that suck.
DS9's runabouts appeared to be named by Sisko, as they had some off-hand conversations about what they were naming their replacements. So for whatever it's worth, he got a say in it after they were already built.
He never did run out of Earth rivers to name them after
The big reason is not really justification to support Hamas, but Israel has absolutely not been the good guys in this situation. We all should support Palestine in the face of Israel treating them so badly.
Hamas is a Palestinian group that is fighting them, which is why the anti-Israel folks will often support that. Unfortunately with news like this (and this isn't the first or the last of it) it's hard to support either side.
For what it's worth, I think you can support Palestine without supporting Hamas. But it's pretty easy for us to make judgment when it's not our homes and families being harmed.
The drawback to this is lower new user engagement.
Face it, most people who come look at Lemmy aren't looking to block several dozen accounts and communities to make the feed useable. Most don't even want to look for communities at first, they just want to see what the vibe is on the main feed, and judge from there
If we want to draw in more users and increase engagement, we need to cater to more than just the people who are ready to customize everything before judging. There's a few possible ways to go about this, but it's very clear that "just block things you don't like" isn't going to be enough.
I realize the drawbacks to any solution here, but as it stands now, even when I block the bots I don't like, there's not enough real content and discussion, and my own engagement is decreasing. The solution is probably not to ban all these bots, but leaving it alone as it is isn't working well either
Yeah that whole episode had strange ideas. He grabbed a fish person from the matter stream and it became a human person when he integrated. That just makes no sense with how the transporter works! Even O'Brien couldn't figure that one out
For me it's because I don't use YouTube for that. I don't watch channels or personalities. If I go to YouTube, I'm there searching for something specific.
And when I find the video that shows me how to open my key fob to replace the battery, I'm not interested in a series of key fob videos. If I watch a video related to a news story, I'm not interested in all the reaction videos or analyses by people who don't know what they're talking about. I'm most certainly not interested in any other video with a thumbnail of someone with their mouth agape at something
I don't want it suggesting more of them, and I certainly don't want it automatically advancing to some other video after it's done. All I want is a video host that plays the videos I asked to watch. Everything else is just a reminder that the kind of videos they push are the exact kinds of videos I don't want to watch.
They get in the way, they draw attention to the wrong things, and they encourage people to make more of the kinds of videos that get in the way of finding the actual useful information
Okay not precisely, but we have a bot (I think it's the one at smeargle.fans) that reposts Reddit threads and replicates all of their comments, which nobody engages with
You are starting to sound like a gatekeeper.
Well that term just doesn't apply. I'm not saying "Real Lemmy users avoid anything to do with Reddit" or anything along those lines. You asked for feedback, and I gave you my honest criticism of it.
I understand that you found a project that sounds fun to make, and it probably will be. This is what we engineers do, we get excited to build things that seem to have clever technical answers. However in my past few months on Lemmy, I have seen these ideas, and have seen the way they tend to work out so far.
The logic may be simple, but human psychology is rarely as simple as engineers wish it could be.
Feel free to build your project. All aspiring engineers should make things that they want to make. But if you ask for feedback, don't argue that the feedback is wrong. Not all solutions end up working out the way you hope, and that's part of the engineering life. And based on prior experience, this one is likely to get the same treatment that the other repost bots get.
Nobody wants to participate in a disconnected discussion. We have multiple instances with bots that do precisely what you're saying, and they just flood the feed with posts that people won't engage with.
Nobody wants to have a discussion about a reddit post. Nobody wants to have a discussion about a hackernews or slashdot post. If Lemmy just looks like a place to mirror Reddit content, people will see that and just go to Reddit and engage directly.
We need more people posting to Lemmy. If this is just a place for bots to have discussions with themselves, nobody will stay here very long.
Right, and everyone agreed that wasn't the greatest practice. Two years ago.
This thread from two days ago was bringing attention to an issue that was fixed two years ago, and calling it out as if it was a different problem than it was.
It's good to have discussions about security best practices, but this thread is pointless. This problem is simply not there anymore.
This was hashed out pretty thoroughly in that thread.
The initial concern over the password being stored in plaintext was shown to be a mistaken assumption, and it was made clear that this kind of email doesn't happen anymore, it's an outdated problem.
No need to keep the discussion going past that, is there? Much less spread it around?
I would like to point out that Tuvok is not the only prominent Vulcan who has let emotions get the better of him once in a while.
I would go further and argue that Vulcans all recognize that they are inherently emotional, and strict denialism is just part of the way they build the logical society and mindset that they desire. Tuvok is honestly the first Vulcan they showed properly dealing with that, despite his attempts to blow it off by refusing to talk about it with others.
The other Vulcans we saw tended to leave it at the surface level, and then we didn't get to see the internal struggles like we did with Tuvok