Your mangled brain would like you to know there is a boxer named Contact Mike.

I do think the modern workplace isn't really a good place for this either unfortunately. In my field at least it's like everybody is a corporate mercenary. They're going to come in, make no friends, do their jobs and then quietly leave for a higher paying position as soon as they possibly can.

Which is fine, but it's a pretty poor place to get social nourishment.

Work from home. I've really worked very little in an office, I find it unnecessary for collaboration and much more distracting than working from home.

I also feel like I hold the Enterprise to a higher standard so it makes some of the culture shock episodes come across differently than DS9.

Like you're here on a diplomatic mission and you're coming off a little snooty and elitist to this species you clearly don't trust or respect. Beverly all but labels the Ferengi scientist in Suspicions "one of the good ones".

DS9 if they're actually insulting each other but still managing to live in proximity to one another it's a little charming because they're working through tensions they can't really avoid. They're not all professionals on a mission of peace, they're people living and working in a culturally diverse and very politically contested place.

I agree Lemmy has a negativity problem, disagree it's driving off new users. If negativity drove people away Twitter and Reddit would be ghost towns. If anything people crave it.

The problem with negativity is it tends to drive positive people away. People stop bothering trying to have actual discussions because if you express anything resembling positivity someone is eager to respond with a memey "Oh you sweet summer child".

Eventually every interaction is like that, nobody feels like talking to each other and just want to one-up one another in how cynical and world weary they are. Happens long enough and you get reddit, happens even longer and the cynicism turns to nihilism and it turns into an incel space.

It'll have users, it just won't be pleasant to use.

70 should be old enough to know cynicism isn't wisdom. It's one thing to encourage people to always temper optimism with caution, it's another to spend one's life indistinguishable from an edgy adolescent.

I don't think I used one until about 2008. Until then they were pretty prohibitively expensive (for me, at least). I used CDs for most of my rather minimal data storage needs.

I mean I get it. It's frustrating to deal with, but if the alternative is that Lemmy is completely hammered by bot traffic I'll take the brief inconvenience.

This is bordering on being a Ferengi death ritual.

Seeing Jupiter up close is a good one. I bet I would have trouble even processing it

I kinda love it. It's not what I would choose for myself but there's something about seeing young people walking around with mustaches that puts a little joy in my heart.

Got a glass of water FOR THE GLORY OF THE EMPIRE