Sick of hearing about record heat? Scientists say those numbers paint the story of a warming world: With a summer of extreme weather records dominating the news, meteorologists and scientists say records like these give a glimpse of the big picture: a warming planet caused by climate change. https://phys.org/news/2023-07-sick-scientists-story-world.html
Paleontologists investigate whether T. rex and other predatory #dinosaurs had lips like lizards, or protruding teeth like crocodiles (though as the article notes, pop culture has latched onto the latter).
And of course the top reply to it is a dino furry. That’s definitely not the first place my mind went to with the possibilities for dinosaurs having lips, but it’s an image that will be hard to shake. Never change, internet.
startrek.website is a partnership between /r/StarTrek and /r/DaystromInstitute from Reddit, they've both locked their subs over there for good. Follow @startrek for all your Trek needs. 🖖 :trek:
THANK YOU. Can't stress this enough for the persecution fetish crowd: You are not being silenced because you don't like new Star Trek. You are being silenced because you're acting like a twat.
Oh for sure, I'm not saying all mods are saints. Certainly some of them go too far in wanting everyone to fawn over everything and anything less is anathema. But by and large, what I saw repeatedly when I looked at the comment histories of those who complained loudest about being "censored" was an almost pathological tendency to want to poop on things, regardless of the context.
For example, they'd pop up in discussions of Picard season 3 just to say how much they hated how much Burnham cried in season 1 of Discovery. Or when a TNG discussion was happening, they'd jump in to say how bad they thought Picard season 2 was. And a mod would tell them to keep things topical, and they'd keep doing it, and they'd get banned. Inevitably they would then create alts to complain about "power-tripping mods sucking Paramount's teat". That in turn created a perception among those already dissatisfied with new Trek that voicing your criticism was a bannable offense. I never saw evidence that that was actually happening at anywhere near the scale the complainers claimed.
Now obviously that's a generalization, but that was my perception of the "censorship" in r/startrek. There was plenty of criticism of episodes and seasons happening in comment sections, but it was the mods' directive to keep it on topic and not just general griping.
I appreciate the personal perspective. I tend to give mods a lot of leeway, even when it seems on the surface that they're acting like power-tripping jerks. They deal with a LOT of negativity and take a lot of abuse, and that can wear on a person and cause one to overreact to minor slights.
But this discussion is a good one and essential to maintaining a healthy community. If mods are abusing their powers, they should absolutely be called on it. Just as if users are being overly negative or ignoring community guidelines on tone and behavior, they shouldn't expect to be able to keep it up without some kind of censure.