I did say fancy.

Aren’t sqilte files themselves (like most other things) just fancy text files?

I’ve only ever watched the show in passing, as in literally just passing through the room. And it is painfully obvious in an instant that her character is the ONLY one that is pleasant, eloquent, intelligent, and kind in any appreciable degree. That’s what’s fucking sexy about her character.

Moreover, those other waifs don’t even know what sex is, but that girl FUCKS with nerdy literary passion and will let you cry like a baby into that cleavage afterwards.

That view of the driver, looking out from the front passenger side out the driver’s window always makes me anxious for this reason. It’s like Chekhov’s gun. Why would they pick that angle unless the characters were about to get T-boned?

That one actually has some basis in reality though. My terminal still dings at me, it’s just that having it ding too much is annoying and out of fashion now. Does no one else remember PCs piezoelectric beeping, even before you upgraded to an actual soundcard?

Armchair pseudo-scientific thinking like this was why Mythbusters became so popular. They even devoted at least one episode to this very myth. Spoiler, hydrogen wasn’t what made that particular lead ballon unsafe.

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I bet you go to Taco Bell for Cinco de mayo too.

Found the bigot.

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Like why would someone pay for a drink at Quark’s when every residence on DS9 has a replicator?

Because the scarce resource at Quark’s isn’t the food or drinks, it’s the atmosphere and the experience, i.e things the replicator cannot provide. Quark controls the holodecks too, but even if he didn’t the scarce resource would be authentic (not replicated) food and experiences. It’s been shown pretty regularly on the shows that some people prefer non-replicated food, non-synthohol drinks, and real people. It doesn’t really matter in that context if those are technically indistinguishable from the real thing (but even in canon there is a measureable difference between them and some things the replicators can’t do).

I don’t really believe there could ever be a post-scarcity world in which we don’t create new scarcities to demand.

Hot take: The Expanse (mostly referring to the books here) handled a post-scarcity technocracy much more believably.

You’re either responding to the wrong comment. Can’t read. Or you think straw man arguments are valid.

I never said either was better, just that’s it’s foolish to confuse or compare the two.

If your bagel is dry and you can’t distinguish it from normal bread, you’ve never actually had a real bagel.

Tell me you’ve never had a decent bagel without telling me you’ve never had a decent bagel. A bagel is not a roll.

I never said either was better, just different.

I’m going through another cycle of binging EVERYTHING. Yes he did transport regularly, but he also certainly complained about it multiple times. Orders are orders in the end. Sometimes the hardest part of keeping a job is bottling up and repressing all those little existential horrors.

Cory Doctorow vibes.

That’s not true.

The vote doesn’t matter if the governor can just veto it like they did the monorail bill.

Ok maybe veto isn’t the perfect word, but that amounts to what actually happened. Doesn’t matter how the governor killed it. Florida voters wanted the constitutional amendment and Bush killed it by referendum without the voters having any further say.

https://www.latimes.com/nation/politics/la-na-jeb-bush-high-speed-rail-20150510-story.html

Then there was the travesty of the Bush/Gore election.

Florida voters know that their vote does not count.

Lacking anything close to empathy, every accusation of this narcissist is an admission.

Not originally, but this does sound like the kind of boundary pushing puny joke they’d make to make the straights slightly uncomfortable.

[No no no. Finger Prints.

I don’t think so.](https://youtu.be/lY2kC5fZG64?si=uPoB4wzgMdvy6e-J)