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.

Now you’re just dodging the question.

It’s a science fiction situational comedy. How could it possibly avoid being contrived? All sitcoms are contrived. All scifi is contrived.

I enthusiastically disagree. Lower Decks needs to boldly go and jump the shark more than traveling back in time to save a whale or talking to an old microwave that became a god.

This (the ethical bit) is the premise of The Good Place.

So, back to its Kilborn roots?

I posted a cookie recipe in response to a cookie meme, got roasted for not converting baking units to science units. So yeah, people are getting kinda aggressive.

How would the game companies profit from releasing fully complete and mostly bug free games on BluRay? Without a profit motivation it will never happen.

I feel like repetitive epic is like a Cardassian version of the dubious literary idea of The Hero’s Journey, adapted for the Cardassian heroic ideal of selfless sacrifice to the state. I think Garak would appreciate the “Rememberence of Earth’s Past” series (Three Body Problem) for the way that individual heroics take a backseat to the glory and survival of the state.

I feel like any time I get a Teams call, my Windows audio goblin rolls a d20 to determine which combination of devices will be used.

That’s like blaming your English teacher for “Don Quixote de la Mancha” being written in Spanish. Linux isn’t the reason those things don’t run on Linux. Fortnite and Warzone developers are responsible for failing to develop for anything other than Windows, consoles, and sometimes Mac.

It’s easy to lead in growth of a sector when that sector has been practically non-existent and you start growing. I can lead in acceleration on a bicycle from a dead start vs. a car already cruising down the highway, but that doesn’t mean much does it?

Not sure if it counts, but John Coltrane playing “My Favorite Things”. I got that track on some best of Coltrane collection for Christmas when I was in grade school. It eventually became both my favorite Christmas song and really got me into jazz. It’s still the default version that pops into my head when I think of that song, not Julie Andrews singing it in The Sound of Music.

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I didn’t call you anything, but it is interesting that you lept to that conclusion. Dictionaries are descriptive not prescriptive, so not sure how that’s relevant in this discussion.

You’re describing leeching from something like Anna’s Archive datasets.

Lies don’t need to be intentional. You may not have been lying in the moment, but (especially if it’s by your own actions) you have made yourself a liar after the fact if you don’t keep to your promise. Your logic sounds like a narcissist’s rhetoric. Your intent in the moment is worthless without follow through and does not relieve you of responsibility.

It depends on your emphasis. “You HAVE got a problem there,” doesn’t sound weird when you emphasize the have. You’ve a problem doesn’t sound weird, just a bit British.

The power indicator bulbs in these kinds of kitchen appliances are rarely LEDs. They are usually neon indicator lamps. They’re pretty durable and have been in use far longer than LEDs.

https://youtu.be/nyYjnV99wfM?si=xq4fxzbOM3ADtBPx&start=106

This kind of cheese has a very low melt point.