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Kbin. Kbity. Like kitty but kbin. Kbity!

That’s incredible. Certified “Directive #4” moment.

There’s even rumours that the next version of Windows is going to inject a bunch of AI buzzword stuff into the operating system. Like, how is that going to make the user experience any more intuitive? Sounds like you’re just going to have to fight an overconfident ChatGPT wannabe that thinks it knows what you want to do better than you do, every time you try opening a program or saving a document.

They already have alt-tech, which had kind of a headstart on the Fediverse.

The Fediverse is home to a lot of young, tech-minded people distrustful of major corporations. The younger generations are more likely to come out as transgender due to greater awareness and acceptance of gender identity and dysphoria, and a decentralised, open platform is naturally going to appeal to communists, syndicalists and other left-wingers who don’t want some billionaire buying the next website they get comfortable on. And funnily enough, there are a surprising number of trans people in the tech sector, to the point where trans-flag socks have become a meme among programmers.

Well, you’re paying for all that performance, might as well get as much out of it as possible. God knows Snaps or Windows 11 can sometimes drag even the best hardware down to a crawl.

Well, there’s the thing, you need a browser. You’d be surprised how many newer Reddit users access the site primarily or even exclusively on their phones, and who tend to use apps rather than their mobile browser.

It got mentioned a lot on /r/RedditAlternatiives and since its API is already up and running, there are a whole bunch of apps for it. With mobile apps being the thing that started the whole Reddit disaster, it makes sense that Lemmy would grow quicker than kbin which doesn’t have mobile apps yet.

Killing two people who are both destined to die in the very near future to save one who will live for a considerably longer period and save a greater number of lives would be the right thing to do from a utilitarian standpoint. Tuvix, meanwhile, is a healthy being who was competent to discharge his duties and posed no threat.

Consequently, while there is an argument to be made that killing one person to revive two others is a net benefit, the burden of suffering on that one person is extreme, and whether or not it is outweighed by the positive nature of the two others returning to live is very much a matter of individual outlook.

It is also worth noting that Tuvok and Neelix as they existed before could be considered “already dead” as a result of their combination into a single entity. Thus you could argue that what actually happened is that Tuvix “died” so that clones of the deceased Tuvok and Neelix could be created from him. Admittedly this is a shaky argument given the whole “do transporters actually kill people in-universe” thing.

I would have to assume that credits are a largely bureaucratic unit of account that most Federation citizens will never work with or even hear about, but are used by internal departments of the Federation as a means of budgeting the capacity of things like transport ships, industrial replication facilities and shipyards.

This also allows them to function as a de facto currency for trade with outside powers who have achieved warp travel but aren’t yet in a post-scarcity state, or as a way of managing resource usage at the edges of Federation space where infrastructure is still developing and resources need to be priorities for that development.

Basically, the Federation doesn’t have “money” as an everyday societal phenomenon, but it does retain the economic capacity to issue something usable as currency when the situation calls for it such as during periods of scarcity (whether localised or across the Federation) or when conducting trade with non-Federation entities such as the Ferengi.

I mean, gold is pretty abundant in space and presumably not that difficult to replicate.