I feel like most of the objections could be satisfied by having non-essential holodeck stuff in rooms only.

So you have a bed and lighting and core furnishings without it. But you get to use the holodeck to adjust all that to your taste, decorate the room, and othewise make the space yours. Maybe you get a virtual companion if you are lonely.

OTOH, I think replicators are already capable of doing most of what would be done by the in-room holodeck in that case.

To me the energy needs don’t really matter since energy consumption only matters in emergencies in Star Trek usually. If the first things you lose when there are power issues are your decorations and your virtual companion, I think that’s OK…

Edit - and in the limited space available to a personal cabin even in the Trek universe - it would be cool for your kitchen to be able to become your movie room with a simple voice command, or a personal gym, or an extension to your main living area during a party, etc…

This American supports the priorities shown by the polling numbers.

We need more nations standing up to Trump, not more nations bending the knee. It doesn’t just help you, it helps us.

FAAyourkidsFO

gg Republicans

Yes, but how many fingers did they have?

Trump’s order also indicated that his Justice Department may seek to expand the use of the death penalty, so that it can apply to crimes beyond murder. The directive orders the U.S. attorney general to “pursue the death penalty for all crimes of a severity demanding its use.”

Like being trans? Or gay? Or Communist? Or Socialist? Or Democrat?

It’s still not an argument.

But I’m the troll here, meanwhile ad hom is all you have and your comments stay up.

Man you need to work on some better insults. Those barely registered.

Well somehow I clicked delete instead of edit on my reply of a minute ago.

What I said was - No, I think you are being given crumbs to get you to embrace fascism, and I think it’s working.

But then what I attempted to edit it to add was - and before you say it, the crumbs aren’t the people. The crumbs are the brief pause so Trump can use the political power he gains to cement himself. Then he will let Netanyahu off the leash and it’s not going to stop this time. That’s my prediction.

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You seem to have replied to the wrong comment. The only other possibility is a failure in reading comprehension.

I think it’s fantastic that lives will be temporarily saved.

Anyone who thinks this happened because Trump wants Gaza to be a better place for the people living there today is seeing what they want to see.

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There might be a way to be notified, I don’t know. I was temp banned when I first joined and I only knew it because I looked at the modlog after wondering why the reply button didn’t do anything.

IME for most circumstances where you want it, this is the easiest way, at least on desktop. There’s a similar choice behind the three dots menu of posts, also.

That’s certainly a perspective I’d like to agree with, so I hope you are right!

Everyone in the country was vulnerable to Covid too; you see how long that unity lasted. Just one example for my pessimism.

You’re insulting people because you have nothing constructive to say.

You know, that’s fair.

But, I’ll be interested to see your reply to cecinestpasunbot, since both the first and second half of your sentence seem to be untrue for their reply.

Weeeellll you see there’s having money, that’s one thing, sure.

Then, there’s the question of how you got your money.

Not as disgusting as becoming fabulously wealthy by directly shortening the lifespans and quality of life of tens of thousands of your fellow humans.

Yep. This is the third or fourth such event that I can think of in my lifetime. (not specifically related to healthcare) Every time I think “hey maybe that means something will change.”

So far, it either causes no change, or things get worse.

I’ve got my fingers crossed on this one.

Until there is some movement on our healthcare system, I will shed no tears for this guy, nor any similar events that occur in the future.