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It wouldn’t. Nor would it be unsafe. These property value fuckers are not just obnoxious but also really stupid.

There’s a neighborhood in my city right next to a light rail station. Literally, some of the houses are less than 20m from the platform. But when the station was being built the neighborhood association specifically campaigned against having any access to the station from the neighborhood. There’s a huge concrete wall blocking it off now. So if the people living in the houses literally directly next to the station wanted to get to the station they’d have to walk (or realistically, drive) over 2km across a highway, along a major road and through busy parking lots. And then, after getting to the station, they’d have to cross back under the highway to get to the actual train platform, because it’s built on their side of the highway despite being impossible to get to from that side.

property value obsessed homeowners are some of the most obnoxious people on earth

Women tend to use emojis more, so redditors and by extension lemmitors hate emojis

Simply put the desktop in the room you wish to game in

Desktop replacement gaming laptops are a mistake. You can buy a normal laptop and the parts to build a gaming desktop for the same price and the laptop will be much more practical to carry around while the desktop will perform better and last longer.

I remembered having this problem and found the page that helped me: https://superuser.com/questions/1151161/enable-touch-scrolling-in-firefox

I use Xournal++ it’s not perfect but it does what I need it to as a stylus note app.

The Federation’s position on genetic engineering is not well considered

Drivers complaining about fines and having fewer routes

The meat Federation citizens eat isn’t really an animal product. In the Orville, it’s actually made explicit that killing an animal for food is regarded as tantamount to murder in the Union.

I hate people driving their daily commute more than I hate midnight street racers

The situation with Windows and DOS is as if ChromeOS took over so decisively that Linux became nothing more than a historical curiosity.

No it’s worse. Tying the OS and GUI together to the extent they are in modern post-95 Windows is a major cause of the learned helplessness OP is talking about

Specifically from the introduction of Windows 95 tying Windows and MS-DOS together. While Windows was an application running on DOS Microsoft tried various schemes to break compatibility when it was run on other competing DOSes, and Windows 95 was the final stroke of that strategy by tying the GUI inextricably into the OS.

All a consequence of Microsoft monopolistically tying windows to the OS to push out other competing DOSes

Absolutely. Star Trek writers are in no way immune to capitalist realism themselves, especially when they’re beholden to studio execs and budgets.

I didn’t make it more than a few episodes into Picard before giving up in disgust, and this only validates my choice there. It’s not just Picard though. Strange New Worlds is generally quite good, but the colony shown in the most recent episode was explicitly modeled on a mid 20th century American small town, a place Federation citizens should know better than to emulate.

Are there any novels or fanfics you’d recommend that do an actual good job of portraying a properly post scarcity Federation culture?

A Star Trek about civilians would have to be done extremely carefully to not ruin everything with gold pressed latinum.

Those kids aren’t technically Starfleet officers (in season 1) but they’re very Starfleet.

T’Lyn is fitting in perfectly. The way she deadpanned “losing” her notes and then immediately explained her choice as a straightforward matter of ethics was fantastic.