yep absolutely no hand-harvested crops, just unheard of, nobody makes any money farming those

It’s agriculture, there’s always profit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Brandt_(farmer)

In the late 1990s and early 2000s, Brandt experimented with different combinations and species of cover crops, such as radishes and sunflowers, to improve crop yield and improve soil quality. As a result of these cover crops, Brandt was able to cut back on commercial nitrogen additives, which also saved money. Additionally, Brandt saw less mold and blight and fewer insects among his crops, to the point that he was able to reduce or stop using fungicide, herbicide, and insecticide on parts of the farm.

Keynesian economic policy would give our institutions (and the ruling class) a new lease on life. Unfortunately, these are also the same institutions that spent the last 70 years stripping out everything but the military make-work programmes. I don’t think our leaders, any of them, ideologically capable of recognizing any of the benefits of returning to that compromise.

You wanna name any of these alternatives, or are we just using the fallacy fallacy to wave away arguments we don’t like?

Perhaps, as you claim, free housing isn’t feasible. But you can walk up any road in any street in any city in the world to find a real example of this “strawmanned” landlord.

Look, if this were a publication in a scientific journal, sure.

But it’s not. It’s a webforum. In casual conversation, you can gesture to the idea that there was more sealife before mechanization, pollution, and industrial fishing becacasue… yeah. Duh. Of course there was.

if you can dismiss the proofless infograph without proof, I can dismiss your dismissal without proof. We can go on recursively all day.

Do you have evidence that oceans were less plentiful in the past? Or are you just taking a contrarian position because it’s easy?

i’d love some new problems, new problems would be a breath of fresh air

there should be a legal mandate for websites to sort chronologically by default

companies can still have screwy algorithms, but users should have to turn it on each and every time they connect or open the app

oh hey it’s thud

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Games_of_the_Discworld#Gameplay

isn’t it a combination of younger developers not learning to programme under the restrictions of limited memory and cpu speed, on top of employers demanding code as soon as possible rather than code that is elegant or resource efficient or even slightly planned out

fair enough

personally, I think DS9 used the Mirror Universe well. As you say, it’s enjoyable for the writers. I also think the cast had a lot of fun with them - cut loose and go full camp.

Staying in the mirror universe is what kills me. I liked the first half of STD’s season 1 well enough. But after revealing that Lorka was from the mirror universe and then spending the rest of the season there? That’s not fun at all. Just boring.

GLaDOS would read that seduction is a highly successful tactic for getting what you want, attempt it for all of 0.68 seconds, before declaring it a mistake and switching on the neurotoxin.

Ctrl a

Ctrl c

alt tab

Ctl v

Ctl s

conversion complete

i like the implication that after the Dominion War, most of Starfleet is just sloshed on whatever that Orion beverage is

Have yet to see anything outside of DS9 use Section 31 well. It’s inclusion manages to turn what’s supposed to be a hopeful story of the future into just another police procedural that happens to use Star Trek™ branded props

to say nothing of Star Trek IV

“Double dumbass on you!”