So your argument is that you can’t have a utopia if you can inherit your parents belongings?
I’m saying if one vineyard has been in the same family for a thousand years…
Anyone who says everything is fair and equal doesn’t know what they’re talking about.
It’s not a utopia because it’s not a classless society.
It’s what modern day oligarchs would call a utopia.
For Picard’s vineyard, it’s a family legacy and heirloom, so he gets a pass.
And so do all of his descendants who inherit it in perpetuality
An unchanging social structure with no means for mobility.
Either your family was rich enough to own land centuries ago, or you never will be.
Utopia!
/s
But if you want your own vineyard and there’s enough land then you get one.
And then your descendants always get it because it’s a family legacy and heirloom…
So even if there’s “open land” it’s going to run out eventually.
Buddy, if you think someone who’s watched all of Star Trek once is an “expert” than it’s more likely I know a lot more about it than you…
I just understand some people have all this shit memorized, and you are overconfident in your knowledge of the show.
Which is something that goes beyond Star Trek, often the people who know the most say they don’t know everything, and the people who say they know it all. Just aren’t aware of how much there is to know.
Have fun being overconfident tho.
I legitimately don’t know:
But would just every random human have access to a replicator 24/7?
Like, that would be a tally in the Utopia column, but even then, the amount of waste and trash produced would be a problem.
Even in an absolutely ideal situation like that, it would end like The Good Place where getting anything you want burns out your dopamine system.
I dunno. Like I said I’m not a Star Trek expert, I just don’t trust a bunch of rich people working for the one world government telling us the 99.99% of humans we never see are living perfect lives.
It’s fictional so it could be real if the writers want it to be. But it’s a lot more realistic if not everything was as perfect as we’re told, or even Starfleet officers believe.
Not a big trekie, but I never trusted the “Earth is a giant utopia and everything is perfect” story
Like, I’m sure there’s a class of people most of Starfleet is made up of like Picard, but not everyone on earth owns a fucking vineyard.
I always thought The Expanse was probably how it really was. No one “has to work” because there’s not enough work. So the majority of the population gets a little UBI and blows it on drugs and alcohol to numb the emptiness
Like, do they even show “current earth” that much in Star Trek? Or is it just wealthy Starfleet members talking about how awesome their lives were?
I dunno, it’s just an unbelievable story. If it’s really supposed to be a perfect utopia, it’s just unbelievable writing.
Oh yeah, I was just making a joke about remembering Minouge.
It’s really good.
In the OG movie “what we do in the shadows” there’s two cops that show up and get hypnotized, they’re the two main characters in Wellington Paranormal.
So every episode is like a monster of the week type deal where they bumble thru paranormal investigations. It’s arguably better than the mainstream American spinoff, but much lesser known. And obviously without the star-studded castings.
Apparently it got taken off HBO recently, but it’s a big ocean and everythings out there if you’re brave enough to sail.
That’s 100% what it is
You jogged my memory and the person I was thinking of definitely was Minouge because he clearly had a “M” on his forehead.
That shows seriously under-rated, so props for being able to remember
“Enhance”
“I can’t enhance, that’s not a real thing”
“Well just zoom in then”
“We can’t zoom in anymore, you have to just get up closer to the screen”.
I wanna say Spaceballs, but I don’t think that’s right? Brooklyn 99?
Anybody remember where that’s from?
This has been a PSA on the dangers of playing Crusader Kings when having multiple days off…
It’s weird to see people still argue even more should shut down and literally no one should work today…
To lots of people it’s just a normal Wednesday (it’s dude’s day my dudes).
Especially if they needed to use up personal days to celebrate other holidays
Something people would actually use is a message board.
One of the simple cut and paste forums and pay the $10/month to get it hosted.
Just have people text you to approve registration, something you can verify people are really in the neighborhood
People aren’t going to want to download a bunch of stuff they don’t know about to hang out with the HOA for game nights…
The main problem with HOAs is lonely bored people who want something to do.
Most people would rather pretend the HOA doesn’t exist until it’s needed for an actual issue.
If I said there was two types of fruit, would you there’s more than two species of fruit?
There’s two types of fediverse basically.
Reddit knockoff
Twitter knockoff
Sometimes a #2 can post to a #1, they stand out because they always tag people and us hashtags in comments, when they manage to create a post, they never seem aware and get very very belligerent when people try to explain what they did that created a post.
If you want to engage with them on their level, you need an account on a twitter knockoff.
Prebuilts have become about the only way to get a deal for a while now.
Teach a man to fish…
https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/324466-tutorial-how-to-upscale-star-trek-deep-space-nine
Starting with 480p tho, you’re gonna have to be realistic with what you can end up with. What you’ve found and what you’re complaining about might be the best possible image quality already.
Don’t count out device level upscaling either. Having that on top of the AInl upscaler might help, or it might make your problems worse.
I’ve got a 4k TV that does a really good job of upscaling, so for me the Goldilocks zone is upscaling to 1080, then letting the TV upscale. Rather than trying to upscale to 4k and play that natively.
How funny would it be if a Borg didn’t have any speakers, so it just made a bunch of robot noises with their mouth to fit in…
But… What about the noises?
Oh, buddy… You’re doing that. You’re making the noises with your mouth…
It is difficult to think of how they could coexist.
By not being dicks…
It’s that easy, to coexist they just need to stop being dicks. And the way to get them to stop being dicks, is by being dicks to them.
When it’s everyone against a couple dicks, they’re pressured to at least fake being decent.
Let them go wild, and normal people see there’s no consequences to being a dick, and they act like dicks too.
It’s insanely simple. Everyone just needs to agree that as long as no one is harming anyone else, it’s cool. And the only thing that’s not cool, is fucking with someone else.
Oh, they got Ozzy’s old boy for this?