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That sounds right to me as well now that you mention it.

Ferengi have never stopped caring about profit, it’s a fundamental part of their culture.

Gold pressed latinum is an interesting currency FWIW. IIRC latinum is so valuable that gold is just the container for it, adding little value.

https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Latinum

I think that’s totally fine, as much as some might want to turn this into a “Ketchup on Steak” kind of holy war.

I grew up on StoveTop and I do think it’s yummy.

My mother in law makes a stuffing that’s essentially potatoes, bread, onions, whatever other seasonings, and yes a good bit of salt. (I haven’t helped make it I admit, so I could be doing it a disservice to describe it that way)

She even cooks some of it inside the turkey and some of it outside, though it never really gets soggy.

As far as I’m concerned, you could throw out the entire rest of Thanksgiving dinner and just give me a big bowl of that.

Did I just see a Bob Newhart Show reference in 2023? In a Star Trek meme??!!

Nice.

Edit: Newhart not The Bob Newhart Show. My bad.

Not directly related but you reminded me of this wonderful blast from the past:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8Ge8g7xkXM

And of course, the not quite as good, but still worthwhile followup:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlmCWPFOvh4

I thought Lana was voiced by Katey Sagal for the longest time. Still catch myself thinking that sometimes.

Actually I wondered that too.

Lifelong peanuts fan and I can’t figure out who is Riker. Someone end my shame, please.

Edit: Is it Schroeder with black hair?

Come now, how had they not learned it already from this?

You really need to give the first season or two some lenience. Don’t skip it. Just recognize that as others have said it takes awhile to find its voice, and IMO for some of the actors to grow into their characters.

Just like Riker, you need to be patient until Sisko grows his beard.

I wasn’t aware of that, I’ll check into it, thanks!

But, IMO, I think we’re learning that services like that are inevitably going to be enshittified if not federated.

No one but Google has this.

Today.

There are these periodic revolts against Youtube by creators who depend on them for their income due to Youtubes varous bullshit - which I agree with.

But, then they all just STFU and go back to continuing that dependence.

Why have none of these big creators banded to put their weight behind one of the fediverse alternatives? I am not ignorant with regard to the need for bandwidth, storage, and CPU to sustain these services, but I’m also not proposing anyone should just drop their lucrative Youtube situation and jump ship, either.

Get some of the big guys - especially the big tech Youtubers - to put their weight behind one of these alternatives, and I think it could build over time.

But it’s not gonna happen until they do, so we just get a few dramatic events a year where everyone gets up in arms about how much Youtube sucks, and then returns to normal.

Edit: A bit disappointed how many replies seem to boil down to a belief that the Youtube business model is the only one that shall ever exist or ever could exist for content creators. Rome wasn’t built in a day, ya’ll. (And neither was youtube.)

Ok, thanks for your input!

A week ago I didn’t know who she was, now she’s everywhere. And everything she does is hilarious.

The copy wouldn’t feel any different, but I’d be dead. The process as described in OP (and most fiction) is inherently destructive, IMO.

I’d buy this argument if brain death happened every time you went to sleep. Being in maintenance mode doesn’t count.

He wouldn’t exist. A copy of him that they could not distinguish would exist. He’d be dead.

If you say that doesn’t matter to you, fine, but I don’t think it’s hard to grasp why a lot of folks wouldn’t be OK with it, especially as a daily form of transportation.

Dunno, I value my continued existence pretty highly. Maybe I’ll change my mind when I read the PDF.

The idea is that it does not exist. I have this worry about transporters (or would if they were real). I can only look at it as that one consciousness ends, truly dies. On the other end out pops a consciousness that thinks it is the same person, but is actually a new person, who will live only until it enters the next transporter.

In other words, whatever you think the rest of your life is going to be, post-transporter, will be unknown to you, because you will be dead, and that future will be lived by someone who believes themselves to be you, but is not.

I don’t say this to be argumentative - I WISH I didn’t view transporters this way - it ruins Trek for me if I let myself think about it, and I’d love to be convinced I’m wrong.