yoCcM has other problems, beyond Kirk’s self conscious fears.

Yea. Slightly modified - “If conditions are now so prefect now that 8 billion humans can ask their computer nicely to program itself, and it works, then why is non-shit-tier software still vanishingly rare?”

Too much risk of fireball ear.

It’s fair game after getting legally married, though.

Not my living room. Nice try, fuckers.

Why does it cost so much to engineer new models?

We need at least two massive quantum leaps in quality before this stuff can be long-term profitable; and there probably simply aren’t two quantum leaps left in the current pathways being explored.

But turning off all the bots, contracts, and lies would cause the investment money to stop immediately, rather than later.

Everyone perpetrating this scam wants to cash out a tiny bit more before it crashes.

Right. But Fermi’s Paradox applies.

Everyone is buying and selling software miracle cure…but all of the software itself is still exaclty as healthy as a con artists prize race horse (not healthy, and actually a mule).

And a lot more money. And so much more power and water. And more data. And more money, too.

Why does Riker get to celebrate his alone with full fanfare?

Rank has it’s privileges.

“Except your four fastest ships?!”

“Well, naturally, not those four.”

I have decided it i’s time to simply quote obvious movie villain lies in response to headlines from oligarch illegal merger corporate assholes.

If I had a nickel for every time that happened! Well…I guess I would have ten cents. But you have to admit, it’s weird that it happened twice.

Yes. We skipped it just one time, and now there’s a time paradox half-Romulan who won’t let us forget it!

“I was going to enjoy some shore leave, but these terrorists attacked, and now I’m stuck in the Jeffrey’s Tubes doing a Die Hard. I’ve never even seen the historical drama it is named after!”

They probably live much longer.

But then that’s more years of not eating and drinking to excess…so I can see it both ways.

I was taught how to eat in school, from a food pyriamid modified by producers of breads, dairy and sugar. :(

Brief off-topic aside: This recurring thread has been a bright spot, for me, in a sad Internet, this year. Thank you.

As for what I’m playing - mostly Palworld. The late game has allowed me to try to breed perfect pals while getting as deep as I like into farm management and interior decorating. It’s been very fun. Well worth the sticker price.

We can try to amplify the voices of the underrepresented.

Sometimes that might mean sitting with “let’s all take 5”.

Fun science fiction fact: Sometimes a transporter accident can take several horrific seconds to die.

We can, but we won’t.

Try new Coke.

Yes. The H.R.U.M.F. principle!