Here’s what I want to know: why the FUCK does Sisko’s Creole Kitchen exist if there are no paying customers? Why not just upload his recipes in everyones replicator? Does he do it for fun? How does land ownership and leaseholding work? Do you just open a restaurant wherever you feel like it?

pulls pin, walks away...

I just wanna know why an enemy weapon strike on almost any portion of a starship results in the explosion of a console on the bridge. :-)

I never understood the trekonomics. Why would anyone enter starfleet? Why is there so much hierarchy within the fleet? Why do crewmen have smaller suites than the captain but still the same replicator? And why are there still Ferengi? And where do starfleet people get gold pressed latinum to do business with the…

No, no we really can’t. The economics of Star Trek is internally inconsistent, unrealistic, and frequently driven purely by wishful thinking. This is like saying we can learn a lot about human anatomy from watching anime.

I was having dinner at a friend’s restaurant in SF, and he was there just a couple tables over. Seemed really dissociated from his dinner companions and was on his phone 97% of the time. Servers told me he was kinda douchey. Big surprise.

#notalltwitter.

Maybe he just has narcolepsy

Left out? He’s a capitalist, first and foremost and as such, his reason for being is to make money for his company. That’s it. So all his talk about stay woke (vomit) and being on the ground in Ferguson and talking with Deray.. is nothing more than a money-based decision. That’s it. When he is with the board.. he’s…

First, I must confess that over the last few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen’s Council-er or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate who is…

I disagree. My wife had a *terrible* experience with a dentist, and left an appropriate review (short version: in a two person office, they literally could not find the key for closet with the gas, and the crown they put on fell off three times; to get the crown fixed, another dentist had to do a bone graft because…

Agreed, but there’s a difference between a one star review for “My drink took 10 minutes” and one star review for “I’m out $1000 and this contractor did a shit job I have to pay even more money to fix.” One is overkill, the other is probably not.

Since 2003, he has donated almost equally to both Republican and Democratic candidates, so you could say that despite his distaste, he’s been doing his part for democracy on the blue planet.

The US is an aristocracy disguised as a democracy. In order to run for office you must raise funds, and who has those funds? The only people who run for office that don’t need funds are Billionaires.

Well when Mars is first colonized, it’d probably be mostly scientists and the like. So they’d be in charge, but as more and more people move there, you’d have the need for some kind of separate government to focus on the day to day operations of the community. And it’d be a small community, probably just one town, so…

The United States is a Federal presidential Constitutional Republic. Think of Rome... as that is the model that was loosely used as the basis for our current structures on the federal level. I felt it was necessary to correct the statement that it is a representative democracy - as that is not precise. The democratic…

Greta Van Sustren is already preparing her hot take on how the data is taking to long to arrive.

Player 1's little brother picked up the controller a decade ago.

No one said you’re the main character of the game. You are not even one of the guards who used to be an adventurer until they got shot in the knee. Instead, you’re just one of the many drones that are used to give the game a sense of reality as you follow your daily, boring, programmed set of routines interacting with…

I’ll stick with major hubs thanks