I was a kid when ENT was airing, I wasn’t able to watch it consistently, but it was my first brush with Star Trek and I remembered how hopeful the song made me feel for the future. I can admit it is corny, but I was a kid and I didn’t know much English at the time so I didn’t get the religious undertones and to this day hearing it makes me incredibly nostalgic. I long for that feeling of hopefulness now and I’m thankful I get to experience at least a little bit of it when watching that intro.

Calm down Cruel, you just didn’t get the joke

Oh, I know there are none currently, but that doesn’t mean we as a society can’t decide to have something akin to a community centre where people could meet and do stuff for free. It would also probably boost birth rates while helping people be less lonely and I think it would be more effective than trying to ban birth control and abortion, so it would also make sense for Western nations to fund this if politicians actually cared about these sorts of things

We should make some places where people go to flirt and meet new people. It isn’t healthy for society as a whole not to have any place where it is appropriate to approach each other. That used to be bars for older generations but that seems to have changed and GenZ also consumes much less alcohol than older generations.

AI can at least reliably be used for protein folding research - this dude, on the other hand…

Maybe you will simply know that it is impossible to retrieve them

You will, of course, pay a monthly subscription for your transmission to each wheel as well as for the breaks and if you say anything mean about the US online you will be in breach of TOS and the car will brick itself.

“20 Anyone who beats their male or female slave with a rod must be punished if the slave dies as a direct result, 21 but they are not to be punished if the slave recovers after a day or two, since the slave is their property."

Exodus 21:20-21

Don’t forget the AMOC shutting down and sending most of Europe spiralling into the opposite problem as the rest of the world boils!

I am out of the loop, what are you referring to?

No, we are not over capacity for survival. We waste a ton of water on stuff we don’t need, like having lawns in the desert or choosing to grow almonds during droughts when people have to ration water usage at home. . Top soil is the same, we could, collectively, switch from beef and to a lesser extent pork to focus on much more efficient chicken, thus freeing a lot of land used to feed livestock.

Stop this Malthusian nonsense, we have enough resources for everyone. They are just severely mismanaged to the point of killing us all. We could live sustainably if we wanted to, we just choose not to.

Even if most every day people would lower their carbon footprint as much as possible, corporations would simply say “Neat, we can pollute more, we’re within target emissions”, and they would

Everything ends, nothing matters. Be happy for the little things and don’t screw it up for others

It depends on your artist. Mine was very friendly and we were chatting about life and society when I got mine, he was fun to talk to. However, some artists prefer to work in silence, others might want you to talk but won’t themselves, it depends. To me the experience was much better than any meeting I’ve been to, despite the needles

Actually, it’s summering right now. Falling will take place in a month and a half

You don’t get it! Pizzagate wasn’t about our side like the Epstein files are!! /s

They’re talking about the c-suites who make the decision to call everyone back to office, I presume

I’ve lived my entire life in commie blocks and unless my neighbours were renovating I had no issue with noise. However, new apartment building here do have that problem, and it is very noticeable, so maybe the issue isn’t with the concept of an apartment by itself, just the materials used in building them. Commie blocks are thick concrete and rebar.

Yup, there’s plenty of time to have fun if you don’t have to manage lil’ ones. Not saying people who want kids shouldn’t get them, but moreso that people who don’t necessarily want them and just see it as something people have to do should consider a childless lifestyle. It’s better for everyone that way.

Oh, that’s very interesting. Where I live there are only upper speed limits on most roads except highways. On other roads you can drive as slowly as you want, though everyone will overtake you if they can or honk at you if you don’t.