It is, but I’ve seen this question asked earnestly so many times I just can’t tell anymore…

The hell could O’Brien have done to get such a reaction?

Nothing. Tom just wanted to scare O’Brien off. Tom was worried O’Brien knew Will well enough that an extended conversation would blow his cover.

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No one on your instance has subscribed to it, so it’s not federating content in. If you subscribe, it will populate.

I agree it would be nice if people would post there more, which is why I’m suggesting it

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You’re preaching to the choir. “Concede the point” is a figure of speech which means the speaker is going explore an assumption despite not believing it themselves.

My point is that the whole “capitalism is the best economic system we know about because humans are greedy” argument is sophistry. It doesn’t even make sense in the context of its own flawed premise.

Let’s concede the point: humans are inherently greedy and selfish.

But greed and selfishness are bad, right? We want less greed and selfishness in the world.

Given these two assumptions—humans are greedy, greed is bad—shouldn’t we architect society to explicitly disincentivize greed?

Thank you for looking into it!

It’s extremely easy, you just install AdGuard.

In the US you either had unlimited SMS or no SMS plan at all, in which case you got charged for every single message, sent or received. But I remember having unlimited SMS as early as 2003.

If you had no SMS at all then you certainly didn’t have a data plan, which ruled out WhatsApp entirely.

That’s easy: unlimited SMS was common on most mobile plans in the US as early as the mid-2000s. Unlike the rest of the world, Americans had no financial incentive to use WhatsApp.

Yes, shields normally let transporters pass right through and definitely need to be specifically configured to block transporter beams. That’s why no away team has ever been stranded because their ship had to raise shields.

Thank you. It’s not a proper Trek vs. Wars thread until someone busts out the canon card. I can’t believe it took 5 hours!

Well now we’ve just arrived at MAD, in space. Both sides deploy their Star Killers and both galaxies are rendered uninhabitable.

Most of the time they’re “blasters,” sometimes they’re “turbolasers” or “lasers.” Star Wars canon is a hot mess but they are most commonly defined as charged particle beam weapons, i.e. they’re phasers by a different name.

Soran’s device was essentially an anti-bomb, based on how Worf described it:

Trilithium is a nuclear inhibitor. In theory, it could stop all fusion within a star.

If you shot it at a Star Destroyer I think you’d just give a handful of unlucky stormtroopers trilithium poisoning.