Okay, but like, places like AP and Reuters are right there and free. If someone's thirsty, you shouldn't point them at a dirty puddle because it's better than sewage, you should turn the faucet on.

See, it sounds like that's another way of saying "If you don't have a ton of spare time and nothing better to do with it, don't even try to edit Wikipedia"

In this case, the primary relevant fact checking skill would be searching for sources independent of Wikipedia, in which case, why was one starting with Wikipedia in the first place?

A wikipedia sources list is not some sort of list of all available data on a subject. It's a list of what information was used to build the article.

On anything remotely divisive, there will be available primary sources for multiple viewpoints, and obviously a slanted article will largely contain sources supporting its slant and leave out sources that don't. Just checking the sources can easily result in the illusion of consensus where there is none.

I use Vivaldi, which (being Chromium-based) supports Chrome addons.

There is a similar addon for Firefox, the starkly-named Reddit Comments For Youtube + Nebula

I know a lot of us (mostly myself included) have more-or-less excised reddit from our lives, but I'm still a big fan of Karamel, a browser extension that replaces the Youtube comments with Reddit comments. You can see all the different subs a video's been linked in, and that often includes specialist communities who have interesting things to say about a given video, usually way more focused than the youtube comment section. More than once I've found a sub I love but would never have discovered on my own, by seeing a video had been posted there.

Assuming the amount of "real value" people don't pay stays close to the average, won't most years have the largest shortfall ever recorded, just because inflation exists?

This is why I don't pay attention to movies breaking box office records anymore either; if you adjust for inflation, Gone with the Wind is still the recordholder, and not one single movie has broken into the top 10 since Titanic. But every year, some movie touts its status as the highest grossing film of all time because that's, you know, how money works.

You could make a religion out of this!

I feel like you're actively choosing not to read what I said, because literally the entire point of that post that I'm not saying that.

I'm saying banning all forms of genetic engineering is an overreaction to the Eugenics War. Not all genetic engineering is eugenics. Like any medical technology, when used wisely, it can be invaluable in helping people and improving their lives. The Earth was so traumatized by the results of eugenics that centuries later, they still mandate the entire Federation throw out the baby with the bathwater.

God, they even want to make leisure time into a side hustle. Is it so much to ask that they let me not think about my participation in capital for like, two hours?

Eugenics is a major part of that trauma, being part of the war. But banning all forms of genetic engineering across the entire multi-species alliance for centuries because it can go too far is a vast overreaction. Imagine if the nuclear reactors had been completely banned because of WWII, or if viral research was banned because of COVID, or if prosthetic limbs were banned because of Wolf 359.

Because Earth never faced an extinction-level Cyborg War, pretty much. I'm of the opinion that the primary reason for the Federation's ban on genetic engineering is Earth's enduring trauma from the Eugenics War.

There is, actually, it's justtherecipe.com

I'm the same way, I bailed on Picard and Discovery pretty early. Strange New Worlds is really good though, imo.

OH, WE ARE THE VALIANT INFANTRY

Well, I played about 20 minutes before work, and so far the difference I've noticed are that autoconstruction doesn't exist and that instead of spacelanes you just have warp right from the start; there was mention of something called "warp highways" but I didn't work it out before I had to go.

I've heard Firefox's inbuilt tracking protection often trips whatever detection method they're using, and like, I'm not turning that off for Youtube.

The same thing's happening in Canada with the CBC; bunch of people calling them out for not saying "terrorist" implying it means they're in favour of the attacks, when CBC simply has a policy of not saying that about anyone, because it's not their job.

You update by installing the newer .deb...

Only if you're using the flatpak, iirc. Snaps should update automatically and I'm pretty sure both Snaps and .debs can be updated through the Software GUI (i.e. right click > open with Software).