buckykat [none/use name] @ buckykat @hexbear.net

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I use Xournal++ it's not perfect but it does what I need it to as a stylus note app.

The Federation's position on genetic engineering is not well considered

Drivers complaining about fines and having fewer routes

The meat Federation citizens eat isn't really an animal product. In the Orville, it's actually made explicit that killing an animal for food is regarded as tantamount to murder in the Union.

I hate people driving their daily commute more than I hate midnight street racers

The situation with Windows and DOS is as if ChromeOS took over so decisively that Linux became nothing more than a historical curiosity.

No it's worse. Tying the OS and GUI together to the extent they are in modern post-95 Windows is a major cause of the learned helplessness OP is talking about

Specifically from the introduction of Windows 95 tying Windows and MS-DOS together. While Windows was an application running on DOS Microsoft tried various schemes to break compatibility when it was run on other competing DOSes, and Windows 95 was the final stroke of that strategy by tying the GUI inextricably into the OS.

All a consequence of Microsoft monopolistically tying windows to the OS to push out other competing DOSes

And when they do use space suits they open their helmets the moment they find an even marginally breathable atmosphere

No more half measures, Walter

Abolish all intellectual property as part of abolishing all private property and enshrine the four fundamental software freedoms as universal human rights.

Would the entertainment industry survive?

No

Murf also doesn't have any bones to drink

The de-Tuvixing transport is functionally the same as the duplication transport and can be done with no external phenomena. And there are other examples of transporters being used in "impossible" ways that suggest they are more capable than the Federation is willing to admit, like both Scotty and M'Benga using them for long term stasis.

I think it stems from the Federation's pervasive anti-transhumanist bent which is usually attributed to the trauma of the human eugenics wars.

What about the times the transporter does duplicate people, like Kirk, Riker, and Boimler? To me, this suggests the transporter's inability to duplicate people is less of a technological limitation and more of a software-enforced taboo.

When you purchase digital goods you're downloading capitalism.

Absolutely. Star Trek writers are in no way immune to capitalist realism themselves, especially when they're beholden to studio execs and budgets.

I didn't make it more than a few episodes into Picard before giving up in disgust, and this only validates my choice there. It's not just Picard though. Strange New Worlds is generally quite good, but the colony shown in the most recent episode was explicitly modeled on a mid 20th century American small town, a place Federation citizens should know better than to emulate.

Are there any novels or fanfics you'd recommend that do an actual good job of portraying a properly post scarcity Federation culture?

A Star Trek about civilians would have to be done extremely carefully to not ruin everything with gold pressed latinum.