Are you an electrician? Tell me one interesting thing about American residential electrical systems.

You know the answer to this. Because the CEO at your company sucks but you still need the money. Many people, even those in your industry, do not wear suits at work. I guarantee it.

Please re-read:

Do you think “neurotypical” people love dealing with random people’s opinions and needs?

Disliking a suit and tie isn’t some revelation to “normies”. You are not a radical for thinking that. In fact, all the little things that annoy you probably annoy other people too.

This is a clue to easy small talk. Just say that something annoys you. “Oh man, this suit is murder in this heat.” It’s easy.

Either the answer will be “Yeah man, heh” or “nah, I like it”. You have now successfully engaged in small talk.

exist because of ridiculous social expectations

This is called “taking other people’s opinions into account”. That’s what a society is. If you want your opinions listened to and acted on by others, you have to reciprocate.

Do you think “neurotypical” people love dealing with random people’s opinions and needs? No, but they see the value in cooperating with others to get what they want. You are “expected” to wear clothes in public because I don’t know how often you bathe yourself. You are “expected” to not yell in public because if every rando yelled whenever they wanted, life would be more stressful.

Good. You probably don’t want a hatchet to be that sharp. You’re not going to be doing anything delicate with it. Sharp blades have the edge bend or break easily.

Uh, the man was possessed and put the entire Enterprise at the mercy of an alien race. That’s at least first officer material.

These people are all very successful. The main problem would be getting them to work together. If anything, this would be the luckiest ship in the fleet. At least 8/9 of them have major plot armor. This ship would be like Gilligan’s Island in space.

Russia: Spends months trying to capture a random city 25 miles from their border. Ukrainian defenses were somehow “missing” (sabotage). Stalemate.

Ukraine: Spends days capturing a specific important natural gas objective. Russian defenses are also missing (lazy). Success.

When he strokes the beard thusly, does he appear more intellectual?

They get around it by having a sale on a special version of the product that had a higher price in the past 30 to 90 days. The version is the same as normal, but with a different serial number.

Only that version goes on “sale” for Black Friday or whatever, so they are technically following the law. They do it in the US too. Literally look it up on Camel Camel Camel during a sale.

But this is San Francisco on Earth. That’s where Starfleet Headquarters is going to be. It’s like walking around Cambridge before Newton and noticing it’s just a crappy Middle Ages town with a primitive University.

Also, Wisconsin is not a red state.

Those things are funnier because it’s Quark doing them. The joke is even dyed-in-the-wool libertarians get it.

Just distract him with a mirror. Or mention that you’ve never seen an interracial same-sex kiss between two captains before.

They forgot Libertarian Alien who’s there for comedic relief. His kooky libertarian plans reliably blow up in his face like Wile E. Coyote.

Not like that. A server name that can be authenticated. Like when you receive an email from your bank (in the metadata), you know it’s legitimate. Each organization can set up their own server to host things they vouch for. With ActivityPub it can be viewed elsewhere with the guarantee that it’s from a trusted source.

It’s called a “name”.

Why would anyone pay for the service? Having a “name” is free, and that dumb worldcoin only works for people. It can’t work for governments or businesses.

ActivityPub is actually a good way to authenticate things. If an organization vouches for something they can post it on their server and it can be viewed elsewhere.

generative AI makes it very easy for anyone to flood the internet with generated text, audio, images, and videos.

And? There’s already way too much data online to read or watch all of it. We could just move to a “watermark” system where everyone takes credit for their contributions. Things without watermarks could just be dismissed, since they have as much authority as an anonymous comment.

What data? Your pizza order data? What extra data does the app look at?

I genuinely don’t know because I have pizza places that don’t suck. You can get a real pizza for $20.