Elder millennial here

Yeah. But she wanted to carry a really small purse that wouldn’t be able to hold the foldable :(

After an impromptu upscale bar/lounge crawl with the wifey the other day…

A shoe that can easily go back and forth from high heel/wedge to comfortable flats w/o much, if any, tooling or carrying around extra parts. She also brought a clutch purse

Wifey was dead the next day from foot pain of walking between places.

It is a religious practice for Jews … I completely agree with your point of it being a “health fad” for non-jews though.

Ask any Dr who fan. The BBC did this as well back in the day…

Regardless, I switched off brave because I was tired of getting ads in the browser. Been using ff for a while now

Why a restaurant for the service.

Between my wife and I we can make a lot of good staples (roasted chicken, beef and potatoes, etc.) but we’re not masters of the kitchen by any stretch.

You go to a restaurant to have someone else make the dinner and hopefully they are better than you are to make something tastier. As a side you don’t have to deal with cleaning dishes.

That and hopefully they have a good wait staff to liven up things

Iirc it’s that they find Scotty from OG through plot magic and he complains about synthehol not being scotch.

Data says someone else (guinan?) Has a bottle or two stowed somewhere of something similar…

In real life you have to make your own food, make your own drinks, use your own plates/glasses/etc. and deal with cleanup.

In ds9 the replicator does everything for you.

But I get your point

Thanks!

This makes much more sense. On my first run through of ds9 and this has been bothering me

Ok so next question. If the computer can magically create anything. And they are on almost all space stations (including cardassian/federation ones) what’s the point of a bar?

Gambling makes sense. Paying for food/drink when you have a replicator doesn’t.

Right, I get that. I’m just thinking that the song isn’t about racism. Other than the fact that he’s black and has the black man’s blues. If the song was talking about his life as a black man or how he ended up a bum that would be different. But it’s the way a child sees a black guy with killer guitar playing skills. Very innocent

Call me naive, but I always thought Curtis Lowe was about society not respecting bums who play good music for beer/wine money aka the starving artist. Even though the protagonist loved him as a mentor/entertainer.

Racism or the fact that he was black wasn’t the main factor in the issues the protagonist is singing about, just that he happened to be black… though I’m betting it didn’t help the way people/protagonist’s mom viewed the two of them spending so much time together

I always say him as an inspiration to Bleeding Gums Murphy and Lisa in the Simpsons.

Just my 2 cents. I agree with the rest of your list though.

Life well lived for me is the following.

1. My life ends in a comfy bed surrounded by friends and family having died before becoming a burden on them.
2. I’ve made a positive impact on those around me
3. I’ve left my children/family in better financial shape than I was born into (which, frankly, was pretty good already)
4. I traveled and saw what the world has to offer

Yeah, life is meaningless, and we’re one small speck in a universe so big it breaks our brains to think about and we only last a similar amount of time in regard to the vastness of time itself. . … so I might as well make myself and the people around me feel good

As far as the short term? Have a good conversation with friends/family, go for a walk through a nearby forest.

I was 14 and just got a cable modem when Napster came out. I just got introduced to modern music, had no way to pay for it other than asking my folks. Let’s jump on the pirate ship!

Now I’ll let you do the math on my age, I have very stable income, and a fair amount of disposable savings, and I still pirate pretty much my ears will be hearing. Plex has equal or better tools for watching/listening than every other service I’ve tried (shuffling episodes is my favorite)

I go to concerts, watch movies in the theatre, read physical books and support creatives in other ways… so I feel different about that…

I also started noticing this when itunes came out. You could only listen to music YOU PAID FOR on devices you’ve authorized. Then soon after I saw this, a friend was down on his luck but had a very good and varied cd collection. He started selling them to second hand shops and his friends.

I ended up seeing this dichotomy and thought to myself… this sucks. Let’s just pirate it…

I should note the amount of physical unread books I have on my shell are similarly rationed to the amount of music I haven’t listened to or movies I haven’t watched yet that I’ve also pirated