Grizzlybur

Yep the food will probably be HEAVILY dependant on what kind of land and/or my neighbours. I plan on living in Quebec, north of the st Laurent between or near Montreal and Trois Rivières. I’ll probably be looking at essentially a beefed up hobbyist garden for the first long while, maybe chickens, rabbits, ducks, and fishing in the streams for my proteins. But pork and maybe beef locally. Because of the shorter grow season I wanna experiment with hydroponics, but I won’t expect great results just mostly do it as a hobby thing. The land there is already cultivated, some of the oldest cultivated land in the area beyond First Nations cultivation, so fingers crossed maybe I’ll be able to buy an old abandoned farm for decent. Starting my own homestead from scratch in a swamp or wooded area will probably be beyond my abilities for sure

It’s getting cold in Canada, but playing civ 6 is my version of getting warm by the fire.

Im trying to speed run affording a cheap plot of land and to work it to make it self sufficient but close enough to a major city that I can still travel for work if needed. Ideally I’d like a electric vehicle that I can charge on a semi-off grid system but that’s a much longer term plan. I essentially want to return to homesteading/semi-subsistence farming. With current tech and tech around the corner, I feel like with the right moves you can do it with minor to no loss of modern luxury comforts. If I can mostly feed and house myself then logically I only need to work part time for mortgage payments and land taxes, and stray costs of fixing stuff.

it’s kinda like that vegan argument that’s been made lately, that no one is demanding you quit meat cold turkey even reducing is a MAJOR win. It’s hard to quit my participation in capitalism cold turkey, growing my own food, producing my own solar electricity, and overall reducing my consumption needs and having self reliance is a win.

that, and the only true reliable wealth in life is having access to productive land imo. Vegetables grow in the garden all the same regardless of stock prices, and the root cellar still keeps your jarred supplies cold. Im under no delusions of surviving any apocalypses but I will be much safer for some nasty recessions.

also, I just think this kind of lifestyle would be neat. I’d probably do it anyways even if I was dirty rich. It’s my version of a project car in the garage. A project homestead in the woods.

Same. I have had many failed would-be father figures in my life and I always said Jean Luc Picard is the closest I ever had to a positive male authority figure in my life.

Teleporter technology is severely underutilized in the show. Unless teleporters is why its a post scarcity society? they just teleport most of the resources out of the ground? Some materials, for reasons not always explained, are not able to be teleported though.

There is a lot of tech in star trek, or any sci fi really, that makes you go “wait couldn’t they use that to x” and the answer is usually yes but that wouldn’t make for good television. Kinda like in that scene in the star wars sequel where they rammed the ship into the imperial mega-ship. Why would the rebels bother fighting fair fights when they can just get random old ships that can barely do hyperdrive, and just ram them into the destroyers? 1 old musky ship for one top of the line star destroyer is an insanely good trade. Or what happens if you did that into a planet? You’d essentially be able to commit a 9/11 terrorist attack on a almost shoestring budget.

The more I think about how potent this tech would be for killing, it gives me a new perspective on the great filter theory.

That’s the one I had in mind when writing the first comment. The worse part is Geordie kept that largely respectable. Could you imagine what someone with no self control and a holodeck of their coworkers could do?

I’d love if there was an exploration of what holodeck usage for civilians looks like. If you can have a holodeck that can bring the entire universe to you, why bother doing anything? Especially since you are already in a post scarcity society where strictly speaking you don’t need to do anything. I always felt that the federation having motivated people is societal momentum from earlier centuries, but in a couple more centuries I think it’s entirely plausible that most of humanity would become simply indifferent to the greater world around them, infinitely entertained by holodecks and again, zero scarcity. Honestly, not so different from the Q in a way. How much of society in Star Trek is actually productive? Someone’s gotta be mining the dilithium. Is there genuinely enough people who just volunteer for that?

How exactly does a post scarcity society function?…. And could they please tell us so we can get there ASAP.

God I loved lower decks. I think that episode still only scratches the surface of malicious use cases for holodeck technology.

Plus I think it helps that much of what the holodeck recreates is centuries old at that point. 21st century earth, long ago. It’s not anyone’s current creations, and then beyond that it’s using data that the federation personally got by exploration. Like if people only used AI to generate medieval drawings I don’t think anyone would be too upset really. Maybe weirded out but not upset. Aside from the environmental concerns I guess.

however generating holo characters that look like your coworkers and doing weird stuff to them is a entirely canon issue. And Star Trek never touched on it, but wow would it be easy to fake footage of historical events in a holodeck, especially to civilizations without advanced technology. I work in history as my career and the amount of YouTube videos telling fake stories and showing fake footage of 20th century history is genuinely terrifying. I don’t know what the solution is. Digitization was meant to preserve historical footage but now it just makes it look just like the fake stuff. If anyone digitized historical footage and the physical no longer exists, verifying anything will become a nightmare and sometimes it would be strictly possible.

Honestly the more I think about the holodeck the more I think it’s dangerous as fuck, literally and socially, and Star Trek shows usually only very innocence uses for it. Like you thought parasocial relationships are bad now?

They’re gonna look at this shit in a few centuries in the same way that we look at old chinese foot binding . I agree with others that having this expensive and very visually apparent procedures done must be some sort of way for them to flaunt status and wealth or something. It’s hard to imagine someone thinking this looks good, it’s nearly uncanny valley.

I run a few small communities on the fediverse, and its tough trying to start one up. Granted I try to keep mine canadian focused, but its an uphill battle either way. I was never one to volunteer or be an admin of a community, but I wanted to get the ball rolling somehow. Very disheartening to realize I’m the only one posting in the community, esp because I’m just a lurker at heart.

Depends… do you live in a village or the city?

Crucial, but depending on the design technically not required! There are designs of planes where the entire plane is just one big wing. Buuuuuuut having the traditional rudder, aileron, and elevator is tried trued and reliable.