All they have to do is, instead of calling it a “law”, call it “militia regulation” instead. “Militia” is the entire arms bearing populace; if you own a gun, you are, by definition, part of the Militia. And the 2nd amendment doesn’t merely say “everyone has a gun”; it does so in context of maintaining a “well regulated militia”. All the right to “keep and bear arms” does is prevent them from requiring we store our arms in a central armory (which was one of the controversies over the matter in England when the right was in development).

I would say we also have a right to own a car. That doesn’t prevent them from requiring we maintain the capacity to bear responsibility if we should accidentally exercise that right improperly.

Is the ban on genetic modification a Federation thing, or is it just a Starfleet thing? They may not be the same thing.

Sometimes search is just buggy. I had the same problem when I first started: couldn’t access certain communities from my instance until one day, I just could, for no particular reason I could see.

How about DS9’s “The Wire”. A powerful story of isolation, suffering, addiction, and the power of friendship coupled with medical professionalism. I have to admit I don’t recall anyone else’s role other than Dr. Bashir’s and Garak’s (and some momentary spots with Quark and some random nurse). I don’t remember what the B plot was.

As I understand it, Beehaw was basically being brigaded by spam accounts on Lemmy.world, and Lemmy doesn’t yet have moderation tools to deal with that kind of issue. If what I read is correct, Beehaw and Lemmy.world both agreed that, for the moment, defederation is the least bad option.

Time is a cost, as is space and location. I know this might seem needlessly pedantic, but the inability to conceptualize this fact leads to many an error in economic thinking, not only among laymen, but also among academics.

Time is a cost, as is space. I know this might seem needlessly pedantic, but the inability to conceptualize this fact leads to many an error in economic thinking, not only among laymen, but also among academics.

Kind of like how the English language ditched it’s informal pronouns entirely as egalitarian (or at least bourgeois) norms took hold, a declaration that all are worth of the respect indicated by the use of the formal “you” (and “ye”), rather than distinguishing between “you” and “thou”.