Church, and mosque, not as religious symbols but as a community centers reminds lonely isolated people that they can go now and they will find people there to chat a little bit with.

Unless they're gay, or trans, or polyamorous, or ...

The fact that so many people so firmly believe that MS is one of the good guys now is just bewildering to me. Like were they not alive in the 90s? This is classic embrace, extend, extinguish, as you say.

The only thing Microsoft is investing in is marketing to fool people into thinking they're your friend. Remember that Copilot is automated open source license violation at scale. They're building a tool to take your work, without crediting you, so others can use it without compensating you.

This is "love" in the same way an abusive relationship is "love".

Steve Ballmer also throws chairs at employees.

Also without Odo, similarly unfortunately. And yes, I would. Hopefully better than on S3 PIC though... eesh

Sisko would've punched Madred the same way he punched Q, with Q being the closest thing Star Trek has to an actual god.

I mean, much as I'd like Sisko to come back in anything regarding DS9, that Brooks doesn't want to do it is actually convenient for the story: Sisko's in the Celestial Temple with the Prophets, let him stay there. LD has shown we can have a great DS9 episode without him.

It's a shame he's not interested, but there are plenty of BIPOC actors who'd love to have a chance at being in Trek.

Go on...?

Remember that the reason that there is no public transport or non-car options is because of the auto industry lobby. They have actively worked to eliminate rail and other means of public transit throughout North America and in every other country where they have a presence (e.g. Germany). The US used to have trains crisscrossing the entire nation. One of the few truly cross-country commuter lines that Amtrak still has is, fittingly, called the Empire Builder. Horrors of colonialism and imperialism aside, it's a fitting name because trains really did build the US. They supplanted and replaced the Pony Express for delivering mail (and thus communication, something that older empires couldn't manage) among so many other things, like freight and even livestock--and, of course, people.

Where'd they go? How come there are so few left? Ask GM, Ford, and so on.

A modern version of Stars! (the ! is part of the title). It's an early / mid-90s (as in it worked on Windows 3.1!) 4x scifi strategy game, one of the early ones. Huge tech tree for its day, something like six-eight different research fields (propulsion, biology, energy, etc.) and 26 (!) levels in each with techs that depend on different levels in each research field. Different species had their own unique traits, techs, ships, playstyles, you could build your own with literally dozens of minor traits, customizable tolerances for planetary traits like radiation, gravity, temperature, custom breeding rate, productivity, .... Unlimited completely custom ship and starbase designer where you could put any part in any slot where it fits and the game would just let you. No limits on the number of ships you could have (take that, Masters of Orion!) Came with a manual an inch and a half thick, supported many different kinds of multiplayer (including play by email... again, 1995!) and so many other cool things. Sadly, the company that owned it was passed around a bit and then the parent company went out of business, so it's abandonware and no one is likely to do anything with it.

Also a modern version of the old Might and Magic games (3-5 in the series, especially 4-5, usually known as World of Xeen) with some elements of the old (1-5) Wizardry games. Did I mention I'm old? I'm old. I know someone who's working on something like that, but I hear she's harried by capitalism and has ADHD besides and hasn't made a lot of progress. I really should bug her to keep at it... (spoiler: she is me)

That's when I pop open the developer console and write some code to automate clicking them all out of spite

Honestly, I'm more annoyed by the incessant Christmas music for the entire month of December (... which I've also heard as early as the day after sodding Halloween). I thankfully live in a part of the US where the "We can't say merry Christmas!" squawking is pretty rare.