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If you don't change the menu, but substitute processed products for meat, then it very much is more expensive. If you change what you're eating entirely, and go after the no/low processed route, you can do pretty well.

Having cut a bunch of things out of my diet due to food sensitivities, I routinely see people struggle to imagine what dining looks like for me. A lot of folks have a very fixed view of cuisine and the day-to-day of making meals at home. All I had to do was eat less "American" food and more "East Asian" food; suggesting this makes some heads explode. IMO, a lot of people are not prepared to change that much, and will conjure any plausible excuse to avoid that struggle.

let his family live and instead have written a story about living in diasporas

Given that Discovery had plenty of Afrofuturism themes at this point in the story, this really seems like an obvious go-to for where to go next. Booker's homeworld wasn't perfect, but it was more perfect than anything else going at the time; losing it was a tragedy that really needed a better epilogue. Rebuilding that place, or helping his people find a new home (probably with the Trills), is a very compelling arc and would have seen the character come unto their own. We really should have seen Booker find a place among the Federation delegates by the end of the series.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afrofuturism

due to some strange quirk of their time travel.

While that's kind of a trope all by itself, I agree that would have been far superior to the apocalypse crybaby reveal.

I agree. Another smart move would be to rapidly write their names down all in one go. Make it look like the act of an angry god (because it kinda/sorta is), then sit back and watch the world's elite panic.

I mean, it wouldn't make much of a show, but still.

drawing boars

Typeo (drawing board) or is that a pun, insinuating that she's working with pigs?

I'm unaware of the timeline, and if this quote came before or after, but our guy here was up against literal fascists in his day. I think this makes the quote even more pithy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Plot

Butler, a retired Marine Corps major general, testified under oath that wealthy businessmen were plotting to create a fascist veterans' organization with him as its leader and use it in a coup d'état to overthrow Roosevelt.

As far as labors of love go, Stardew Valley is probably the most current example. People paid for this thing years ago, but Concerned Ape keeps adding new features anyway. The retro graphics give this thing a timeless quality out of the box, so it already looks "dated" - this hasn't stopped the robust player community around it. We'll probably see this game stay relevant for a long time.

Unusually long development time

No joke, I installed the open-beta/pre-release years ago, played for a bit, and uninstalled it. When the actual release dropped, I had the most intense déjà vu about it all because I forgot that had even happened. I had to go back to my Steam library to puzzle it all back together.

If only there was a better way...

RoboCop and Starship Troopers (by the same director, no less) are other examples of people completely missing the point, and taking the film at face value.

Renfield.

I know it's violent, campy, and corny, but it's a damn good lesson in what Narcissistic Personality Disorder is and what it does to people. It helped me frame my own abuse and trauma at the hands of abuser's NPD, in ways that helped me break free from those people later on. Moreover, once you've been victimized this way, one has a tendency to fall back into bad habits with abusers. The film just gave me something profound to recall when exercising mindfulness around this cycle, and how to exit quickly.

The added layer to this joke is, as someone that works with engineers, this is exactly the kind of response Sisko should expect.