

I was going to point out crew might just prefer to use chopsticks normally, but then I remembered that my wooden chopsticks are lacquered and wouldn’t produce splinters. But I guess the replicator could make chopsticks for traditional asian dishes even if the refrectory has reusable cutlery, just like Japanese restaurants provide disposable chopsticks to white people


The ability to create dispassionate political systems is, in nature, a uniquely human ability. Wolves and ants have political systems, but the systems rely on direct and intentional involvement, at least as much as anything an ant does can be intentional.
Ants don’t have recessions, or gas chambers, or nuclear bombs, or greenhouse gas pollution, or strip mining, or seafloor dragging. That’s a human invention.