As someone with some profound ADHD that has affected my career, I have to say, I would be fucking amazing in the Star Trek universe. For someone with an interest-based focus ability, a society where the standard of social merit is, “do cool shit you’re passionate about,” would be Heaven. I can do things. I can do amazing things. When I’m passionate about something, I can move mountains. But stick me in a cubicle and ask me to do the same grind day in, day out? I really struggle. Some people say they would just disappear forever into the Holodeck. But for me, the coolest thing about the Star Trek universe is that regular people can simply do whatever they’re most passionate about, without concern for monetary profit.

This or Star Trek are the only serious answers.

I’m a binary trans woman myself. I just wanted the full standard package.

But there are varieties, mainly spearheaded by the nonbinary community. There’s zero depth vaginoplasty, where they make a labia but no vaginal canal. (Easier maintenance, ideal for lesbians with no interest in penetration.) For asexual folks or those with no interest in sex, there’s nullification surgery, aka the “Ken doll” method. And for the most exotic, the term you’re looking for is “Salmacian.”

Here’s a subreddit. Obviously NSFW:

https://redlib.catsarch.com/r/salmacian

I went for the pretty standard fem package. But there are folks doing some pretty wild things out there now.

It should be legal to set fire to unoccupied cars parked in a bike lane.

A fish cannot experience water.

I got the last laugh. I was cut as a newborn, but I still didn’t end up with the parts my parents wanted. They took a little snip. I went for the full origami of gender reassignment surgery. 🤣

That’s what’s so insulting about American healthcare. If you’re going to charge such criminally high prices, at least don’t cheap out on the small stuff. Don’t stock your bathrooms with ghostly thin sandpaper toilet paper. Have decently thick barrier paper. We’re talking pennies here.

If your vehicle is so large it makes you a danger to those around you, it is no longer simply a matter of personal taste.

I need a hero
I’m holding out for a hero till the end of the night

The basic problem of AirBNB was that it was never going to scale. Individual condo owners will never be able to compete with the efficiencies of scale of hotels. Having cleaning staff have to drive from building to building can never compete with a bunch of rooms in a single hallway.

The AirBNB concept does make sense for a few niche applications:

1. Small rental units in locations where big hotels aren’t viable. (Think remote mountain cabins.)

2. Actual lived-in homes for people who are traveling and don’t mind strangers staying in their house while they’re away.

Neither of these scale. Cabin rentals can compete because it’s not viable to build a hundred unit hotel on top of a remote mountain. But that market can’t scale. Cabin rentals already have their own rental networks, and there are only so many of them. People renting out their actual residences can compete with hotels. You already have to pay your mortgage anyway, bringing in a short-term renter adds little marginal cost. But this model can’t scale, as very few people actually want to rent out their own homes while they’re out.

But AirBNB pulled the usual Silicon Valley bait-and-switch. Corner a market with unsustainably low prices, then raise them. The bait got many people to purchase rental units with the goal of renting them on AirBNB. But this was never going to be sustainable. Once AirBNB stopped subsidizing the rentals, the landlords have to raise the costs (both monetary and policy costs) to actually make the business profitable. And they simply cannot compete with the economies of scale of hotels.

I for one have been training a neural network using pirated content for years. It’s an in credibly efficient large language model that runs off very little power and fits comfortably in the space between my ears.

Ranma 1/2.