Joey, have you ever been to a Turkish recruitment office?
My headcanon is that the author of the holonovel wasn't as well versed in early 20th century slang as they purported to be, and the phrase is an in-universe anachronism.
I'm going to start using this expression in every day conversation.
Assuming it survives the fall to the bottom of the elevator shaft, the building management should be able to retrieve it for you.
"Help control the human population, have your children spayed or neutered." (/s)
Maybe we shouldn't dismiss the distinction so readily.
I think it's a false equivalence. A human child is not the same thing as a pet animal. Framing the issue purely in terms of how much damage potential they have seems to be dismissing that distinction for no good reason.
Because it's illegal to discriminate against tenants with children, such as by charging additional fees. Whether pets or children are more destructive is beside the point.
Not all replicators are created equally.
Starfleet standard-issue food replicators won't produce unhealthy foods, true alcohol, etc. If you ask for a hot fudge sundae you'll get something that resembles a hot fudge sundae, but which has the nutritional value of a balanced meal. If you ask for whiskey, you'll get synthehol. The psychological impact (sugar high, intoxication, tryptophan sleepiness, etc.) of replicated food is muted or absent compared to the real thing.
That's why people go to places like Quark's. His replicators produce real food and real booze, with all the psychological effects that come with them.
Fees for children would be illegal discrimination under fair housing laws.
At first I thought this was an announcement from Microsoft.
I especially appreciate that it's cool, but of course one can't discount the quality of it being a rock.
This is the one at MedTek, not the one in Nuka World that always works. Only took 2,555.6 hours of playtime over 11 years.
Mirab with sails unfurled!