SARGE

joined 2 years ago
[–] SARGE@startrek.website 3 points 1 month ago

"So our next recipe comes to us all the way from Arrakis! Now, this one calls for Spice Melange, but if you don't have that, Chai tea is an acceptable substitute..."

[–] SARGE@startrek.website 6 points 1 month ago

That hat is very cunning, I think.

Person walks down the street wearing that, people know they're not afraid of anything.

[–] SARGE@startrek.website 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Well you see, the people in charge of tuning the replicator just need to be motivated by death, and then they'll find a workaround for literally any shortcoming!

Cant replicate a phased electron catalyzer and we don't have a backup? Well if you don't, everyone on this ship and that planet are dead in 20 minutes, so just invert the hadron matrix and it won't be a problem anymore!

(repeat every other season)

[–] SARGE@startrek.website 7 points 1 month ago (3 children)

The only things it needs are power and base material.

The problem with complex things like starships and the like are some things can't be replicated, they have to be manufactured, refined, or otherwise produced.

Gotta have something to cripple how overpowered they are.

[–] SARGE@startrek.website 10 points 1 month ago

"this is the future the left wants under COMMIESOCIALMARXISM!"

dystopian picture of current day late-stage-capitalism in the US

[–] SARGE@startrek.website 17 points 1 month ago

But you see, it's different because the US is only supplying the orphan crushing machine, keeping it running, and making more. It's okay as long as we aren't actually throwing the orphans in ourselves!

[–] SARGE@startrek.website 43 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (7 children)

Nobody needs/wants the white liberal to speak for them, but another voice in the crowd demanding something surely can't be a bad thing?

[–] SARGE@startrek.website 6 points 1 month ago

Maybe for you, I routinely leave mine at home.

[–] SARGE@startrek.website 24 points 1 month ago

You poll them on policies, and suddenly everyone is a “far left extremist” for wanting safety nets and basic standards for human existence.

Former coworker kept saying he was republican, but he disagreed with them on a fundamental level about nearly every social issue, including guns.

He was all for anything and everything about collective bargaining, the workers uniting against management, but god forbid you use the "U" word.

Agreed every day about this social safety net needs expanded, that program needs better funding, more programs like this or that should exist for people in need, but once the dreaded "S" word comes out, suddenly everyone is a commie. Cause you know how socialism is actually communism and all that.

[–] SARGE@startrek.website 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's okay to admit when you're wrong, you know?

[–] SARGE@startrek.website 11 points 1 month ago

That was at a specific rate though, and assumed you were needing to be present on the digging device.

[–] SARGE@startrek.website 36 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I've been wondering how much deeper we could make it with the advances in materials tech.

The biggest issues are heat around the head, since it's getting super hot down that far, as well as twisting the bit without warping the shaft. By the time the energy is transferred across that much piping, things tend to get very twisty.

I bet by now we could easily drill into the hollow earth!

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