charonn0
@charonn0@startrek.website
- Comment on I'm a reasonably well educated human living on Earth. What's to stop me from replicating starship parts until I can make my own Starfleet? 4 weeks ago:
Your replicator is probably too small to replicate larger components, which would be a major inconvenience at best or a showstopper at worst. And industrial replicators are even harder to come by than starships.
Then there’s getting access to the replicator patterns for sensitive or dangerous components. Dilithium chambers, weapons, Mercassium composite for shield generators, etc. are classified by Starfleet.
Then there are substances that can’t be replicated, such as verterium cortenide for the warp coils. I don’t think it’s explicitly stated that VC can’t be replicated, but we know that Voyager had to find some to refit their warp coils, they couldn’t just replicate it. Also dilithium.
And finally, there’s antimatter. Building a starship won’t do you much good if you don’t have gas for the tank. Antimatter does not occur in large quantities in nature, and probably can’t be replicated (or at least not safely.) So you’d need some sort of industrial base to produce it, further complicating your plans.
- Comment on US can’t ban TikTok for security reasons while ignoring Temu, other apps, TikTok argues 1 month ago:
If social media companies exist to collect massive troves of personal info from users–and they do–then there is a valid national security concern over social media controlled by an adversary. This is distinct from the individual privacy concerns towards domestically-controlled social media.
- Comment on Make this thread look like it's your first day on the internet 2 months ago:
How is babby formed?
- Comment on Test of a prototype quantum internet runs under New York City for half a month 2 months ago:
What exactly are they trying to accomplish? The article talks about sending entangled photons down a fiber optic… but that just sounds like ordinary fiber with extra steps.
- Comment on Chat is this real 2 months ago:
It probably won’t.
- Comment on 8 Minutes 3 months ago:
The classic sci-fi short story A Pale of Air touches on this.
- Comment on Almost all Windows 10 systems can be upgraded to the new version — so why are businesses holding back? 3 months ago:
I’m not upgrading because I don’t trust Windows 11. Not that 10 has my confidence, of course, but 11 seems worse.
- Comment on ICANN approves use of .internal domain for your network 3 months ago:
The value of the DNS is that we all use the same one. You can declare independence, but you’d lose out on that value.
- Comment on Peeble streamer on Doop 3 months ago:
Fuck social media, why doesn’t everyone have a geocities page with a webring that links to their angelfire page and guestbooks and ICQ and stumbleupon KIDS NEED TO STOP HAVING A DIFFERENT INTERNET EXPERIENCE THAN I GREW UP WITH!”
This, but unironicly!
- Comment on So um, about Ferengi’s having their lives rubbed… 3 months ago:
Yes. According to Daimon Tog, “the ear is one of our most erogenous zones.”
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- Comment on AAAAAAA.... This is so hard!!! 4 months ago:
AAAAAA(h)… now I get it.
- Comment on House Responds to Israeli-Iranian Missile Exchange by Taking Rights Away from Americans 6 months ago:
What a hyperbolic, heavy-handed headline.
- Comment on TikTok's CEO is feeling the pressure and users are freaking out 6 months ago:
Not exactly the same problem. In the same way that gun control doesn’t address the problem of hostile foreign militaries. Yes, both involve guns, but the laws and policies that address one are inapplicable and inappropriate to the other.
The law in question addresses the problem of foreign adversaries having easy access to manipulate US public opinion. The law you suggest addresses the problem of advertisers having that access. Both are serious concerns, both need to be addressed, but they are not the same problem and the solutions are markedly different.
- Comment on TikTok's CEO is feeling the pressure and users are freaking out 6 months ago:
require every company operating within the US to show users exactly what data is collected and allow them to delete any or all of it as desired
That would be a very different kind of law from the one we’re talking about, and it would almost certainly be unconstitutional.
- Comment on TikTok's CEO is feeling the pressure and users are freaking out 6 months ago:
That’s a separate issue that could not be addressed with this kind of law anyway.
- Comment on TikTok's CEO is feeling the pressure and users are freaking out 6 months ago:
Can you explain why you feel that would even be necessary?
- Comment on TikTok's CEO is feeling the pressure and users are freaking out 6 months ago:
I’ve actually read the law, so no one has to tell me that it really, actually is about privacy. I know that it is.
- Comment on TikTok's CEO is feeling the pressure and users are freaking out 6 months ago:
Chew responded to the latest moves in a video posted by the official TikTok account. “Make no mistake, this is a ban,” Chew said in the video. “A ban on TikTok and a ban on you and your voice.”
Narrator: it wasn’t.
- Comment on Author granted copyright over book with AI-generated text—with a twist 6 months ago:
Although Shupe’s limited copyright registration is notable, she originally asked the USCO to open a more significant path to copyright recognition for AI-generated material. “I seek to copyright the AI-assisted and AI-generated material under an ADA exemption for my many disabilities,” she wrote in her original copyright application.
Shupe believes fervently that she was only able to complete her book with the assistance of generative AI tools. She says she has been assessed as 100 percent disabled by the Department of Veterans Affairs and struggles to write due to cognitive impairment related to conditions including bipolar disorder, borderline personality disorder, and a brain stem malformation.
I’m sympathetic, but writing a book is not something most people do regardless of their disabilities. Writing is a talent, and most people don’t have it. So it makes no sense to invoke the ADA here.
- Comment on Off-campus UC Berkeley student housing bans white people from common areas 6 months ago:
Blatant violations of the federal Fair Housing Act and California’s Unruh Civil Rights Act.
Lawyer up and take the landlord for everything they’ve got.
- Comment on They're openly allowing illegal immigrants to vote in federal elections now in Arizona. 6 months ago:
I think you got it backwards.
- Comment on Biden bragged on twiiter about violating our inalienable rights, bypassing congress with executive orders 7 months ago:
What, specifically, do these order do?
- Comment on "Dangerous precedent that threatens human rights": Julian Assange campaign advisor says Australia "must work aggressively to ensure his release" 7 months ago:
Greg Barns claims that the case should be stopped because it represents an unprecedented attempt by the US to prosecute an individual who is not one of its citizens, and who was not in the US when the WikiLeaks material was published. This is called extraterritorial reach and generally the law frowns on it.
The US and the UK have an extradition treaty that permits this. The UK can withdraw from the treaty, but unless they do this line of argument is willfully dishonest.
- Comment on Jon Stewart found to have overvalued his NYC home by 829% after slamming Trump’s civil case as ‘not victimless’ 7 months ago:
He sold a property for more than its estimated market value.
Nice try.
- Comment on degree in bamf 7 months ago:
What an original and insightful thought. Thanks for sharing your best with us.
- Comment on degree in bamf 7 months ago:
How should I know? Or you, for that matter?
- Comment on degree in bamf 7 months ago:
Clearly he knew her name, though. He just didn’t know the woman he was speaking to was the woman whose work he was recommending.
- Comment on degree in bamf 7 months ago:
What I meant is that it’s derogatory to use the term “mansplain”. Sorry for confusing you.
- Comment on degree in bamf 7 months ago:
“Only white men do X” is absolutely racist and sexist. “Mansplain” is derogatory.
Either it’s OK to do that, or it’s not. The race and gender of your target doesn’t make a difference.