Olgratin_Magmatoe

@Olgratin_Magmatoe@startrek.website

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The prime directive is a great example of how even a good rule taken to the extreme can end up causing more harm than good.

  But beyond that, it’s just an easy aid for the writers to add a point of conflict for their stories. The prime directive as a value within the federation seems secondary to me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Poignant post on the state of things⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That, and a land tax

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If the borg were a religion⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m glad to know I’m not the only one who’s had thoughts about the borg origins.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Every time I'm trying to decide what new show I should check out⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  She has been very persistent about knowing the background for everything. It bothers her to be dropped in the middle of something without the context.

  So she wanted to start at the “very beginning”, which in my mind is TNG season 1. The original series is great, but I figured she’d enjoy it more after having already gotten into trek.

  She is throughly enjoying the cheesy-ness of it though, which is really good.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If the borg were a religion⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I could see that too. Either way, it’s a fun thought experiment to question how such an entity comes into being. Because surely the starting point looked a lot different given that they’ve assimilated (and therefore been changed by) thousands of species.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Every time I'm trying to decide what new show I should check out⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m finally watching star trek with my girlfriend and getting her into it. Been watching along with her on TNG. So far we are about done with season 1, but I am big excited to re-watch DS9 se5, especially with her watching it for the first time by my side.

  Gonna have to brave the awful ass se1 Sisko haircut though lol.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If the borg were a religion⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In my head cannon, that’s more or less how the borg started.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Somebodies gotta do it I guess.⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That actually makes me think, would it theoretically be possible to automate ship repair with transporter technology. All the time they have ships coming in with giant chunks missing.

  If you are able to get a high resolution scan of the current state of the vessel, and have the plans to build it, couldn’t they set up a specialized transporter to transport the damaged bits away, and transition area that is destroyed, and then replace it with new parts as needed?

  Basically do some a similar repair method from Space Engineers, just fancier with transporters.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Somebodies gotta do it I guess.⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Just avoid areas with life signs. Person in the room? Delay the transporter sweep for an hour and check again. Or alternatively just don’t clear dead skin cells/hair/dust within a 2ft radius of a given life sign, and do maybe 3 sweeps a day.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Somebodies gotta do it I guess.⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Given that they have the ability to select pretty much whatever material they want with the transporters, I imagine it wouldn’t be too hard for them to do a once a day transport for all dust/debris particles directly into space, or some containment unit of their choosing. Same goes for pretty much any other cleaning task.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meat stuffed inside an animal intestine⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Instead of hotdogs, get something that actually has taste. Either brauts or hot Italian sausage.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨40% of US electricity is now emissions-free⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The air is plenty clean as it is

  Tell that to the people in East Palestine Ohio.

  as long as you don’t live in California

  Doesn’t matter where you live if the planet is uninhabitable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨40% of US electricity is now emissions-free⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Wanting to breath clean air on a habitable planet isn’t insanity.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Riker's always thirsty⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My dear Doctor, it's all true⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  People are posting fan fiction of them together? That’s disgusting! Where? I need to make sure I avoid it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Picard Maneuver⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah, I see. Imgur had it muted and I just didn’t realize.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let's remember some Star Trek games⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Star Trek: Tactical Assault for the DS

  I was absolutely trash at it, but I loved it. And to be honest, I thought it was just a very hard game to begin with. There is only so much you can do to manage your shields, weapons, and position before the ship becomes overwhelmed.

  The graphics and animations were solid too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Picard Maneuver⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The sound effect makes it way better

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Threads is officially starting to test ActivityPub integration⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’ll look like what we already have. Swaths of users self hosting, with lots of redundancy to deal woth instances that have problems.

  And that might mean it needs to stay small, but that’s OK. Not all success is measured in popularity.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Threads is officially starting to test ActivityPub integration⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Embrace extend extinguish

  Don’t federated with corps, it will only end badly

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Manager: This task only takes 30 minutes. Why did it take you the whole day?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “Make Sure You Are Square With Your God Before Trying To Merge This”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨aLiEnS!!1⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Nobody has so far given you a serious answer, so:

  Cutting - They only had IIRC bronze, which is not enough on its own to cut through the granite. However using sand to add friction makes it cut significant faster/easier.

  Moving miles - Boats are incredibly capable of carrying heavy loads with minimal energy expenditure to move said boat. Using logs and levers also goes far.

  Getting to the too of the pyramid, that’s a little more of a mystery. But there is evidence they included ramps within the structure as they built the bigger ones as they went. And IIRC the smaller ones had pulley systems going through the center.

  It doesn’t require fancy tech, just of patience and application of basic physics.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trek Club⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, I’ve seen all of the main series minus some of the latest seasons from the new shows.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trek Club⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If it can be solved through software/programming the item correctly, then it sounds like it isn’t an issue of replicator resolution.

  I’m not saying it’s just a placebo. I think it might be a part of it though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trek Club⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I haven’t heard that take before, which is actually a decent workaround for the “why can’t we replicate living beings?” question.

  I doubt it would be detectable though. Because you’d have to be able to tell the difference between replicated molecules, and molecules that were transported, with only differences being individual atoms and subatomic particles. Neither of which I’d think somebody capable of discerning. Maybe it’s a bit if a placebo thing?

  Or maybe it would be a “pure water has no taste” sort of thing, where replicators make things too pure, to the point where some consider it bland. A real tomato grew in dirt and still has at least some, and the soil effects it’s taste, whereas the same isn’t true for replicated foods.

  There also may be some degree of intentionally making an excuse. Lots of people love gardening, and in a world with effectively infinite, free food, your hobby seems more valuable if you have an excuse that your home grown real food & liquor tastes better.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trek Club⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My point was that the way the economy is portrayed is such that we don’t get to see much of how it actually works, meaning that a lot of our understanding is speculation based on a handful of lines.

  For sure, and it is rather frustrating. But it makes sense that they don’t outright explain the details, as it would just cause lots of people to complain.

  The wildcard here is that we see Federation worlds that seem to still use money, namely the Bolians who are members of the Federation, but the Bank of Bolias is a major financial institution.

  It also might be a planet to planet thing. Like, imagine if a ferengi colony world broke off and asked to join the federation? They would undoubtetly keep their currency. It would just be a question of whether or not it is seen as a dealbreaker for the federation. I’d wager it wouldn’t be, so long as said ferengi colony keeps to the “every one treated equal, with dignity, and sufficiently provided for” philosophy of the typical federation world.

  It seems that replicators are not essential to eliminating money in the Trek universe, although I’m sure they’re a boon to the standards of living.

  Yeah, that is a common theme that I’ve heard as well. If we had replicators in today’s world, it would only be for the rich, and even if it came down in cost it would still never be free. The philosophy of society itself has to change to agree to make sure everybody is housed, fed, and cared for sufficiently. Without that step, replicators aren’t going to do anything to get us to a post scarcity world.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trek Club⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I doubt it’s that big of a difference. If they have the tech to materialize full fledged humanoids regularly, millions of times a day, I’d think they’d also have the tech to make replicated food taste good.

  But sure, I can see it being marginally better. But not enough to mean money is still in use.

  It might be more of a “tomatoes I grew myself” type of thing for most cases.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trek Club⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  all we know is that they don’t use money, except when they do. The writing is sort of fuzzy on the matter, which results (regardless of the intention) in an economy that doesn’t actually seem that different to our modern day in practice

  At most they use credits, which at least according to this guy, are at most a peripheral, 3rd party currency, or at least a currency the federation uses for external trade, and that’s what makes most sense to me. Why would the average person care about federation credits when they’re only used on border systems at most, and your home replicator can make you pretty much anything you’d ever want? To a person living in such a world, for all practical purposes there is no such thing as money in the federation.

  There’s no money, but people still own businesses and talk about buying stuff, which allows for the economic system to fade into a sort of forgettable background space.

  They never seem to talk about buying stuff unless it is out on the frontier, exchanging with foreign entities, etc. It also doesn’t seem like businesses in star trek (at least the above board, earthlike ones) aren’t anywhere near today’s businesses. To me, it seems that they are treated as family businesses, with limited “employee” count, and with each “customer” getting their service/food/item for free, within reasonable limits. It’s like going over to your family’s house for dinner. You don’t pay, you’re family and they will happily feed you (within reason). And it seems that businesses treat everyone like that.

  There is no stock market, profit motive, costs of running a business. It’s all done out of the goodness of people’s hearts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Carmakers Push Forward With Plans To Make Basic Features Subscription Services, Despite Widespread Backlash⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I will say, part of that ignorance, apathy, and laziness is an intentional part of our existing society. You can’t spend the time to research every single product you ever buy, because many are stuck working several job, basically everyone is juggling their work, family, and social life.

  A couple months back, I tried putting some effort into finding a printer that had all of the qualifications I wanted.

  • usb printing, no network needed

  • laser

  • color

  • not a brand that will fuck you over (looking at you HP)

  • within a reasonable budget of $300-$400

  And such a product just doesn’t exist. Brother comes close, but the market straight up isn’t producing good things. So at the end of the day all I can do is either get shafted at the local print store, or suck it up and get an inferior product.

  But going back to the OP, it’s so much worse with cars because we have a car-centric society. You NEED a car in this place to have a normal life. Our cities and transportation have been intentionally designed to fuck over everyone not in a car.

  So there is inelastic demand. The manufacturers can do whatever the fuck they want and get away with it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Carmakers Push Forward With Plans To Make Basic Features Subscription Services, Despite Widespread Backlash⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Enshitification isn’t solved by voting with your dollar. If it did, the printer market wouldn’t be the shit show that it is. You can’t vote for the good if all the manufacturers mutually agree to only produce shit. Only regulation will keep them in line.

  (inb4 “brother is better”, I am aware that brother printers are generally better, but they are far from good.)