charonn0

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Brussels sprouts, sure, but not lentils.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The OP should have included a content warning about content warnings!

[–] [email protected] 19 points 9 months ago (20 children)

There is no such thing as an innocent billionaire.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Northern Conservative Fundamentalist Baptist Great Lakes Region Council of 1912.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

The government only knows that they voted, not how they voted.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

You are fully licensed and bonded by the city, aren't you?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I yearn for the simpler days when the worst thing a Republican president might do is tamper with Medicare.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

My intent was to point out how ridiculous the "103% increase" line is, not to suggest the comparison was valid in the first place.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (9 children)

In other words, it jumped from about 0.5% to 1.5%.

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