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Dunno what kind of economic model we’d need if we had star trek -level replication technology.
We could just explore, try to learn new interesting things, and have campy holodeck adventures with Mark Twain.
I don’t think the current rich people would approve. But screw’em if we have replicators
I always thought the “you wouldn’t download a car” ads were based on an assumption that star trek replicator technology would be evil (with the public argument that it would put people out of jobs and the real reason being it would be harder to base a wealth-based hierarchy and system of middlemen on).
The original ad was “you wouldn’t steal a car,” literally claiming that downloading a movie is morally equivalent to carjacking.
Ah, yeah, it might have been the implication that they were equivalent that got me thinking that rather than them using “download” instead of “steal”.
They also lost me with the sappy ads about the crews that don’t make millions from the movies, as if the studios would even be able to produce movies without paying crews (and weren’t already doing everything they could to reduce that expense).
Especially when I knew that it was the studios’ fault theatres had to gouge people on snacks because those greedy fucks wanted all of the ticket sales money, despite theatres requiring money to run and maintain.
And don’t get me started on Hollywood accounting and how it was used to claim Return of the Jedi made 0 profit to fuck over the actor behind one of the most iconic roles in film (who wanted royalties instead of a set pay but made the mistake of believing they were negotiating with him in good faith and weren’t just fucking vultures).
At this rate, replicators will be in a subscription model.
Need? None, really. It’s like when you get to the North Pole, the entire concept of “north” breaks down. It would be the same with post-scarcity. Or should be, except…
Have? Completely up to the whims of whoever controls the technology. Which… takes a look at the planet will be whoever is left standing once the nut jobs wipe out everyone that they hate. “Computer, ICBM, nuclear.”
Fuck capitalism
Ew no. I might get some kind of disease.
Okay, fuck dragons instead
what am i a car?
Finally, someone else who knows of this very obscure community!
The artworks are wild.
You mean those wealth hoarding lizards that fire people and don’t pay taxes?
Isn’t that basically the same thing?
Gold and gems aren’t wealth. They have no practical value. They’re not useful for anything. Therefore there’s no harm to society if dragons hoard gold and gems.
Both gold and a lot of gemstones have a great many uses in industry and electronics, garnet for example is used in water jet cutting and if you have a smart watch there is a good chance its touch screen is made of sapphire
And then there is the sheer amount of gold we use in plating soooo many of our printed circuit boards and connectors
Gold has some uses. Diamonds have a few industrial applications as well. Some other gems too in optics I think, but natural ones would probably be useless there.
okay 🤗
Now you’re talkin’ my language! 😎
Picked up the Bluray series off eBay. Physical media seems like the way to go, to really own anything
… Ripped to a media server. It’ll be a cold day in hell before I can be arsed to stand up and put media into a machine anymore.
Physical media seems like the way to go, to really own anything
That or sailing the digital sea, which ig you could consider a bunch of DRM-free files on a drive you own to still be “physical media”
Do you really think the automation governments use don’t understand euphemism. Just say piracy.
Counterpoint: Who cares, sailing the digital sea sounds cooler.
Do you really think people say things like sailing the digital sea to avoid persecution? Just say whatever sounds cool to you
Same. Bummed that we’ll probably never get remasters of DS9 and Voyager.
There is a nice DS9 upscaling project that is very good (not as good as a proper remaster, but still impressive).
https://ds9redefined.wordpress.com/videos/
They only provide download instructions (sftp) via discord, unfortunately. (https://discord.gg/qTgXcG9T). It’s very large (300+ GB for the series).
They are working on Voyager now.
Iirc, the studio(s) likely wouldn’t be able to do much better for Voyager as they didn’t record Voyager onto film like the others. They cheaped out and recorded direct to VHS
Ahoy
Arrr, matey!
The federation is like living at your parent’s house. Things are free under their roof, but if you want to drink with Quark, you’re going to have to trade your star fleet allowance for latinum.
The real problem is Paramount+ won’t accept any of my worthless gold.
Press it with latinum, hyu-mon.
You got this upside-down, friend.
They’re pressed with one another, it says it’s suspended in the structure of the gold.
I’m seeing it like a ruby set in silver, the silver makes it jewelry/useful but the ruby gives it value.
Fair. 🙂
Does Paramount have ads?
#kodi_life
Not as invasive as others for now, but yeah.
Have it included with Walmart+ and so far everything I’ve watched has had one 30 second ad at the beginning and I can return anytime without having to watch anymore.
Walmart+ ?? Is that a joke?
What a pleb. A true gentleman subscribes through Waitrose Platinum.
We found the subscriber.
That’s my current setup but through the Kodi addon so I haven’t seen one yet
How’s your Burger King?
I’m pretty sure by the end, even Roddenberry had come to accept that humans will never be so selfless as a species and the Starfleet he dreamt of could never exist. That’s why his later stuff was more bleak. There’s just absolutely no way that the money free world they describe is good for everyone
I believe there is a way. Nanotechnology helped along by artificial intelligence could conceivably bring material abundance to everyone. This would be a world dramatically reshaped. Humanity might not even qualify as the same species anymore.
Some people actually think that such a future is an inevitability; that it can’t be stopped. Short of everybody dying in a fire of course.
My cynical perspective is that people will monetise that nanotechnology before long
What makes you think the powers that be would make this accessible to the poor?
There has never been a case where governments are able to hide technology from the people for more than a decade at a time in modern history. It might start out expensive, innovations usually do, but over time the expense drops, someone makes a quick buck selling to the masses, and all of a sudden money is meaningless.
Worst case scenario you may have to use your second amendment rights to acquire the technology for the masses, which is what it was designed for.
I think the human race dying before we reach those dreams is far more likely
No sense worrying about it then. I know I don’t.
Stremio + torrentio + real-debrid friends.
Unfortunately only season one of Voyager is available. I didn’t realize that until I finished the first season.
?What source are you using? I’m using real-debrid. Although it has been a few months since I checked.
Hey, fuck this meme and the starship it rode in on.
No bourgeois propaganda on swatchseries.is (once you’ve developed to reflex to close the adds directly)
Ah yes, because in capitalism, Captains actually own their own ships and you don’t need to pay anyone to actually build it! Just use
slavesenthusiastic volunteers!Nobody said any of that lol
Fuck that. Just steal it, amiright fellow pirates? Yo-ho, yo-ho, I deserve everything for free!
“ST:NG” makes me twitch.
Look at this, System of a Down - Legend of Zelda!
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Having flash backs to half a screen of toolbars and a purple monkey on my parent’s computer in the late 90s.
Ditto.
I’m nostalgic for Bonzi Buddy. That’s not something I thought I would say. He was a creepy lying spying bastard, but at least he was kind of useful. The modern Internet and App ecosystem isn’t as cute.
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