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  • I always like the theory that the entire Starfleet is just a relief valve for people who can’t be satisfied in a post scarcity utopia

    They could stay on Earth and cause problems, or they can boldly go far the fuck away from an ideal society.

    A high turnover of senior leadership due to stupid risks means that there’s room for promotion and ambitious people stay in the fleet.

    Otherwise they’d return to Earth and fuck up society.

    Historically, every society needs some kind of relief valve like this or domestic issues develop. Once it’s an entire world government, they need that relief valve to vent off planet. And that’s what Starfleet is.


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    23 days ago

    Yeah, dude tried to open his own personal Netflix and is surprised it got taken down.

    From post history he managed to keep it up for less than a month.

    I’m betting by “friends” he meant either online friends he’s never met, or people he wanted to impress.

    So they gave zero fucks and handed it out to more people. Like, just the idea that you’re giving it to so many people that you actually buy a domain?

    There’s a reason everyone isn’t already doing it already.





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    3 months ago

    considering they’re used server parts.

    That really should be in the title…

    I dunno, I’m one of those people who never stops using a drive until it breaks, and they never really break anymore. Oldest in my current PC is probably 20 year old HDD.

    So yeah, these probably are fine and will still last a long time. But for like $20 more you don’t have to worry about losing the data on it.

    Edit:

    Apparently prices just haven’t changed in half a decade or longer? I knew prices went up for COVID, assumed they went back down at some point.









  • If it does that would help…

    Weighing it down gives traction. Hell, most hillbillies load up their truck beds in the winter because the weight is such a big help, especially in the back.

    I think I might have heard something about weight distribution though, like a normal truck has an engine over the front, but Tesla’s weight is in the middle of the axle.

    But this is the tires, and probably something about whatever this things equivalent to a transmission is. Like you only need to put your foot on it a little for normal driving. Which means take offs in snow would almost always spin out.

    So like the RPMs of the wheels go up to fast? I think that’s the easiest way to say it.

    It makes a vehicle seem faster the less you have to push on the gas pedal, it’s a pretty old trick, because most people never floor it, so they don’t notice halfway thru it stops doing anything.



  • Well, they advertised it as a truck that does truck things…

    And the people with them now, ordered years ago.

    It all comes back to range, and the range is horrible. So out of the factory they get “fuel efficient” tires that are great for range and terrible for everything else.

    Put on truck tires, let alone winter, and range will nosedive.

    Not everyone will drive one in snow, but all of the suckers who bought one know the range.



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    6 months ago

    3 times as tough as steel and they’re making bulletproof glass out of it…

    There’s a low budget pc game about colonizing Mars and this was one of the things in the tech tree

    Crazy to see it as a real thing now.

    Like OG aluminum, this is going to be crazy expensive at first, but in a century it’ll likely be cheap and we’ll see it replacing glass in the most mundane uses.

    We’ll see it replace phone screens pretty quickly tho. A few mm’s of this and we’ll have legitimately unbreakable screens, and even if a scratch happens, you should be able to just buff it out. They’re probably wrap entire phones it honestly. One solid piece that makes repair impossible on your own.