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SixteenShells posted:wait why ARE chicken wings are like half the size they used to be, does anyone know Because like everything else, companies want to charge more and offer less. Once sales number went down and a billion people complained, he started buy the good wings again. He was still somehow mad at China about it though. CubanMissile has issued a correction as of 17:50 on May 17, 2024 |
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VoicesCanBe posted:It's actually insane that weed legalization hasn't happened yet because there is barely any resistance to the idea nowadays. Not even Republicans mount much of a case against it, Biden could do it today with effectively zero backlash The entire power structure is currently dominated by 1950s-1970s menatlity so it's just reefer madness
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SixteenShells posted:wait why ARE chicken wings are like half the size they used to be, does anyone know a full chicken wing has two pieces. you can by the wings whole or the wings split.
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PostNouveau posted:Borg Queen Cardi B is the top of our hierarchy and I must destroy her posting enemies
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VoicesCanBe posted:It's actually insane that weed legalization hasn't happened yet because there is barely any resistance to the idea nowadays. Not even Republicans mount much of a case against it, Biden could do it today with effectively zero backlash you're probably right about what Biden thinks, but the party at large hates legalization. Dems are convinced that the worst thing to happen to their party in the lasts 2 decades was "abolish the police" and that because TRUMP IS A CRIMINAL, that Dems can be the pro-cop party and win over all the law and order voters. so they oppose legalization because cops oppose legalization.
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Trabisnikof posted:you're probably right about what Biden thinks, but the party at large hates legalization. Dems are convinced that the worst thing to happen to their party in the lasts 2 decades was "abolish the police" and that because TRUMP IS A CRIMINAL, that Dems can be the pro-cop party and win over all the law and order voters. I think there's probably a ton of Big Pharma money against it too, not to be all "weed cures everything, maaaan" but there would be a significant number of people who could take less prescription medicine if weed were fully legal
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gradenko_2000 posted:Smoke plumes detected by satellites over Wuhan in Feb 2020 confirming mass cremations of millions of covid dead This photo of urns is only a drop in the bucket of the vast numbers of cremation urns secretly being distributed, trust me bro.
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PostNouveau posted:She's right that Sisko's restaurant and Picard's vineyard are not explained, but I don't think they're mutually exclusive with a socialist utopia. They’re not actual businesses. The restraurants and vineyards are set up for fun because Sisko’s dad and Picard’s family find them fun and satisfying to manage and everything is probably for free. Many people in the federation could probably be described as extreme hobbyists.
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PostNouveau posted:She's right that Sisko's restaurant and Picard's vineyard are not explained, but I don't think they're mutually exclusive with a socialist utopia. Revolutionary Catalonia had restaurants
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running an entire business as a hobby is something that happens all the time irl
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I imagine a lot of jobs we consider “lovely” would be quite relaxing if we weren’t constantly worried about paying bills, not getting fired for smiling wrong, or having management constantly breathing down your neck making you say things and behave in ways no human would ever want to because they think it would make them an extra buck.
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Clip-On Fedora posted:They’re not actual businesses. The restraurants and vineyards are set up for fun because Sisko’s dad and Picard’s family find them fun and satisfying to manage and everything is probably for free. Many people in the federation could probably be described as extreme hobbyists. also that was Guinan's whole deal with 10 Forward, wasn't it?
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I could see how someone would cook for fun, and do it for groups of people to show off for fame, notoriety, etc but that doesn't explain how the other jobs get done. Who would sous chef for fun, we see Ben Sisko peeling potatoes when he visits so ok maybe you get free labor from family pitching in but who does that when he's gone. Who waits tables for fun, and so on. There's a lot more to a restaurant than the prestige job one might actually do as a hobby. Picard's winery makes sense because we're shown how it's staffed: with Romulan POWs performing slave labor.
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spacemang_spliff posted:she understands star trek as well as she understands metaphors I'm so loving tired... 
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spacemang_spliff posted:she understands star trek as well as she understands metaphors wow i'm starting to think this lady is dumb or something
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HashtagGirlboss posted:He looks kind of like Pooh so there were protest signs during the Hong Kong protests with him caricatured as such and then people like John Oliver really ran with it and the rest is pop culture understanding of geopolitics history Let's compare our political enemy to a loveable, gentle, famous cartoon bear! Hahahaha, gottem!
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VitalSigns posted:I could see how someone would cook for fun, and do it for groups of people to show off for fame, notoriety, etc but that doesn't explain how the other jobs get done. Who would sous chef for fun, we see Ben Sisko peeling potatoes when he visits so ok maybe you get free labor from family pitching in but who does that when he's gone. Who waits tables for fun, and so on. There's a lot more to a restaurant than the prestige job one might actually do as a hobby. Its a future with no currency or scarcity. You are allowed to do whatever you want for free so yeah some people are going to open a space chilis. The entire planet is full of bored enlightened hipsters who need to ironically peel potatoes so they can tell stories about how they peeled potatoes to seem interesting.
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If you're wondering how Sisko chops and preps and other cooking facts (la-la-la), Just repeat to yourself, "It's just a show, I should really just relax..." for DS 9 3000!"
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I imagine replicators and other high technology take care of the truly poo poo jobs
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Rectal Death Alert posted:Its a future with no currency or scarcity. You are allowed to do whatever you want for free so yeah some people are going to open a space chilis. The entire planet is full of bored enlightened hipsters who need to ironically peel potatoes so they can tell stories about how they peeled potatoes to seem interesting. In one of the Culture books, post-scarcity thrill-seekers engage in a sport where they ride a raft down a river through a volcano, doing copious amounts of drugs to allow them to withstand the horrible pain and intense heat, so they can have a fun story to tell at parties
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there is a theory in star trek fandom that only the richest, bougiest, highest class people get the privilege of living on earth or owning earth antiques
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you ever notice how the federation contains thousands of planets and species living in harmony, but mostly only humans on starships? that's right, it's racism
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Bro Dad posted:this is pretty standard in shipping. the crew are basically slaves who usually develop psychological problems from the isolation and 99% of the time they're not allowed to leave the ship when its docked. probably one of the only unequivocally good things the catholic church does is have sea chaplains come on the ships to provide counseling and make grocery runs for everybody I'm a lot of pages back, but holy loving poo poo that's hosed, and I had no idea. Every time I think capitalism has run out of ways to surprise me with the depths of its depravity, capitalism says "hold my beer."
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Fewer films involving Thomas Hanks, more reality starring Hamas Tanks
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SixteenShells posted:I imagine replicators and other high technology take care of the truly poo poo jobs Sisko refuses to use replicated ingredients for philosophical food snob reasons. All those potatoes have to come from a farm and be peeled by hand. But yes it is explicitly shown that most truly poo poo jobs like scrubbing plasma conduits or whatever are performed by sentient AI holograms created for slave labor. Just not in his restaurant.
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loquacius posted:In one of the Culture books, post-scarcity thrill-seekers engage in a sport where they ride a raft down a river through a volcano, doing copious amounts of drugs to allow them to withstand the horrible pain and intense heat, so they can have a fun story to tell at parties and the real wackos turn off their brain backups so if they fall in they're just dead forever
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Pepe Silvia Browne posted:wow i'm starting to think this lady is dumb or something She blew six figures of blow up her nose when she was in her twenties instead of doing anything and has never had to work a day in her life and now has that syndrome former tweakers have where they're always sorta slightly angry at everything. Combine that with a messiah complex and frustration that leftists correctly think her brand of "less on purpose" politics are insufficient and you're left with the dumbest, angriest, lib possible.
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RealityWarCriminal posted:there is a theory in star trek fandom that only the richest, bougiest, highest class people get the privilege of living on earth or owning earth antiques space sucks. really sucks.
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Soapy_Bumslap posted:Fewer films involving Thomas Hanks, more reality starring Hamas Tanks Hamas the Tank Engine
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RealityWarCriminal posted:there is a theory in star trek fandom that only the richest, bougiest, highest class people get the privilege of living on earth or owning earth antiques That does make a lot of sense (except for the rich part because no money). Most of the human colonies shown are complete shitholes, outside of like Risa or something. They go to Qonos or Romulus and it's like "holy gently caress you live like this?"
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Fister Roboto posted:Hamas the Tank Engine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETfiUYij5UE
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space being an awful place to live was a big part of Frederik Pohl's sci-fi work. I'm glad I read him instead of someone else when I was young. Also he turned out to not be a sex pest
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RealityWarCriminal posted:you ever notice how the federation contains thousands of planets and species living in harmony, but mostly only humans on starships? that's right, it's racism Nah other species have their own starships designed for their own environmental requirements, we're shown examples of this such as the all-Vulcan USS Intrepid or the Benzite guy doing a short stint on the Enterprise before going back to his Benzite ship where he doesn't need a breathing apparatus. The few aliens on human Starships are either from species with nearly identical environments like Betazoids and Bajorans or the real freaks and masochists who actually volunteer to live in a semi-hostile environment. There's a plot in DS9 about the stress of living on a human station (too cold, too bright) for years driving an alien exile insane with depression and he develops a severe addiction to cope with it.
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Fister Roboto posted:Hamas the Tank Engine Mods please
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I don't watch Star Trek but I feel like a restaurant in a post scarcity world would be really small like one of those literally only mom and pop restaurants in Japan where the two owners do everything themselves and don't have wait staff. Most of them have like 6 tables at most
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Lately I feel like therapy is a cudgel liberals are using to brow beat people in ignoring that material conditions are actually getting much worse, and it’s some sort of one weird trick to recommend to people so that they just magically become happy despite everything that’s going on.
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no one involved in the making of star trek gave a single thought to the political economy of societies with access to magic boxes that produce commodities
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spacemang_spliff posted:If you're wondering how Sisko chops and preps "Picard killed his wife and then he sent him deep in spaaaaace..."
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i used to do newspaper work in rural red america. there was a retired businesswoman from india who married a big farmer. as farming these days is sitting in a million-dollar tractor spraying everything with chemicals, she didn't have anything to do so she opened a restaurant. could the tiny town she opened it in support the place and have it turn a profit? absolutely not. was she successful in showing these very white people the joys of using spices and herbs in cooking? i have no idea, but she enjoyed doing it for a while and she lost a bunch of money but still kept it until she got bored. i left the area in 2018 and i understand she's closed the joint now, but there absolutely exist people who will just serve food to people as a way to enrich their lives. i love cooking, but id sooner jump into a fryer than work in a commercial kitchen. if i were retired and had the opportunity to work six-top with no pressure to make any money, hell, i might do that
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CubanMissile posted:Lately I feel like therapy is a cudgel liberals are using to brow beat people in ignoring that material conditions are actually getting much worse, and it’s some sort of one weird trick to recommend to people so that they just magically become happy despite everything that’s going on. It's not prescribed in good faith, and I say that as someone who's in therapy and benefiting from it. But when the average liberal deploys concern trolling about therapy, it's just their passive aggressive way of saying "skill issue." Amber Frost really hit it on the head when she described Warren supporters back in 2019 as people who will sympathetically listen to your sob story, but as soon as you leave the room, mock you behind your back for your inability to succeed in hellish America. After all, their main issue was "hard working" people not getting awarded. They're thinking of themselves. People who are doing worse than them? Just not working hard enough. So for them, therapy is basically the culturally neutral equivalent of "Bless their heart."
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