If you’ve ever played a 4x game before, it’s not too hard to pick up. Stellaris is a fantastic game, and I’ve sunk quite a few hours into it.

With that said, sometimes they drop the ball on DLCs, and the late game gets bogged down/boring, so it’s worth waiting for player reviews to come back before getting it.

It’s definitely fucked up. It reminds me of the WKUK breakfast pig sketch.

Especially with some of the star trek mods

They actually get the opposite, support from their party. Because if you’re the minority party and you’re able to kill legislation that the majority party wants, it’s seen as a victory.

You can’t wait out an indefinite filibuster. And it gets to become indefinite because they don’t actually need to talk at all.

You cloture the person

And that essentially isn’t an option at times due to how difficult it is to reach the 60 vote threshold, which means nothing gets done, which means congress is basically useless.

Agreed. It’s just a disaster all around honestly. It can change, but it’s not easy.

That’s how it used to work, not anymore:

https://www.npr.org/2022/01/17/1072714887/filibuster-explained

A filibuster raises the vote threshold, so it’s not something you can just wait out. And thank to how the filibusterer works nowadays, congressmen don’t actually need to get up there and talk, they can merely threaten to filibuster to raise the vote threshold.

https://www.npr.org/2022/01/17/1072714887/filibuster-explained

Congress can’t do anything because of the filibuster, two party system, and republicans though. The whole thing honestly needs an overhaul.

While the technology of star trek definitely plays a role in terms of it being anti capitalist, it’s not just the tech. If today somebody invented a replicator, it wouldn’t be a full decade before its use would be locked behind a dozen different tiered paywalls on top of the instalation cost, and then eventually it going through enshitification.

The societal values and culture in star trek values life, far, far above weath and profit to the point that such concepts are basically alien. And that has to be the first step for post scarcity tech to actually be used for the purpose of post scarcity.

I suppose it then comes down to whether or not the electricity is free. On a federeration base, I would assume it would be free given that the federation isn’t too big on money.

Though the for the duration of the dominion war I would think there would have been limits.

Given that replicator themselves are resource efficient enough for everyday use, I would think the resource requirements for that would be low enough.

Given that transporters exist, and can be used to target specific materials, I would think that it would indeed be an automated process.

Technically some paper cups are lined with wax to keep them waterproof. Not all cups are created equal.

Once again corporations prove they will always put profits over the habitability of our planet.

As to why a Scientology-owned group would care about such a matter, 404 Media suggested that it could have to do with Scientology E-meters, or electropsychometers. The Church of Scientology describes the machines as an “electronic instrument that measures mental state and change of state in individuals and assists the precision and speed of auditing” and that only a Scientology minister or training minister should use. 404 Media noted that some people collect the devices and, oddly enough, you can find E-Meters sold on eBay.

“My hunch is that the Scientologists think granting the hacking community permission to dig into their E-Meter software will expose the whole operation as snake oil. The request is like so many other anti-Right to Repair arguments: Manufacturers are afraid that access to repair materials will expose some of their other dirty secrets,” Chamberlain said.

This is what humans have been saying about auto exhaust, factory emissions, agricultural emissions etc for a hundred years. It’s turned out wrong in every way.

There is a key difference, fossil fuel use inherently ends up leaving pollution in the atmosphere, nuclear power does not do anything of the same.

it, isn’t your position basically the same as the right wing position on climate change?

Nope. It’s not even close

That even if it exists humans are too small to actually effect the huge atmosphere so it’s not human caused.

That’s not even close to what I am saying.

All sea water is radioactive already, and has been since before humans got nukes. And thats because all sea water has tritium at low levels. When we release water that is at the same level as sea water, nothing changes.

It’s like adding a red ball or playdoh to a red ball of playdoh. There’s not going to be a difference. Fossil fuels on the other hand would be like adding a black ball of playdoh to a red one.

that would just be high up in that water cycle. In places where private companies would be out of the eyes of watchdog groups

That is not what I am suggesting.

From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh, it disgusted me. I craved the strength and certainty of steel.