JWBananas

joined 2 years ago
[–] JWBananas@startrek.website 15 points 2 years ago

The sanctions aren't supposed to cripple China indefinitely. They're just supposed to give the US enough time to build fabs for military chips before China invades Taiwan.

And yes, I am aware that may not happen within our lifetimes. I did not write the sanctions.

[–] JWBananas@startrek.website 1 points 2 years ago

...I didn't believe you. I had to look it up to confirm it.

Damn. Never even noticed.

[–] JWBananas@startrek.website -1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Human beings who want to speak with other human beings.

I know. It can seem like a strange concept to some people. It's strange to me that they find it strange.

[–] JWBananas@startrek.website 3 points 2 years ago

$2.73 would buy lunch tomorrow

[–] JWBananas@startrek.website 3 points 2 years ago

Marsha Marsha Marsha?

My nose?

[–] JWBananas@startrek.website 1 points 2 years ago

Plenty of humans make those judgements about their own creations. And plenty of them get a shock when they release their creations to the masses and don't get the praise that they expected.

[–] JWBananas@startrek.website 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] JWBananas@startrek.website 83 points 2 years ago (1 children)

At least Bob Barker had the decency to get as close to 100 as possible without going over.

[–] JWBananas@startrek.website 1 points 2 years ago

"You asked about the temperature–"

"I did not!"

[–] JWBananas@startrek.website 1 points 2 years ago

Clearly if the architects had seen [any] [sci-fi] [ever] they would have come up with the idea to shunt that excess energy into ad-hoc shields for poor Ensign Redshirt.

Okay, I didn't expect all of the examples to be from Stargate. But they certainly like that trope.

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