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  • Well, we don’t usually see a Day in the Life of a Normally Functioning Transporter. It’d make for a pretty boring episode. It’s kind of like “Well, where ARE the bathrooms on the ship? What do they look like? How do they work? Do they also use the three seashells?” I mean, getting an answer might be mildly interesting, but really… do we need to see the space toilet? They only kind of got value out of complaining about a lack of showers on Voyager.

    Transporters are perfectly safe, and we just see those ultra rare times when they aren’t.

    No, what you should really worry about is whether it’s you that arrives on the other end of that transporter or not. Is there a soul? Does it survive? What is actually transmitted down to the planet? What makes you you, basically? Some people find that line of thought the stuff of nightmares.


  • “Gas is too high! Why doesn’t the President just pull the lever to make them not high?!”

    Biden releases strategic reserves to lower prices.

    “Ye-- Ye-- Well, the price of eggs is too fucking high. Pull that lever! I dare you!”

    Hm, we don’t have a strategic egg supply to make simple people happy. This will be a challenge…

    Trump claims he’ll lower it by getting elected. How? Who the fuck knows and no one cares.

    “Why aren’t the prices lower yet?!”

    Well, gosh, it couldn’t have to do with a complex system where there aren’t magic levers one just pulls to make things happen… Guess it’s Trump’s fault. What’s good for the goose (Biden) is good for the gander (Trump), after all.