• teft@lemmy.world
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      Automatic food chewers? And who is going to add the spit? You? no thank you to your cephalopod goo, good sir.

      And if you suggest replicated spit I will form a corporation to do a hostile takeover of your commerce sector.

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        That’s an explanation I’ve seen for why the Romans didn’t find labor-saving devices like Heron’s steam engine to be important. Why should you use a steam engine when you have plenty of slaves?

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      3 months ago

      Ferengi would have sold food chewers.

      Their society got past slavery much quicker than humanity

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      3 months ago

      If they can sell Tooth Sharpeners for Latinum, surely you are right and they can make mad profits with food chewers

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        3 months ago

        They totally sell automatic food chewers, there would be a decent amount of Ferengi who dont have a wife or mother to chew their food for them, not all single Ferengi are as open-minded and forward thinking as Rom is.