Grrl Power #871 – Cosmic waive
I rarely ever have a characters voice in my head when I’m writing them. It’s why I’m always flummoxed when people ask “Who do you see voice acting the Grrl Power characters in the anime?”
But Ray Cosmos 100% sounds like Frank Nelson. Here’s another link of him in one of those old ass sitcoms where the audience applauds between every single line, but in this one he’s saying something other than “yeeeeees?” So just imagine Ray sounding like Frank when he’s rasping in that slightly lower register “I also saw your show.” Got it? Now reread the line “Indeed. Everyone has signed a waiver.” Can’t you just hear Nelson belting that one out? <Jon Stewart doing Art Kern impression>Mmmm, that’s good voice casting!</>
Irradon, if you recall, is the Twilight Council’s alien seat. He’s now upgraded to the official Earth Ambassador. Or… Galactic Ambassador to Earth. Now, of course Earth would have major problems coming to terms with any kind of interstellar trade body, because Earth has roughly 200 countries. A lot of them are economic or military allies, but then there are other countries that are economic allies but military… well, not foes, but, there’s a lot of tension. In any case it’s a mess. Realistically, I don’t know that aliens would really want to deal with the UN because they’re a deliberative body that is a nice idea but doesn’t have any real power unless everyone is on board with any given action, something which almost never happens. So, maybe they’d convene a meeting of the G8 countries, or just the European Union?
Honestly, they’d probably show up, tell Earth that there’s already 9,001 alien civilizations and managing currency and exchange rates between them is hard enough, and they’re not going to deal with 8 other currencies from the new guys.
I was also thinking about Irradon’s “Every goddamned planet” quip, and at first, I thought, “Well, probably not every planet, because monoculture races like the Klingons or Ferengi would be able to present a more unified government presence,” but then I realized that on that first day of meetings, you bet the different Klingon houses would be at each other’s throats, and all the Ferengi corporations would be trying to fiscally scuttle each other. There would be some worlds where there was truly one single government, (outside of hive worlds controlled by Unity or the Zerg Overmind or Skynet,) I still think the majority of worlds would have to deal with some major upheaval when suddenly finding themselves dealing with alien diplomats.
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Would aliens really swear “God Damned”?
Translator artifact.
Some would
Dubs will often translate local pins, cuss words, and emphasis words into something the target language will understand that is the rough equivalent in intention and context. So translation devices for comprehensive purposes should do the same. Amd yes this is a thought bubble but you are also behind the fourth wall so take it what it is. The same as seeing aliens on a show speaking English when alone.
Do you doubt that Q exists? Maybe you are a follower of Helix or the great and humble Discord? There are always goes and goes a plenty. For you need someone to blame for when you run into the same idiocy across countless worlds.
Or, heck, he happens to be a monotheist. Or, I dunno, an Episcopalian or something. Nobody’s gonna be really surprised if we ever meet aliens and some humans end up converting to one of the Galactic religions, after all; so why not the other way around?
We should all follow the Space Pope of the First Amalgamated Church!
Didn’t say which god.
If they knew a god personally, sure
Why not? Plenty of human atheists and agnostics still use the Lord’s name in vain and other blasphemies. Stands to reason that an advanced species, even one that had mostly moved past religion, would still use epitaphs based in it. XD
“Plenty of human atheists and agnostics still use the Lord’s name in vain and other blasphemies”
– This. When you have been through schooling that forces religion on you, this kind of thing is second nature. The thought that it might make some of my old teachers angry just comes as a bonus really.
You don’t even need to be a “church-goer”. Just being born into a culture will do the job. Any culture has certain ideals essentially built in, for example the USA. Even in the USA, if you are born into a nominally Christian family, if you live and work in the mainstream — again, “Christian” — community, if you read the mainstream media, it is impossible to avoid learning the fundamantals of the Christian religion. This applies to non-mainstream subcultures, to a large extent. Just choose one, then look at the type of media — books, film/TV, information — you would be exposed to: “your” deity is constantly present, if only in or as a background.
“True beleivers” of course will never take their deity ‘s name in vain. But how many of us are true believers?
Not really actually, as far as I’ve understood it. The variants of don’t take gods name in vain come from Judaism, and in Judaism (and many christian branches) God IS given an explicit name.
Usually God’s name is said to be YHWH, Yahweh, or Jehovah.
In other words, unless you’re going around say “Yahweh damnit”, or variants thereof you’d just be accusing god based on his title as “THE God”. Which probably still isn’t great if you believe in god, but variants of “Oh my God”, etc. should technically be fine.
It would be reasonable to believe that Allah, Elohim, and other terms which basically all just translate to variants of “The God”, or “The Living God”, are ways of avoiding constantly invoking YHWH when discussing their god, since doing so needlessly would be sinful.
Yes. Just because aliens exist, does not mean deities do not also exist.
Take DnD for example.
Which god in which alien past.
He’s been on Earth for a while.
+1
So here’s the trick: Irradon has been on Earth a while. He knows the language. He knows the culture. He is familiar with Mork and Mindy. For him to think a human expletive, in English, would be entirely within the scope of his stay here.
No translator needed. It’s like saying ‘Merde!’ or ‘Sheiße!’ or even ‘Shazbot!’ when annoyed.
Shazbot! Your post was so much better than mine.
or every alien race had religions in their history at some point. so they have their own version of a god damning turning into a common place cuss phrase
Alien? Nah, she’s probably from Cleveland or something. Probably a seond-or-third-generation immigrant, and part of the Alien-American community. If I understand the situation, we’ve got a lot of second- and-greater generation people around whose parents or grandparents immigrated from Way Out Of Town. As a rep to the Twilight Council, she’s gotta be hanging around long term, and y’know…. The folks from the Old Country? Aside from the Grandparents or whoever, most of ’em don’t actually speak the local language, are pretty attached to luxuries they can’t get here way out in the sticks, and have no interest in immigrating. They might come here on a trip, but they don’t wanna live here.
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So this guy’s basically an intergalacti CMOT Dibbler (Ceem-Oti D’blah)?
No. It’s not his own throat he’s willing to cut. He’d happily enable you to cut yours. (Sign the waiver first, please.)
Yes. He even [i]looks[/i] like a rat!
Why would the US have need of Cern if they have their own FTL drive?
Umm, what is ‘Cern’? :confused:
CERN is a scientific apparatus. It’s in Switzerland I think.
Thought it might have been, so the question remains: why would the US care now?
the sper hadron collider at cern is a study of atomic and sub atomic particles and while having a working FTL means the US wins the space race the fact that other aliens won’t give earth new tech means that the studies conducted their are still very important.
The US wouldnt care. Keeping the US out of it means we don’t have to fund it for about 25% of its annual budget anymore. Also not sure why they think a neodymium ban would hurt the US either – since we’re the majority of the consumers of rare earth metals on the planet – which means they would have a lot of rare earth metals and no money to do anything with them.
Plus like it’s mentioned, it can be mined elsewhere. It’s rare EARTH metals. :)
Heck, it can be mined in the US, and we’re starting the mines back up.
Yeah, Mountain Pass mine in Wyoming. Produces about 5000 tons of neodymium per year. Probably not a smart idea to threaten the number one consumer of neodymium on the planet in any case. It’s sort of like a wheat mill saying they won’t sell bakeries wheat anymore. Yeah fine – you can do that and go bankrupt and the wheat mill will just buy from someone else. Or just not bother buying for a while until you’re bankrupt by not selling to your biggest customer. :)
Correction – Mountain Pass mine is in San Bernardino, California, not Wyoming. I have no idea why I thought it was in Wyoming or where I got that idea. :)
Extraction from ore produces large quantities of absolutely foul waste. The US likes to let China do the dirty work so it can engage in sanctimonious finger-wagging but still get the technological benefits.
The US has better environmental protections than China has. Which is to say… the US has environmental protections, period. Plus like the fictional bureaucrat says…. they can mind an asteroid – it means no ‘foul waste’ whatsoever.
mind=mine
China have plenty of environmental protections (the last being inserting a bullet into a corrupt official’s cranium if they block clean up efforts), and have been doing more to clean up the environment in the last 15 years than the US has done in the last 40. There are economic benefits to China’s environmental goals, not to mention the political dividends on being seen as a going green nation.
Yeah, right. You’re right that there are political dividends to being seen as going green, which is why they want to be *seen* as going green. Being *seen* as something you’re not is fairly easy when you’re a totalitarian state.
And there are economic dividends to having child slave labor working your mines, so they do that, too.
You’re assuming the US isn’t one. It just hides it better.
That’s… because the US was at a greener state for the last 40 years than China was
Very difficult to clean up what was already clean(ish)
Not trying to be political here, but China is NOT a green nation by any stretch of the imagination.
It’s actually one of the most heavily polluted nations on the planet, both in air and water quality, with only Indonesia and India being slightly worse in water quality (the Citarum and the Ganges, respectively). Most of the highest levels of pollution in rivers are located in China – the Yellow river, the Yangtze river, and the Salween river are in the top ten worst polluted waterways on the planet, and they have NOT been cleaned – they’ve gotten worse in fact, largely because of toxic runoff.
Same for air quality – after Indonesia and Vietnam, China has the worst air quality, especially in cities like Shenzhen, Guangzhou, Shenyang, Wuhan, Hangzhou, Chengdu, Beijing, Shanghai, and Chongqing. Most of those cities have air quality far worse than even the worst US cities for air quality (Los Angeles and San Francisco).
For example, Shenzhen’s Air Quality Index is 137 (as of September 1, 2020) That’s a point where it’s actually dangerous to human life if you don’t wear a mask outside at all times and always keep your windows closed with an air purifier running constantly. In comparison, the AQI for Los Angeles, with its infamous smog? 48. San Francisco? 64 (the worst in the United States).
The US has been on a cleanup of greenhouse gas emissions, air, and water, which dwarfs ALL other nations, closely followed by the entirety of Europe. Both the US and Europe have massively reduced greenhouse gas emissions, and yet in the same time, greenhouse gas worldwide have risen? The reason? Mainly because of China (and India and Indonesia). China has INCREASED its pollution output to the point where the US and Europe’s reduction doesn’t even make a dent worldwide (and in fact worldwide it still worsened). China is definitely NOT green, and their production of rare earth metals is not done in a way to minimize toxicity (partially for economic reasons).
I remember seeing satellite photos of one of China’s going green efforts.
The local Party Official ordered a train-tanker load of green paint and painted the bare overrode hills Green.
You might still be able to dig up the article and photos covering that little escapade if lucky.
Yep. They went a very literal ‘green’ route in Chengdu.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/9907169/China-officials-caught-spray-painting-grass-green-in-Chengdu.html
They also did the same thing in several other places, like Laoshou mountain. To try to make satellite images show the mountain look like it was green with trees :) Then when it was made public, they claimed it was for feng shui.
https://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/14/world/asia/14iht-green.4590765.html
PS – the paint was very toxic :)
Erm… Checking 2020 contributions to CERN, the USA contribution makes up a whopping 0%. As expected of the European Centre for Nuclear Research. Germany, 21%; UK, 16%; France, 14%; USA, 0% — a whole zero dollars and zero cents.
No idea what part of your arse you pulled that “25%” out of, but please check your unearned sense of privilege and entitlement at the door
You’re using only member state contributions, which only produce 70% of CERN’s financial contributions. Non Member (Observer) states make up the remaining 30%, of which the US is approximately 25%, and India and Russia (and Japan, which I forgot to mention in my post) are the remaining 5%. The US contributed over half a billion dollars to just the Large Hadron Collider project alone, within its first year of being an observer state to CERN. https://home.cern/news/press-release/cern/us-becomes-observer-cern
Maybe you should do a little more research before trying to start a flame war.
Btw, sorry about that last sentence. It was a bit snippy, but mainly because your ‘check your unearned sense of privilege and entitlement at the door’ barb was waaay more snippy (and uncalled for).
Btw here. For your reading pleasure in that article. This is in ADDITION to the $531 million for the Large Hadron Collider:
Specifically, the U.S. Department of Energy will provide components and materials valued at $200 million for use in the accelerator. The United States will provide a contribution of components valued at $331 million to the massive detectors, ATLAS and CMS, with $250 million from the Department of Energy and $81 million from the National Science Foundation. The detectors are being built by large international collaborations of more than 4,000 scientists and engineers in 45 countries in six continents. More than 550 U.S. scientists from nearly 60 universities and six of the Department of Energy’s national laboratories in 25 states are collaborating on designing and fabricating the detector components. About 25 percent of the U.S. experimental high energy physics community are expected to do research at the Large Hadron Collider.
Well, threatening to shut out of CERN is a silly argument that perfectly fits with the childish tone of the discussion going on :) At the end of the day CERN produces scientific papers and there is no way that anybody has the power to prevent scientists from one country from accessing those.
As for the threat of a trade war with Neobdymium as weapon, it is a trade war and its weapons hurt you as much as they hurt your opponent. Something a certain orange one never managed to fully grasp.
China is the biggest producer of the element. They also are the biggest manufacturer of goods that require that element. The USA may be a big market, but they are not the only market and arguably not the biggest either. Not to mention that the Chinese government effectively owns every company if it so desires and can prevent any from going bankrupt. China can easily afford to stop sales from any category of goods to the USA and absorb the cost. They can always make up part of that cost by selling more for (even more) aggresively undercut prices to other markets. The companies and countries being undercut that way may howl but thanks to the USA there is no effective trade agreement anymore so nobody is going to be able to stop them from doing so.
China could decide to destroy most any of the remaining American industrial sectors by selling similar goods for a tenth of the price, and just ‘create’ money to make up for the shortage. The USA could retaliate in kind but China could park those goods in the gobi desert for the next 25 years while they are being ‘tested’. It wouldn’t be the first time a country does something like that and it would not be the last either. The point here being that a Chinese company is going to be able to keep up such a boycot a lot longer (as long as the CCP says it should) than an American company will.
What the fuck does China have to do with this? When did they join the EU?
I’m assuming that’s the UN in the comic, not the EU, so the person making the threat is probably from China.
Although I have no idea why they’d be threatening about CERN, since they’re not a member state OR an observer state for CERN, and CERN really has nothing to do with the UN far as I know (I could be mistaken about that part though).
That being said (and this part is actually directed at erianaeil) the US has a neodymium mine as well, and can produce 5000 tons a year on its own. Plus we’re also the largest consumer of rare earth minerals, which means an embargo of rare earth minerals from China to the US would only wind up killing China’s economy, and not really bothering the US except to make smartphones and computers more expensive (at least until the supply lines correct themselves to reflect an all domestic production of the REMs). Or we’d shift purchasing REMs from Australia instead.
PS – I incorrectly thought Mountain Pass Mine was in Wyoming. It’s actually in San Bernardino, California. No idea why I thought it was in Wyoming.
The point was: even if it was the UN (obviously, look at the background), China has no say in what happens within the EU, which the CERN is part of (as you elaborated on, just wanted to explain the wording used)
Actually yes, we are the biggest consumer of rare earth metals, by a ridiculously substantial degree, actually. Also please see my response to Guesticus, since most of it is actually in response to your post, not Guesticus’s :)
China out paces us by a wide margin
Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire – or European Organization for Nuclear Research in english..
the ‘apparatus’ they are most famous for are..
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Particle_accelerator
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_Hadron_Collider
DO try searching… :) I guess a ‘high energy particle physics’ lab may have something to do advanced spaceships and tech??
Unless they find a better element than neodymium to get strong magnetism..
https://www.chemicool.com/elements/neodymium.html
Why search for something have no interest in, when there are enough people who do already know who can answer the pertinent question?
‘cos somebody asked????????????
CERN is the Euroepan Laboratory for Particle Physics (Counseil European pour la Reseche Nucleaire), located in Geneva Switzerland. And they wouldnt be capable of keeping the US out since we’re a major funder of it. Not to mention the UN doesnt have any authority to do that anyway, since CERN is not run by the UN, and it’s doubtful that most member countries would want to tick off the US in any sort of economic war, considering the US is the majority consumer on the planet. Which makes the threat of not selling neodymium to the US sort of ridiculous. If they don’t sell to the US, it hurts THEM a lot more than the US (and like the diplomat said, it can be mined from space once we have FTL ships like that).
70% of the annual budget for CERN is from Germany, the UK, Italy, France, and Spain. But the remaining 30% is from the United States (mostly the US), with a little from Russia and India. The United States is an ‘observer government’ for CERN – we don’t actually need to be a member country. We’re already sort of ahead of the curve on it. Also a majority of the data generated by CERN uses a US infrastructure.
More like, “Why would the US need CERN when they’ve got their own Maxima?” Has anybody measured the energy levels in that beam of hers?
Turning a superhero into cheap energy is actually a pretty bad long-term solution, especially for the superhero.
That’s cute!!! *giggle*
Seemed to work out really well for everyone else though.
Because it’s a super optimistic comic.
Energy shortage has never been the central problem the division of the energy was a bigger problem and that only increases if you build a central energy source the size of superman.
Yeah, but I wasn’t proposing to have her power the USA. I was proposing to have her point her finger into a collision detector for advanced particle physics. She could do that for five minutes once a week, they’d spend the rest of the time processing the data.
A few hunderd petajoules on a few square cm according to our maliens, which is more than the Large Hadron Collider.
They could already surpass this collider with nukes, the reason it was needed was to do high energy nuclear research in a situation where they can measure the results easier and in that way Maxima doesn’t surpass it, since her beams are big and flashy paricle bombardments instead of single super fast particles in a giant lab with cutting edge technology.
In terms of water streams, Maxima is like the Niagara waterfalls(tons of energy spread about a lot of water) and the hadron colider is water cutter(a lot less energy, but a lot more energy per drop of water)
Front on, he looks like The Rock!!
It’s all subterfuge, Ray is here for two reasons. 1, steal all of the porn. 2, acquire the export rights to GHOSTBUSTERS for the sole reason of Venkman asking, “What did you do, Ray?” and the advertisements cut to this guy.
It’s official. I like Ray Cosmos.
He’s no Deus, but I like him.
They are cousins
I dare say, Deus & Ray would make great frenemies!
For some reason, I heard the guy in my head like The Most Interesting Man In The World… as played by a used car salesman.
Panel 5: Dabbler is correct in far more ways than she thinks. Hot dogs aren’t good for humans either.
Weenie in roll is quite good for humans – not ideal, but not bad either. Of course, hot dogs available from street food vendors are surprisingly far away from weenie in roll, despite originally being based on one.
Eat Kosher Hot Dogs, or all beef. none of those pesky, additives.
And no human DNA found in them.
Sure about that? Pigs’ DNA is very similar to hyu-mon (which is why organ transplants from pigs was a thing once, rather than other primates)
I wonder how Sydney,Maxima and the others are doing…!?
You’d never have these problems with the Taxxons. But then, no one in their right mind or even most kinds of crazy would invite the Taxxons into an intergalactic political union.
Actually, non-Yeerked Taxxons’re aren’t that bad. course, then again, they wouldn’t have bothered to achieve spaceflight anyways. they were perfectly happy on their homeworld.
Are you sure you’re not thinking of Hork-Bajir? As far as I recall, the Taxxons were actually fairly okay with being Yeerked because it allowed them all kinds of new, yummy meats to eat.
Unrealistic, the UN would never be effective enough to do jack shit against the United States. God damn security council and their thrice damned veto.
Indeed and even if they surpassed that someway the US has ignored UN treaties often without consequence, so that would still be no problem.
I’m still baffled how the EU has 2.4 times(before Brexit 2.6) the amount of veto-members and still gets so much done.
The EU has far less Freedoms and Civil Rights than the USA, so they get to collaborate more easily and work together to get more done.
Yeah, they get so much done because they don’t have fifty dozen individual groups protesting every little detail and trying to push their agenda
Oh, yes they do, but you don’t have to compare the EU to the USA in this regard, because as far as I know the USA has around as much succesfull national regulation as the EU has succesfull intern regulation including the common state/country, which just ignores said regulation.
If you want to compare the USA to something with more effective national regulations and around the same size, population and politic state take Germany, but they cheat because they’ve had a push in the back from the entirety of Europe and officially existed for a much longer time.
Contrary to how some might suspect demonstrating in the EU is fully legal and governments are even forced to enable each officially requested demonstration.
The reason you hear so little about it is, because we don’t kill demonstrators as much.
The headquarters of the European union are actually intentionally positioned in Bruxel and Straßburg to enable the lobby and demonstrations to easily push their agenda(in Belgium nobody agrees about anything and which land should control Straßburg is an ongoing conflict).
Even lack lobbyists is a bad reason
of course they do, every country on earth has those its just that you are unlikely to hear from them because you dont leave in any european country, lets not remember that for a while paris was at the cusp of a civil war for example (again)
I didn’t mean compared to the USA, I meant compared to the UN.
As for your claim this list of lists claims otherwise about at least Britain, Germany and the Netherlands, but not Poland, Romania, France and Belgium.
Feel free to conclude whatever you want.
the UN isnt supposed to be, they are a world forum not a world goverment, they are a place for the diferent countries of earth to reunite at a single place to reunite and discuss shit on a equal ground without having to straight up resort to violence or war (which let me remind everyone used to be the norm less than 100 years ago)
the UN cant force member states to do anything because they have to respect their autonomy, they can put some pressure yes but not outright just tell them what to do, its not that they are toothless is that they arent supposed to be the way everyone aparently expects them to act, so i would certainly expect that if aliens come to earth they would arrive at the UN where all the member nations would reunite in a forum to discuss about what to do, and yeah therew would be much bickering and shit like that
I was thinking Ray Cosmos sounded like Lister’s Confidence on Red Dwarf. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBNizB6KRnI
Hmmm. I guess nobody caught the over 9000 thing
The aliens might also say…only 200 countries, and none of them overlap, the way they would if the French military included the land area of Italy, and the wine safety commission of Germany, a sovereign body like the PRC, covered all wine made in the EU.
Okay Ray Cosmos, answer me this: Did you ensure that each and every one of your passengers had some form of visitor visa that is recognized as valid by the local planetary governments?
If not, than they’re all technically illegals and Ray is guilty of human trafficking.
I’m pretty sure a waver doesn’t cover blatantly ignoring all forms of local laws in regards to country sovereignty.
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I hope that made sense. I don’t know the correct legal terminology, I just know that what he’s doing is clearly illegal in a way he’s apparently not thinking of.
The guy I assume is an EU representative shouldn’t do so aggressive if the Xenocharchy works as Cora explained he will be able to buy his space ship in an instance after the US develops their ftl-ship and he has much bigger problems to worry about.
Supers have been revealed to be an interstellar valuable resource and China and India probably have hunderds of supers(many people) and lots of control about them, so they will probably suddenly get crushed technological by them.
What he should be focusing on is importing as much supers, mages and psychics as he can and becoming a tourism hotspot for aliens.
oh sorry, this was meant to be an independent post.
Sorry for the first post(was meant to be independent)
He has another problem. He brought his tourists and *himself* to earth before he got green light from the interstellar governments meaning he didn’t only break earth law by illegally entering, but interstellar law too.
“If [Ray’s customers don’t have visas], than they’re all technically illegals and Ray is guilty of human trafficking – differentperspectivejoe
Not Humans, not Human trafficking. The various jurisdictions of Earth may by now be fast-tracking legislation to make sure that any reference to Humans in law is extended to cover other Peoples, but it’ll take a while for that to go through the necessary processes. And that’s even if there aren’t any arguments over the definition of a Person, or attempts to block such equality for political and/or economic profit.
Say what you want about the guy, but getting everyone to sign a waiver allows him to do business and cover his ass as well. I would love for Ray and Deus to be in a comic together!
I’d say Cosmos is just a sleaze, while Deus is a very calculated ethical egoist sleaze.
What’s the difference?
Well, a very calculated ethical egoist sleaze understands that it’s profitable to have a good reputation, which may actually require you to behave in such a way as you earn it. At least where people might know what you did.
While “just a sleaze” goes for the easy profit every time, even if it means getting such a bad rep that your average succubus won’t show him the goods.
Currency is probably too much of a political nightmare to adjust they will probably throw earth currency in the market and wait what happens with it’s value.
What they will probably enforce will be things like ex- and import laws. Something like: you pay 5% over all export we pay 5%, you can’t have the thing on this list everything you sell me has to follow these quality standards and everything we sell you follows yours and if you don’t like it you can go talk to all individual galactic governments individually, success.
He was a character in the Flintstones and the Jetsons a few times too. :-P
“all the Ferengi corporations would be trying to fiscally scuttle each other.”
Actually i’m pretty sure the Grand Nagus would just take over the whole trade negotiation himself, then sell portions of the trade deal to his relatives and people who bribe him well enough.
Fereginar, oddly enough, has a unified world government in Star Trek
It’s a shame Dabbler isn’t self-aware enough to catch on that the way Ray makes her feel is the way she makes many other people feel.
@smoutwortel
My guess is that the ‘discussion’ is between the Chinese and the USA delegate. Europe does not produce Neobdymium and does not have much in the way of industry that produces goods that require strong magnets.
But the Chinese have absolutely no power over CERN, while the US is one of it’s biggest customers what is his problem.
Besides that he also has a problem bigger than that he can’t get his hands on a FTL-ship immediately. His problem is called Gelatyn.
Gelatyn is both busy to destroy his African investments(, which are numerous for political and economical reasons) and a serious threat to his profits regarding alien trade and super labor.
Prpbably more likely British or French, as they also sit on the Security Council. possibly Russia.
They produce no neodymium and magnets and they’ve their own problems, such as the risk of Gelatyn and China destroying them on the newly opened market of alien tech for super labor and so surpassing them on technological grounds
My advise for countries with a low super population would be, invest in biological research specifically in moleculair entomology, so you can become the first legit tourism hotspot or magic/psionics.
Trouble is that super powers tend to predominate in the more industrialised countries (with Deus’s being an exceptional case). Poorer/agricultural countries would be hard pressed to build up their infrastructure enough to become a world leader in an advanced specialised field. Hard but not impossible mind. Cuba has shown that a country can excel at a field such as medicine, despite economic blockades and other issues which otherwise hinder development.
So your advice is sound, for those with enough leeway to shift their economy. Albeit that they will have to compete with Deus’s head start in spooky development.
Psst magic does not officially exist yet, at least in terms of government acknowledgement of it (in the US and likely elsewhere*).
* Other than France which has tax and fair trade laws which specifically mention things like fortune telling.
It was meant for the richer governments with a lower super population.
Nobody keeps supers from popping in specific areas or moving to specific locations(tax benefits)
I just realised: we’ve just found a lot for Argon to do.
Put Ray Cosmos in jail for human trafficing, give him a parking ticket the size of his waiver and seize his spaceship for being street and air illegal.
Keep all aliens safe from problematic things.
Call the diplomats to inform them the situation changed and they will have to ask the intergalactic governments what they want in this situation and what they’re willing to pay for it happening that way.
Call Ariana to let her work to making businesses alien proof.
No human’s have been trafficked
Huh… I pictured him sounding like Patrick Warburton, myself. Specifically like Vasquez from Borderlands.
Lack of sleep, random thoughts…..When do we find out xenovarchy (is xenovarch canon or did I just grab that from a precious post?) has offered Cora a contract to collect intelligence on supers. She’s on site, a known entity… and “just tagging along” works well as it’s not actually a lie.
And does Ray meet the definition of “REALLY need a shootin’ “?
… grrr ..stupid fat fingers *previous post* vice precious post… although some might consider all posts precious.. or was the precocious?
Even though the sound of it is something quite atrocious,
the Xenovarchy is canon (and they may well have cannons).
*groan*
Here, have a broccoli branch. My pooches lu-u-u-uv the leaves.
if she thinks that guy is skeevy, when she reads any diplomatic reports about earths debt exchange “currency”, shes going to cringe into a singularity.
Everyone knows that we are one of the few races not to worship The Winslow in some form or fashion.
Speak for yourself, heretic!
I feel sorry for that poor diplomat.
And I just noticed Ray’s pencil thin mustache-soul patch combo.
Yeah, I didn’t notice it last page either. It really enhances his creep factor.
Oh, I get it. They don’t hate him because he’s a creep. They hate him because he’s a bad person. Now it makes sense.