A lost bunch

Autistic | System of some sort | Psychotic | PRO ENDO/NON TRAUMAGENIC. WE CANNOT STRESS THIS ENOUGH. SYSMEDS F U C K O F F

[space-c0rr3s]

Decided we should probably , and finally , do a proper intro.

We've put off doing this for a while because tiktok set off our paranoia.

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Hello! We are the asterism cluster! Although on most platforms we go by "space cores" in reference to the Portal 2 space core.

-!We are a system of a very very large headcount and we are mostly disordered.

-!We are multigenic! In our case this means we have parogenic headmates , endogenic headmates , traumagenic headmates , ect ect. Our system creation was traumagenic

-!We are mostly religious , very few are atheist and there is a wide range of practices across our system

-!We are , for the most part , rad inclus and extremely anti-suibaiting anti-punishment pro-xenos pro-neos pro-mogai pro-split orientation (things like bisexual panromantic , ect) , ect - we might create a list later

-!We are a psychotic , autistic system

"Do you have any other socials?"

yes , plenty

Tiktok:

the.mc.headmates

spacce.c0res

space_cores

Instagram:

asterism_cluster

sparky4sterism

space.fim

syskid.playroom

red.hashadenough

fixated.thinking

imoga.mogai

Amino:

clusterfulspace34

And simply plural , not social media but:

Sysmedshateus

[mischiefmanifold]

crying why are there people who unironically use the word “endophobic” for people who listen to science and fact?? endos are really wild oml

[space-c0rr3s]

Get out ! Of our! Fucking ! Tags !

Especially ! Our ! Positivity ! Ones !

Anti - endos ! Constantly complaining ! About us invading ! THEIR spaces ! Then they do this shit !

- ! ( endogenic headmate ! ) ( in a Multigenic sys ! )

[mischiefmanifold]

what you gonna cry? maybe stop being ableist and i’ll think about it :)

also “multigenic” isn’t a fucking thing if you’re a system you formed from trauma fucking deal with it

[space-c0rr3s]

Not ableist lmao ! Nor am i gon cry ! Is it so hard to just not be an ass ! Just get out of the tags !

And ! yes ! multigenic is a thing ! :]

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[space-c0rr3s]

HEY ! HEY ! HEY ! ANTI - ENDOS !

Traumagenic , fictive , factive , ect : WERE ! CREATED ! BY ! ENDOGENICS !

IF YOU HATE US ! SO !!!!!!! MUCH ! STOP ! USING ! THOSE ! TERMS !

[mischiefmanifold]

crying why are there people who unironically use the word “endophobic” for people who listen to science and fact?? endos are really wild oml

[space-c0rr3s]

Get out ! Of our! Fucking ! Tags !

Especially ! Our ! Positivity ! Ones !

Anti - endos ! Constantly complaining ! About us invading ! THEIR spaces ! Then they do this shit !

- ! ( endogenic headmate ! ) ( in a Multigenic sys ! )

[space-c0rr3s]

I find it really funny ! When sysmedicals ! Say i ' m not real !

I ' m litterally talking to you ! Right now ! Silly !

If i ' m not real ! Neither are you ! Because you ' re talking to me !

[vympr]

Scientist bakes sourdough bread with yeast derived from 4500 year old Egyptian pottery

i'm losing my mind @ this thread......historie......

[sassytail]

also please note that this scientist is in fact the retired man who invented the xbox.

[brunhiddensmusings]

oh fuck i listened to a podcast that was interviewing him and the process he went through to make this bread, ologies with allie ward like he went through full on clean room levels of prep to ensure that this was 100% yeast from old egypt and had to bend over backwards to ensure everything involved was uncontaminated he then revealed that the original xbox logo...

is a sourdough boule

[space-c0rr3s]

Okay but the blue xbox logo was one if the best ones

- ⁉️ (he/him)

[anti-endo-stuff]

endogenic systems don’t exist

[space-c0rr3s]

Get out of our tags :]

- ! ( endogenic headmate ) ( 100 % real , btw :] )

[hallowum]

Objectum term masterpost

These are every single objectum term I could find to date (including mine) (MAKE SURE TO CHECK THIS ORIGINAL POST FOR UPDATES):

OBJECTUM: An emotional attraction to an inanimate object.

(Queer)Platonic Objectum: what it sounds like

Gai Objectum: When you are Nb, Gay and Objectum

Public Objectum: When your Object of Attraction is a Public Object (ex: the Eiffel Tower)

Private Objectum: When your Object of Attraction is a Private Object

Public+Private Objectum: yeah

Demiobjectum: the attraction to an object after an emotional bond

Tobiobjectum: an immediate attraction to an object

Panjectum: when your Objectum attraction encompasses all categories regardless of the object / When you are open to developing relationships in any Objectum or Conceptum category, regardless of object or concept

Plushum: an objectum person who is primarily or exclusively attracted to stuffed toys.

Plusho-: An attraction to stuffed animals/ stuffed toys & related objects.

Pelu-: An attraction to stuffed animals/ stuffed toys.

Echopelu: A term for when the user feels their Pelu- attraction is due to their neurodivergency/feel as if the object in question is an extension of themselves due to neurodivergency

Toy-: An attraction to hard toys & related objects (ex: Figurines)

Inflateajectum: An attraction to inflatable objects and pool toys

Robo/Technosexual: An attraction to robots / artificial intelligence

Amusrum: An attraction to amusement park rides

Quiltum: An attraction to blankets or quilts & related objects

Sculptum: An attraction to one's own artistic creations

Onsum: An attraction to a specific dish or recipe

Mangerum: An attraction to food

Vestigum: An attraction to clothing

Automobilum: An attraction to automobiles

Postiagum: An attraction to signs

Alcoholum/Alcohum: An attraction to alcohol bottles

Skeletum: An attraction to skeletons

Flora-: An attraction to plants

Botani-/Botano-: (botanian): attraction to plants (or also loving nature/botany).

Dendrophilia: An attraction to trees

Herbisexual: A sole attraction to plants

Myco/Fungi/Caposexual: An attraction to mushrooms

Jewlerum: An attraction to Jewelry

Vexillum: An attraction to flags

Agalmatum: objectum attraction to statue, doll, mannequin or similar objects.

Teasexual: An attraction to tea

CONCEPTUM: The attraction to a concept or an idea.

Soundrum: An attraction to music

Spirictum: A form of Objectum where your partner is a spirit / has a spiritual form that may or may not be capable of transferring from one object to another, or has two or more spirits merged into one (ex: a phone case merging with the phone)

Virtuosum: An attraction for specifically art and artistic things. (Even art theory itself)

Crimasum: An attraction to the concept of Christmas, or "Christmas time"

Naturum: An attraction to all of Nature

Swampum: An attraction to swamps

Nostalgium: An attraction to the concept of Nostalgia

Faire-: An attraction to the ocean as a type of Conceptum

Companium: A conceptum attraction to a company, whether it's a brand, store, or some other trademark.

Locusexual: An attraction to a geographical or geopolitical place

UFObjectum: A objectum/conceptum attraction to UFOs and other alien transportation

Abandum: An attraction to all abandoned things

Amallune: An attraction to abandoned malls

Vidum: An attraction to being filmed and/or filming

Nectum: A conceptum/objectum attraction to all honey

Hallowum: An attraction to Halloween

Liminum: An attraction to Liminal spaces

[everythingfox]

puddles

(via)

[pukicho]

Every now and then a new celeb pops up out of nowhere and I’m supposed to know who they are. Sorry bud but that’s just a guy.

[yomgert]

This is how people feel about you

[pukicho]

As they should. Literally everyone is just some guy.

[rei-lynn1989]

What about the ladies and non-binary folks? They just some guys too?

[pukicho]

Everyone

[thanatopraxy-deactivated2025040]

??

[space-c0rr3s]

We do not use the word "traumascum" nor will we ever use it.

It is a fucking disgusting word and we do not agree with use of taht word.

Don't interact with us if you use "traumascum"

[deactivated-blog]

what systems are valid today?

Trick question, its all!!

Endogenic systems are valid! Quoigenic systems are valid! Multigenic systems are valid! Parogenic systems are valid! Pangenic systems are valid! Willogenic systems are valid! Voidgenic systems are valid! Paragenic systems are valid! Cryptogenic systems are valid! Neurogenic systems are valid! Agenic systems are valid! Protogenic systems are valid! Catharigenic systems are valid!

Any other -genic label not listed is valid!! If your system exists, its valid!! If you&'re questioning if your& system exists, you&'re valid!!

[mariopowertennis]

YOU HAVE ENTERED

RADICAL SATURDAY

[cynical-werewolf]

Today’s Friday, though.

[sketchlock]

[midnight-spectrum-again]

I see this post every Friday and I’m convinced that ya’ll are queueing this

[insidiousclouds-2]

I’ve lost track of time this is the only way I know its Friday please keep queueing this

[insidiousclouds-2]

I can’t believe after practically a year later people are still queuing this. Thank you. It is Friday.

[midnight-spectrum-again]

YOU DID THIS TO ME

[gaymoods]

IM QUEUEING THIS EVERY FRIDAY

[fuckup-perfectionist-deactivate]

So many TV shows/movies depict the Epi Pen as a total solution for anaphylaxis...it's not. The Epi Pen gives you 30 minutes to get to a hospital where they can save your life. TV makes it look like you just have to use the Epi Pen and then the crisis is over. Do people without allergies or a loved one with allergies know that an Epi Pen only buys you time? The more I see this on TV the more I worry...

**Maybe you should reblog this because I'm actually worried that most people don't know.

[thykingdomcole]

Omg so much this! I have to use my epipens about three times a year and my doctor recommends I shoot both of them in my thigh and then call an ambulance! They are a STABILISER not a cure!!

[turtle-y-deactivated20220726]

Since a lot of people don't know this, I'll point out that Narcan works the same way. It's not a one-and-done. It buys you time for the EMTs to show up.

[aqueerkettleofish]

As a side note… I am really annoyed by one thing about Star Trek.

“Replicated food is not as good as real food.”

That’s ridiculous.  In Star Trek, replicator technology is part of the same tech tree as transporters.  Replicated food would be identical to the food it was based on, down to the subatomic level. 

[covington-shenanigans]

Proposal for a Watsonian explanation:

In a blind taste test, nobody, but nobody, can tell the actual difference between replicated food and “real” food. (Think back to our youth and the New Coke vs. Pepsi taste tests, only worse.) BUT, humans being What We Are, the human Starfleet members insist that “real” food is better than replicated food for reasons including, but certainly not limited to:

1. Hipsters have survived even into the 24th century. “No, you just can’t make good curry from a replicator! You gotta toast the spices yourself right before you cook it or it’s not the same, maaaaaan”

2. All military and para-military members everywhere always grouse and bitch about the food and sigh over What We Get Back Home. It could literally be the same replicator recipe you use at home when someone has to work late or just doesn’t feel like making the effort to cook, but people are people everywhere so they’re going to complain about it.

3. Humans tend to think we’re smarter than we actually are and we can totally tell when something is going on; as a result, human crew members insist they can “taste the difference” because their minds are making shit up, as our brains do.

4. One could presume that, generally speaking, a replicator recipe programmed into a starship or base replicator database would come out the same every time. This is perhaps the 24th century equivalent of mass catering. (I won’t try to account for the nuances of replicator tech that might allow for variances, and leave aside for the moment the fact that some people probably tinker with the standard “recipes” to suit their own taste.) The single thing that would be different in this case about “real” food is the variation, since of course the “real” dish will have slight variances every time due to the whims of the cook, the oven temperature fluctuation, freshness of ingredients, etc.. And since we are an easily bored species who really, really hates boredom, I bet people would jump all over that to lament the lack of “real” food when they’re out exploring strange new worlds and new civilizations and whatnot. (This is the only reason I can think of that might hold up to scrutiny.)

The Vulcans in Starfleet (and Data), of course, remain baffled by this human insistence that “replicator food isn’t as good as ‘real’ food”, as it defies all known forms of logic.

[aqueerkettleofish]

Hmm.  This is a fair point.  It occurs to me that I once met a Texan who commented that the chili in a restaurant I worked at was not as good as what they made in Texas, and when I pointed out that the cook was a Texan and the chili was his personal recipe, for which he had won awards in Texas, just said “Doesn’t matter.  Wasn’t made in Texas.”

I gotta be honest, Replicator technology is one of the things I am SUPREMELY jealous of, and I’m… okay, I’m not a great cook, but I can cook and there are several dishes I do very well.  I think if I had access to the technology I would cook a lot less, though, and I would for sure use replicated ingredients. 

[math-is-magic]

1. It is not just hipsters that act like this about food. All the grandmothers I know feel this way too, and I don’t see that ever changing.

[mermaidelephant]

The missing ingredient is love, obviously. You can’t get that from a replicator.

[aqueerkettleofish]

Right, for that you need the holodeck.

[lemonsharks]

Okay so, we’ve missed a few things that I think are relevant here: 

The replicator or replicator + holodeck combo can’t recreate the experience of cooking, nor can it recreate the experience of being cooked for. And that experience makes food taste better. 

Cooking is what makes us human. No other species on this wet rock cooks its food–only us. 

First: if you’re making lamb stew, or phở, or mole, or curry goat, you spend hours puttering around the house doing chores in a cozy sweater, periodically petting the cats and playing with the kids, waiting an anticipating the hour in which you get to eat the soup. All the while: your house smells like lamb stew, or phở, or mole, or curry goat. 

You get a tamale from the replicator: it’s pretty good. You wish it came with a green olive with the pit still in like the kind your abuela puts in her tamales. 

You get a tamale from the tamale lady on the way to work on a clear, crisp fall morning. It’s so hot from her steamer that it nearly burns your fingerprints off and it smells divine; you use all of your Spanish to tell her how good it is and how grateful you are that you pass her every day. On a whim, you buy 30 more tamales to share with the office; they’re still warm at lunch and they taste like friendship. 

You get a tamale from your abuela. It’s Christmas Eve, your entire family has spent the last seven hours making them, your tio Juan just busted out his tuba and it is definitely too hot outside for the fake snow  your baby cousins have started throwing at each other in between begging to open just one present and if you don’t hurry up you’re all going to be late for mass. 

The tamale tastes like home. 

You get a tamale from the replicator. Its neural network reviewed your order against every known tamale recipe and variety and decided that your addition of “green olive, pickled, pit in” was a mistake, and omitted it. 

Your tamale tastes like homesickness. You ball-up the corn husk and 

Second: The replicator is probably not accounting for regional variations in ingredients for its base foods. 

The ingredient library may have jalapeno, red; jalapeno, green, jalapeno, (color slider), (heat slider). It probably does not have: jalapeno, Hatch new mexico, USA, earth, sol system; or jalapeno north face Olympus Mons Mars, sol system. Replicator Parmesan is very likely a scan of a Parmesan and doesn’t duplicate regional variations between, say, a Parmesan from Mantua vs a Parmesan from Parma. 

Did your grandmother use san marzano tomatoes that were actually grown in san marzano in her red sauce (, canned, peeled, whole in juice)? Sucks to be you, the replicator scanned a hydroponically grown plum-type tomato which environment was carefully controlled for optimal nutritional value and “pretty good” taste. 

Is the replicator cilantro a kind bred or genetically engineered for maximum palatability across the broadest spectrum of individuals? Is it missing the gene that makes some people taste soap when they eat it? Is that gene the one that makes it taste good to you, so that the replicator chimichurri is always missing something, some particular specific type of freshness, a unique vegetal taste that you can’t put your finger on, and it’s not important enough to track down when you just like the chimichurri you make at home, from cilantro your grew yourself, much better? 

Third: The recipe database is probably sourced from hundreds of thousands of recipes written over centuries’ time – and then averaged using a combination of median and modal averaging to come up with something that’s Pretty OK to most people, but which is going to leave others wanting–no matter how much they tweak it. 

And then you have many, many people in a state of, “yes but I like my/mom’s/spouse’s/grandparent’s/aunt’s/uncle’s/best friends better”. And that’s OK.

I mean, really. Think about this for a minute.

Fourth:

You go to get a cup of tea from the replicator, because everything is terrible. You know in the darkest depths of your soul that everything will still be terrible with a good cuppa in your hands, but it will be terrible and you’ll have tea, which is a marked improvement. 

The replicator gives you a glass of brewed, iced sweet tea. 

It takes you three more tries to get a cup of hot earl grey. You decide you’ve finished pressing your luck with this positively infernal machine today and don’t even bother asking for a lemon wedge. 

If that doesn’t indicate that the replicators were programmed by an American, I don’t know what does. 

[taraljc]

holy shit boo this is fucking AMAZEBALLS and I miss the tamale ladies at Stone on the way to the Target so much right now but also you *hugs you tight*

[subbyp]

Also, regional recipes are calibrated to work with the local tap water. That’s why pizza from New York and sourdough from San Francisco taste better–the micro-organisms in the water enhance the flavor. The chili that wasn’t made in Texas probably did taste subtly different than it would’ve back home.

[united-federation-of-trek]

There are lots of things that would change with replicators because they take out the human factor.

Maybe you really wanted that one meal from that one restaurant except the restaurant doesn’t release their recipe so it’s slightly off and always will be.

You programmed the replicator with your mum’s favourite mac and cheese recipe, but you didn’t know that your mum always added a little more salt and a little less mustard than the recipe called for, so it’s just not the same and it’s not as good.

[alarajrogers]

Pretty much this. Also I think we cannot overstate the degree to which “the food always comes out exactly the same” would end up bothering people over time.

[jagatcurious]

Important point is that these are “military grade” food replicators and military food is never really great. Hence the difficulty with the tea. Food replicators in private homes and restaurants are more controllable and may have programming for varieties of chilies or tomatoes or even carrots. There are 4 basic kinds of carrots but only one is available commercially, the others need to be grown at home. With a programmable home replicator one can have chantenay carrots… all the infinite varieties of foodstuff ingredients will be available with the right programming and therefore civilians in the 24th century in star trek will have perfectly customisable food. My mind is boggled now…

[kraznyoktyabr]

For a real-world example, but in the other direction:

When I was a child, my mother used to make chili using “Carroll Shelby’s Texas Chili Mix.” It made… okay chili.

When I was in college I found a book called “Chili Madness” at a local used bookstore, that had the winning recipes from the National Chili Cookoff for the last 30 years. It included Carroll Shelby’s actual recipe. So I made it. (Had to get one of my apartment mates to source beer for me, as I was not of age to purchase it yet.)

Wow. What a difference. Adding the spices at different times rather than as a blob of “spice mix”. Beer instead of water. No masa. So good!

So the bagged mix would be the replicator mix in this scenario.

[kaldurcalm-deactivated20240513]

@subbyp you said what about the tap water?

[subbyp]

It has microscopic crustaceans in it.

[aqueerkettleofish]

As a side note… I am really annoyed by one thing about Star Trek.

“Replicated food is not as good as real food.”

That’s ridiculous.  In Star Trek, replicator technology is part of the same tech tree as transporters.  Replicated food would be identical to the food it was based on, down to the subatomic level. 

[covington-shenanigans]

Proposal for a Watsonian explanation:

In a blind taste test, nobody, but nobody, can tell the actual difference between replicated food and “real” food. (Think back to our youth and the New Coke vs. Pepsi taste tests, only worse.) BUT, humans being What We Are, the human Starfleet members insist that “real” food is better than replicated food for reasons including, but certainly not limited to:

1. Hipsters have survived even into the 24th century. “No, you just can’t make good curry from a replicator! You gotta toast the spices yourself right before you cook it or it’s not the same, maaaaaan”

2. All military and para-military members everywhere always grouse and bitch about the food and sigh over What We Get Back Home. It could literally be the same replicator recipe you use at home when someone has to work late or just doesn’t feel like making the effort to cook, but people are people everywhere so they’re going to complain about it.

3. Humans tend to think we’re smarter than we actually are and we can totally tell when something is going on; as a result, human crew members insist they can “taste the difference” because their minds are making shit up, as our brains do.

4. One could presume that, generally speaking, a replicator recipe programmed into a starship or base replicator database would come out the same every time. This is perhaps the 24th century equivalent of mass catering. (I won’t try to account for the nuances of replicator tech that might allow for variances, and leave aside for the moment the fact that some people probably tinker with the standard “recipes” to suit their own taste.) The single thing that would be different in this case about “real” food is the variation, since of course the “real” dish will have slight variances every time due to the whims of the cook, the oven temperature fluctuation, freshness of ingredients, etc.. And since we are an easily bored species who really, really hates boredom, I bet people would jump all over that to lament the lack of “real” food when they’re out exploring strange new worlds and new civilizations and whatnot. (This is the only reason I can think of that might hold up to scrutiny.)

The Vulcans in Starfleet (and Data), of course, remain baffled by this human insistence that “replicator food isn’t as good as ‘real’ food”, as it defies all known forms of logic.

[aqueerkettleofish]

Hmm.  This is a fair point.  It occurs to me that I once met a Texan who commented that the chili in a restaurant I worked at was not as good as what they made in Texas, and when I pointed out that the cook was a Texan and the chili was his personal recipe, for which he had won awards in Texas, just said “Doesn’t matter.  Wasn’t made in Texas.”

I gotta be honest, Replicator technology is one of the things I am SUPREMELY jealous of, and I’m… okay, I’m not a great cook, but I can cook and there are several dishes I do very well.  I think if I had access to the technology I would cook a lot less, though, and I would for sure use replicated ingredients. 

[math-is-magic]

1. It is not just hipsters that act like this about food. All the grandmothers I know feel this way too, and I don’t see that ever changing.

[mermaidelephant]

The missing ingredient is love, obviously. You can’t get that from a replicator.

[aqueerkettleofish]

Right, for that you need the holodeck.

[lemonsharks]

Okay so, we’ve missed a few things that I think are relevant here: 

The replicator or replicator + holodeck combo can’t recreate the experience of cooking, nor can it recreate the experience of being cooked for. And that experience makes food taste better. 

Cooking is what makes us human. No other species on this wet rock cooks its food–only us. 

First: if you’re making lamb stew, or phở, or mole, or curry goat, you spend hours puttering around the house doing chores in a cozy sweater, periodically petting the cats and playing with the kids, waiting an anticipating the hour in which you get to eat the soup. All the while: your house smells like lamb stew, or phở, or mole, or curry goat. 

You get a tamale from the replicator: it’s pretty good. You wish it came with a green olive with the pit still in like the kind your abuela puts in her tamales. 

You get a tamale from the tamale lady on the way to work on a clear, crisp fall morning. It’s so hot from her steamer that it nearly burns your fingerprints off and it smells divine; you use all of your Spanish to tell her how good it is and how grateful you are that you pass her every day. On a whim, you buy 30 more tamales to share with the office; they’re still warm at lunch and they taste like friendship. 

You get a tamale from your abuela. It’s Christmas Eve, your entire family has spent the last seven hours making them, your tio Juan just busted out his tuba and it is definitely too hot outside for the fake snow  your baby cousins have started throwing at each other in between begging to open just one present and if you don’t hurry up you’re all going to be late for mass. 

The tamale tastes like home. 

You get a tamale from the replicator. Its neural network reviewed your order against every known tamale recipe and variety and decided that your addition of “green olive, pickled, pit in” was a mistake, and omitted it. 

Your tamale tastes like homesickness. You ball-up the corn husk and 

Second: The replicator is probably not accounting for regional variations in ingredients for its base foods. 

The ingredient library may have jalapeno, red; jalapeno, green, jalapeno, (color slider), (heat slider). It probably does not have: jalapeno, Hatch new mexico, USA, earth, sol system; or jalapeno north face Olympus Mons Mars, sol system. Replicator Parmesan is very likely a scan of a Parmesan and doesn’t duplicate regional variations between, say, a Parmesan from Mantua vs a Parmesan from Parma. 

Did your grandmother use san marzano tomatoes that were actually grown in san marzano in her red sauce (, canned, peeled, whole in juice)? Sucks to be you, the replicator scanned a hydroponically grown plum-type tomato which environment was carefully controlled for optimal nutritional value and “pretty good” taste. 

Is the replicator cilantro a kind bred or genetically engineered for maximum palatability across the broadest spectrum of individuals? Is it missing the gene that makes some people taste soap when they eat it? Is that gene the one that makes it taste good to you, so that the replicator chimichurri is always missing something, some particular specific type of freshness, a unique vegetal taste that you can’t put your finger on, and it’s not important enough to track down when you just like the chimichurri you make at home, from cilantro your grew yourself, much better? 

Third: The recipe database is probably sourced from hundreds of thousands of recipes written over centuries’ time – and then averaged using a combination of median and modal averaging to come up with something that’s Pretty OK to most people, but which is going to leave others wanting–no matter how much they tweak it. 

And then you have many, many people in a state of, “yes but I like my/mom’s/spouse’s/grandparent’s/aunt’s/uncle’s/best friends better”. And that’s OK.

I mean, really. Think about this for a minute.

Fourth:

You go to get a cup of tea from the replicator, because everything is terrible. You know in the darkest depths of your soul that everything will still be terrible with a good cuppa in your hands, but it will be terrible and you’ll have tea, which is a marked improvement. 

The replicator gives you a glass of brewed, iced sweet tea. 

It takes you three more tries to get a cup of hot earl grey. You decide you’ve finished pressing your luck with this positively infernal machine today and don’t even bother asking for a lemon wedge. 

If that doesn’t indicate that the replicators were programmed by an American, I don’t know what does. 

[taraljc]

holy shit boo this is fucking AMAZEBALLS and I miss the tamale ladies at Stone on the way to the Target so much right now but also you *hugs you tight*

[subbyp]

Also, regional recipes are calibrated to work with the local tap water. That’s why pizza from New York and sourdough from San Francisco taste better–the micro-organisms in the water enhance the flavor. The chili that wasn’t made in Texas probably did taste subtly different than it would’ve back home.

[united-federation-of-trek]

There are lots of things that would change with replicators because they take out the human factor.

Maybe you really wanted that one meal from that one restaurant except the restaurant doesn’t release their recipe so it’s slightly off and always will be.

You programmed the replicator with your mum’s favourite mac and cheese recipe, but you didn’t know that your mum always added a little more salt and a little less mustard than the recipe called for, so it’s just not the same and it’s not as good.

[alarajrogers]

Pretty much this. Also I think we cannot overstate the degree to which “the food always comes out exactly the same” would end up bothering people over time.

[jagatcurious]

Important point is that these are “military grade” food replicators and military food is never really great. Hence the difficulty with the tea. Food replicators in private homes and restaurants are more controllable and may have programming for varieties of chilies or tomatoes or even carrots. There are 4 basic kinds of carrots but only one is available commercially, the others need to be grown at home. With a programmable home replicator one can have chantenay carrots… all the infinite varieties of foodstuff ingredients will be available with the right programming and therefore civilians in the 24th century in star trek will have perfectly customisable food. My mind is boggled now…

[kraznyoktyabr]

For a real-world example, but in the other direction:

When I was a child, my mother used to make chili using “Carroll Shelby’s Texas Chili Mix.” It made… okay chili.

When I was in college I found a book called “Chili Madness” at a local used bookstore, that had the winning recipes from the National Chili Cookoff for the last 30 years. It included Carroll Shelby’s actual recipe. So I made it. (Had to get one of my apartment mates to source beer for me, as I was not of age to purchase it yet.)

Wow. What a difference. Adding the spices at different times rather than as a blob of “spice mix”. Beer instead of water. No masa. So good!

So the bagged mix would be the replicator mix in this scenario.

[kaldurcalm-deactivated20240513]

@subbyp you said what about the tap water?

[subbyp]

It has microscopic crustaceans in it.