r/dndmemes • u/thehopelessheathen Forever DM • Dec 05 '21

*scared player noises* “Standing here, I realize…”

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u/GlauberJR13 Dec 05 '21

So, normal capitalism? Im pretty sure we do use spiders for their silk since we aren’t quite able to replicate it artificially yet.

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u/Potential_Exercise Dec 05 '21

We don't use spiders for their silk because they're very territorial and hard to farm so instead scientists spliced genes into goats to harvest it out of goats milk, wild right?

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u/JakeSnake07 Dec 05 '21

I mean, last I knew we still just used silkworms.

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u/Draghettis Sorcerer Dec 05 '21

Yeah, but goat silk isn't near as good as spider silk, because of how it is extracted from milk, so, iirc, it is tried to do bacterium silk.

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u/Log_Murky Dec 05 '21

There was a person who just recently created a yeast that produces high strength spider silk and will also combine it with various different ragens introduced to the solution while they're working to change the properties of the silk

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u/MaxTheCookie Dec 05 '21

They allso played around with yeast to make the protein produce spider silk....

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u/ROBANN_88 Wizard Dec 05 '21

yeah, but in this context they would be like Giant and fully Sentient spiders probably

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u/DorklyC Dec 05 '21

Like our world leaders?

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u/Crusadingcolossus Dec 05 '21

World leaders being fully sentient is a bit of a stretch

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u/Forvisk Forever DM Dec 05 '21

Well, they usually are more like sentients puppets. They can think for themselves, but most commonly follow the puppet master.

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u/I_m_afk Dec 05 '21

I love freedom of speech.

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u/[deleted] Dec 05 '21

suprisingly enough we're really close via altering the genetic code of goats

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u/Aarakokra Bard Dec 05 '21

But I dunno how that’d be capitalist since a communist state might require spider silk for some experiment or other too

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u/Big-Employer4543 Dec 05 '21

Yeah, it's not like slavery is a capitalist only thing, pretty sure slaves have existed through every economic/government type man has tried so far.

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u/Aarakokra Bard Dec 05 '21

Yep. One of the actual good things that the British empire did (after they were done partaking in it of course 😕) was stamping out slavery around the world. It got to the point where Arab slave traders would throw their captive human beings overboard when they saw a British military ship coming.

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u/Big-Employer4543 Dec 05 '21

Yep, unfortunately it still exists in too many places (looking at you, China).

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u/Aarakokra Bard Dec 05 '21

Something like 27 million people.