devdoggy@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 2 days agoHow did Luke Skywalker learn to communicate with Astromech droids? How did he learn the language whilst living on Tatooine?message-squaremessage-square55fedilinkarrow-up182arrow-down16
arrow-up176arrow-down1message-squareHow did Luke Skywalker learn to communicate with Astromech droids? How did he learn the language whilst living on Tatooine?devdoggy@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 2 days agomessage-square55fedilink
minus-squarestelelor@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up3·1 day ago… Pocket bar? Googling it gets me nowhere. Surely he didn’t mean a bar of alcoholic drinks? Maybe a pocket pry bar?
minus-squarememfree@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·edit-21 day agoYou were right the first time. It dispenses meds, stimulants, intoxicants and so on from reservoirs within it. Edit: I misremembered. It doesn’t dispense intoxicants. It merely orders them and has them delivered to you.
minus-squarestelelor@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up4·1 day agoIt says a lot about the culture of the 60s and/or Pohl himself, that the first conceivable use for “instant ordering” would be for drugs.
… Pocket bar? Googling it gets me nowhere. Surely he didn’t mean a bar of alcoholic drinks? Maybe a pocket pry bar?
You were right the first time. It dispenses meds, stimulants,
intoxicantsand so on from reservoirs within it.Edit: I misremembered. It doesn’t dispense intoxicants. It merely orders them and has them delivered to you.
It says a lot about the culture of the 60s and/or Pohl himself, that the first conceivable use for “instant ordering” would be for drugs.