With just a flap of their wings, they can create a tornado on the other side of a continent

I am already seated for this. The Alamo Drafthouse employees are telling me to leave because "it doesn't have a release date" and "it's a novel, not a movie, why are you even here" but I don't care. That's how seated I am for this

i know the general conceit around teleporters is "no bud, thats the prestige. it kills the original you and ship-of-theseuses some atoms into a jeff-vandermeer-Ghost-Bird copy who thinks its you."
However,
have we considered a teleporter that just does inorganic stuff? Like what if we made a teleporter that was just designed to get around FedEx freight rates? What if we made it affordable to ship a Cisco Sparkboard?

this post brought to you by NireBryce's reblog of
@mononcqc's charismatic technologies post and the [un]affordability of shipping a Cisco Sparkboard video conference system despite nearly ubiquitous availability