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Resources Synthesis Plants

The macro-scale version of a replicator, focused on bulk production of fundamental commodities. These sprawling industrial complexes use advanced chemistry, nuclear transmutation, and nanoscale assembly to create resources from base feedstocks. Think: pulling nitrogen and hydrogen from the air to synthesize limitless fertilizer, cracking water and atmospheric CO2 into liquid hydrocarbon fuels, or processing silicate rock into pure silicon, aluminum, and oxygen. They turn ubiquitous, low-value materials into the essential building blocks of civilization.
Example: "The asteroid base's life support is a resources synthesis plant. It eats crushed rock, extracts metals, splits the oxide for oxygen, and polymerizes the leftover carbon into plastics and synth-textiles. Your bunk and your spacesuit both started as the same handful of gravel." Resources Synthesis Plants
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proctologically resourced 

He proctologically resourced all of what he said.

Human resources

Primay a Hispanic picnic, skinny jeans and mini skirts required upon exiting.
Human resources by Thesenutzz November 5, 2019

Human Resources

To protect the company at all cost and not care about the employee at all
Human Resources by xxxverifiedxxx September 11, 2023

Synthetic Resources

An umbrella term for materials manufactured to replace natural resources—synthetic fuels, synthetic food, synthetic fibers, synthetic minerals—often presented as solutions to resource depletion. The synthetic resources paradigm assumes that technology can substitute for nature, that engineered alternatives can scale without ecological consequence, and that the problem is scarcity of materials rather than the system that creates scarcity. Critics argue synthetic resources often require massive energy, create new forms of dependency, and perpetuate the logic of extraction while changing its form.
Example: "The company promised a world of synthetic resources: food from vats, fuel from air, minerals from chemistry—a future where nothing grows, everything is made, and nature is obsolete."

Using my resources 

What somebody says when they are cheating but do not want to admit it
I know using a calculator during the test is not allowed, but I was just using my resources
Using my resources by Mcatherin07 August 10, 2021

Used His Resources Wisely 

Guy 1: How did Jon score so high on that math test? I know he didn’t study.
Guy 2: He “used his resources wisely.” He sat next to Kyle.