You weren't lying. I was looking for "knowledge" games similar to Animal Well and Outer Wilds and I saw some reviews making the comparison. Tbh, I was a little underwhelmed at first. I thought it was a good game but it didn't feel like what I was looking for. But the back half really opened it up. Figuring out the mountain door puzzle was like a jaw on the floor moment. By the end I had several pages of graph paper with notes and sketches.
I'm not sure how serious your comment is but anyway...what you're describing is a decades-long reorientation of military doctrine and procurement strategy. Getting a different multi-role fighter is already a huge expense with lots of ramifications but no need to throw the baby out with the bath water.
Edit: IMO, if you really wanted to alter air force strategy to deter the US, you should look to Sweden and Finland who have been facing an asymmetric threat for decades. Aquire the Gripen, train with the Swedes in how to run and operate a distributed air force of small independent units capable of generating and performing missions from random roads in the woods.
Disclaimer: I have no qualifications or really any business talking about this...
I think games aren't the best kind of projects for open source. Some games are made open source after development ends which is cool because it opens up forks and modding (pixel dungeon did this). Most games require a single, unified, creative vision which is hard to get from an "anyone can help" contribution style. Most open source software are tools for doing specific things. It's almost objective what needs to be done to improve the software while games are much more opinionated and fuzzy. So many times I've seen a game's community rally behind a suggestion to address a problem and the developer ignores them and implements a better idea to more elegantly solve it. Most people aren't game designers but they feel like they could be.
An exception to this are certain, rules-based puzzly games. Bit-Burner is an open source hacking game with relatively simple mechanics and it works well.
I used to live in Japan and I had an in-line gas water heater. Outside the bathroom and kitchen was a thermostat for the hot water. I just set the temp for a good shower and blasted the hot water. It was bliss. America really needs to catch up with Japan in bathroom tech in general.
This article highlights the more organized resource drives, and that's super cool to see. But one comment I have about the title--people don't need to learn to help one another during a disaster. IMO, it's the default response.
I'm from upstate South Carolina and I know some people in Asheville. Immediately after Helene, everyone was helping everyone. People were sharing gas, generators, food. Anyone with a chainsaw was helping to clear roads.
This is my big criticism with the prepper types. They are way too focused on getting all the resources they would ever need to survive a prolonged disaster when they should be focused on building a community to help one another. This is especially apparent with their desire to own guns and stock ammo. In their mind, a disaster means people will try to steal their resources so they need to defend that. In reality, their neighbors will be coming over asking for or offering help.
I mostly agree with you on the morality of abortion. The only problem I have with your analysis is with the temporary nature of pregnancy. There are risks in pregnancy that can have permanent consequences. Even if the birth goes off without a hitch, the mother is often left with weight gain, stretch-marks, and a risk of post-partum depression. Incisions are often needed to widen the birth canal and sometimes a C-section is required which is major emergency abdominal surgery. These risks are entirely taken on by the mother.
If we look at morality as having things people should do, and things people must do, only the musts should be law because the shoulds can be more open to interpretation. I wouldn't assign my morality onto others. I would classify going through with a pregnancy as a should.
Bodily autonomy is different than "freedom to go about your life as you see fit". Carrying a baby and giving birth come with risks and responsibilities and it changes your body. All of this risk is for the baby at the expense of the mother.
Analogy: let's say someone needs a kidney transplant or they will die. Turns out, you're the only match. Donating a kidney is not risk free and your body will be changed for the rest of your life. Should you donate? Yeah, probably. Should you be legally forced to? Absolutely not.
To me, this analogy completely solves the issue. I can say that life begins at conception and still say that bodily autonomy is a right. It doesn't matter if the fetus/baby is a person yet, as long as the mother's body is being used to sustain them, then it's the mother's choice.
Probably not ideal but I use Google drive for synching and it worked fine. The database is encrypted so, at worst, Google knows I have a password manager.
We asked ourselves, why couldn’t handlebars function like a car’s cockpit?
Isn't this just a cycle computer? I have a cycle computer that clicks into place on my bars. It navigates and connects to sensors like pedal cadence sensors, power meters, heart rate monitors, it displays speed. All while being removable so I can easily charge it or just not bring it when I don't need those functions.
Almost everyone had their phones in cases before phones had camera bumps. Phones have camera bumps because they realized they might as well use the extra thickness for more camera hardware.
I don't have a problem of ignorance. That just means you don't know something. Willful ignorance is a whole other game though. It sounds like they were just ignorant and willing to learn from their mistakes.
It's 34 minutes but it's kind of 2 songs. It has lyrics but they're more of a vibe than actual coherent thoughts. The first half is like a slowly swelling religious fervor/extacy with a great climax. If I were ever to join a doomsday cult and we all go crazy and kill ourselves, we would do it to that song. The second half is expressing feelings of disgust during moments lost in thought while plotting revolution.
You weren't lying. I was looking for "knowledge" games similar to Animal Well and Outer Wilds and I saw some reviews making the comparison. Tbh, I was a little underwhelmed at first. I thought it was a good game but it didn't feel like what I was looking for. But the back half really opened it up. Figuring out the mountain door puzzle was like a jaw on the floor moment. By the end I had several pages of graph paper with notes and sketches.