Being present is a gift
If you look at the actual dollar amounts that have been "gifted" to politicians in the weeks surrounding key votes that they flipped from their public stance on, it's... Depressingly low.
Like "this politician sold out 11 million of their voters for less than the cost of a used car."
Honestly if they decided "nah fuck that, I'm gonna take small kickbacks here and there for the next 50 years as I enrich my own constituents lives and they choose to reelect me year after year because I delivered them everything they need to thrive instead of taking one pathetic lump sum" they would not only make more money (most of them, we can't all be supreme court members accepting millions in bribes while turning a blind eye to the would-be-dictator our spouses tried to help overthrow the government we work for)
But nah. Like corporate stooges, they are too short sighted and weak to see that long term profits are better than short term gains.
I say this without any attempt at humor, "kill yourself peacefully before you're unable to and the people around you refuse to"
If I knew I had a prion disease, I'd be making plans to die peacefully unaware, or suddenly, the moment a symptom shows up.
My only real firsthand experience with prion diseases is Fatal Familial Insomnia, and the person was strapped into hospital bed restraints after a suicide attempt, and the only thing they would do when they chose to speak was beg for us to let them die because they can't keep going like this anymore.
Edit: honestly I do not know if there is any way to treat other prions, but to my knowledge there isn't. It's just "ease their suffering as they slowly die in front of you"
I mean.... It's obviously electronic warfare from Russia.
There isn't a need to "accuse" and nobody will listen to a denial.
This is just deliberate communication disruption, and prequel memes aside, we all know what disrupted communications leads to.
And they started with Ukraine, thinking it an easy target.
When I read an article the other day about laser point-to-point communication with a sattelite , I immediately thought to myself "oh this probably isn't good, widespread sattelite communication disruption is about to be put to widespread use, why else would this be necessary when current systems have much higher bandwidth" and you know if you're reading a news article about it, it's been put to use by the DOD for years.
Am I sounding like a conspiracy theorist? Genuine question, because that seems reasonable in the modern world to me.
During my "capitalism is the best and everything else is evil" education, we went over supply and demand.
Now, if the things everyone who recieved that education are true, this means that "condo supply high" should mean "prices start lowering to be competitive"
But we don't see that. We see stagnant prices, or even, on defying all reason, an increase.
As for "Yay capitalism, supply and demand answers all"...
I never thought I'd say this but "I want other companies to succeed at space travel"
To be clear, I don't want any companies in space because they'll simply ruin space the way they ruined earth. You will never convince me there aren't executives salivating at the idea of exploiting slaves employees far away from earth and it's " limiting regulations" so they can do whatever they want including just spacing someone out an airlock if they try to strike.
But so far it's been more or less one company who's been tossing trash all over LEO and larger trash between earth and Mars.
I'd rather space travel be open and easy for everyone, including some random guy who just wants a quick trip around Saturn. Of course we're likely centuries away from that, and I don't think we have centuries left as a whole.
"restore last session"
Same thing will happen I guess. You melt your computer.
Imagine if you accidentally hit "reload all"...
Personally I like the explanation that nobody knows how to use the three shells, and that's why everyone joins in the mockery if someone dares ask, because they don't want anyone to think they don't know.
So they all use their hands to scrape. That helps explain why they don't shake hands anymore, and why they're obsessive about cleanliness.
When you've done dirty, dirty things... Everything must be clean.
You're G****mn right.
That's actually what I was going for but I didn't want to use the "earth was flat" that K uses.
My anecdote isn't quite the same since it deals with something a lot simpler, and lower stakes than stuff like this.
used to assemble bicycles for a sporting goods chain, and had to travel to a nearby city to build theirs because nobody there knew how. I had two days to get 300 done.
I got there and start, and about two hours in the store manager comes over and tells me he's pulling 2 of their operations employees to help and learn how to build. "they're the strongest guys we have so they should have no problem tossing these bikes around"
I straight up told him I have no time at all to train them on how to build and do the safety inspections correctly, not to mention the fact that I will still have to personally inspect every single one they put together anyway, so if they want to give me help I'll take it but they're on trash duty. Remove all the packaging, put the bike next to my work area, toss the trash. I will build. If there's extra time at the end I will be happy to instruct everyone in the store how it's done. Or even put me on the schedule for next week to do it.
Dude got pissy and wanted me to train people first, so I just called the district manager while he was talking and had him tell the guy to do what I said because I'm here at corporates request and if I don't get the bikes finished in time then "it will look bad on your store's next visit if the bikes are still boxed up"
In the end I got all of them done with about 3 hours to spare, so I spent the rest of the time teaching a couple people how to do it.
Wait, people are complaining about manor lords already? So far I like it and haven't come across anything bothersome yet. I haven't played a ton, but I'm getting a good village going.
If anyone thinks hiring 50 people will get them an update in a week, they've never worked on a group project at all, let along a comolicated one. They've been working on it for what, 5 years now? And it's just gotten what is essentially a beta buukd?
These people need to chill out and let a good game slowly unfold, not take a promising start and try to speed run into the trash can.
Luckily the devs are a lot smarter than the average 11 year old.
It's insane to me all the different ways the government procures things.
Just get it straight from the manufacturer. Then if anything ever goes wrong there isn't the "who is REALLY to blame on this long chain of people" it's "hey this shit is broken, YOU are responsible for it"
Of course sometimes they do it as a form of opsec, if you distribute parts across many small time sellers it's easier to hide something than one big order from the primary source.
Demon core memes are my favorite thing from NCD and literally nobody else in my life even knows what it is, let alone think they're funny.
It's the same with Ea-Nasir memes.
Well at one time people "knew" that space was filled with Aether, and people knew that the universe was no more than 2 million years old.
But once you understand things more, some of the things you know turn out to be wrong.
In this case it's more like "we called this thing a planet before we knew just how tiny it really is but it's still cool so we now have categories for things just like it"
Which I think is neat.
You can be sad it's not a planet, we can also be happy that it pulled one over on all of humanity for such a long time.
From my understanding of primordial black holes, if one were so close as to be in our solar system, it is very small.
Since it's so small, it would have fizzled out through hawking radiation output a long time ago.
So yes, planet 9 is NOT a black hole that can hurt you.
Now, a pocket of warped spacetime that will one day spawn a Chaos Demon? Maybe.
Damn, every time I think I'm original or clever today, someone beats me to it.
I was just thinking of "demon core on a warhammer/shield/trebuchet (not a catapult because that's for plebs)"
Small point of pedantry, that is a flail, not a mace. A mace is mounted directly onto a handle, flails have the flexible material between the weight and the handle.
Well, I'm glad I didn't end up buying it last week like I wanted to. I decided to wait another paycheck instead.
Saved me wasting time or money.
Honestly people shit on review-bombing over specific incidents but this is the kind of thing that 100% deserves it.
Oh so if I start thinking about something like "I want to build a catamaran-thing with three kayaks and put a sail on the big center one" and how I'm gonna go about that, while I'm supposed to be listening to the people around me, suddenly I'm "dissociating"
I see how it is.
.... I'd have to make the support structure lightweight but rigid and.....