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Highest among prosperous nations sure, but if we look to the whole world Korea does not have close to the highest rates of suicide.

Policy makers: "Why won't they have babies?!? We need more babies the whole system will collapse! We must urgently do something! But what? What ever should we do??? We've tried EVERYTHING! We even give them straight cash if they have a kid! This is the greatest mystery of our time!"

The population in nearly perfect unanimous voice: "Work life balance is shit and we can't afford to have kids, neither time wise nor monetarily"

Policy makers: "Such an enigma, truly so mysterious, woe is us, evil evil selfish young people that don't have kids!"

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I think this follows in most nations that the less you have the more likely you are to lean towards the left side of you nations political spectrum. And the more you have the more likely you lean towards the right side. Home ownership is one part of that, a fairly big part given the state of home pricing these days.

Really it's always been about the class struggle, of the have nots vs the haves, rich vs poor, bourgeois vs proletariat, whatever you want to call it. The US has just done a "better" job of muddying the waters and suffocating organized class warfare.

Mainly by instilling that you're not really poor because you're within reach of being a millionaire. The American dream. (Which you need to be asleep to believe in as Carlin put it.).

Though I'm not really holding my breath on people actually waking up to this reality and actually doing something about it. The Circus seems to suffice in the US, and any struggle and violence is directed between marginalized groups. People in declining rural areas "fighting" people from the worst parts of the cities. Middle class suburbians opposing the choices of other middle class suburbians that just want freedom of expression but that somehow limits the first group in ways they can't even articulate when asked. It's madness.

To clarify for the purpose of answering OPs question. The quality will be the same because it's the same code in both cases. But the performance, as in how many FPS, you get will most often differ.

Really cool stuff but I struggle to see what it truly enables to be able to deliver 100 metric tons to low earth orbit "cheaply"? A new cooler space station?

To me the real breakthrough would be in making space travel feasible. As it is now the time it takes and the radiation + small debris out there make it seem very distant.

But maybe this could be a step if they could build a space station so large that you could assemble a space ship there and launch from there with all the benefits of fuel savings that would entail? Realistically though there is no money in it until reaching the asteroid belt and mining there comes into reach. That would truly trigger a space age, if something came around that makes that feel within reach.

The things you could easily do with that video if you had a higher res version seeing as the pole is a very distinct color...

All but eliminates would be more accurate but still extremely surprising to me. I can't say I'm a fan of the rising tension in India between Hindus and Muslims stoked on by Modi but they're obviously delivering great results in combatting inequality and lifting people of out poverty.

The most encouraging numbers in there were for sure the decline in the Gini coefficient, most countries see worsening inequality so it's very encouraging to see a nation as large as India being able to combat it.

Tell them to move to yubikey or similar hardware key which is far more secure than any password policy will ever be and vastly more user friendly. Only downside is the intense shame if you manage to lose it.

The key should stick with the user thus not be stored with the computer when not in use. The key isn't harmless of course but it takes a very deliberate targeting and advance knowledge about what it goes to and how it can be used. It's also easy to remote revoke. If you're extra special paranoid you could of course store the key locked at a separate site if you want nuclear codes levels of security.

It is a great game imo, but it's also insanely long and pretty grind heavy. I made it through two of the three disc before I sadly lost my save file in a break in.

I later tried again but only made it to disc 2 before just not being able to stomach the grind :/

My money is on this stalling being so the Truth Social merger goes through and he can loan against his stake there, that or sell shares. The preliminary valuation puts Trumps part of the post-merger company at up to $4 billion, which is absurd but also he does have an extremely specific demographic completely captured over there. It's marketing gold for unscrupulous companies and niche stuff that won't ever sell to city Dems, like truck nuts and tacticool gear.

So much dumb shit has been done under the banner of NFT that I want to disagree but yes, if each ID in your blockchain represents a unique variant of an item, and we want to that to persist then yes NFT would fit the bill as a correct term for it.

NFTs don't need to be limited, they don't need to have transaction fees to move them, they don't need to contain a link to an image and masquerade as if you own that image. All they need to do is prove that you have control of it by virtue of it being in your care. Then that proof confers the ability to use the item it represents in game. For currency you naturally wouldn't use NFTs, though you could if you're adamant you want a more "cash like" experience with change back and all that jazz.

Adding blockchain tech can do a lot of things here actually.

• Reduce amount of ways to be scammed and making trades more straight forward and safe.

Both these are realizable with smart contracts.

• Retain ownership even if the game goes offline

While it of course will lose its value you at least have the mementos available. Of course you either need a service to be up that can show you a visual representation or make a backup of the visual data yourself, but for a culturally important game like EVE that is very unlikely to be an issue

As for transaction fees that is not at all necessary for blockchain/crypto. Especially not a centralized one like would be the reasonable approach here. Sure CCP might want a cut, which they could call a transaction fee, but double dipping would be dumb and just make the whole thing fail.

As for currency value being influenced by external actors sure, that is a risk but also an opportunity. The people playing the game has access to make currency just by playing, people outside need to pay to get it. If anything it would make the amount of bots and miner accounts skyrocket, which might be annoying to players.

As for marketplace without blockchain it requires more trust and I'd argue is harder to realize in a secure manner. Blockchain started out as the next evolution in transaction safe databases, that preserves history, and that is exactly what you want for keeping track of in-game items and currency imo. Crypto as most know it is not all that blockchain is or will be. But equally blockchain can't solve everything like Cryptobros think it can.

Further making their own marketplace might put regulatory crosshairs on them in some markets and also would alienate the large third party marketplaces that are important to the games longevity up until now. Blockchain however could be made to make it easy for them to adapt to the new and make it easier for more sites to pop up and due to the nature of the tech you can build it such that no marketplace operator can easily scam users.

Really I see no issues at all using blockchain tech, and only slight issues with making it a full on, exchange tradeable cryptocurrency, and that's mainly from follow on effects.

I'll add to the group saying things got better by 30. In my case having kids has helped me get my shit together and take better care of myself both physically and mentally.

... I agree it's great but it's exactly what is criticized here. It's the typical bombastic movie epic theme song. It would fit just as well into any Sci-Fi block buster. There is nothing about it that gives away that it's for a game as opposed to a movie or tv-series.

He's such a shit stirrer, the first guy to start chanting "fight fight fight" when ever two people start arguing in public.

No the joke is that this is that sassy but supporting friend saying it. It's a reality check and an opportunity to ask for help from the friend saying it.

Huh, fascinating stuff. Wonder what triggers it

??? Frogs breed super quick and aren't that tricky to breed in captivity? I'd even go so far and say that frog meat should be rather sustainable since they eat insects which we can also breed effectively and they in turn can eat refuse from farming. I also haven't ever seen or heard about the frog being of a particular breed or "wild caught" being part of the allure, nor seen it mentioned in a menu. This whole thing is absurd.

Probably the only type of destruction of art as protest I condone. The piece:

1. Is not very old or culturally/historically important
2. Directly depicts someone at the root of this conflict
3. Was deliberately targeted and the reasons layed out

Trying to destroy unrelated art work is just wasteful of our shared human heritage. Attacking symbols of oppression however is perfectly valid in my opinion and is to me perfectly reasonable escalation when peaceful protests obviously do not bring the changes needed.

I put this on the same level as African Americans attacking statues of confederate generals and other proponents of slavery to hammer home their point.

I wonder if you can make it "green wash" which is forbidden under EU law... Though what I can see the "feature" doesn't seem available where I'm at. Likely because the risk it will do something illegal is too great.