But a society that does just resource extraction won’t outperform a society that does research and engineering. It all kinda plays into everything else

Also, I’d argue, because reality isn’t a zero-sum game. We simply earn more by working together and helping each other, and so more altruistic societies are more resilient. Over time this might average out into morally better societies winning out more than they lose out

That doesn’t mean they can’t lose out, though

Well, I mean, I consider owning a studio apartment to be wealthy so…

I think they are joking that redistributing their wealth and abolishing billionaires is centrist. Or rather, should be, and that murdering them all is the slightly more radical alternative.

And honestly, yeah, why is it acceptable, at all, for a few select individuals to have such massive fucking amounts of wealth, and not just that, but have that be like… the “medium”/centrist opinion? That’s completely absurd. It should be in the realm of neofeudalism or neomonarchism. A far far right wing joke of an opinion.

That looks awesome ngl

You’d think one of the most successful predators of the animal kingdom would know not to eat random plants

But what so I know, I’m not a cat

The original owners retained full creative control though. It would have been fine if Krafton didn’t try to fuck them over

And for the steel engine you’d need an advanced forge as well as the raw minerals with sufficient purity. As well as either coal or tons of wood

I mean, sure, but you can also synthesize plastic bags from alcohol (ethanol -> ethylene -> polyethylene). There’s a lot that changes inside chemistry

I won’t know if the therapist is doing a good job considering it’s a real threat for old Steve…

Trump is making an excellent case for investing far more into renewables and phasing out oil, at least for energy

Something that I would have said was obvious for decades, that renewables is a matter of national security almost, but you know, people are stubborn

It’s not enjoyable to play at low fps though? I don’t get it

Everything is political

And FOSS is explicitly political. It’s open-source free software. What do you think it is? It doesn’t exist in a vacuum

I’m sorry, but you’re being so obnoxious here. If you’re that upset why not just block a person and move on?

It’s not even targeted at me and I’m getting annoyed

For you first paragraph I mean, fair, I guess I had an inexplicit assumption that you’re gonna vet the creator/know them (like, say, from social media). Ofc it doesn’t guarantee everything but. Maybe I shouldn’t have said “I don’t see how”, it’s strong wording. I know sex workers irl so it’s them I had in mind.

But still, yes, you’re right, things are, as usual, always a bit of a mess in our world.

Look, it was just a dumb throwaway comment, don’t overthink it

The oligarchs can rot in hell for all I care. True power comes from the people

We very much don’t no, so saying it again today would also be funny without taking the steps to make that the reality

I find a lot of today’s leaders very “funny”

Unfortunately, as much as it sucks to say, there’s no way he won’t be haunted by the war for the rest of his life. I hope he will be able to relax one day, but…

That’s… a very small part of native Americans. Not to mention region specific. Though admittedly I know little about them

Burden of proof, generally