I mean, technically there is a past president who would have, but I know that’s not what you mean

well no, there just arent any wind turbines as far as I remember. No solar either

I mean, theres geothermal

Satisfactory is a weird game where coal and oil are renewable, but trees, as far as I’m aware, are not.

Back when computers were nowhere near capable of teaching kids, one can handwave away issues with the tech by saying “when the tech is ready to do this, it will be great” essentially. When the tech is at the point where it can sort of do something, but not do it well, one instead imagines how badly things might go if one tried the notion right now instead of at whatever point in the future the technology is good enough to actually do a good job.

I mean, It has partially worked, information is more accessible than it would be if you had to go find a library and search through a ton of book that may or may not even have what youre looking for, or had to try to find someone who knew something or had some skill that you wanted to learn. And it has brought together people across distance, consider the number of online communities and subcultures whos members live in far-removed places, some of whom might be in fairly small towns or rural areas that just wouldnt have enough people of a particular interest to even have a branch of that community there. And it does also reduce the monopoly on dissemination of news and information that traditional media outlets and governments used to share. Its just, the predictions didnt also take into account that it would increase the ease of spreading false information either, or that not all debates have an answer that is obvious to everyone if only they are presented certain info, or that people wont want to talk to everyone and will instead choose to talk to those they find commonality with even given the means to talk to people they dont.

I mean, do the democrats have any power to stop them from using that label? Like, sure, they could make a point of always calling them something else, but if they always use that term to describe themselves, then it will end up in the public consciousness anyway even if only from people asking what they mean by it.

I don’t think the racism is anything inherit in the word so much as it was historically used with derogatory intent, which means that going forward, at least until the memory of that disappears from the culture, using it puts the recipient in the position of having to figure out if you hold ill will against them or not. As racist people can be violent, getting the answer wrong is risky, so this dilemma causes them undue distress that could have been avoided by using some other word that doesn’t have that association, which itself makes using the term instead of an alternative while knowing about the association possible evidence of hostility.

That is to imply, all that has to happen for something to become a slur is for people to use it as a slur widely enough, that has happened with “jap”, but hasn’t with something like “finn”.

Honestly, I’m slightly skeptical of that. The man is old, and his health already appears to be visibly starting to degrade a little. That doesn’t necessarily mean he’ll be dead in 4 years, but barring some medical breakthrough on reversing aging in the next couple years, I suspect he probably won’t be in good enough shape to campaign by then. Plus, it would be much more difficult for him to win the nomination in such a case. He’s got a cult following that would help, but the republicans also want to win, and if he loses this, that will be 2 elections in a row, almost a decade, that they’ll have lost the white house with him on the ticket.

The bigger issue is that his “deny losing elections and actively court bigots while saying whatever inflammatory thing he can to stay in the news” strategy will probably get picked up by whoever replaces him.

Its the “c” in the text portion

Well, I’ve been losing sleep and having anxiety attacks over the possibility that he might worm his way back into office again, so no sympathy

I seem to recall some poll suggesting that Harris was doing better than typical for the dems with seniors, so Im guessing they were probably referring to what remains of the generation before Boomers

I have, that’s why I said this kind of stuff to instead of this in particular, I was referring to all of it pretty much

That does kinda depend on the nature of the dystopia to be fair. Like, the ones that are just “a stratified society where the poor live in the dirt”, or “an authoritarian regime”, sure, but some dystopian fiction relies on tech that doesnt even exist to run.

disease might be a particular issue beyond just that. Last thing you want is to give the past COVID or modern strains of the flu or whatever else, and in reverse, you dont want to bring back smallpox

Not to mention that, being a decently sizable country, making them is really more a matter of motivation to put in the resources and deal with the diplomatic effects than it is capacity ultimately. Like, North Korea was able to build them with a fraction of the population and economy and as even more of a pariah state, the technology has existed for just about 80 years at this point and while details of the specifics are secret, the basic gist of what they require is well known. Basically any country that isnt a microstate probably could build a few eventually, if they really wanted to spend all the money

Not authentic then, like why a replica of a classic car isn’t valued as much as an original one even if you built it to the exact same design schematics.

You would think Israel, of all countries, ought to know how blatantly evil this kind of stuff looks.

While I do agree, I also find that even though I find VR a lot more intense and enjoyable than any flat screen game I’ve played, I also only rarely use mine even still. There’s something about it that seems to make it a hassle to use casually somehow, between actually getting the headset straps feeling comfortable, getting the passthrough cables plugged, launching driver programs on both the pc and the headset just to get to steamvr. It’s not a problem at all if I’m feeling specifically like doing VR stuff for a couple hours as it doesn’t take that long, but if I’m recently home from work and want to just chill for a bit without really knowing what, even that inconvenience means that the VR stuff basically never gets used for me.

My current VR headset feels a lot more polished than my previous, older one, or previous experience with earlier devices owned by people I was visiting, and admittedly I bet it’s probably a bit smoother on standalone than on pc passthrough like I go for, but I feel like to really take off, putting it on is going to need to not feel like setting up a printer whilst wearing a box on your head.

To them it probably means “people who don’t let anybody else know they’re gay or publicly defend the LGBTQ community, so that we can pretend gay people are really rare and don’t exist around us”