Where’s the AI artwork?

People of Color Aren’t Invited

Many are of Asian descent—a reflection of the strong presence of Asian talent in global tech

This is something I really have an issue with: they’re trying to paint it as a race thing when it’s a wealth/class thing.

They’re trying to frame it like they hate anyone non-White while I’m willing to bet good money they have nobody, White or otherwise, from places like the Deep South/other poorer places in the US, and it’s just that Latin & Black people are more likely to come from less privileged backgrounds for historical reasons than White/Asian people.

That’s not to say that racism doesn’t exist, it’s just to say that it’s definitely not the biggest factor here. Don’t buy into corporations trying to divide the working class by race, when it’s so obviously a class struggle.

yep, that would pass the criteria

Plausibly it’s trying to minimise land area with some degree of contiguity so it’s not just picking random cities though. India’s economy isn’t much bigger than the 5th or 6th economy while having substantially more territory and population.

Very good point, but oxygen is very abundant and you’ll more than likely already have oxygen generators with a level of redundancy, or be in an atmosphere with oxygen.

Also for load balancing you could constantly be splitting water into hydrogen and oxygen, then react them back into water when you need a large amount of energy at once as an alternative to electrical batteries which degrades less over time, if heat is all you want at least.

All I’m saying is there’s so many applications that we’re never going to get to a level of 0.

The problem is time.

You’re just considering human spaceflight. Keeping humans alive and equally importantly sane for years is very different to sending a probe somewhere, and we’ve been getting better at the latter

The Greens also have a terrible name, they’re a left wing party that don’t particularly care about environmental issues. Meanwhile the Lib Dems just stand for whatever the government doesn’t, which changes depending on who’s in power.

Nope.

I love induction hobs, electric cars & planes, xenon spacecraft and all that, but even if we get to interstellar travel, there’s going to be a frontier where people are going to be using the lowest maintenance, easiest way to generate immediate heat, even if it’s from solar/fusion powered hydrogen or ethanol generators. It’s just a lot easier to store and release small but much larger than instantaneous generation amounts of energy as flammable substances than in batteries or pumped storage or whatever else.

If we don’t get to interstellar travel, I expect we’ll still have the same in remote regions on earth/our solar system.

Burning things for heat is never going away as long as humans are around, there’s always going to be someone “off-grid” which means you’re more than likely gonna be burning something for cooking and warmth (ie heat)

Unclear, but somewhere between 1865 and 1875, which makes it right around half the age of my parents’ house

there’s a gap on both, just in different places and you can get from one to the other just by sliding. The constraints are elsewhere so wouldn’t allow you to twist.

It is a different definition, but it’s the same unit… it’s also more like saying “that ball of yarn is 10 metres” - the ball itself isn’t 10 metres long in any dimension, but the meaning is clear given the context, as it would if you said “it’s 0.05 metres”. By having two meanings distinguishable by context, it seems like two definitions to me.

Does that mean fudging rolls is basically the RPG equivalent of “mining off camera”?

Hey, sometimes they like to overthrow a beloved monarchy and install a dictatorship, just to spice things up every so often

Infected road rash all up your right arm is so much worse too, and I imagine there’s probably worse things than that once you get into spinal pain

It kind of disappoints me that Wales ruins the standard:flag system in the Home Nations though, if they were to be included in the Union Flag I’d want to see it be the St. David’s Cross with the dragon going on the Royal Standard where France used to be

It’s around $2.35 in the UK at the moment and that’s the lowest I can remember it being for about 15 years

There’s “everything goes exactly as planned until one player derails the whole session unhindered by rolls or turns” rules-light and “let things flow more naturally and allow things outside the rules if everyone thinks they add to the story” rules-light though…

Personally I much prefer the presence of rules which can be followed if convenient or desired, or ignored if you’d rather, but it is also equally valid to want to do collaborative storytelling/investigation without being derailed by bad rolls, I just know that dealing with setbacks and things not going to plan (which is different to things not succeeding in a pre-planned manner, but again equally valid, along with everything going well if you’d rather) is probably my favourite part

everyone and their dog has texts come up on their wrist… texts can also be read a lot more discretely than picking up a phone call

That said, some things do warrant a phone call, it’s just very specific situations

Because he’s not been in public-facing power (ie in the cabinet), and being in power is awful for approval ratings as a lot of the time there’s no good decisions and things you’ve had no influence over still turn the people against you.

You remember while walking out of the front door, but tell yourself it’s too much effort to go back and get them, only to regret forgetting them and not going back for them while it was easy right?