People really like to blame outsiders for things, and are willing to believe they both deserve and have been denied everything and can have it on demand, even against all evidence. History and all the concerns that go into policy are actually uninteresting to most voters. Why fascism seems to bubble up in some periods more than others is more of a mystery.

It’s probably a manifestation of something that made evolutionary sense when we lived in small, sovereign bands. In a lot of ways humanity is way out of it’s depth, and we’re doing remarkably well considering.

Stalin is a different beast, FYI. Russia had always been an autocracy, he just happened to be well-placed to be in charge of it’s next incarnation after the revolution.

The real question, I guess, would be how to strike out on my own as a literal child. School was repetitive the first time, and my home life was pretty mid as well.

Funny story, I think I actually had enough savings at that point to live on for a month or two. I was a weird kid.

I’m guessing not admitting your finances are shit is pretty universal, no need to pick on 'Murica.

Hmm. You really wouldn’t miss anything? There’s more risk if you’re visible, but you could theoretically live as a human poacher or forager in some remote place.

I’d be pretty worried about getting caught anyway. A tiger is not small and a tiger killing somebody is not quiet, clean and subtle. Unless this is a suicide mission; having invisibility in a world where nobody’s expecting it could probably get you in a room with anyone.

Visible light is most of the heat in sunlight.

That’s also how the greenhouse effect works - sunlight goes through CO2, infrared from things not at 6000C doesn’t.

That honestly seems like the best way to write conditionalBaptize but I still hate it. Probably because IRL you’d just rewrite baptism instead of retrofitting the function with a clever use of id.

Per the actual wiki, some denominations seem to think it’s a sin or heresy to do someone more than once. Which seems like what the nullification in the baptize function is supposed to capture.

I hope somebody is making Hindenburg comparisons.

as well as calling the bloc out for sluggishness and complex bureaucracy.

Uhh, the German is saying this?

Okay, you can’t just leave it there. Are you spinning and weaving your own textiles? Where does this stuff come from?

That’s the answer. People forget how weird they are because they’re just everywhere (at least in regions like mine).

None? Owning a mummy would be dope, although the storage and care required wouldn’t be.

Since the advent of widespread GPS, a lot less. It’s historically interesting, and is still used as a backup by some ships, but it’s not really necessary the way it was in the age of sail when it became the projection.

Again, if they just want to switch to something more balanced as a default when you just want to point at things on a map, that’s entirely reasonable.

Bump into someone every once in a while, watch as confusion spreads.

It’s not a damn campaign. Activists never seem to be good at nuance.

Like completely, or just as a default?

It’s uniquely the best option if you like using compass bearings.

Yeah, unfortunately there’s way more chance of this farce than of him being Pope.

“It may sound simplistic, but the ultimate indicator of patent quality is how much money a company or institution has spent on protecting its application, including by filing it in many countries,”

That’s kind of an interesting metric. Makes sense, I guess.

I assume it will keep going up. They’re pouring so much money into clean energy tech, and they’re still only doubling what little South Korea is doing.

Why not? It gets clicks, probably mostly panic clicks but that counts, and it’s solid analysis. Maybe there’s ulterior motives, maybe not.

Extra calcium?