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[–] Bravo@eviltoast.org 0 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

China seems to think it can be friends with everybody.

[–] Bravo@eviltoast.org 1 points 6 hours ago

We could write a book about all the mistakes Marvel made after the Infinity Saga.

[–] Bravo@eviltoast.org 3 points 6 hours ago

The interesting thing is that "Remmick" isn't an Irish surname. It's of German origin, derived from "Roemmich".

It's also worth noting that Remmick doesn't start using an Irish accent nor singing Irish songs until AFTER pretending to be a poor southern blues singer has failed.

[–] Bravo@eviltoast.org 1 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

Ah but you're basing this analysis on competent historical fascists

[–] Bravo@eviltoast.org 2 points 12 hours ago

I suspect Trump will more likely move more of the R&D under the auspices of the USSF (ie the Space Force). He can't claim to have "created" NASA, but the space force is his baby.

[–] Bravo@eviltoast.org 2 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

There is no magic system that will allow us all to live in a world where we don't have to be ever vigilant against corruption. That will ALWAYS be the price of freedom. FOREVER. But we can make it easier on ourselves. Good laws can't solve all our problems, but they can keep them manageable.

[–] Bravo@eviltoast.org -1 points 2 days ago

We all choose makey-uppy things to believe in, through which we interpret the purpose of our own existence. There's no objective reason to be kind to strangers beyond what we can get out of it - there are plenty of billionaires in the world to prove that selfishness and greed is a valid life strategy - but we CHOOSE to BELIEVE in made-up concepts like fairness and love, because it makes most of us happier to live that way. I see no reason to look down my nose at people who choose a few more made-up concepts to believe in than I do. I'm only bothered by the people who are pig-headed about it, incapable of accepting that people believe in different things than they do... and that category includes people who say "faith is idiocy".

[–] Bravo@eviltoast.org 8 points 2 days ago

My personal favorite platform is GOG simply because it offers actual ownership instead of a crippling dependency on their ecosystem. My second favorite is Steam because it has games GOG doesn't. I'm not sure why I would want EGS beyond the free games, which are frequently not of interest to me anyway.

[–] Bravo@eviltoast.org 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (4 children)

"We had been operating relatively conservatively, in how many people we were allowing ourselves to hire and capital expenditures," Romo said. "This will allow us to release a little bit of that conservatism and lean into some stuff like electric propulsion and potentially other vehicles that are going to allow us to grow long-term."

(Emphasis mine)

He said this but then never really elaborated. This was the only part of the article I wanted to read more about. It sounded like he was talking about something akin to the EmDrive, but my understanding was that the EmDrive had been debunked as a measurement calibration error, so I'm curious WTF he's talking about.

[–] Bravo@eviltoast.org 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Yes, 11 was a little too "I'm the Doctor and all I have to do is announce that and the Daleks shit themselves a little". In fact, I miss the Time Lords. I miss the Doctor having people and rules to answer to. They're making the universe revolve around the Doctor a little too much. The Doctor should feel more like a fugitive staying just ahead of their pursuers.

[–] Bravo@eviltoast.org 4 points 3 days ago

Yeah for me the whole point of regeneration is that the Doctor gets a new personality every time, not just a new look and one or two personality quirks. As 10 said, it should be like he dies and another fellow walks away. 12 feels properly different to the others but there's JUST enough continuity (eg his continued affection for River) to also make him feel like he's still the Doctor.

[–] Bravo@eviltoast.org 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

As a mostly liberal American, I just don't know where to begin.

As an Irishman, I would say Ranked Choice Voting. It's not a silver bullet, but it does solve the main problem that prevents the other problems from being solved.

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