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If I recall right (and it may not be right lol) it was timing as well as how many other populations there were. I think the initial discovery and research made some assumptions that what they found was the only people around and that it was a sudden disaster. Just like now we think that the dinosaurs were already suffering for various reasons and the asteroid was just a final push towards extinction over time.

Unless global heating is reduced to 1.2C

If we plateaued right now and did everything possible to draw CO2 out of the atmosphere and oceans, it would probably take a few thousand years to get back down. The reasoning - we weren’t the main CO2 contributor, we just were the extra catalyst to throw things off to begin the acceleration up. So now that things are off balance and feedbacks are kicking in, how can we reverse what we put into the environment AND counter the extra feedback outputs? It’s like trying to stop the boulder that was easy to push onto the hill slope.

There’s other recent research that counters this idea. It’s still uncertain. Humans have dipped low before, just probably not levels rivals animals like the cheetah, otherwise we’d show the same genetic issues they have due to the inbreeding of the survivors.

I don’t have a reference to it at the moment, so it’s a “trust me” scenario, but what I found then was through googling (because I used to be convinced of the bottleneck), so it’s out there.

Yes, her website with a list of policies was definitely hidden well. /s

No, the real problem was she decided that veering back to center/right to attract conservative D/R voters who weren’t going to vote for her anyway, rather than stay more progressive. Part of that was the Gaza position, which is what most non-voters claim decided their actions. Democrat election losses are always ones they decide to lose because they go the wrong direction. They’re very good at it.

I would suggest that all major crashes happen in part because no one wants to be the first to pull out of the corruption and lose money while everyone else keeps gaining. So it’s a constant race until something actually breaks, and then it’s a mad scramble to get out of the house on fire.

Basically, if everyone was (or was forced to) be honest, they would see the signs early and act to avoid crashing it all. But they aren’t, so they don’t.

That’s a simplistic take on it, but the short is that the experts in the financial world see what’s happening, know it can’t end well, but they choose to try and profit while they can, hoping they’ll get theirs first.

Hell, it’s just like anyone who deals with Trump. Knowing full well how many people get burned from being associated, but they always think that it will be different for them and they’ll be fine.

4 foot 10. People are saying…

The US was playing the isolationist card until we got brought into the mess personally, but isn’t that usually how things are? Didn’t Canada go early on because they were part of the Empire still? The US was still needed even if it was late to the party, Churchill himself hinted in his Fight on the Beaches speech about “until, in God’s good time, the New World, with all its power and might, steps forth to the rescue and the liberation of the old.”

If systems that run Linux were to power down, that’s it for almost all of the internet.

See if it will run Doom. Safety settings on, of course.

Then Bad Apple in full realism mode.

A hard choice, so many of them have been well done in media and text.

If I had to make a choice I would pick versions that match up with what we think could be possible. And that means anything based on or similar to the Alcubierre drive theory. The “slower” travel around a system in Elite Dangerous uses this idea of moving the space the ship is in faster than light, avoiding any relativity issues. Stephen Baxter’s “Flood” and “Ark” novels (mainly Ark) use this idea and his descriptions of what it looks like from inside and departure/arrival are fantastic and not intuitive (Elite Dangerous gets the leaving right, but not the arrival maybe because it would look weird). When the ship arrives it would suddenly appear from nowhere, but then its virtual image would move away into a point as the light catches up.

For a great video of it, here’s a wonderful collection of potential future interstellar ships with the Alcubierre drive as the final solution to .

So that’s what Idaho’s been missing.

They did this already with Excel, and broke a lot of macros. Also changed how it could use IE for automation, and of course there’s no way to convert it to Edge. If Microsoft didn’t have 99% of the business world already tied up in their stuff they’d go out of business soon for the stupid things they break of their own products.

He was right about getting tired of the winning.

The rebalancing ignores what population growth does to the ratio - each representative is responsible for more and more constituents over time. It’s just like teacher to student ratio, the higher the number the less effective they are at the job. The physical logistics of having a building that can’t seat a realistic number of representatives is something that could be figured out, especially with today’s tech.

David Pakman, Keith Edwards, Secular Talk , Meidas Touch. Watch a few of these and I’m sure your feed with be full of others (Youtube tends to get a bit too crazy if you watch more than one of a subject).

If you have video I can estimate the size and shape of the piece. Of LEGO.

A few of the YT channels doing political news have shown how much of this mess is created propaganda to use for clips for MAGA to show the “danger” and how manly and awesome ICE is “protecting” the country.

Likely he’s going to get a conviction either way, so might as well make them fight for it and hopefully piss off people on the right for him resisting and what he’s saying, and on the left for the kangaroo court.

#2 and #3 circle back to #1 really, and #1 is thanks to advances in medicine but also hugely by the invention of fertilizer based on… petroleum. New time traveler quest unlocked: go back to the Carboniferous period and unleash microbes to decay things faster.

The whole subject of colonial economics and such is very complex, so I’ll just say that your point does sound valid, I just don’t know if that alone would be enough. But one thing you did raise, how morality wasn’t the main factor… so really most everyone back then were assholes when it came to different races. Which supports my point that overcoming that would take far more than a few leaders casting away their slaves, and like I said, we still have racism issues in the damn 21st century where things ought to be so much better logically.

Maybe humans just suck collectively.