It’s a pretty clunky, but I don’t think you understood the post, as I don’t think it’s intended to be pro Russian.

1: Someone says we should support Russia and oppose western imperialism

2. Someone else asks what Russia is doing to oppose imperialism

3. Smash cut to Putin telling Ukraine (and presumably everyone else) that he will invade them as long as they’re not in NATO (showing that Russia is imperialistic)

4. Ukraine says ok and asks US for money and weapons

5. US says OK as long as Ukraine give the US their (Ukraine or Russia?) oil.

It’s a jumble of a bunch of memes, and the last one just feels inaccurate given that the war has cutoff Russian oil supplies (though with the knock on effect of driving up the price of US oil and enriching US oil companies). More importantly this war really does not seem to be about oil in the way that every middle east and African conflict has been. It really seems to be more a proxy war to try and stop Russian (and Chinese) military aggression. But the overall point that the US is giving Ukraine money to further their own interests is accurate, and I don’t think this was meant to be pro Russian given that it attacks Putin for being imperialistic.

More just meant to try and describe the current geopolitical situation through meme mushing.

Allow them and if Russia strikes the West then have NATO impose a no fly zone over Ukraine and see how far Russia gets.

Honestly, what is the alternative? Allow Russia to take any territory it wants? It’s fucking absurd to listen to their bluster. At this point it seems literally no different than attempts to appease Hitler.

I would generally agree with you about the main macro plot beats in Dishonored 1 and leading into 2, but I would still argue that the writing is quite good overall.

In Dishonoured 1, you still have Daud’s storyline which I found a bit more interesting on a macro level (both in the main game and both expansions), but then I would also argue that the Dishonored series has great micro writing which is a large part of the world building and the fun of exploration.

They both know how to write good little interesting world building hooks and stories, and how to pace them out and not overload you with junk documents and writing.

The Outer Wilds, Bioshock, Subnautica, Remedy Games (Alan Wake, Quantum Break, Control, etc.), Obsidian (New Vegas, Outer Worlds, Grounded, etc.), are all masters of rewarding you with more story and world building.

Conversely studios like Bethesda (Starfield, Skyrim, etc.), and Ubisoft (all their RPGs), are pretty bad about trying to make the world seem realistic at the expense of having a ton of just hastily written uninteresting documents around that bore you as much reading real world documents at random would.

And while I would put games like Cyperbunk and the Witcher and even Deathloop, somewhere in-between, I would put all the Dishonoreds and Prey right up there at the top with the best.

In that vein, if anyone likes well written, story driven, stealth / action / immersive sim games, the Dishonored series & Prey (same devs, different universe) are incredibly worth going back for.

Made by former Bioshock / System shock developers, and they’re just some of my all time favourite games, and I only played them because of all the time I suddenly had with the COVID lockdown, but they hold up incredibly well. Dishonored 1 (2012) honestly feels and looks better than Dishonored 2 (2016) because of the Xbox’s auto HDR and auto FPS boost, but both are super fun and gorgeous games.

No, it’s focusing the conversation.

We’re talking about the relative pain of cutting off Chinese imports or getting into a trade war with them. In that context, the fact that we import far more from them then we produce domestically compared with decades ago means that it will be more painful to do so now than it would have been decades ago.

The reality is that while there is a tiny ‘buy American’ push from some people, the vast majority of the American economy and regulations are setup to allow private capital to trade freely abroad and import at will. And it was done intentionally so that rich people could benefit from cheap overseas labour, furthering wealth inequality when middle class factory workers lost their jobs to increase corporate profits with cheaper overseas factories.

The series of free trade agreements the US negotiated with everyone they could would say otherwise.

If you’re producing less per capita, and consuming more per capita, you’re producing less overall for the purposes of the discussion around relative pain of cutting off Chinese imports.

You’re not wrong about timeline, but it is net positive in the lab: https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/08/physicists-achieve-fusion-net-energy-gain-for-second-time/

The sun is basically just so big that the gravity of all of its outer stuff compresses its inner stuff so much that the atoms of its inner stuff fuse together. When they do, they release an enormous of amount of energy, which is what we experience as the flaming hot sun. This type of reaction, where the nucleuses of two atoms fuse together, is called a nuclear fusion reaction.

In that scene, with Doc Ock, he’s talking about building a nuclear fusion reactor, a device that can create that kind of atomic fusing here on earth and collect the power from it. That device would be mimicking the sun by doing one of the things that otherwise only the sun does in our solar system, fuse atoms together.

If we can develop and build fusion reactors, it’s long been seen as a holy grail of energy production. The reaction releases a ridiculous amount of energy with basically no byproducts and doesn’t require any kind of nuclear or unsafe fuel (and requires 4x less mass of fuel compared to traditional nuclear, and 4 million times less than oil or coal).

That being said, it is extremely challenging to recreate the pressures and temperatures that are inside the sun and necessary for fusion. Right now there is a giant reactor being built in Europe that uses insanely powerful magnetic fields (ITER), and in the US there’s a facility that is using lasers to do it (NIF).

Both are promising first steps, but both are decades away from being able to build an actual practical reactor that we could connect to our grid and rely on.

The tunnel will have to be waterproof no matter where we build it, and there are lots of tunnels in the world directly under rivers / lakes, it’s one of the main reasons to build a tunnel.

It has not been started in any serious way. There is basically no incentive to manufacture most goods in the US.

So fucking stupid.

First of all, if you’re going to bury a highway, bury the Gardiner, and built a high capacity subway alongside it running the entire length of the lake. It would connect Union, the Ontario Line’s ex station, and provide robust public transit along a major East West route that doesn’t have it, both out to the beaches and to south Etobicoke.

You could then sell literally all the land that the Gardiner is on for development to pay for it.

Why would you stack another highway, under our existing highway? And why would you potentially build an East West train literally next to the Eglinton LRT?

You literally can, it’s called construction.

Bruh, that’s been the case for literally the entirety of human history. In fact, way closer.

Given how humans evolved, it’s much crazier that so many people move hundreds and thousands of miles away from their families and support systems.

Oh no, it would force us to fix our economy, how awful!

Dear Saskatchewan, present a different plan for lowering emissions the same amount or shut. The. Fuck. Up.

Everything is a bell curve.

Take them to small claims court. Make them show up.

Jedi Survivor is a shockingly good game, so excited for a third one, but sad to hear that the director has left, but then again the rest of Respawn has seemed pretty consistently talented, but he left partly because he felt it was better working with a smaller team during early Respawn which could indicate Respawn is growing too big and bureaucratic like has happened to so many talented studios before it, but the wall running in Titanfall predated him … :S

The idea that most bathing throughout human history has been inherently communal is kind of absurd on its face.

It’s not like every single whole town or tribe would go to the same spot on the same river at the same time to bathe. Communal bathing may be common amongst some cultures and peoples but the mass communal bathing of the Roman, Victorian, and modernish ages was driven by necessity once you had too many people cramped into too little space, and there were also huge health implications from that lack of hygiene.

I also really do not trust the author napkin math about how much energy Roman baths used, nor does he even establish that household showering is a significant water or energy use compared to wasteful industry.