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Gotta love people with confidence: "by the end [of this video], there will be nothing left to discuss regarding Star Wars". That's one hell of a lofty goal! I'll need to watch it.

Windows can't be Christianity, it's not fragmented enough. It's either Scientology because it's tightly controlled and without meaningful denominations. Or Buddhism from a very western point of view (i.e. oblivious to the denominations and local variations).

Highest among prosperous nations sure, but if we look to the whole world Korea does not have close to the highest rates of suicide.

Policy makers: "Why won't they have babies?!? We need more babies the whole system will collapse! We must urgently do something! But what? What ever should we do??? We've tried EVERYTHING! We even give them straight cash if they have a kid! This is the greatest mystery of our time!"

The population in nearly perfect unanimous voice: "Work life balance is shit and we can't afford to have kids, neither time wise nor monetarily"

Policy makers: "Such an enigma, truly so mysterious, woe is us, evil evil selfish young people that don't have kids!"

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I think this follows in most nations that the less you have the more likely you are to lean towards the left side of you nations political spectrum. And the more you have the more likely you lean towards the right side. Home ownership is one part of that, a fairly big part given the state of home pricing these days.

Really it's always been about the class struggle, of the have nots vs the haves, rich vs poor, bourgeois vs proletariat, whatever you want to call it. The US has just done a "better" job of muddying the waters and suffocating organized class warfare.

Mainly by instilling that you're not really poor because you're within reach of being a millionaire. The American dream. (Which you need to be asleep to believe in as Carlin put it.).

Though I'm not really holding my breath on people actually waking up to this reality and actually doing something about it. The Circus seems to suffice in the US, and any struggle and violence is directed between marginalized groups. People in declining rural areas "fighting" people from the worst parts of the cities. Middle class suburbians opposing the choices of other middle class suburbians that just want freedom of expression but that somehow limits the first group in ways they can't even articulate when asked. It's madness.

To clarify for the purpose of answering OPs question. The quality will be the same because it's the same code in both cases. But the performance, as in how many FPS, you get will most often differ.

Really cool stuff but I struggle to see what it truly enables to be able to deliver 100 metric tons to low earth orbit "cheaply"? A new cooler space station?

To me the real breakthrough would be in making space travel feasible. As it is now the time it takes and the radiation + small debris out there make it seem very distant.

But maybe this could be a step if they could build a space station so large that you could assemble a space ship there and launch from there with all the benefits of fuel savings that would entail? Realistically though there is no money in it until reaching the asteroid belt and mining there comes into reach. That would truly trigger a space age, if something came around that makes that feel within reach.

The things you could easily do with that video if you had a higher res version seeing as the pole is a very distinct color...

All but eliminates would be more accurate but still extremely surprising to me. I can't say I'm a fan of the rising tension in India between Hindus and Muslims stoked on by Modi but they're obviously delivering great results in combatting inequality and lifting people of out poverty.

The most encouraging numbers in there were for sure the decline in the Gini coefficient, most countries see worsening inequality so it's very encouraging to see a nation as large as India being able to combat it.

Tell them to move to yubikey or similar hardware key which is far more secure than any password policy will ever be and vastly more user friendly. Only downside is the intense shame if you manage to lose it.

The key should stick with the user thus not be stored with the computer when not in use. The key isn't harmless of course but it takes a very deliberate targeting and advance knowledge about what it goes to and how it can be used. It's also easy to remote revoke. If you're extra special paranoid you could of course store the key locked at a separate site if you want nuclear codes levels of security.

It is a great game imo, but it's also insanely long and pretty grind heavy. I made it through two of the three disc before I sadly lost my save file in a break in.

I later tried again but only made it to disc 2 before just not being able to stomach the grind :/

My money is on this stalling being so the Truth Social merger goes through and he can loan against his stake there, that or sell shares. The preliminary valuation puts Trumps part of the post-merger company at up to $4 billion, which is absurd but also he does have an extremely specific demographic completely captured over there. It's marketing gold for unscrupulous companies and niche stuff that won't ever sell to city Dems, like truck nuts and tacticool gear.