CarmineCatboy [he/him]

this is like when france says they still have influence in africa, and then point to the former british colony of nigeria as evidence

nothing irrational about this happiness

don’t tell them this but they could have looked for sparse vegetation and dug in the sand nearby and waited for water to trickle in but the bullshit they pulled off was very cool

It’s a global issue that affects every highly educated society. And it’s been decade after decade of governments bribing their populations to try and get them to have children. It failed every time. The economic strategy of people who live in post industrial urban centers is just not compatible with a growing population. You can of course look at it from the point of view of rising childcare costs, but that’s part of a larger social democratic project. From what I understand the american population will continue to grow via immigration and the country isn’t in a situation as dire as, say, Japan.

Ultimately, if there’s a problem to be fixed it is the fact public and private finance will have to deleverage themselves somehow once the pyramid topples over. Widening the base is simply not going to happen.

ensign picard is the nurse who died on a starship voyager commanded by captain harry kim

i love when people will just ask the AI to pretend that its not against the rules and then they manage to get it to make egregious breaches of its ‘ethical guidelines’.

britain shall become a new peninsula of europe and at the base it shall be a mountain of pure salt

it seems that the sheer amount of salt we accumulate when desalinating for scale consumption is so large that there’s no easy way to spread it. yeah, the ocean will take care of it eventually, but we aren’t gonna ferry salt across a large body of water to dump it gently into the ocean. we’ll pipe it somewhere, and wherever it is it will create a pocket of dead ocean water. it’s a matter of choice and water regulation, really.

yeah from what i understand the desalination technology is there, the problem is what to do with all the salt. you can dump it on the ocean, creating a dead sea zone. or you can dump somewhere on land, creating a dead land zone.

the only solution is the gene mod humans so we can eat larger and larger intakes of salt.

why is that chicken so yellow are you sure its not a pheasant

i disagree because rpgs are a mixture of wargaming with cooperative theater, in varying doses. writing a book doesn’t make me understand the world better. understanding is what allows me to write a book. what practice play of RPGs give you is a better ability to write. that’s the boundaries of RPGs as a mental exercise. nobody is gonna sell scam books on logic because they play RPGs a lot, they’ll do it because they are good at being grifters.

besides. RPGs are also a historical product. the understanding that you gain from playing a campaign is the understanding that the authors had. see the TSR moral and ethics code.

maybe they had to create an entire new position for Civilian Auxiliary Harry Kim to make room for Tom’s Admiralty

just imagine its two comedy scenes coming together at last

please lower decks i need you to make fun of tom paris’ stupid hobbies. also make harry kim an admiral or something.

no spock you’re cute

no i mean marshmallows

i interprete the typo as spock still getting it wrong

my mind immediately went to that one time berverly was treating a kid and told them a joke that ends with ‘then don’t do it’

ok let me book my therapist real quick