There’s nothing wrong with buying early access games. You as a buyer just need to be happy with the current state of the game at the time of purchase.

Right!? Palworld is just the game players have been begging for for a decade.

Thank goodness someone posted this video. I was about to be very disappointed.

I have no data to back this up, but I seem to find that regions at Northern latitudes tend to have higher rates of alcoholism. I think it has something to do with long winter nights and people being able to find a sense of community in a pub/bar/Ratskeller after the sun goes down at 16:00 for half the year.

The US is much further south than most of Europe AND there are large regions that are very anti-alcohol due to religious reasons.

Conservation of momentum is based on Newton’s first law which states “a body at rest tends to stay at rest” so that would imply A. not B.

Those dudes were just chilling, and would still be laying there chilling.

"If you try to hack a US intelligence or defence agencies and fail, you go to prison.

If you do hack the US intelligence or defence agencies and, you get a job."

My high school comp-sci teacher.

I get this was a competition in this instance though. These guys will certainly have jobs if they want them.

Why wouldn’t he have just stayed in power then? Shown how great he was as a ruler/leader and then chosen his successor in 2024?

It’s exactly what a sitcom is supposed to be. Light watching that’s generally funny. Also if you miss an episode or two here and there it’s easy enough to pick up what’s going on.

This will be an interesting measuring stick to start off the season.

Exactly! He was great at getting press and selling big ideas. He never made his ideas happen, other people did that.

Now with Twitter he’s trying to sell an idea no one cares about. No one was clamouring for the next social media platform.

And no one is looking for an ‘everything app’ either.

He is perceived as such by a large subset of the population.

That’s partly by design, overwhelm the public so they stop believing that it’s all true and they start getting away with some of it.

Separate case from the toilet documents.

and Russia was previously socialist and communist

The current Russian regime uses heavy Anti-Soviet messaging, and demonizes socialism as much as American conservative politics. The USSR wasn’t great for a lot of Russians.

Also they say they don’t like government to control things

I think emphasis here needs to be on “they say”, yet most non-economic policy American conservatives tout (aka the culture wars) is about injecting more government intervention in the day to day lives of Americans. Ex: Christian Prayer in schools, banning books from libraries, anti-drag bills, banning racial-inequality education, anti-gay legislation, the list goes on and on. American conservatives would love as much control over their population as Russia exerts on theirs.

They hate on NPR and call it state sponsored

Which fits their narrative, when in reality NPR only receives around 5% of government funding. They don’t like NPR because they aren’t easily able to be bought due to being largely crowd funded and won’t immediately parrot their talking points. They would love a state funded media company that parroted their talking points which Fox News comfortably does.

If American conservatives actually believed the their talking points then yes they would be vehemently anti-Russian, but they don’t. They’re only pro-power which the Russian government has figured out within their borders.

Why not?

I’m not saying Ukraine should/shouldn’t be in NATO, but if Ukraine was in NATO would Russia have invaded?

Don’t larger military alliance disincentivize violent conflict?

I understand if a conflict were to break out it would be much larger, but we can’t know the extent of the smaller conflicts that have not happened due to the existence of NATO.

From the article:

“The research and analysis is just beginning at Harvard. Loeb is trying to understand if the spherules are artificial or natural.”

So very much what you said, Loeb saying things to grab headlines.