I didn’t know this was a thing. Thank fuck it is because I’ve been doing this manually for years.

For me it’s time travel. So many times you’ll see science fiction openly doing paradoxes and causing time wars. Star Trek and Doctor Who are the biggest offenders of this. SG1 had an episode or two with it.

If you attempt to cause a paradox without traveling to another universe (99% of the case in SF), you will fail before you create the paradox. Take the example of killing Hitler. You can’t do it, because you’ve already failed in the past, or at least, your future self failed to do so, which caused your present self to make the attempt. So in the process of the attempt you will fail no matter what you attempt to do. Maybe you get stopped by some guards. Maybe he ducks at the last minute. Maybe your time machine crash lands. At best, you can observe and cause things that you didn’t notice or correlate to the present.

If you do the “oh it’s a different universe” thing, I tend to see that as just a cop out and lazy writing. And it’s rather boring to. What stakes can there possibly be if you can just hop to a universe in which XYZ happened/didn’t happen?

No it isn’t

“I’d rather publicly expose myself in the public parking lot than allow people to mind their own business. It’s those evil wokists that are the real problem and exposing their genitals to kids”.

The best part about my project but was is that on mobile or with that you can just breed a dog whistle take random keyboard suggestions.

Piss on carpet.

I thought this was an onion article at first.

Fuck this place.

That is true. But we now have consumer drones that are very easily weaponized. The guards don’t need to be human, but neither do the attackers.

And there’s a limit to how good human/nonhuman security can be.

Gonna stray a bit from the other games mentioned here for the sake of adding something unique.

It’s not your traditional nazis per say, but the half life series fits quite nicely with this urge. The combine are genocidal, totalitarian, they use shit loads of propaganda, etc. They don’t have the looks of it, but they’re clearly the nazi type.

Surely this will make groceries more affordable.

It doesn’t need to be sudden. It’s a fucking problem.

I hope it’s effective.

Because it’s fucking stupid.

He makes the ferengi look generous and benevolent.

This isn’t gonna make eggs cheaper.

Do you have an actual argument, or are you just giving up? Because that in no way rebuts anything I said.

The native americans had lots of contracts and agreements with the U.S. government. It didn’t mean shit, and the government was still tyrannical.

A contract is meaningless when corporations can:

• bulldoze any citizen they like with legal teams
• force people to have go through arbitration
• delay and deny claims to demoralize claimants even if they have a valid claim
• use AIs that deny cases for the sake of it

They wield what is essentially unchecked and arbitrary power to the detriment of the people. It is cruel. It is oppressive. It fits the definition of tyranny easily.

Shit, I did a double take seeing your name. It’s good to see you here on lemmy.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-31558-z

The albedo decease from urbanization in 2018 relative to 2001 has yielded a 100-year average annual global warming of 0.00014 [0.00008, 0.00021] °C. Without proper mitigation, future urbanization in 2050 relative to 2018 and that in 2100 relative to 2018 under the intermediate emission scenario (SSP2-4.5) would yield a 100-year average warming effect of 0.00107 [0.00057,0.00179] °C and 0.00152 [0.00078,0.00259] °C, respectively, through altering the Earth’s albedo.

The albedo does have an effect, but not much of one. If we were to supplement every household with the ~30% solar power this article suggests, it would be a massive improvement and far outweigh the costs of the albedo.

Let’s hope. But as we all know truth is financially dictated in our “justice” system, so it is a gamble.