SeeingRed [he/him]

It was always projection. It’s honestly comical how often that is the case.

It is definitely heavier on the tower defense side. I also usually turn biters off in Factorio, but I found that Mindustry to be well balanced between the logistics and tower defense aspects. You have to build up both constantly, unlike Factorio where you just over build defense and then wait for that to fail before thinking about it again. In Factorio, defense is a nuisance mostly, but Mindustry it’s integral to the gameplay loop. Not sure if that answers it for you. I don’t think I’d recommend it unless you wanted that aspect of the game.

Mostly I play factory management style games. Top 3 being Factorio, Dyson Sphere Program, and Mindustry. Though they’ve been more mental effort than Ive been able to muster recently.

Then I am also playing Last Epoch as a co-op game because it’s been a way to connect with an old friend from school (since we live in different cities it’s hard to connect in person).

So nothing too exciting or new.

From what I’ve seen, the electric cost is actually only a small component, the building, specialized hardware, maintenance and labour make up the majority of the bill for most vertical farming operations.

Further, it’s a matter of how much energy density you need within a given volume compared to the available roof surface. Most plants don’t need full sun, but you might only be able to supply 2-4 times the roof area as internal grow area (when accounting for efficiency losses and the needs of the plants). You would need to provide the majority of the grow area with LED lights anyway. So it might not be worth the resources/labour costs. Though it might be a good supplemental supply of photons.

The only real use case I can see for vertical farming is providing fresh produce nearer to urban centres, or if there is an acute shortage of land, otherwise passive greenhouses (with supplemental lighting and heating if needed) are generally a better use of resources. Specialized produce is another use case, but it seems that we need a lot more research to make it a viable option at scale.

A question of where the energy comes from is also important, solar panels in a desert/on roof tops is good, but if they replace a farm field it’s pointless. Wind, nuclear, hydro are good options.

I’m definitely curious to see how the field grows within the context of China and socialism more broadly. Many of the constraints in current implementations are only important when the only consideration is profit.

Edit: read the article, they have some really interesting use cases in their facility beyond what I could imagine.

This article is a shotgun of bad faith arguments and easily debunked propaganda. Feels like it was written by a bot that was just fed on western news. No original thoughts in the article, it’s just a summary of every propaganda point I’ve heard in the last few years.

Honestly, it could be a good starting point for a list of common propaganda talking points and their counter arguments. I don’t think I’ve seen such high density before.

The whole article relies on the reader already accepting every point it makes as fundamentally true, kind of like a political speech in the west. Responding to this sort of piece requires significantly more effort than it took to make the article.

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This is a great resource. Definitely saving this for later.

It’s interesting to see the World Bank data with increasing share of income for the poorest segments of their society.

The data older than 2010 though shows the trends were not always so positive. Glad to see that they were able to make a turnabout and are on a good pathway right now. Long way to go, but their plans have paid off and things are on the up.

The only thing I could think of would be him trying to get Ben’s visa revoked. China has pretty strict non-criminal record requirements on their visas (at least on work visa, not sure about other types).

It’s incredible and depressing how the “no difference” category has shrunk over time. Shows at least the poll takers are unable to see any alternatives.

Goodbye Petrodollar, history will not miss you.

It’s a ways to go still, but this is a promising sign.