NightFantom

A good (not for-profit) criminal justice system is built upon the idea of reintegration. If you 100% cannot reintegrate a(n ex-)criminal, then sure, relieve society from that burden.

EXCEPT that you can never be 100% sure of either guilt nor lack of reintegration, so lifelong internment is the only solution.

To quote Gandalf: “Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends. I have not much hope that Gollum can be cured before he dies, but there is a chance of it.”

I do feel like most people I talk to irl seem to agree that eating less meat is good for everyone, but that’s very local of course, and agreeing and doing it is also not necessarily connected 😅

Modern meat consumption is very disconnected from survival for most people though.

Did you read the comment you replied to?

I have no clue what Pirate Software is (from context it could be a game developer?), but it sounds like they already hint at an alternative solution in the name.

I’ll be impressed if it’s actually algorithm-free, but I get what you mean 😅

If 1, then if not 2, when? And if 1 and 2, then why not 3?

In this paper I will …

Do surgeries count?

And Gaben is taking more gamers to Linux each year 🥳

So that’s why it’s called cumsum?

Not so much cursed as just cool evolution. We can trace nipples producing milk to specialized sweat glands, isn’t that cool?

I believe platypuses (platypi?) and/or echidnas don’t have nipples but instead sweat out milk. Doesn’t that count as milk then?

With no teats, the milk is released through pores in the skin from which the young lap it up in her fur

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platypus -> ecology -> reproduction

Close, but now you come into contact with the atmosphere not actually being the same density (in weight/volume as well as in particles/volume) throughout, but instead gets thinner as you get away from the earth.

For simplicity, assume space is actually empty, and the atmosphere gets thinner linearly up until x kilometers above sea level it’s completely empty. Then the density will also decrease with height, and the helium balloon will eventually find a spot that matches its density, and stop there.

Again there’s so much more to it but as a simplified model this works 😅

Rockets mostly need to fight speed (of the earth revolving around the sun), and indeed in our atmosphere speed means friction, but in space rockets still need a lot of propellant to change their trajectory. As always there’s a relevant xkcd: https://what-if.xkcd.com/58/

The very short answer is that gas pressure is mostly proportional to the amount of particles per volume.

So a balloon filled with helium has X particles per cubic cm, while the air around it has the same amount (instead of getting crushed). But because helium is a lot lighter per particle than standard air, this makes the balloon lighter than air, and like trying to push an air-filled balloon underwater, this helium-filled balloon floats to the higher layers of air, until other smaller forces also start to matter and the balance is restored.

So a “vacuum-filled” balloon has nothing to give counter-pressure, but a balloon filled with helium definitely does.

I like the theory where (one of) the “great filter(s)” is just the likelihood of a technologically advanced civilization emerging from a greedy society is just way more likely than from a complacent society. So at some point some creature somewhere gets some critical mass of tech fueled by greed, this leads to global domination (humans over animals, as well as europeans over their colonies).

Without the greed, there would not have been the technological advantage, but due to this same greed we now have weapons of mass destruction strong enough to wipe any semblance of intelligent life from the planet.

Of course this theory is very black and white (not to mention capitalistic). Perhaps a curious society is also an option to reach technological advantage but not global domination, but would such a society manage to become a Kardashev type I civilization by sharing rather than conquest?

So to directly answer your question: I think it’s likely that someone would have enslaved most of the earth somehow, (which absolutely does not excuse it). It’s surprisingly good that humans on average dislike the idea of slavery and colonisation now, so maybe we can build on top of that a society of curiosity and progress instead of one of war and a (literal) dead end.

Sounds like we need a 14 foot ladder now

Many games with voices also support subtitles, personally I learned most of my English from my parents watching English tv with subs (in our language at first, then when I was a little older English subs)

I have the opposite experience, went to London a while ago and kept noticing most people keep left instead of right like I’m used to.

Yeah but those are different niches. The people that already played 3/3.5 didn’t feel like 4e was for them (and in a way, it wasn’t), so they moved on to pathfinder etc. Some newer players got into dnd with 4e but it alienated the older minmaxer types that liked 3(.5)e. (I have not done any research and this is all gut feeling and 2nd hand accounts by the way). In 5e they struck the right balance to get a kind of 3.5e “light”, that can attract new players as well as satisfy older players, though of course you can’t ever satisfy everyone.

You’re right of course that mirror image and invisibility are super strong spells that don’t benefit from a higher save DC, but the pattern series of spells (of which I consider colour spray the single target version) are still super good.

In the end, don’t forget that “fun” is different for everyone, and with experience you might find yourself wanting to challenge yourself with “suboptimal” choices because it’s more fun to play your first gnome paladin than the tenth halfling rogue.

Oh yeah definitely, game systems are rarely a good implementation outside of the combat. Many DnD games are definitely good (I’ve played neverwinter nights series, baldur’s gate series, dungeons and dragons online), but the real charm in DnD is playing with your friends and having a good time (as well as hyperoptimising your character at the same time, if you like that) (honestly I believe that’s one of the realisations WotC made with 3.5e that led them to make 4e, and subsequently 5e, a lot simpler: making it easier to get your friends into it was more important than having myriads of options for breaking the game)