Chasing the dragon again eh

Very nice to see it being prebuilt for us to play with. That'll save a decent amount of hassle. :)

This probably isn't the progressive answer you'd expect, but perhaps under a centuries old definition of progressive: weighted technocracy. People vote only in the field of their own expertise, and leave all other issues to those who have expertise. It is a sort of direct democracy with votes weighted by credentials.

Unfortunately you need an insane amount of checks and balances to make it work without power becoming overly concentrated in a Soviet style steering committee.

Cyteen, by CJ Cherryh, explores this well in a fictional context.

There is a world where Plasma release announcements are gaming news. And we are in that world. Never would have dreamed it.

Well, you kind of can actually. It just replaces KWin

Loved the first book and then stopped. Very fun and some interesting concepts too :)

Does links count? ;)

links --gui

Or old school Konqueror.

I use Firefox on my phone, and Chrome on my work computer.

Canada only has appointed judges, and their appointments are almost uniformly meritorious. It's so much better than elected judges and keeps politics out of the Rule of Law. I think Mexico is making a mistake here. But perhaps it suits their specific needs.

The coastline there is receding, due to isostatic rebound. Actually this is true of most of the north. It's ironic in the context of global warming that sea level rise won't affect the north much as it melts.

This sounds like the sort of infrastructure project the Linux Foundation should be supporting.

We should also be able to see their eyes and mouths, no? ;)

It's easy once you realize that it's talking about the river -- the water flows from uphill to downhill. Quebec is downhill of Ontario.

I don't think fishing was the activity that the game was missing. But sure, why not haha 😂

They're slowly laying the groundwork for EU5 being released. And that means slowly end-of-lifing EU4. I expect to see more and more DLC moved slowly into the core to keep people buying EU4 for a year or two.

Mods like Anbennar are doing more to keep EU4 alive than Paradox is, at this point.

No but I have an expired bottle of T3s from a wisdom tooth extraction a decade ago. What could possibly go wrong?

The original sound is indeed from the spacecraft -- it's taken from the mission control recording. However, the filter is entirely fabricated.

I try to trim them, unless on my phone

It's so weird to see these maps of Europe. Like, all these different overlapping not quite national organizations...

EU, ESA, CERN, Eurozone, Schengen... There's probably dozens of them haha.

No problem. We will solve our housing crisis by building everything out of concrete then -- an even higher emitter.

Unrelated to the other question: any geoguesser?

My best guess is Kluane Lake, Alaska Highway through the Yukon. But Google Street view says there is more taiga there.

What does the original say? Poetry? Fanfics?

Oooh! I think I saw that documentary. Uh, what was it called. Demolition Man!

This is actually brilliant

Pt1: https://youtu.be/oedjbrmk3Xw?si=VWyw6KvEwM6CMImE

Maybe, if they were smart, they used the snake oil round to invest in hardware and real engineering. Now the investors can't simply cash out. They either need to hold and hope, or sell at a loss, and either way the hardware remains?

Delay it, maybe, but for how long and will it matter? 🤔

Same happens to me. Note9..

A KDE powered device of some sort. Laptop? Phone? Media boxen?

See also: Yuri Knorozov

They died. But it was unrelated

Yeah, CIBC is pestering me too. "Lock in early and get a special rate!". Aka, I still have two probable quarter points before renewal...

Meow

Galicia but biggerer.

It's only a country in the vaguist sense. It's a historical artifact. Charlemagne's last gasp. It's beyond funny that they have a vote in the UN, despite being effectively a tax haven and ski resort.

It's such a bizarre thing that Macron is a prince there.

That's a mean thing to say about Iberia

There is still patio furniture on the deck of the far unit. But it looks like storm damage or something, cutting the water and sewer pipes nearer the shore. Probably this was a multi unit complex and not only three remain at the far end.

Clouds

I'm pretty sure I have the same, in an older edition. Much fun when bored.

This could literally be in any big hotel in any city and it would look the same haha.