GreyEyedGhost

I was curious, as well, and discovered we weren’t the first.

Turkish origin words (baklava is common).

Here’s a list of lists for various Indian languages (guru is common).

Seems like a waste of time and money.

Why would a billionaire limit himself to only one vote if he gets elected instead of buying all the votes he needs and not even having to bother. Seems like a waste of time and money.

In a functioning system, only the former would be an option, but this is America. We already know that buying American politicians is pretty cheap.

This is like being stuck in a porta-potty for 3 months. Sure, less megayachts, but we need these only slightly more than people climbing Everest.

Literacy rates are a bellweather for the overall education of your population, which will affect commerce, politics, etc. This isn’t a case of, “Oh no, the farmer can’t read, that’s why the empire fell!” but more that a steady decline occurred, starting with education (among other things), leading to fewer economic, political, and international advantages, and ending with the collapse of an empire.

Now, note that the majority of American adults read at a 6th grade level at best, the political choices they’re making, and the fact their military is losing ground would fit in with that overall picture.

Like the Roman aristocrats that were mentioned, it isn’t just the soldiers who are active now who are losing ground intellectually, it’s the general population those soldiers are drawn from, and that problem has been getting worse for over a generation. Long enough that their current recruits have already suffered the effects of it.

I get what you’re saying, but that still isn’t an excuse to imprison people in inhumane conditions, moreso when you see the number of false convictions for even capital crimes.

I had a relationship that lasted 3 years. I didn’t think we had no future, but lasting 10 was pretty unlikely. I still learned things that made my future relationships better. While I have some regrets, I’m still overall glad about the relationship.

If you’re getting something of value, it can be worth sticking around. If you’re just having fun and that’s what all parties involved are looking for, that’s fine, too, imo. Ultimately, you have to decide if it’s worth it to you to stick around.

It was referenced in every episode, but one episode was about the people who had one.

It’s a greentext from 2013 apparently. It can be found on reddit, and I’ve seen it here, but I doubt I could find it.

The current solar panel system of the ISS weights about 8 tonnes, the Falcon Heavy can deliver 63 tonnes to LEO. That’s about 715 launches of the Falcon Heavy, assuming space solar panel W/kg hasn’t improved since then, that Starship never becomes commercially viable, and doesn’t include batteries, cooling, or the working components. This still isn’t in the range of feasible for a data center, but could be an option for microgravity industry. The value of a more successful or precise silicon crystal production method, for instance, may make it worthwhile.

I’d be cautious about assuming this finding is correct, as well.

I was in Mexico relatively recently, and had two fairly unusual interactions. Both times, given my luck, cash was being stocked in ATMs and I was there waiting to use it or just walking by in front, while one of the team had a shotgun and the other had an assault rifle (for lack of better knowledge of what they were). Both times they were very professional with my pale ass while I kept my hands visible and slowly moved out of their area of concern. All in all, pretty painless and while I was nervous I didn’t feel threatened at all. This is mostly unrelated, but feeling less threatened in a region with military than locals are with government officials in parts of America still blows my mind.

Well, I know the difference between alkaline, NiCd, NiMH, and lithium batteries, and that they don’t grow on trees, so at least I have that.

To be fair, all names are made up, and not just for places. But yes, Farmington is a little more simplistic than say Louisiana.

Well, the downside of this not being a 4x game is that sometimes research doesn’t pan out, and you don’t know which ones until after you’re done.

We’ve had 3 major changes in battery chemistry in the last 45 years. Energy density, lifespan, cost, and dangerous materials have all generally improved. We also have 2 new battery technologies in the process of becoming generally commercially available. Also, batteries went from 500 mAh batteries about the size of your smartphone to 3000 mAh as a minor component of that same smartphone, about an order of magnitude in energy density.

No, that’s why we use the same batteries Voltaire did on his frogs.

No, it’s tangential to this, but still related.

1300 was the end for me, at least reading at a reasonable pace. I might have squeezed out another century or two, parsing together context and other clues, but that is only through the benefit of knowing the story being told.