Japan got their first trains second hand from the UK, this understandably traumatized them so much that they went on to make the best trains in the world.

Guy on TV this morning saying they’ve ‘created a new species’ and I’m like yeh, you’ve created a group of humans so dumb that no other human would be willing to have kids with them.

I’d say they’re hemorrhaging hard power too, the US strategy was always to immediately establish air dominance and then win from there, but it turns out that step 1 kinda just doesn’t work against people armed with more than old toyotas and tents. I’d still bet on the US to win if they just wanted to flatten some place but I’ve got serious questions on their ability to achieve a non-phyric victory against any near-peer after this display.

I’ve read some posts on here saying that in asian countries it’s fairly common to jab the food with the chopsticks if you’re in a rush.

Everything that is now a DLC or microtransaction was instead some cool secret you could find or unlock, the games were smaller but that discovery meant they FELT so much bigger.

Why not both? People have been complaining nuclear takes too long to build for several times longer than nuclear takes to build.

Major infastructure projects (in certain countries) tend to turn into infinitely deep money pits due to rampant mismangment and corruption that can swallow the entire budgets of smaller nations and still not get done. They tend to drag down the average.

That sounds like a great way to get more work for the same pay.

At this point I’m pretty sure an asteroid could obliterate 95% of the US and the markets would just skyrocket even more. They’re so detatched from reality its gone from satire to sad.

I think even with solar, wind, tidal and perfect grid storage nuclear is still worth investing in, simply because its a useful technology to have in some space travel applications, in some cases even more useful than fusion power would theoretically be.

Everyone hates getting stuck because it turns out that one tech from half the tech-tree ago was mandatory for progression.

The UK has very fucked up land management, virtually all the capacity of the land to hold onto water has been destroyed in favour of dumping it into the sea as quickly as possible, the result is a country thats prone to both floods and droughts.

‘To get your boy home in a box’ fits the tempo better I think.

This reminds me of the fall of multiple fictional empires that had rested on their laurels building overpriced wonder weapons that turned out to both too few in number and not all that wonderous when taken out of a white room and exposed to real battlefield conditions.

Didn’t he already partially do that? He also appears to be letting Russia (and no one else) through the blockade to sell oil to Cuba.

Except this one is being built by a company owned by the French government which has loads of experience, so corruption it is.

The vibe of the first one was so good, I think 2/3 had more fun characters in terms of just having interesting/fun kits but the first game will always be my favourite for the overall tone.

I’ll switch to legacy systems before I pay for a subscription service.

I believe there is a generator with functional prototypes in the US and China that uses supercritical CO2? I mean its basically a steam engine but using a different medium and potentially even more efficient.

Even then all of them but solar are just spinning a wheel.

Externalized cost = free
As far as any and every large company is concerned anyway.