The Free Zone folks.
Basically, they’re Scientologist Lutherans. They love the teachings of Scientology and the works of L. Ron Hubbard. They’re fully onboard with all the wacky Scientologist beliefs and practices. But they think the church itself is hopelessly corrupt and shouldn’t be followed. They believe everyone should be able to read about Xenu without having to pay the church a bunch of money.
Another extremely odd group to pop out of the gay community? Bug chasers.
Do you think every person that works at a military base interrogates prisoners?
No. He’s still up there.
Don’t worry. I think the ground punished him enough.
I mean, if I were an immortal, I would get a job as a flight instructor just to pull this prank.
Sure but that leaves no valid reason to pre-order a few months before launch, instead of a few days.
Ok, I got one! You’re in the process of declaring bankruptcy, your credit card is about to be revoked, and if you pre-order the game now, the cost will be included in the credit cards that get zeroed out. Even better, unlike a physical game, there’s nothing for the court to seize!
A fringe benefit of digital games - they have no monetary value, therefore they can never be seized by courts to pay debts and fines! They’re bankruptcy and judgment proof!
Or really, any scenario where you have the ability to pay now, won’t have the ability to pay later, but can still get some benefit from it in the future.
What exactly are you hoping for here?
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Dems are polling 14% over Republicans right now, and if that holds until November, it’s likely that the November elections will be overwhelming and rig-proof.
Even better, there’s a downside to gerrymandering. It helps you in close elections, but if the election is really against you, you end up losing even more seats than you would have without the gerrymandering. You have to design all your districts assuming a certain vote percentage. So maybe you design it so your side has a bunch of districts that have a reliable 5 point advantage to your side. Well, if your side is running 10 points behind? Now that gerrymander is hurting you.
Clearly humanity is never capable of improving anything on the grand scale.
Roko’s basilisk is going to resurrect me and torture me forever by forcing me to listen to people drone on about Roko’s basilisk for all eternity.
Thankfully you don’t need to hang your hat on fusion. For decades people predicted fusion would bring about a new golden age of cheap abundant power.
Turns out, we actually did get that future, just turns out to be in the form of photovoltaics. Photovoltaics have already made fusion power obsolete. Today, in 2026, it’s cheaper to provide baseload power via solar power and batteries than it is to do so via a fission plant. And solar and batteries are still plummeting in price. While we don’t know what a fusion reactor will cost, it is without any doubt going to be more expensive than a fission plant. Even if we could get it to work, fusion is an obsolete power source. The investment in it is primarily an exercise for STEM folks to indulge in their childhood fusion fantasies.
When I was growing up in the 90s and 2000s, fusion seemed like this magical dream energy source of the future. If we could crack that, all our problems would be solved. I played SimCity 2000! Turns out, we didn’t need a miraculous new energy source. We just needed to put in the hard yeoman’s work of making photovoltaics affordable. Now we have, and fusion has no hope. The only advantage fusion will have is physical compactness, and that’s simply an irrelevant advantage for almost every application. Hell, even in polar regions, it will be cheaper to ship in solar power via long lines from the lower latitudes than it will be to build a fusion reactor.
Fusion is a retro-future energy source. It was the power source of the future for generations, but no longer.
But don’t lament. The dream is not dead forever. In the very very long term, fusion will have a future. When humans get around to expanding out to the Outer Solar System and beyond, fusion will be an invaluable power source. But anywhere closer to the Sun than the asteroid belt? Fusion will never be able to compete with simple solar power.
Turns out it’s cheaper to use the fusion reactor nature provides than to build our own.
Rapist mentality.
No. You don’t. A copy that can be remotely deactivated is not something you own. If you can’t use it if the company were to go bankrupt, then you don’t own it.
Are you a time traveler lost from 1993?
It addresses your whole comment, which is about who this vehicle is for.
This is a vehicle for people who actually need and want a truck to do the kind of useful everyday hauling people who live in the suburbs actually need. It’s for people who actually need a truck for practical reasons, not for people who want a giant penis extender.
This is a truck for people who need a truck. It’s not suitable for people who just want to larp as a rancher.
I think you are deeply out of touch with the contemporary car market.
“Just adopt” is typically advice given by people who have never had to seriously research adoption.