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Stupid at this point in humanity’s history? Why should it be stupid to make it cheaper to fly payloads into space when we have unprecedented demand for renewable energy? Without interference of the atmosphere we could harvest solar energy much more efficiently and reliably.

We are likely to see a space elevator build in 100 years and it will be a good thing for humanity. For example we’ll be able to remove nuclear waste from earth and send it away for good with negligible costs.

These are just two economic examples. From a scientific perspective cheap space flight is valuable because it enables a lot of advances, like the next generation of space telescopes, working as interferometers without atmospheric disturbances.

So I think it’s everything but stupid for humanity to expand it’s space operations if this is accompanied by meaningful regulations. The latter of course will require a lot of energy to achieve.

Tongue brushing is underrated.

Wait until China has to deal with the fallout of the climate crisis. China is quite vulnerable to climate extremes and because of their demographics they’ll have a huge shortage of people fit for work once the climate damage really starts kicking in.

Okay not like any RPG. It’s a special kind of RPG. And as a game it has many elements that make video game RPGs so addictive.

I agree with you on the ethics. Maybe Palworld in that sense is more honest than Pokémon. In the Pokémon anime however I always had the impression that they try to depict Pokémon as having humanlike character tendencies, e.g. some liking to get into fights and others just working as nurses in the Pokémon center…

It’s a fun game with a nice mixture of looting & leveling, survival, base optimisation and progress, exploration and fighting.

I also like the humor of paldex entries hahaha.

Sounds like any RPG to me. Except that your party consists of the same creatures that you’re fighting. In that sense it’s maybe more egalitarian than RPGs featuring classical enemy races like orcs or goblins.

In Pokémon the concept of evil comes in the Form of Team Rocket and other shady exploitative organisations. Interestingly Palworld also has a counterpart organisation called Syndicates. But I still don’t know what their crime really is since you’re really doing the same thing of fighting and catching Pals. Nevertheless you have to treat the creatures in your party right, if you want to make progress in the game.

So some parts go up and some go down? Makes sense :)

I though land masses float upward after the weight of the glaciers is gone.

It’s not that simple. The aerosols ejected into the stratosphere definitely have a cooling effect. Then again a cooling event like the year without summer would pose major challenges for humanity. And the Tambora eruption was of small magnitude in comparison to much earlier events. In any case, there’s nothing we can do about it…

We should never forget that it’s not an evil country or evil people, but evil or mad leadership.