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Sooo…

-Trans athletes form their own leagues. -Other athletes start competing because they go where the competition is and/or ideological reasons. -Olympics slowly become irrelevant.

Good job, Olympics.

I will remind everyone that as of 2023, about 3% of 18-24 yr olds identified as transgender. That’s a lot of people, and that percentage is only going to go up.

Fairly certain you’re being intentionally dense, but I’ll respond in good faith here:

I already told you the megastructures I want to build: a Lofstrom Loop, then a skyhook, and then an orbital ring. Wikipedia has good descriptions of each. Each would make getting mass into orbit much easier, so you start with the smallest to simplify the larger ones. The Lofstrom Loop would likely cost $10-$30 billion, and reduce cost/kg to a few hundred dollars. The skyhook and orbital ring would be orders of magnitude reductions. With the orbital ring up, we could literally winch payloads up to 80km, ship it around the Earth on maglev, or launch it off to other parts of the solar system - all powered by solar panels. If that’s not ‘sustainable’ in your eyes, I don’t know that further discussion will be productive.

No. I want to fight gravity at $100/kg. Hence the megastructures.

I’m fairly certain that with the resources of an entire solar system on tap, the word ‘sustainable’ takes on a new meaning. If we use few enough resources that they won’t run out before the Sun explodes, does it matter that it’s not net zero?

When life gives you a lemon, go to the store and buy more.

Awful lot of resources out in those asteroid belts. Put up a Lofstrom Loop, then a skyhook, then an orbital ring. Then you’ve got a whole solar system’s worth of resources.

I agree that the Earth should basically be managed as a wildlife preserve / population center. But you’re missing that we’re not limited to the resources on Earth.

Ah, so you’re a terrible person. My mistake.

Glad you hate science and healthy living. Luckily we have these glow-in-the-dark rocks you can lick - since ‘everything gives you cancer’ I’m sure you won’t feel any compunction about doing so.

Except personal responsibility is impossible when people don’t know that xyz food causes cancer.

That’s why they’re asking for a label. So that people can make an informed choice. That’s literally their entire point.

…do I bring up the factory farms now or come back later?

Yah, that’s the wrong approach. ‘Meat alternatives’ are generally ass. Just eat whatever you usually eat that doesn’t need to have meat in it. Black bean tacos, donuts, and cheese pizzas are vegetarian, ya know. Although you will of course have to eat a salad once in a while (horror) to not get scurvy.

This really gets into the foundational expectations of the setting.

In a reality structured to allow for Heroes, a leader must be one, or else be replaced by the next one to stroll through.

Reach heaven through violence

New Reformation when

*Murlundposting

Piggybacking onto this (all of these are FOSS):

Endless Sky is a 2D sandbox space sim. It’s a spiritual sequel to the old Escape Velocity: Nova, and has very active development.

Feudal Tactics is an extremely simple strategy game that can nonetheless be quite hard.

Battle For Wesnoth is a whole-ass fantasy campaign turn-based strategy game that has been ported to mobile. Think Warcraft but turn-based.

Arx Libertatis is a port of Arx Fatalis, a first-person RPG. This one is still on my list to try out, but it looks interesting.

I think it’s some sort of sovcit nonsense.

We were looking for good ideas, not dystopian ones.

Hah. This is how communism worked in the first few years after the Russian Revolution - what is now referred to as anarcho-communism. The Bolsheviks corrupted the whole thing, of course.

It’s slightly amusing to see people rediscover communist power distribution from first principles. You’ve added the wrinkle of digital communes instead of labor communes, but it’s roughly the same.

India manages with a population of over 1.4 billion people. It’s a mere six-fold increase from there to the planet, so probably whatever India is doing.

I know this is a meme but I am cursed with taking things too seriously so here’s what I would rule in a game I would run:

Artificer is on a flying dragon golem/homonculus.

Sorcerer is manifesting wings of pure magicka and/or levitating and/or doing air bending etc.

Wizard is probably on a broom, yah. After researching a multitude of flying rituals from a variety of traditions, performing occult experimentation, and finally gathering the reagents needed for the enchantment. But crucially it works by invoking the God of Hearth’s protection from the Wind Elemental in a wierd niche way or something.

Artificers combine smaller magical effects into larger ones, Sorcerers are running off that high-octane Type Green Reality Bender fuel, and Wizards are occult hackers.

Clerics sneer at them all and call up God directly to ask them if they wouldn’t mind bending space-time for them, pretty please with a cherry on top.