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That's it. Launch the fucking nukes, ALL OF THEM, EVERYWHERE, at the whole goddamn region. If neither side is going to spare each other's kids, I want that whole area fucking gone.

I know that won't happen so I'm going to fucking kill myself. I hate every last one of you, humanity is nothing more than spiteful monsters and I refuse to live in a world where my choices are comfortable misery and uncomfortable misery. Moving to the middle of nowhere is not my idea of "freedom".

Maniac (2023) is a series you might like. Despite the name, its more of a cassette futurism cyberpunk world with a scary amount of dystopian parallels to our own.

Oh so you admit you're a shill for bp or aramco. When it comes to shills, the first person to mention a brand name is the one getting paid.

I guess you've never heard of the beach with sand that is more radioactive than Fukushima and has been since long before nuclear energy or even nuclear weapons. People go there because the black sand is pretty and because it doesn't have enough ionizing (cancerous) radiation to hurt anyone, it's actually really popular.

Not all nuclear power plants are equal. Fukushima barely reached "level 8" on the danger level of nuclear accidents, which is the catch-all "really bad and off the charts" level. Even though Chernobyl was also "off the charts", the soviet nuclear program was also focused on using power plants to make weapon's grade plutonium and their design was flawed severely, so Chernobyl was and still is much, much worse.

Three Mile Island was a maintenance issue, and Fukushima was due to catastrophic damage, so what if we could build a nuclear plant that relied on something other than technology to prevent a meltdown?

Simple, gravity. Trains used to crash into disconnected carriages from other trains whose engineers never realized a coupler broke. Now, when a train starts, there's pressurized air in a hose running the length of a train and when it fails the air is released; that was the only thing keeping the brakes on every car _de_activated. So the train immediately comes to a halt. That's what an actual failsafe is, but nuclear plants currently in operation don't have that because they were built in the 1950s and 60s on the cheap.

Instead of air, an electromagnet in a NEW design keeps a seal at the bottom of the plant closed. If the electricity fails, the seal is opened by gravity. When the seal is open, the nuclear fuel is sent dropping into a cooling tank with enough water to keep them cooled off for 100 or more years, during a mere few months of which we can repair the minimal damage easily. Unfortunately, the design was held back for decades for numerous nontechnical reasons, and now the average person is too fucking terrified of past failures based on the lies of businessmen and the shortsightedness of Cold War paranoia to use something that actually works.

This needs to be handled carefully. Yes, crypto needs to be protected from banks as much as geocurrencies, but this could backfire if malicious parties try to alter the outcome in their own favor.

I'm not an investor when it comes to cryptocurrency, IMO crypto is worthless and has too high a chance of staying that way. The point behind crypto is an escape route if geocurrencies suddenly end up as digital geocurrencies, which WILL be controlled in dystopian ways. That being said, setting aside $20 or so a week, or a month, or even just making a one-time $100 conversion, plus purchase cold-storage for a cryptocurrency, seems wiser than putting all your eggs in geocurrencies. Just be VERY wary of what you're doing, and do not long-term store cryptocurrency with or use proprietary cryptocurrency owned by a corporation. The whole point of it is to have an alternative that you control, not to just keep jumping ship and starting over every time some bastard gets greedy.

Huh? Just for clarity's sake, is this a good or bad thing?

I build rail networks and cities in most of the games I play. There's something cathartic about building that's different from the catharsis of destroying or stealing.

As for CP2077, I actually like that they included cars because it's a dystopia. If cars, stroads and limited access motorways are the worst transport system ever, which they very much are, use them exclusively in dystopian future worlds and you've basically driven home the point easily. Of course, the fact that there's a metro system in Night City would cut into that, but clearly the people there have bought into carbrain like nothing we see in real life, judging by the disdain going on a date by train gets and the description of how the saying in Cyberpunk's world is de facto "Bread, Circuses and Automobiles" since the 1950s.

If anything, their over reliance on cars is a very anti-car artistic statement.

Notepad++, because I mostly program OpenTTD mods.

Oof, yeah. That puts a kink in it.

Tbh, maybe we should just ask "Does (insert ideology here) tell me to kill the preteen (or for recent events, anyone under the age of majority) children of the supposedly evil people?" and if the answer is yes or "not specifically but I have no recourse if they suddenly tell me to kill kids" then (insert ideology here) is evil.

And they were nice enough to leave the unit they gifted to us locked inside, safely and visibly trapped in the bars of a cage where they can't stab us with the pointy fork they invented!

Maybe so, but... That might be because China and America have too much international power. Power attracts the corrupt and global power attracts the most corrupt on the globe.

I like both, but Spotify has far more tracks available these days. I've found songs on Spotify that just aren't on iTunes at all.