thanks, i might check it out!
9bananas
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this is exactly the entire plot of the Dark Profit Saga (Orconomics is the first book, 3 books total) and it's one of the best books I've ever read!
it's written in a sorta Terry Pratchett-like style, with a modern twist, set in a typical medieval fantasy world, where the elites figure out that they can bet on the outcome of a dungeon raid in advance and invent a stock market based on the profits of raiding monster lairs!
there's lots of plays on typical fantasy tropes it's also full of amazingly silly acronyms: the monster races are known as F.O.E.s (forces of evil), the "civilized monsters" are known as N.P.C. (non-combat c...i wanna say creatures? i forgot that one...) and tons more!
it is glorious!
highly recommended read for fantasy nerds!
oh yeah, i know!
but there's like 5 planets in factorio...there's upwards of 16 entire solar systems in DSP ;)
i should have clarified that it's a popular sentiment in the military of the central european powers, not necessarily in the voting population. at least it was 5-ish years back...can't imagine it's changed all that much.
from personal experience there seems to be a serious disconnect between the general consensus of the EU militaries and the population, largely driven by right-wing populist propaganda that usually tends towards nationalistic and isolationist messages.
when i was in service we regularly had joint exercises with pretty much all EU nations. it was entirely ordinary and generally just accepted as a matter of fact. a general sentiment of "We defend Europe together!" among the soldiers, which was excellent to experience first hand!
re: sceptisism; i think it's mostly a sign of polarization in politics, and the sceptisism is being reported more than the corresponding rise in a shared european identity! both ends of the spectrum seem to be on the rise, thinning out the middle, as more and more people realize, that we live in a time where everyone really DOES have to pick a side.
or to sum the last part up: late stage capitalism is doing what late stage capitalism does! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
excellent stellaris reference! ;)
it's basically factorio, but it allows 3D belt placement and interplanetary/interstellar transports!
it's excellent!
"knowing better" on YouTube/Nebula has an entire series of feature length videos on the history of mormons/other american cults!
super interesting!
I'm sure there's a mod for that!
(because of course there would be)
"fear" is too strong a word..."uneasiness", maybe some "anxiety", but definitely not "fear".
there's some uncertainty, but overall consensus seems to trend toward a joint European Army, which has been an ongoing discussion for a long time now.
recent events will likely accelerate this movement, but the momentum has been building since before the Ukraine war.
it just makes strategic sense to unify the armed forces of the EU/EWR/Schengen.
they've already been training together for decades, might as well formally unify!
how surprising! /s
but seriously, it's almost never one (1) thing that goes wrong when some idiotic mandate gets handed down from management.
a manager that mandates use of copilot (or any tool unfit for any given job), that's a manager that's going to mandate a bunch of other nonsensical shit that gets in the way of work. every time.
FYI: wrong user; check names again ;)
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this typo makes me unreasonably happy, and i have no idea why! it's just so..whimsical! :D