Bassman1805

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[–] Bassman1805 7 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Hey look! Someone who only read the headline!

[–] Bassman1805 16 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Arid shrublands definitely isn't easier than a temperate forest biome. Tons of wood and berries there. I think they spawn more fertile soil than other biomes as well.

And a tribal start also makes things more difficult because it cripples your research speed.

When I want a chill game, I have a custom start that's basically the standard "crashlanded" but with 5 pawns instead of 3. Lets me cover more skills in the early game rather than struggling through until I can recruit to fill the gaps.

[–] Bassman1805 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Interesting legal problem, but I object to the chess metaphor: knights more than any other chess piece do not occupy any intermediary spaces between where they start and land.

[–] Bassman1805 27 points 2 months ago (1 children)

"One order for fried ice, Don!"

[–] Bassman1805 -1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Who's arguing about conviction here?

I want the US to pull out of fossil fuels. In the immediate future, there is no presidential candidate committing to that, but one of them is completely all-in on expanding fossil fuels so I will be voting for the opposite candidate.

Less than a month before election day is not the time for purity politics.

[–] Bassman1805 -5 points 2 months ago

700 people is a good sample size if they are a truly random representative sample of your population. In real life, polling error tends to vary far more than 1/sqrt(n) because of systemic biases in how you select participants. Depending on how the survey was conducted, it could intrinsically favor certain demographics.

[–] Bassman1805 -4 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Like what, West Virginia? Can me when they're a swing state, but don't hold your breath.

[–] Bassman1805 -3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

When people are employed by those corporations, they have a vested interest in their livelihood not disappearing overnight.

A survey of 700 people leaves considerable room for polling error. Without information on how they selected participants, I wouldn't say that's an overwhelming margin.

[–] Bassman1805 14 points 2 months ago (13 children)

Taking a stand against fracking is all it would take, when the largest swing state this election has an economy that leans heavily on fracking?

It's not the instant win you think it is.

[–] Bassman1805 -5 points 2 months ago (5 children)

This is like, technically a weapon. It's a tool for destroying enemy missiles in the air before they impact their target. It's about as purely defensive of a weapon as you can get.

The US soldiers are operating the missile defense system, so there's not room for Israel to "creatively" repurpose them. They aren't assisting in any missions in Palestine, they're purely defending against Iranian missiles.

[–] Bassman1805 1 points 2 months ago

Scottish talk radio sounds like a trip.

[–] Bassman1805 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Those also use a combination of many different sensors to see the road around them, while Tesla stubbornly refuses to use anything except vision because that's how humans do it. Nevermind that even with our best AI models, we've never even approximated how the human brain works.

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