Olgratin_Magmatoe

if he decides “if I die, the world dies”, we’re doomed.

Unlikely, he's got kids.

They're hardly in a corner. They could stop invading and broker a peace deal at any time.

Russia still has plenty of nukes, and they could fire them all before anybody has time to react. If that nuke is an ICBM, though, as soon as it leaves the silo the world would know, and the counter barrage of nukes would be firing up before it even lands.

Obviously an ICBM is armageddon. However a tacticsl nuke, one dropped from a plane or something onto Ukraine would be a different story.

The world will be far less inclined to launching ICBMs over that. So it's just a game of how much they can get away with.

the means of returning to power - would be absent.

Unless the randomized reps decide they like their newfound power, and change the rules to allow them to maintain/extend/return to power.

Bribes would be a concern, so good pay and anti-corruption mechanicms would still be required.

Direct bribes are only part of the problem. Corporations would still do the things they're doing now, where they bribe politicians with cushy jobs once they leave their government positions. Good pay on the job while at the government doesn't stop that.

Randomized representatives can still be propagandized, bribed, and have hunger for power.

That thought had crossed my mind, though there is an inherent problem in that if you don't have recycling to deal with excess, you'll still eventually get backed up with higher quality ingredients, or you'll have to prioritize mines/elec furnaces based on existing need.

Yeah, I briefly considered that, but I have about 30k belts. Sure, the minority of that is the iron plates belts, but the problem bubbled up through green circuits.

So I think it was easier/quicker to just take a quick look around to see where the poison went.

Do NOT add quality modules to the mines/electric furnaces feeding your main bus. It is poison for your factory, because you can't just use any quality with any quality.

I've had half a dozen spots in my factory come to a halt because ~10 minutes of higher iron quality plates went onto my normal belt, and then clogged a bunch of assembly machines.

Let's play a game! Which of these quotes are Trump's, and which are Hitler's?

1. "Jews and migrants are poisoning Aryan blood,"

2. "They're poisoning the blood of our country. That's what they've done,"

3. "I will get rid of the communist vermin"

4. "They're coming into our country, from Africa, from Asia, over the world. They're pouring into our country."

5. "I will take care of the enemy within"

6. "We pledge to you that we will root out the Communists, Marxists, fascists, and the radical-left thugs that live like vermin within the confines of our country, that lie and steal and cheat on elections … The threat from outside forces is far less sinister, dangerous, and grave than the threat from within. Our threat is from within."

7. "One people, one realm, one leader."

Here is the answer key: Every other one is a Hitler quote, starting with the first one. And yet, these quotes are in significant overlap. We shouldn't have a president who is taking a page out of Hitler's book.

Tack on the attempts to maintain high/high quality amenities in sparsely populated, low tax revenue areas, and you have a nice fat deficit for your small town compounding that problem.

Ah yes, one more country being puppeted by Russia, a country infamous for it's corruption, will decrease corruption. /s