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Not only do we essentially throw away your vote if you vote for a third party, but states just straight up flip every vote for president that doesn't align with the majority. It boggles my mind that people are seemingly ok with this. I understand that there's a coordination problem where if one party moves to proportional allocation of electoral votes before the other they are giving up power, so it would need to be a coordinated fix.

Overworld theme and Dead Sea tracks are phenomenal.

Are any of these monster books actually good? The fact they don't seem to have sample monsters makes me doubt it.

Life evolved on Earth. The idea that it has never done that elsewhere is ridiculous.

I was going to question this, just because I think people often jump to conclusions based on the universe being very large, but as I did just a bit of research it does seem like nothing too unlikely happened to create Earth. You seem to need liquid water. Maybe that water is generated on the planet or maybe it's delivered by impacts with icy meteorites or asteroids. We have yet to find another planet with liquid oceans, but it's hard to imagine why it would be so unlikely for enough Earth-like planets to have sprung up to have a good chance of fostering life. The fact we haven't found an ocean world would seem to speak more to the massive limitations of our knowledge of other planets. You need other things for life as well, but the same argument seems to follow, in that none of the requirements seem like they have a reason to be that rare. But as limited as our science is, and as limited as my understanding of the science is, I have to admit I really do not know what to think. I don't think our statistical intuitions are useful when thinking about probabilities of planetary or astronomical phenomena.