The Expanse universe is mostly cribbed from Larry Niven's Sol System from his Known Space universe.
The politics of the Belt vs "flatlanders", the issues of water, radiation and gravity to conceive and birth children. Niven even wrote about the conflicts arising between an established terrestrial economy and a developing belt economy. He put a lot of thought and writing about the asymmetrical conflict between belters in small ships (with a lot of skill) vs bigger ships with specialized weapon systems.
Niven went into rapid decline after he discovered swinging. At least his career wasn't long enough for him to get woke?
So you are saying you liked E3 before it was one giant gay op to manipulate the media through a complicit gaming press?
Okay, what kind of dinosaur were you riding?
Hey, If I were king of the world, I'd fortify the shit out of every election!
Hell, I'd convene meetings in private rooms of expensive clubs and hand out cigars just to get the smoky, dimly lit atmosphere conducive to proper fortification planning.
I don't see why I'd be surprised that the ruling elite is doing exactly what I would do.
I am Imagining one of those built to serve a one megawatt turbine ...
It would be the stuff of legends. I imagine the belts would fly off within the first day.
DC power cannot be transmitted over long distances.
You sure about that, bro?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-voltage_direct_current
Admittedly, HVDC Transmission was not possible in the early 20th century when electrification was taking place. It is possible now.
HVDC Transmission is not at all suitable for suburb or street level power transmission.
Generating 50 cycle electricity mechanically requires something to spin magnets near conductors at some multiple of 50 hertz.
That would require a complex mechanical drive, which would be both expensive and unreliable.
Instead it would be done with power electronics. MOSFETs and capacitors.
Capacitors are expensive and have a limited life. You replace the power electronics periodically and amortize the replacement cost over every watt generated.
It would be possible to design the power electronics to be reconditioned. That is the way it used to be done in the 60s and 70s. An older design like this would use huge, heavy coils, which last a long time and (depending on the design) can be re-wound.
What shade of lipstick did you use?
Seriously? Angela Knight thinks that we should elect the President of All Gamers so gamers, as a group can have legitimacy? That is a galaxy brain take.
It is crystal clear that Angela has never spent a single moment on any of the Chans. Statements can be evaluated on their own merit. Engage with ideas, challenge ideas.
This whole "oh, if you don't have a leader, then you don't have a point" is beyond stupid.
A major part of GamerGate is that the people who put themselves forward as Leaders of Gamers were corrupt and were using their popularity to push an agenda. The gaming press WERE NOT gamers and did not like or understand gamers. From this gamers, as a group, distrust people to speak for us. If you you want to find out what a gamer thinks, ask them.
It is becoming clear that Angela thinks with her feelings.
Fuck the whole "clout chasing" phenomenon.
Listening to your interview it seems that Angela is struggling with a definition of "gamer" on which to base the gamer community.
The only definition that really matters is: How many hours do you spend gaming?
People who spend more than 20 hours a week, lets call them hardcore gamers, contribute the vast majority of resources to the gaming industry.
Lets restate that. Hardcore gamers spend enough money to make the gaming industry bigger than Hollywood, pro sports and publishing combined.
Hardcore Gamers were the targets of the evil smears of the media during GamerGate.
I blame the French.
I don't know. I feel that the world would be a better place if everyone in the western world took Super Male Vitality.
At least Alex Jones would be able to afford his lawyers.
You say that, but option 3 would cost the taxpayer the least money.
So you don't think that there is a difference in scale? One of the singularly most corrupt countries in Europe, who has a government installed by coup as servants to a globalist elite.
I am as sympathetic as the next guy to the plight of the Ukrainian people. None the less, their country was co-opted to attempt to put a nuclear power under existential threat. The machine of their state was weaponized to strike at the heart of Russia. Seriously, what did you think was going to happen?
So now a false dichotomy?
You can think that Putin is a prick and still not support violation of the Minsk Accords, money laundering or an unelected puppet government.
There were thousands of deliberate "Fuck You" violations of the Minsk Accords, including artillery shelling of Russian oil drilling operations in the Donbass.
At this point the Ukrainians should present the Russians with the bodies of their unelected leadership and beg for mercy. Instead they get a chance to be an example.
What did you think was going to happen?
Acceleration is really the only chance for survival. I am not exaggerating.
Two generations of feminist supremicy and institutions run by feminised simps and feminists leads directly to the collapse of a country and the takeover by other groups that are resistant to gynocentrisim. EG Muslims.
Want examples? Sweden, Italy, Germany, the UK. The list goes on.
If we just wait for the political movement to run its course, then we will literally be fighting in the streets against genocidal insurgents. How many Christians are left in Iraq? Basically none, they have all fled or been killed
I mean, if it is a choice between the faggot simp and the paranoid but mostly correct MIGTOW... It is very easy to pick.
The important thing is that the EA executives made their quarterly earning projections and got a massive bonus!
Then, this is so good, they sold gamers DLC to slightly unfuck the ending! I mean it is still fucked forever, but more profitable!
EA sets the standards for the industry!
But Dude! You got three different colored endings! How can you want more than that. You must have gotten such a feeling of pride and accomplishment for unlocking all three different colours!
Wait, are you saying: "Trust but verify"?
Man, that is a great philosophy! We should write it down on a plaque or something. We can nail it up next to the stopped clock.
Also, lol! Everyone knows that Epstein is actually a CIA Honey-Trap! Now Mossad wants to take credit?
Yeah! Voyager is just the best show ever!
I have an episode list of all the holodeck episodes! Sometimes I watch those all back to back for the sense of pride and accomplishment I get when they reset the universe!
When that isn't enough fun, I watch my list of episodes where Janeway commits genocide. Those are always great!
Berman and Braga were the greatest team ever! We owe them so much!
Chauvin is not a good man. He had big issues with not putting in tax returns, which is almost certainly an indication that he was on the take. He has several past incidents of police brutality.
That said, in the instance of Saint Floyd of Fentanyl, he arrived on the scene late after events had been bungled by two rookie cops.
In the face of a riotous mob Chauvin scrupulously followed his training and applied police procedure on camera.
Even if he is totally vindicated by the appeal, this has still been a stunningly egregious miscarriage of justice.
Chauvin has been made into an example. Cops, do what is politically expedient, not what is right; or else!
The perfect, heart-felt love letter from the guy who shat all over the grill last thanksgiving.
So good! All the feels! Only mentions burning turd-burgers six times!
You mean Robot Replacement Picard Season 3?
You ded?