There's a cool thing where pyrex, Pyrex, and PYREX are all different kinds of glass, age only one of them is the really good scientific-grade glass.
Hey look! Someone who only read the headline!
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.
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.
"One order for fried ice, Don!"
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.
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.
Like what, West Virginia? Can me when they're a swing state, but don't hold your breath.
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.
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.
Don't underestimate Colorado. Though it's largely the recent Denver transplants keeping up that stereotype, whereas it's the long-term Texans.