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Im no fan of generative ai, but this argument drives me crazy, there are a lot of things that are easy to verify but hard to come up with, quite famously in fact.

Spotify is trying this with their audiobook subscription service.

I keep a bouquet of dry pasta on my desk that I absentmindedly munch on while I work.

Sometimes I'll eat a whole head of cabbage over a day peeling it leaf by leaf.

Where I live it's illegal to have them expire. They can:

• Provide a spending limit for a vice
• frees the user of the need to spend it responsibly
• a safer way to spend money online and an alternative to a credit card.

I don't mind getting a steam gift card or an lcbo (liquor store) card, I know what liquor and games I like more than the people gifting. An Amazon gift card is much more annoying because it's an everything store, it's money that has to be used unethically. A costco giftcard is a nice hack to allow you to shop at the store without a membership, I used them like that until I reached a point where the membership paid for itself. I think they have a place, I also think they are often abused and should be regulated more than they currently are where I live. If they have an expiry they are a scam.

Here is amnesty international

It basically comes down to trials being far more expensive , the required solitary confinement being more expensive, more appeals. Lawyers cost much more than prison meals.

It is significantly cheaper to keep someone in prison for life than the death sentence process.

The car is still in the garage for emergencies so 0 in insurance. It's an ev so 0 in gas and 20 bucks a month in electricity if im estimating generously. Evs don't need much maintenance either but I saved a couple hundred a year in not changing tires.

Tribal start is meant to be exploring the early game tech, I would say most of my tribal starts don't involve ever getting electricity full stop. This is inherently more challenging than a normal run. It sounds like you might like a standard start with a transhumanist ideology which speeds up research and focuses on late game.

I also am surprised you were recommended arid shrubland. Temperate forest is, IMO generally much easier. In either case you should look at the temperature range and growing season of your tile in addition to the biome.

Lastly from a purely philosophical POV unless you are the type to pore over the wiki/guides and min/max losing is going to happen and is part of the experience, don't see it as a negative, see it as a lesson and a fun journey. Personally the story you tell seems pretty entertaining. IMO having a run where everything goes right is kinda boring.

In a forum system that sorts by last comment that can be annoying. Which is why most systems seem to have moved away from that, it was one of the big innovations of reddit back when it started. But in a format where it doesn't get more visibility for getting comments I don't see why it's a bad thing, just stop reading when you deem the topic done.

During thr brief window between reddit apps dying and the old archive rule being revoked getting comments on old tech support posts with follow ups and/or additional questions was pretty great, and definitely worth the occasional whitenoise posts ("thanks!" " seeing the same problem in 2024" "I clearly didn't read the whole thread and am asking something already answered" etc etc).

Messaging services replace pagers, texting and phone calls more than email.

Unless I've missed something harris says she does not support a ban on fracking not that she wants to expand fracking. That's an important distinction, as opposing fracking is not the same thing as supporting a ban.

I think the article you linked contains An error, if you click through to the polling itself, you find this:

More than four in ten (42%) Pennsylvanians support an outright ban on fracking.

More importantly:

Six in ten (60%) Democrats, 38% of independents, and even a quarter (26%) of Republicans support an outright ban.

So among independents and Republicans support is actually quite low.

Opinion time:

So in my opinion harris stance seems to align more with the dominant view on fracking, that it should be discouraged but not outright banned and is especially a winner among independents.

From a wider perspective, I think building up solar and wind has greater impact and takes less political willpower (later on in that polling you can see wind and solar are supported by 90+% of people). so i think harris is making a smart choice long term. Fracking doesn't make economic sense in a world with established solar and wind infrastructure as even a small drop in demand can push fracking into unprofitable territory.

You can see this somewhat in the current administration, people like environmentally friendly policy when it isn't framed as environmental policy. There is a reason the biggest us climate bill ever is called the inflation reduction act and not the ghg reduction act.