Evan Schultheis

Hmm... I wonder what the implications of this will be for Russia's operation of its nuclear-powered cargo ships. I wonder if they'll try to use radiophobia as a deterrent from missile strikes.

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"Sir, we serve bangers here."

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I have seen a lot of cursed stuff in my time in academia but this is among the *most* cursed.
Grammarly is generating miniature LLMs based on academic work so that users can have their writing ‘reviewed’ by experts like David Abulafia, who died less than two months ago.

The problem with a lot of leftist youth is that they read book 1 of Marx in college & have zero political or communications skill beyond organizing panels 10 people attend to talk about "struggle".

I've met the smart socialists and they're dangerous people. And they almost always run as liberals.

Me and my 600 hours of Baldur's Gate 3.

Just to be clear I'm not endorsing the author of the article or his ideas at all. Just discussing this as a problem for Star Trek's world building.

It does. I'm not disputing that. The problem is family sizes still tend to be smaller on average (usually the average ends up being too small to meet replacement). Educated (which usually correlates to left-wing ideology), wealthy women choose to not have kids at really high percentages.

Also you can immediately tell he didn't watch numerous TNG, DS9, and ENT episodes that contradict this:

Access to energy would result in the Global South outbreeding the US and Europe and using up all the resources was actually a foundational cornerstone of the environmentalist & anti-nuclear power movements. We now know that assumption is false - giving people electricity makes them reproduce less.

Yeah statistics are weird but the reason those many kids are born are usually due to lack of access to education, energy, and health services. Adding health services back into the equation reduces the birth rate. Education (especially for women) even more.

These assumptions that giving people (1/2)

Even historical NA colony or baby boom growth rates would struggle to yield the numbers stated on-screen.

Housing and food abundance does tend to lead to family formation and population growth even with birth control, but we see quite plainly in multiple episodes that even in the 2300s establishing a colony on a world with Earth-like conditions is a treacherous affair.

Ultra-conservative governments *could* explain the population recovery post-WWIII due to draconian abortion and birth control laws, combined with post-2079 food abundance and housing availability. We know the post-Atomic Horror lasts until the 2090s and eugenics conflicts continued through it.

It goes both ways. I've been working on this problem for a while because there's no way Earth could rebound to a population of 10 billion or for Federation colonies to have populations in the billions (of humans at least) in the timescales given.

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One of my favorite road experiences was a dude in a convertible passing on a double-yellow line on Elizabeth Ave in Charlotte and flipping me off after I yelled "that's illegal!", only to get stuck in a line of cars at the light as I rode right past them all.

May I offer:

It's a mix of line of sight and size of the vehicle coupled with lane width. They have "Rural driving habits" and take wide turns and drift over lanes because their vehicle is just generally... unsuitable, coupled with road design promoting unsafe speeds.

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Actually think probably the biggest risk in the short term, particularly if we actually get some kind of Iranian failstate, is 400+ kilos of loose HEU

The long term strategic plan is not to have one. Israel needs the regional hegemonies to become failed states so it can fill the vacuum of power, because they are effectively fighting a war of demographics and they can't win.

This includes Turkey and Saudi Arabia.

I swear to god nobody in the general public knows how a military works anymore. Be that Star Trek or real life.

The thing that bothers me is that the armor is way too developed for 1348 lol.

@ilhanMN Ilhan Omar: i hope you aren't drunk and took your staff's advice, rashida and i don't know this man and feel confident he didn't care about us. please restrain from drinking too much as you have been warned from your staff and stay off social media when you are drunk. i pray in (t)his moly month you find peace and respect for your self, Rep Omar is quote tweeting nancy mace, who posted a photo of ayatollah khamenei and 'my heart goes out to ilhan omar and rashida tlaib tonight. sending them thoughts and prayers'.

bodied. ethered. sent to outer space.

News headlines should be saying: "Donald Trump killed 57 children this morning."

IIRC this manuscript was the main inspiration for KCD's herbarium.

For people who still care about this sort of thing, here's James Madison writing from 1793 (6 years after the delegates in Philadelphia signed the Constitution) about why the power to make war was vested in the legislature.

press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/doc...

Not surprised knowing what I've seen in US private collections. There's a big hole somewhere this stuff is getting in through to militaria collectors.