Mnemnosyne

The way I perceived it, that's exactly what it was. Yeas, the kids of stupid people are stupid but I don't recall it being specified it was genetic. The sequence in the movie just made me think it was upbringing and lack of education.

Stupid people on average will have stupider kids, if their parents believe education to be a prissy intellectual thing for gay liberals and not for good decent hard working people like us.

I find it interesting that this basically never happens. The security details of these guys basically never turn against them. Not just US guys but all the dictators and brutal warlords and such. And I get that it makes sense to be quite rare, but I genuinely know of zero instances of it.

Not that I've done deep historical dives, but...is there any instance of a ruler's bodyguards/security murdering them for the harm they're causing? Cause presumably these people have others they care about that may be being harmed by the things going on.

Depends on what you mean by ringworld. The thing I think of is orders of magnitude more impossible than a Dyson sphere, which is already pretty impossible.

Since at least the 1970s and probably much earlier, any and all non-heterosexual people have been painted as pedophiles by right wing / conservatives.

Indeed, a lot of the pedophile panic these days is driven by those people, because it is one of the few things they can get everyone to hate, and that hate often shuts down nuance and reason, and while real pedophiles are a problem, they want to expand that unthinking hate, that knee jerk 'burn the heretic' reaction to more people.

This is the reason we now see people attacking even completely fictional media, because they're trying as hard as possible to slippery slope it.

Intelligence would help, increasing the base ability that knowledge's are rolled on.

If the wizard is 17th level or higher, the wizard, assuming they are sufficiently optimized. In every edition of D&D I know, a wizard that can cast 9th level spells will win against anything short of a god, another similarly optimized wizard, or a couple other classes.

If below 17th level, well, maybe. Depends on how optimized they are for this specific challenge, their gear budget, what edition they're built in, and what spells they know.

So she's a midget stripper wearing 2 and a half foot heels?

Yeah, I find it annoying when the title sounds vaguely interesting and then there's nothing there but a link. Give us a bit of discussion...if you found it worth linking, don't you have something to say about it?

Also people need to stop just copying the title of the article they link to. Those titles are always clickbait. Instead relabel it honestly for people here.

Now show me where they're paying attention to what they can't do.

Like, how nobody can just access secure government systems without proper clearance, which the President can't actually just give without procedure.

Or even more simply, the fact that Trump is not in fact currently eligible to be President in the first place due to his part in the events of Jan. 6.

I do not have confidence that they will be stopped by the fact that something is not permitted, because they aren't being stopped by things that are not permitted, and if this continues for 4 years...there will be nothing left of the system that is supposed stop them.

It would mean that whatever the US might hope to gain from invading Canada would be dwarfed by what the US would lose in the conflict.

The problem is this is already the case. Nuclear weapons may make it even more lopsided, but the country is already losing more than it stands to gain from an invasion purely on the economic results.

"Every time we use a lever to lift a stone, we're trading long term strength for short term productivity. We're optimizing for today's pyramid at the cost of tomorrow's ability."

Hey, hey. Elon Musk purchased the US fair and square, we've known that for like 3 months now, no need to go acting all surprised!