So I read some interesting stuff on this recently, (ignoring that brain size isn’t as important as brain compelxity for intelligence) a lot of creatures that have big brains including our ancestors and elephants had/have most of the extra mass in regions related to memory. The theory goes that simply remembering where everything is and picking the most likely solution (e.g. the neares watering hole that you saw water at this time last year) is generally more effective than traits like creativity and imagination… right up until you hit a break point where you start making tools and seriously modifying your environment. As we developed agriculture we had less of a need to remember every little thing so while we didn’t get less intelligent we did end up with worse memories, possibly gaining an even greater degree of creativity in return as those parts of the brain became more valuable in the new self created environment.

So on both points:
Recent studies have shown that the intermitency of wind and solar means countries with a high reliance on it are especially prone to gas price shocks, that issue dissapears if the country has a good amount of nuclear or hydroelectric in the mix.

Regarding geothermal the UK, particularly parts of Scotland, are actually rather suited to more modern types of geothermal with a lot of hot dense rock at depths we previously couldn’t drill too but are now much more able to.

I dunno sounds like the only even vaguely engineering part is glueing a ring to the end of a pistol? If that’s considered out of the box clever enough to require a check I can only assume D&D takes place in the systemic lead poisoning dimension.

It was also kind of sort of every other first world economy getting bombed into the ground twice in a row which left the US as the only major manufacturing centre for a long time and able to reap massive benefits from that position.

Don’t we have some of the best eyes in the entire animal kingdom except for birds?

Aren’t these the same cards that have been self destructing during driver updates?

Is it more understandable can civ 6? I’m a fan of goddamn stellaris and could competently play civ 5 but civ 6 is like being beaten half to death with a textbook on quantumn physics and then told to sit an exam. The tutorial prepares you for the game about as much as a stick of chewing gum prepares you for the beating.

I did watch that and there are problems but the debunking video itself was really bad and acted like there were problems that had already been addressed in the video it was a direct response too. It still seems like a crazy idea but they have had test launches and there didn’t seem to be a spinning issue.

Get 500 dollars then use AI to generate the other 3/4 of the money and buy a 5090.

Wait are we getting arcanes on all exalted weapons or just the pseudo exalts!?

The clear answer is the Euro, its a decently strong currency and the EU can’t stop bickering long enough to pull off a conspiracy like that.

I could never stand the way recoil works in counterstrike, in any other system your crosshair is moved around and its intutative to compensate for recoil, in counterstrike you just have to memorise the pattern in which the bullets come out of the barrel sideways.

Trinity always feels like a frame that despite the recent re-work is just too much from a different era of the game. On paper bless is an incredible support ability compared to something like wisps motes as it not only provides faster healing but also a full shield gate. And yet wisp is more popular because her motes provide in the moment healing which is far more relevant in the modern game where you’re either immortal or at risk of being one or two shot. It’s also far less reliant on the supporting player to monitor everyones health and hit the button at the right time.

Musk has been feeding money to right wing parties in Europe and trying to stir shit up.

But it can run cyberpunk at a whole 21 frames per second!

iirc the machines that TSMC uses are made in Holland right when he’s also apparently doing his best to piss of Europe, even then there’s like a decade long order backlog.

This is the part that I find oddly infuriating even though its already hitler. The guy was an awful leader, the allies even stopped assasination attempts once they realised how much of a hinderance he was to the German war effort.

Aren’t all soldiers signing up to kill people for money, yes he’s on the opposing side and we can hate him for supporting a fascist war machine that’s trying to annex a soverign nation; but I don’t see how we can hate him for the simple act of being a soldier unless we’re prepared to say that about all of our own soldiers as well.

I believe there is an object called a brown sub-dwarf which jupiter would clasify IF it wasn’t part of a planetary system that basically represents the smallest type of failed star, however since jupiter formed from a protoplanetary disc it is indeed a planet. It really is a bit of an issue with our classifications that they’re context dependant though. E.g the moon on its own could be a dward planet, earth orbiting at the same distance as pluto would also be a dwarf planet even with no other changes.

Currently on a very locked down version of firefox but also windows, though I’ve been experimenting with mint on an old laptop in prepration for a switchover.