GreyEyedGhost

And now you know why genies turn evil.

Yes, because he's finally rolling the boulder down a hill.

The last time I checked, and it was over a decade ago, police deaths per capita was within 10% of the rates for America.

Hate to break it to you, buddy, but Canada has never embraced completely free speech, even with the caveat of yelling "Fire!" in a crowded theatre. You might be thinking of laws and a constitution originating a little farther south.

Sue them in small claims court. It's $1.50, will cost them hours of their time if they don't default, the judge will just love seeing that NDA, and you will get your small financial victory with a greater moral victory. Then you take it to the press again so everyone gets reminded to check their bank statements and maybe do it dozens more times.

You ignored every question I asked and haven't given any reason for how voting third party will achieve your goals. You can vote for whoever you like. There are more effective ways to have someone other than lizards to vote for, but thatbrequires work. Neither you not Adam's have provided any real suggestions on how to fix that with anything more significant than a salve to your conscience.

Well, there was a sequel. Looks like it was direct to DVD so I'm sure it was impressive.

All I said still applies. What is the outcome of your choice? Is it achieving your goals? Is it leading to a better or worse outcome?

Sadly, the FPTP system doesn't lend itself to reflecting the will of the people if more than 2 options are presented, and I haven't heard of a credible independent candidate. And by credible, I mean having any real chance of winning.

If you had two very similar choices, I could see the argument of voting for a third party, but one of your candidates is literally promising a dictatorship. I've seen a lot of valid arguments of starting local and building up to statewide change if you want to effectively change the political landscape. It won't be as fast, and it certainly won't be easy, but it does appear to have a real chance to move things in the desired direction.

Yeah, if you're going dark forest and AI, you could do a lot with even a K1 civilization, which makes a Dyson swarm kind of silly, anyway. Unless you put the effort into it, in which case it would be difficult to effectively fight a K2 civilization, especially a multi-system one, because the power, numbers, and capability to spread make options other than hiding not make much sense, anyway. Throw in some Von Neumann probes for good measure and the only winners will be the ones who spread faster.

The Bobiverse gives some ideas about what some good probes can do, and the Culture gives some ideas of just the kind of power an advanced civilization can have. Darwin's Radio has some good ideas about the dark forest and interstellar wars/genocide, and some interesting ideas about the nature of reality and matter itself.

Sorry, all I'm seeing are reasons how you could take all the energy from a given star and move it elsewhere without a reason to do so, even to the point where virtually none of that energy is being used locally. This is the classic solution looking for a problem idea.

There are plenty of resources on the internet that have already responded to all your questions. Feel free to look it up.

I don't think you have any appreciation for just how much energy even a dim star provides. A Kardashev 2 civilization has access to a billion times the energy we (Earth) have, and we only use about 70% of the energy we have access to. Even if you use all that energy, there will still be waste heat. Now you're proposing that this hypothetical civilization has a second star (at least) that it's importing energy from, which means it will be a larger area emitting infrared in their home system, because thermodynamics still has to be obeyed.

And yes, the laws of thermodynamics have to be obeyed. They are as rigid as the speed of light, meaning there might be shortcuts but they are very advanced. To put it in perspective, we are almost capable of starting a Dyson swarm, and we have no options for bypassing the laws of thermodynamics and only have the barest ideas of how to bypass the speed of light.

So all you need is a perfect charging system. We don't have those, and physics doesn't allow for them. This would be no different than the laser example I gave, and this only makes sense after you have a second Dyson swarm.