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They are incapable of talking without saying the quiet parts out loud. Silence is better than spilling the beans on evil.

Great post. I wonder what the mental math is for 200 years of industrial civilization for other civs?

Is their planet the same size? Is earth resource rich or poor in comparison? Would abundance exacerbate depletion as it is taken for granted, and would scarcity teach restraint? Is the entire planet fully colonized under exponential growth at the begining or does it happen later as harsher environs are explored?

Is their culture subject to the same ideological pursuits or are they capable of self restraint?

Fascinating topic.

Edit: I just realized that I am fearful of learning the answers for an alien civilization considering our path assumed as relatively unexceptional.

Designing a contest where participants have access to AI, when they aren't supposed to use it and then looking shocked when the inevitable happens.

Either allow a commonly accepted industry tool, or restrict participants for the duration of the testing.

I remember my grade 6 teacher telling me I won't always have a calculator handy. **gestures broadly out the window.

That's what socializing on the boat, dockside is all about. Some of the fun, little to none of the danger.

But then a lack of healthcare would be self-inflicted and deserved and the racist mysogenist bigots could die with a societal clear conscience.

How did you get the beans above the frank?

Frank and beans!

Arrrgh!

The salmonella and campylobacter laced chicken should reduce demand before the fall harvests.

RFK is installing his brainworm parasites into the food supply, so there is lots of reason to be optomistic about supply and demand becoming balanced.

Then: Remember the outrage and confusion when podunk sherrifs departments in Armpit, Anywhere were getting MRAPs.

Why would the police need war vehicles to police their own people?!?!?

Now: Ahh! Now I get it.

How can they? There is little news left. Just propaganda.

It's why the US will fail, quickly.

Does lemmy have a block limit? Reddit does. I hit it.

Savage. Everyone knows the civilized world wafflestomps in the shower.