You can’t? I can think of 20 of them who all have a better chance to win than Biden, who now has a zero chance to win.

Did you watch it? I’m 100% for the Democrats but Biden is incoherent, he is not up for the job. From what I saw he isn’t up to doing the job through November. He needs to step down immediately. If he doesn’t Trump is going to win.

No one who saw that debate was inspired by Biden, no one. Ok maybe 1 out of 100, maybe. But 99 of them were not. Gaslighting won’t help, the goose is cooked.

If Biden is the head of the ticket he’s going to lose. Full stop.

Whatever that dish is I bet it’s damn good. I miss food like that.

Cool cool, everyone is leaving, sigh… thanks for the info!

Cool cool, everyone is leaving, sigh… thanks for the info!

Cool cool, everyone is leaving, sigh… thanks for the info!

Hmm, thank you for the info! I can’t get to settings though as I can’t get past the account setup stage, I’ll try to sign up on desktop.

For your trivia, Mullvad works great for me in China, better than Astrill these days. I use and test multiple just to know and have backups.

Wow sounds like a cool niche and activity!

Does Proton VPN not work in China? I’m trying to use it for the first time on iPhone, both directly and via my already-known-good VPN (Mullvad) but I can’t get the first connection to make an account started either way.

This might not be helpful, in that case sorry, but the idea that came to my mind first was:

Do something every day that’s a little uncomfortable and out of your comfort zone that helps your own progress. Do it every day, even if just a little bit, like study or work out or some bit of work on a personal project. If you do it every day you can build up to something.

I had a boss who was older but studying for her masters, and was lamenting it was discouraging being the oldest person in the class doing it. The prof told her “well, you’ll either turn 50 with the masters degree or without it, which do you prefer?”

That’s a good setup.

Is this the Sarah Lazarus who is a writer on Lovett or Leave It? She seems so amazing and super funny to me.

Oh shit, 50 comes a lot faster and is a lot younger than you might think.

Damn you’re tight like a tiger, what kind of working out you do?

Control = More Power

I agree, I don’t think they’d wait until the last possible moment when the civilization becomes super powerful or builds the mega weapon. I just mention it along the range of development to highlight the why.

I think they might let weaker civilizations keep going, though, just out of hope they wouldn’t be too mean. Also, zapping other civilizations when you don’t need to exposes yourself and your own aggression.

About the shift to VR /computer substrate worlds that wouldn’t have huge footprints, I agree that not all would do that, and it only takes one to go the big building and footprint route and it’s weird we don’t see it.

My guess then would be that maybe they do build big, but they just conceal well…? You get good enough tech at some point you can choose to be hard to see.

Holy moly,

Yep exactly. Who knows how murderous other civs might be, maybe they’re nice but maybe not.