It's not just about distance. It's also about the ability to sustain. The Moon might end up being like Antarctica -- with resources always flown in. So the Moon might always be a bunch of research stations supported by the Earth.

Mars is too far to pull this trick off, and telerobotics is much harder there due to the latency. So Mars makes more sense to work on establishing self-sufficiency than the Moon does. It also, conveniently, has a better set of resources to support the same.

But I do agree that we ought to use the Moon to test some things first :)

Already or still ;)

Goblin says: we can arm wrestle for 10%. But I warn you, I am stronger than I look.

Those poor toe beans

My cat loves it when I boot up Stray.

I just watched 45 mins of that video while folding laundry. The result was a dramatic change in the nature of my YouTube ads and recommended videos to promote preppers and pseudoscience. It's amazing how the algorithm works so quickly to push people onto that radicalization treadmill.

Sounds fun. But there's a huge Venn diagram overlap between them and the sovcits, covid-hoax, various types of "truthers" and doomsday cult types. So the target market, if you're marketing to preppers, is not just the clever Doctor Stone cosplayers.

It's never lupus

I rarely judge someone for ignorance unless it is wilful. I pretty harshly judge people who cannot assimilate new information. Over time I think I might be evolving from INTP->INTJ as I age. I used to have more patience and would try to encourage people to learn and adjust.

I run a small business. People in my spam folder have really high opinions of my business. They all want to invest or something... Mostly harvesting my LinkedIn profile for keywords.

If it's a game I'm going to get hundreds, or sometimes thousands of hours from, then I'll pay more. If you look at price per hour spent on entertainment, it's hard to compare. However, you often have to wade through a bunch of shitty overpriced games to find those gems.

Okay, back to EU4 now ;)

So, Stray?

The lighting bothers me. The froth was transient however and I didn't really have time to adjust lighting.

I guess just start posting some stuff there hoping to spawn conversations. I'll do the same, even though I hate the Leafs ;)

Sad to see, but at least it isn't freeze-to-death temperatures there.

What alternatives does Cuba have for energy? You'd figure that it'd be a good choice to set up battery backed solar, but perhaps they don't have the capital to get started?

Jokes aside, I think we should congregate in the team-agnostic hockey community until we grow large enough that team specific communities make sense. Same thing happened on Reddit 15 years ago

No. ;)

Can't remember. But it was worth a picture

Very true. I went in with perhaps unrealistic expectations and didn't enjoy the gameplay loop. When I enjoy a game, I really enjoy a game, with several titles having 1000+ hours.

Someone needs to introduce Bethesda to Markov chain based storytelling if they're going to use procedural generation. Anyway, I digress. I'm looking forward to Outer Worlds 2 ;)

Oh good, some minor regression on those graphs to (checks notes) second worst year since records.