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You can turn off a lot of the Civ 4 flash and it will feel more like Civ III. But to each his own. Civ 4 was the first one that really, really hooked me.

This also will end up in the courts and the Supreme Court has long taken the 4th amendment seriously. Conservatives included. I expect this to be struck down.

This is possible… but surely it will be Linux with a walled garden on top. The first clue will be a version of the Xbox running an OS with this model.

I don’t wholly agree with that statement. He repeatedly asked for people to remain peaceful in the run up to J6. Even in his infamous 70 minute speech on the day of (which by the w…

The earths’ resources are finite and we are in a competition for them. Technology and AI make the race for energy even more intense. If your country was as large as the US or China…

Democracy is incredibly hard. If you start believing you can’t get along then society just turns into a rush to slam the Overton window shut on your opposition. Don’t give up hope.…

Yes the US has the same rich people in charge but the President is willing to defy them. He defied them on tariffs and secure arctic access and mineral rights probably align with t…

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Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes, but they were morons No, not without an amendment allowing a third term, but even if there were an amendment probably still a No because he is too old and his …

That’s not how physics works. The amount of energy needed to get two tons of vehicle to move from rest is enormous and that energy was transferred to a human body. The force of a t…

The US would likely not have to fire a single shot. NATO would likely do nothing substantive. No economic repercussions. If anything this is a wake up call for Europe to come to gr…

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Of course it was in our interests to do so. No empire acts otherwise. We do not own the world, but we do own the worlds reserve currency, largest economy, are the guarantors of saf…

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The US wouldn’t attack in an invasion. It would simply start building bases - it doesn’t need the south of Greenland. Just southern enough for a port that can stay open. If we buil…

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Can you please leave this comment on all the posts that state “we need to protest” or “look at the mad king” I don’t see any explanation or opportunity for curious conversation. Wh…

You are correct I was wrong. Comment corrected.

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It’s a pure political discussion. It will get flagged by enough people who don’t want to see politics to remove it from the page.

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You illustrate my point exactly - we are all awful colonialists. No one has a moral claim on Greenland.

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