Congratulations on getting out! I do not envy you for having to make that decision. But not everybody has the means for emigration though. So hopefully they can stop that madness sooner than later.

Protests in the way they are currently done in the USA are meaningless, that’s why I added meaningful in front of it. If the protest is scheduled to end after 6 hours and happens every few weeks, why should the government care?

And don’t come with the “we are economically scared and don’t have enough funds for that” bullshit. Do you think the people protesting the socialist governments at the end of the 80s under fear of being taken prisoner had a big secure funding or did they protest because they were fed up with their situation and protested as long as necessary to bring down their dictators?

Do you think the people protesting the islamist governments in the Arab Spring under fear of being taken prisoner had a big secure funding or did they protest because they were fed up with their situation and protested as long as necessary to bring down their dictators?

That is one possibility, staging meaningful protests are another, less violent variant. At this point all USA citizen are complacent. After WW2 the only good Germans were those in the resistance.

Well, there are two songs which I think answer your question:

We didn’t start the Fire

And

Besuchen sie Europa, solange es noch steht

Which is a song about visiting Europe before it will be destroyed by the then assumed imminent nuclear war.

The Wizard of the Emerald City and it’s series from Alexander Melentyevich Volkov. The first story was a nearly 100 % ripoff of The Wizard of Oz and later books also contain some ideas from the original stories from Baum, but Volkov also created a lot on his own in the sequels. And I love the world he created. I especially like that villains were portrayed in a manner that made sense. While there also were some archetypical “I’m capital E Evil” the character of Urfin was fascinating to me as a child, as it was one of the first instances of a multidimensional charactersi experienced as child. He was an overly ambitious but smart person in a fairy tale village where everybody else was content with their simple life. And that discrepancy was the start of his road to villainhood.

Oh wow, those are nice pieces. And great to see you inspired the next generation as well!

I have enough unplayed games for years. And I haven’t even bought all games that interest me on my wishlist.

So to answer your question: I think it will work long enough till AI either implodes or is big enough that the state forces you to connect your brain implant to it.

Oh for sure! I just thought in their heads was a certain kind of business savvyness to reach their position. But it seems they just hear the echo of their own voice.

This is so dumb. I never believed the hype around CEOs, but I still thought they needed to have something, anything, to reach their position.

But the artificial dumbness time really reveals how many of them had simply dumb luck and no morals. And that was apparently enough for all of human history because their underlings protected them from acting too stupid. And now they think they don’t need those underlings anymore. Well, at least I can laugh myself to death before the climate wars.

And told him to read more theory!

The translation is a bit off, OP posted the original German version and there it said that the king says not to press the red button, the one that destroys the whole world. So you are right that pressing the button will kill him too.

Now I’m curious: is there any story about the non raptured people on earth building a paradise on earth after the crazies left?

Let’s try to explain compression with a mathematical example:

You have the numbers 10, 35, 56 and 59. You form an average out of those values, which is 40. Now you give that average number to me. You tell me it’s made up of 4 numbers and ask me what those numbers were. I can form a guess, based on other examples you send me before and told me afterwards what numbers were in there. But I will at most randomly guess the right values by chance.

Compression is not different from this example, were the mathematical numbers represent colors.

Thank you for that link. Now I’m surprised I haven’t seen it used in a meme yet.

They still approved Trump’s candidates, they still caved in and let the budget through instead of twisting Trump’s balls. They still don’t really use state forces to police ICE and stop them from doing Gestapo shit.

So as an outsider, yes, the Democrat party showed in the last year that they (as a party, some members are active opposition) are not in opposition to Trump in my opinion.

I agree on the first part, but disagree on the second.

haha is more like saying it without changing your facial muscles. hahaha is then the normal laughter and hahahaha is the crazy psychopath, let’s back away fast with more ha’ equaling to more running speed.

Ooohh, yeah now it makes more sense. I saw it exactly like you.

Small typo there, your autocorrect misspelled ‘burn down’ as ‘regulate’.

Good News! Valve apparently thinks the same and are working on a visual novel for the heroes in order to tell their stories. I’m really looking forward to that as well.

I disagree. Avoiding media because of certain themes is perfectly fine. I for example will not play games like Hatred or Nazi Games, no matter how good they could be. It’s the kind of themes they try to avoid which show how scared they are of everybody around them.