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Does have the caveat that ammo is extremely strictly constrained, but then that's often the case for inner-city gangs as well from how wild black market prices get.

And the relevant infrastructure is exactly what Google is the nearest use-case for, hence completing searches in fractions of a second. Latency reduction at this point is mostly about signal processing clockspeed, motherboard bottlenecks, and directness of the physical wires. And there's so few...

It's already been tried with Stadia, the issue is that the fundamentals of the infrastructure have latency problems for gameplay purposes. There's netcode wizardry to disguise parts of it, but the time it takes for the control inputs to reach the server means pure server-side is going to be...

By baking yellowcake, in the culinary sense.

The economy needs a predictable money supply to run efficiently instead of having noisy loss from price fluctuations due to unplanned changes, and fiscal policy driven inflation is predictable while the savings-spending it disincentivizes is not. If a Beenie Baby crazy kicked off in a...

The point is that the big scary number that @Carrot of Truth thinks "will never be payed back" has always been payed back on a per-loan basis, only really took off after arresting a housing market collapse, and began going down within months of the recent crisis spending spike. It is not...

...Treasury bonds are literally labeled by how long they last. A 5-year bond is payed back five years from being issued, period. The legislation they constantly modify to raise the debt ceiling is not required to take out any new debt, it is required to take out additional debts that increase...

No, it goes back long before dropping the gold standard because padding the budget with debt is always useful lubrication, continuous inflation just makes it a lot better because old debts are actively easier to pay off. So long as the economy expands in some way the government can tax, it's a...

The trick of it is that it's a running total, where on a per-loan basis it's consistently payed back. As the US government operates with no expectation of stopping and the bonds most of this works with are securitized for High Finance shenanigans, such an "eventually" is fine for the creditors.

The image is not idiomatic in the slightest. The entire point of the image is to be very literal about such as the reason why the hypothetical technology is bad. The issues I take with the technical dependencies of gradually increasing replacements for extreme resuscitation until the...

Besides the "why in the very literal goddamn is this the first remotely significant evidence I'm getting of it after multiple generations of the general assumption being strict materialism" issue in the meme itself making a comprehensive joke of any remotely useful guidance from God existing in...

Eh, the foregrip-trigger sounds like an ergonomic nightmare, whatever it's a "bullit button" for.

Between the two World Wars, you have a similar period to the 30 Years' War. That's what I was referring to. The World Wars still had around a third of the death total being due to famine and disease despite (actually often because of) the outright carpet-bombing going around. The point being...

They're certainly less common when society starts asking questions before actually breaking down, and take longer into breaking down to start seeing large-scale violence. Murderous purges are rather standard for religious upheavals as seen with Rome's treatment of Christians and the Reformation...

So that arguements about theological minutia don't turn into bloodbaths and systemic legal headaches  again. As I bring up frequently, the reason that the US Federal government is able to declare gay marriage legal is entirely because of churches refusing to accept marriages by clergy of other...

No, the first bit is "We shouldn't do X", which follows with Person B being rather visibly correct because Person A usually doesn't even try to have a secular reasoning.

Well, not "normal" per say given the obvious reproductive matters meaning it needs to be a severe minority, but the sheer totality of it happening in every species able to do such is a major indicator that it's in the camp of "have fun trying to stop it without making worse happen".

"Vague default Christian", to the best of my awareness. Childhood memories are quite limited, but have basically just a daycare service for expressly-Christian activities. Not even the weekly service. Best guess is that my dad took extremely poorly to a deeper expressly-Christian education and...

Partly as a result of looking at ethics as an unsolved problem, partly as a result of "not my problem", partly as a result of my indescribable hatred of the Papacy. Differing partial solutions are expected, aligning them in an outside group is a massive pain in the ass liable to cause severe...

Explicitly contradictory to its moral foundations, but then taking parts of its ethics far away from sense. Christianity specifically denying kings any special exception from morality is a divergence from the preceding commonality of god-kings and religious justifications that enormous...