As well, the end result of the "yes or no" answer style "democracy" is that you're given two options and have to choose between those options.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/9476138/chapters/22352399 is a very amusing, almost satirical, take on a revolution.
"this kid's lucky to have a mother that'll say 'screw the rules, I need to take care of my kid'"
It depends on your definition of "dirty water."
When agriculture was invented, it created large numbers of people in one place. This pollutes water, mostly because humans shit all over the place and then dump it in the river. This happened to a much greater extent when we industrialized, with coal dust and other toxins getting into the water supply. Which we now need to (and do) filter out.
This wasn't a concern for most of Earth's existence, and, in many remote places, still isn't a concern. (I'm thinking Arctic here, there's no significant human or industrial presence.)
It's also a matter of immune system. If you're drinking unfiltered water your entire life, you're going to build up a natural resistance to whatever bacteria may be in that water. This can be seen in modern-day - when many tourists go to somewhere with lower water quality, they'll get stomachaches from the water because they're not used to it. (I had that problem when I spent a summer in Warsaw, frex.)
TCG event was mostly fine, really didn't care for the ending. All that mystery and it's a bunch of stupid Treasure Hoarders? 1.3 all over again. I don't like the TCG, but at least the event was only themed and you didn't have to play much of it.
I normally like the events with the bosses and all their buffs, but not this one - I just really hate the Thundering Manifestation.
Domain builder was eh. Never cared for events where you can't bring your own characters, or they're extremely nerfed, and it's not combat- or story-focused, so...
I was wondering when someone would start discriminating based on what instance you made your account on...
There's probably someone out there that rewrote the Inazuma archon quest... If I trusted myself, I'd do it myself.
Honestly, I don't like a lot of character's voices. I played on mute for so long that I've built up what they sound like in my head, and then the VAs don't sound anything like it. Xiao particularly.
Other than that... 95% of the women in this game are low-effort waifu bait. Like really, I'd pull for some of them if they bothered making them interesting. I was planning to pull for Kokomi... well, the Kokomi we thought she was before we met her.
There's some quote - I can't remember how it goes, something along the lines of "the job of an anti-imperialist is to protest their own empire, as everyone agrees that the other empire is bad."
Ships
What's this community's thoughts on shipping? I remember Reddit being quite hostile towards it, and I'm hoping it's changed over here.
Edit: good to see you're all reasonable people.
The energy required to get out of Earth's orbit is exactly the problem. You can run fifty missions to the asteroid belt from Earth. Or you can send one big mission to Mars, including all the advanced hardware that's needed for them to run asteroid missions. They can then produce the rough equipment, including fuel (CO/O2 fuel can be produced on Mars quite easily, and once a source of water can be found, so can CH4/O2, and the color comes from all the iron) and then they can send fifty missions to the asteroid belt. What you're saving is the effort it would require to get all that rough material out of Earth's gravity.
You're probably not wrong about that. But one of the great values of Mars from a capitalist perspective is that it's really easy to get to the Asteroid Belt from there and easy to send mined materials home from there. IMO, Mars will be an outpost from which to mine asteroids before anything else.
I had paragraphs in when I was writing it. I guess I need to double-space them? One moment... there we go.
On Space Exploration and Colonization
One of the commonly-referenced triumphs of the USSR is their commanding lead throughout most of the Space Race - first launched satellite, first man in space, first woman in space, first rover on Mars, etc. And that's with half the economy of the US - as the saying goes, feudalism to space age in forty years.
But I'm not here to discuss the past. I'm here to discuss the present and the future - unfortunately, one in which the USSR no longer exists. What do we think of space exploration and eventually colonization before the next revolution?
First, on colonization. On Earth, the problem with colonization is that there are people already living there. On Mars, on Europa, on the Moon, finding current intelligent life is unlikely. (It's not impossible, but I doubt it, as do most scientists. If intelligent life is discovered, ) And in a case where there is no intelligent life already there to repress, kill, and steal land from, colonialism is not necessarily a bad thing.
The explorati
GreenAndPleasant managed this by creating a breakaway sub, GreenAndExtreme - the idea being that it was a pipeline, get the libs interested in Pleasant and radicalized in Extreme. Didn't really work, then they managed a proper crackdown on libs in the main sub.