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Yeah people tend to look at the birth velocity and extrapolate as though it is linear, like there's no birth acceleration.
Putting this in physics terms makes it so much easier for me >.>
Integrate the birth acceleration twice and you'll see there's no problem!
How good is the Governor AI?
not really
we have the problem i put above
obvious solutions include
having more shit
and
having less people
not our current tactic, ignore the problem and hope it goes away, now as a man of some leftist leanings, i prefer "have more shit", problem is that requires a few things to happen first, the government getting it's shit together and doing stuff that will provide long term benefit, even if it doesn't produce immediate results that will win them the next election
annnnd
the government getting it's shit together and charging rich people and the private sector some fucking taxes to pay for it rather then letting it be squirreled away in cayman islands accounts like so many bejewelds in vagoos
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Real talk:
Is it basically impossible to not be flabby and/or overweight as a professional chef? I've just always wondered.
Makes Mim get Puerto Rican girl drunk
(I get friendly and sleepy)
Good olive oil is too peppery for sex play.
houston's solution to everything has been to just build bigger highways. you should see the size of I-10 west of the city. it is insane. 1 inside shoulder (1.5 lanes), 2 HOV lanes, 2 lanes of shoulder (to separate the HOV lanes), 5 lanes of traffic, entrance/exit lanes, then 1.5 lanes of shoulder. in both directions. that's a highway that is ~26 lanes wide.
which is fine - building bigger highways solves a problem, and has solved problems adequately for a while in houston, but we're now getting to a point where it is impossible (or near to it) to build bigger roads. highways cannot be widened anymore without buying up land and knocking down businesses and all that.
we need to get smarter about how we move people around. plain and simple. unfortunately local politicians are incapable of being anything but dumb
It is not a profession that supports healthy living.
iirc birth rates are certainly down among whites, but (iirc?) not so among blacks and definitely not so among Hispanics.
This means build more shit.
This doesn't mean that casual thinks the planet will be completely covered in human bodies in 50 years.
Robert Irvine can crush a human skull with his biceps
cool, ordered!
i understand what you're saying, i'm just saying it isn't as sensible a Black/White issue as you were presenting it as. Which was your point, I guess, but still.
I'm not sure there's anything to gain by going over it any more.
So shall we join in a healthy Fuck The Tories cheer?
wtf is this
But I mean as a general rule, the job of Professional Television Chef (which I admit may have zero relation to the actual job of Professional Chef) seems to make staying fit basically impossible, if the TV chefs I've seen are any indication.
That's kind of the source of why conservatives are pushing to try and get the Hispanic vote. Part of their fear is that if the Hispanic vote goes to democrats the conservatives will essentially be bred out of office by the influx of a new voting majority. You can interpret the level of goosery of this thought process as you wish.
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I guess it's more the fact that I can choose to do things and then not follow through, and it makes me pessimistic for my future. Like, I'm 3 years into an IT career and I could have learned Linux or whatever if I'd dedicated my time to doing so, and I'd have much better job prospects, but I just lack followthrough or discipline or something.
Same with hobbies; I pick something up and am enamored and then end up getting bored or frustrated. Ideally, I'd wake up and exercise and go to work and the time I'm not working I'd be using to study instead of puttering around on Reddit or whatever, and in my spare time I'd take an interest (Spanish, DJing, yoga, whatever) and pursue it consistently. The only reason I've kept a consistent Yoga practice is because I've got a weekly commitment to meet at a class with other people, which I feel is less-than-ideal.
I know there has to be a way to shift the balance toward leading this impeccable life, but I don't know what it is. "Just take pills; Adderall master race" doesn't appeal to me for lots of reasons.
Well Irvine and Ramsay were both in reasonably good shape before being TV chefs, but I believe they were both in the military for quite a while which might contribute to it, Ramsay was like a professional soccer player or something
But people who take chef as their first career are generally pretty doughy, although I would wager no more so than office workers
Just saying!
economic status is an equal or better determinant of this statistic
which is one of the myriad problems with that party's approach!
Yes but the cocaine keeps the calories burning. And there are fit professional Chefs. Gordon Ramsey is more of a TV guy/Owner now but he was fit and trim even back in his line days.
Well I mean, it's not untrue.
But demographics will eat them alive regardless, because they've managed to lose basically all young people to the Democratic Party, so as soon as the last of the Boomers die out the RNC will have to shift way to the left in comparison to where it is now. Party identification tends to get locked in early in adulthood, and basically remains fixed (or hardens) throughout the lifespan. This is in direct contrast to the old Churchillian argument that you get more conservative as you get older; more "skin in the game" with a mortgage, kids, etc.
that really seems kinda melodramatic considering that our population is increasing
Not bad. It does pretty well balancing things out and getting planets up to snuff. The nice thing with ships when you design fleets and press the requisition button they will automatically be built from your highest production planets. Which is super useful. Also the empire screen lets you control everything but a building queue for your planets.
Of the governors I find core and industrial work the best. Agricultural and science are meh and don't build a lot.
Also another thing is how population, fertility and richness work.
So when you see a planet and it has 1.3 corn(fertility) and 1.2 hammers(richness) this is basically saying for 1 population you get this much food or production before buildings and taxes. Now taxes don't effect food they do effect science and production. So on this planet you have 1 population doing production and a 50% tax rate. That population will produce .6 hammers every 5 seconds(1 turn). And it will .6 credits every 5 seconds for taxes.
So that is the basic economy stuff. The AI tends to overbuild some planets but at least it doesn't build biodomes on its own anymore which
and killed a few million people
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I hate all these restrictions about who can move where
so fucking frustrating that I want to move to canada or the uk for a few years and it's impossible because of pretend walls
My parents have one. It is pretty terrifying to use.
Yep. Bigger highways are helpful but ideally you'd work to reduce the number of cars on the road by making mass transit attractive to the middle class and not just people who can't afford a car.
I wonder how the cost analysis works out, elevated trains versus an extra 10 lanes of highway.
hmm
this sounds like normal life to me
I mean, I'd kinda like to learn to code and brush up on my HTML/CSS
I need to figure out what I want to be when I grow up, and look for jobs in other cities so I can move
I should start running again even though it sucks, and I like BJJ and should get back into that
when I get home I am mostly tired and just wanna veg out with a movie or play a video game
It just looks awesome.
that is one of the only reasons i like the EU
freedom of movement/residence
apart from that and free trade it's shit in almost every other measurable way
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it's just that they're having a really difficult time pretending to care about hispanic people
I only know extra virgin.
Peppery you say?
Ignorant am I
only from immigrants
which we need more of or Social Security is fucked
I didn't look that up but it felt right so I'm sticking by it
Immigrants who are taking jobs that what is now a essentially service based economy doesn't want to fill but are part of the backbone of our infrastructure? Down a destructive path this idea leads. Though you could be /sarcasm'ing, in which case my bad. And the problem isn't necessarily population size overall as much as it is population density for those lurkers who are reading.
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