I seriously believe that wealth factors into weather or not you’re considered low or high functioning.

Take someone who is low functioning and make them stupidily rich and suddenly they’re treated like they aren’t on the spectrum at all.

Yup, first and foremost, figure out your gameplay loops.

Get that right and you can pretty it all up later.

Engage the core.

The time when they had to upload a virus to the Packlad ship.

Some of it is, especially the peanut butter.

Burger King just hasn’t died yet.

Spouses can move to the village, it’s just that the children never leave.

At least one parent was born in the village.

The thing is, Left vs Right is already a measure of authoritarian vs Democratic.

The original use of the terms comes from the French Revolution. There was a vote on if the King should have an absolute veto over laws passed by the assembly. Those who said no sat to the left of the Speakers podium. Those who said yes sat on the right.

The reason why left and right were applied to economic policy was because Marx described Communism as a form of extreme Democracy. Whereas Capitalism concentrates power into the hands of a select few.

It’s still a measure of where the power rests. In the hands of the people or the hands of the state/leader.

You can break it down to dozens of categories, but it’s all authoritarian vs Democratic in the end.

As a note, Lenin style single party “communism” is about as far from Marx’s ideal as you can get.

Dictators and Kings are all the enemies of the people.

Ah yes, the Noem Chomsky. Famously when he was defending Pol Pot’s regime.

Ah, Cato the Elder. He had a good cheesecake recipe, but was otherwise a complete jackass.

There’s a news article linked in another comment.

It was real, and 100 people were fired.

Nope. This is real and the company straight up fired over 100 people.

I’ve seen some of the same estimates. I settled on 2K because that’s what is estimated to have survived the To a supervolcano. Or rather the non-African population that survived.

Homosapiens in Africa actually did quite well comparatively.

It’s quite a bit less functional. There have been dozens of high profile outages and service interruptions.

His unit was actually involved in some war crimes. Then he went on fox to defend war crimes.

Humans are pretty resilient. Adaptable to any climate, even the mess of a climate we created.

Now, I’m not saying that all 8 billion of us will survive.

What I’m saying is, the minimum viable genetic population for humans is about 2000 individuals.

There have been CANDU reactors online for decades…

It was the reactor of choice for something like 20 years, before falling out of fashion.

MSRs are good, but are Thorium only, which wasn’t fashionable until recently.

See, prior to about 10-15 years ago, the automatic answer to “how do you get a lot of power in a water poor area” was fossil fuels. Now we have options. Nuclear is one of them, but we need to dust off some older tech and bring it up to modern standards.

That takes time, but less then inventing new types of battery that can handle grid loads.

The only difference between a test reactor and a live reactor is attaching a turbine.

But that article was talking about one specific type of reactor. The Molten Salt Reactor. Those are good. Completely walk away safe. They also are key for having nuclear power in areas with little water. But they’re not the only type of reactor that uses Thorium.

CANDU reactors can burn thorium. It was part of the design specifications. They can also burn natural uranium. i.e. unenriched.

We have centuries worth of Thorium in mine tailings alone.

It’s considered a waste product, but can easily be used for power, China already has a Thorium power plant up and running. The US had a Thorium test reactor in the 60s.

Centralized power is perfectly fine if your power is state run.

After all, natural monopolies should be socialized and run at cost.

And with the advent of small modular reactors, you can even decentralize your power.

A small reactor can have a building the size of gas station can power a small city, and the reactor will be small enough that it’s literally impossible for it to melt down.

Sadly, regulations in the US (and many US allied nations) incentivise large and large plants that take forever to build and require custom parts which drive up the cost even more.