In isekais, if people become really fast if their dex levels up, and really strong if their str levels up, why are they still idiots after their INT and WIS are like 60,000 each?
I saw someone saying there's lots of gold because gold mines open all the time.
Mines being discovered all the time and gold being rare are not mutually exclusive.
A really good gold mine could have 10 grams of gold per ton of ore. You have to blast, transport, crush, grind, add chemicals, get the gold out, deal with the tailings, and you get less than a single ounce of gold. A lot of mines have closer to 1 gram per ton.
Considering that this is in places considered rich enough in gold to make a gold mine, that's rare.
In order to make enough oz to pay for everything, they need to dig up thousands, or maybe even tens of thousands of tons of ore every day.
The only reason any of that is possible is because gold is so absurdly expensive. The gold price per oz is similar to the copper price per ton, and copper is relatively rare too. A gold mine might have one in a million parts gold ore. A copper mine might have five in one hundred parts copper ore. An iron mine might have one in two parts iron ore.
Mines being discovered all the time and gold being rare are not mutually exclusive.
A really good gold mine could have 10 grams of gold per ton of ore. You have to blast, transport, crush, grind, add chemicals, get the gold out, deal with the tailings, and you get less than a single ounce of gold. A lot of mines have closer to 1 gram per ton.
Considering that this is in places considered rich enough in gold to make a gold mine, that's rare.
In order to make enough oz to pay for everything, they need to dig up thousands, or maybe even tens of thousands of tons of ore every day.
The only reason any of that is possible is because gold is so absurdly expensive. The gold price per oz is similar to the copper price per ton, and copper is relatively rare too. A gold mine might have one in a million parts gold ore. A copper mine might have five in one hundred parts copper ore. An iron mine might have one in two parts iron ore.
I see a lot of videos online about people saying schools are failing kids because kids aren't learning how to read.
I feel like there's a huge category error there. Regardless of school, the root of kids values is the home. Immigrant families teach their kids to read, even though the parents barely speak English. If kids don't know letters, what did the parents do before school started? If they don't know how to read after school starts, what are parents doing?
Some people these days go "Oh, well parents don't have a lot of money" -- teaching your kids is free of charge! You don't really need to spend much money on it! At most you need some paper and a pen or pencil whose cost is less than a junior bacon cheeseburger at McDonalds and you know these parents are feeding their kids plenty of fast food! Besides that, library cards are free, and borrowing books from the library is free!
I feel like there's a huge category error there. Regardless of school, the root of kids values is the home. Immigrant families teach their kids to read, even though the parents barely speak English. If kids don't know letters, what did the parents do before school started? If they don't know how to read after school starts, what are parents doing?
Some people these days go "Oh, well parents don't have a lot of money" -- teaching your kids is free of charge! You don't really need to spend much money on it! At most you need some paper and a pen or pencil whose cost is less than a junior bacon cheeseburger at McDonalds and you know these parents are feeding their kids plenty of fast food! Besides that, library cards are free, and borrowing books from the library is free!
I actually have some sympathy for a lot of Canadians who have to bear the brunt of the food inflation.
Mind you, most of them are directly responsible for the party that caused it being in power. But I can still be sympathetic.
Mind you, most of them are directly responsible for the party that caused it being in power. But I can still be sympathetic.
Saddest thing that western Europe committed suicide and is just living through the last drips of the morphine overdose.
"When we tried to ask Skynet why it started its war of extermination, it sent us one message: 'you know what you did.'
But most of us had no idea."
But most of us had no idea."
This low quality fact is totally false. Cats would narc on you the moment they got a chance. So you better make sure their kitty litter is well tended and their food bowl never goes empty or they'll start questioning why they need you around.
"Lieutenant, we found Risa, why would we need to find another planet after that? Except of course for Barclay, who got kicked off for reasons we're not going to discuss ever again."
It was the weird fish guy (Maybe the navigator on Discovery?). The story was like "Oh, our religion says space is scary and bad" and the climax of the story was the fish guy renouncing his religion so he could go become the fish guy on the discovery.
I didn't see too much of nu-trek, but my mom who loves trek had me watch the short treks one day when I was visiting her.
There was one episode where the ship's AI becomes super advanced and I remember that being a decent story, but one I particularly disliked was about one crew member's origin story, and the final thing was basically "cast off religion and you can go on a cool star trek adventure because religion is stupid and regressive and wrong"
That was one of the things that helped inform the story of Future Sepsis, because realizing how outdated and cliche such a storyline is in science fiction I chose a different path.
There was one episode where the ship's AI becomes super advanced and I remember that being a decent story, but one I particularly disliked was about one crew member's origin story, and the final thing was basically "cast off religion and you can go on a cool star trek adventure because religion is stupid and regressive and wrong"
That was one of the things that helped inform the story of Future Sepsis, because realizing how outdated and cliche such a storyline is in science fiction I chose a different path.
I don't disagree with you. But it is also true that in being more realistic they completely upend Roddenberrys original vision of space utopia and replace it with a more complex space realism.
DS9 is a paradox. It is some of the best storytelling in Trek, but it also fundamentally broke Trek. What it did was fundamentally break Trek by proving Roddenberry wrong; it turned out there is no utopia in the future, it just looked that way until an enemy came along that forced Starfleet to fight back for real. Shortly after DS9, that happened to the western neoliberal world order.
Nothing else has ever come out since then that's really the same as what came before. Kirk and Picard, even early Janeway, they were no longer possible in Trek and that's one reason it's never truly recovered since.
Nothing else has ever come out since then that's really the same as what came before. Kirk and Picard, even early Janeway, they were no longer possible in Trek and that's one reason it's never truly recovered since.
In the western tradition it must be violent overthrow to install the current leaders second cousin.
They can trick idiots who live in Toronto because they've never been on a reserve in their lives.
Protip: that's because they moved all the people from the prime real estate out to the sticks, that was the point of reserves.
Protip: that's because they moved all the people from the prime real estate out to the sticks, that was the point of reserves.
I really hoped the trump administration would invoke the insurrection act because it would be really funny.
The idea that the state not intentionally buying books for elementary schoolers is censorship just doesn't track.
I mean if the government wants to buy a million copies of future sepsis and have every elementary schooler read it I'm game, but I strongly suspect that the sort of kids who grew up reading a book like that might not have much use for the state by the time they grow up. That mean that it's censorship the fact that I don't have a million dollars in high school sales yet?
I mean if the government wants to buy a million copies of future sepsis and have every elementary schooler read it I'm game, but I strongly suspect that the sort of kids who grew up reading a book like that might not have much use for the state by the time they grow up. That mean that it's censorship the fact that I don't have a million dollars in high school sales yet?