amniotic druid

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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • I guess now that I have a Shield versus a PS5 in my living room, I should give it another try, but I really have never cared much about all the features I don’t use as long as the ones I do are still there, and they are.

    I pay for the monthly subscription and still feel like it’s a good value. I cringe at the people who say stuff like “I bought a lifetime pass in 2014 for $60 but don’t like all the new features!” like that kind of unsustainable consumption isn’t exactly what pushes them towards more monetization and Plex is still the only company I can think of to have ever actually honored that purchase. No shame though, it was a great deal for early adopters.

    And PlexAmp alone justifies putting up with some of the BS, at least for now.

    Just my thoughts












  • This is true and I was mostly just being pedantic. What I was trying to say is that 99% of modern colonization as been mercantilism. Even the few exceptions to this aren’t relevant because self-reliance on the Moon is almost nonexistent. There’s very little “dogmatic” justification for it, too. There’s no fresh continent of non-believers to convert and the Church is certainly in no position to sponsor missions regardless.

    The moon offers very little cost-effective extractive industry, at least not without some wild discoveries or decades (centuries?) of infrastructure buildout. There is an almost-garaunteed $0 immediate ROI.

    Whatever happens there would probably be closer to Antarcitc research outposts than the New World colonial craze. Nonnational scientific stations whose funding ebbs and flows with the geopolitical dickwagging of a handful of terrestial superpowers.