same.

but… no all is full of love robo bjork?

yeahhhh, had family that worked for godiva. some of it was rather nice but again, their product chain wasn’t conflict free for a long time and I don’t like slavery choco.

Ladkris

looks fancy. prob can’t afford it.

can afford a few Tony’s Chocolonely here and there, and that’s enough. fucking fantastic stuff.

Denmark

but, but you have real chocolate in denmark… why allow such an affront?

until deprived of tea.

then they’re special monsters.

eh. you know what? let em.

The feds (and white men) have fucked them around for 400 years. Let 'em grift everything they can.

there are loads of way to store energy that don’t involve batteries. pumped hydro is excellent, for example. but there’s also flywheels, thermal salt, and a dozen other ways.

trust me, if we’d had a visionary in the white house instead of trump, we could have figured out some possible solutions to pursue.

instead we’re gonna waste more than a decade playing fuckaround while china builds thorium reactors, fusion, high speed rail to mongolia etc

at this point I suspect they’re also buying air time to deny it to other outfits like Lincoln Project.

ding dong the bitch is dead

iirc he was a musician before this gig so… yeah, hard working blue collar stuff rrwwarr ford tuff hemi merika fuckyea

eh…

mike rowe’s full of shit. don’t think for a moment any of those jobs were made up though.

Man now I miss cash cab…

650 years ago steel was pretty common.

common but still cottage industry forged. a fiefdom would break up tasks to smaller smiths to forge chain for mail, or steel billets for creating axe heads.

Copper, silver and gold were used for coins and jewelry.

in small quantities and with considerable value, yes. you’re not going to wander up to some trader and say "gimme 300 furlongs of your shiny copper wire’ lol. and how would you buy it if you could? you have no specie, no tender beyond half knowing a bunch of kinda true science factoids.

for example, the baghdad battery is rather contested as to it’s actual purpose. Konig hypothesizes that it was a battery due to finding thin layers of gold he assumed were electroplated. Read the wikipedia article, these ideas aren’t really supported by a lot of the other evidence.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baghdad_Battery

This is a problem that can be solved with storage. But storage is expensive and takes time to construct.

true. thing is, they’ve seen it coming for a decade, and knew it needed to happen. It shames me that we’re just now trying to pick up the storage side when we’ve had ample evidence the need was growing rapidly.

People were mining, smelting, and forging many metals 650 years ago.

yep, 3000bc+ going back to copper and bronze.

but there’s a tremendous jump from being able to smelt metal in small quantities - obtaining enough ores for each, for example, is probably more than one person work to produce anything usable. smelting, gathering wood or other fuel, building ovens and water wheels etc… and no one to call on for expertise…

hard couple of decades to produce some wire :D

primitive technology youtube channel has him trying to make iron for a few years with everything handmade. watch it to see what you’d be up against.

It’s an alternate timeline where Jessica had a daughter instead of a sun

this is what the bene wanted. a daughter Atreides to mate with Feyd Rutha Harkonnen - but Jessica wanted to satisfy Leto.

and Leto defeated the Harkoenens during their invasion, so Leto rules over Arrakis for the indefinite future, leaving space in the story for fetch quests and base building.

uhhh so this is an entirely different fiction huh

Apparently the firemen disappeared too, so you have to solve the mystery.

I suspect you mean fremen…

why even bother licensing the story if they’re determined to change everything?

how strange

more plausible than anything else I suppose

… a dune mmo?

who thought this was a good idea?

love the frank herbert books. I thought the recent movies were ok. But MMO? what a strange fit for this universe… unless billions of the players die in the jihad lol

sometimes assholes aren’t aware but yeah this seems… like wasting time

there’s always time for polonium tea.