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"Enemy rebels within range sir!"
"Fire the port turbolaser batteries. Release the TIE fighters."
 
*Chinese Su-27s explode, the rest scattered by F-18s.*

It's almost all hypothetical. Besides carbon, silicon and boron/boron-nitrogen based life has been explored, while using a variety of solvents like ammonia, hydrogen flouride, and methane. The reoccuring theme though is that carbon based life outcompetes other forms in water rich enviroments across a wide range of temperatures, and there is really only edge cases for things like silane life at extremely low temperatures in an ammonia/methane enviroment [silane life cannot interact with carbon life, everything that sustains carbon life would cause a silane lifeform to burst into flames]. Titan is a really fertile ground for silane lifeforms, but it's possible carbon based life still outperforms it even in such an enviroment.
 
Finding not only life but silane lifeforms on Titan would be huge though and would honestly be compelling evidence life of some kind will persist somewhere no matter how extreme and that the process of abiogensis to biogensis is a standard planetary process.

I think the more amusing scenario would have been the US not participating in forming the treaty, Iran getting even more favorable terms with Russians and Chinese arms manufacturers, and getting pretty much 90% of the trade it needed while the US misses out on developing a nonvolatile relationship with Iran. The deal is better than basically every other achievable outcome.

Raising the minimum wage is fine as a current solution, the costs of wage are a tiny portion of a companies expenditure and wouldn't necessitate a equivalent increase of the price in goods. The company can eat it and deal with the fact they won't be subsidized by government support for workers (which is basically how Walmart etal treat food stamps, housing and heat assistance), and in doing so actually lowers the necessary tax burden on middle and lower income brackets.
 
I think a longterm solution is the abolition of the minimum wage, the implementation of a maximum wage, being aggressive on going after tax havens, increasing taxes for outsourcing, public data on wages and salary for any given job, a UBI, universal housing, and universal healthcare.

Raising the minimum wage is fine as a current solution, the costs of wage are a tiny portion of a companies expenditure and wouldn't necessitate a equivalent increase of the price in goods. The company can eat it and deal with the fact they won't be subsidized by government support for workers (which is basically how Walmart etal treat food stamps, housing and heat assistance), and in doing so actually lowers the necessary tax burden on middle and lower income brackets.
 
I think a longterm solution is the abolition of the minimum wage, the implementation of a maximum wage, being aggressive on going after tax havens, increasing taxes for outsourcing, public data on wages and salary for any given job, a UBI, universal housing, and universal healthcare.

Raising the minimum wage is fine as a current solution, the costs of wage are a tiny portion of a companies expenditure and wouldn't necessitate a equivalent increase of the price in goods. The company can eat it and deal with the fact they won't be subsidized by government support for workers (which is basically how Walmart etal treat food stamps, housing and heat assistance), and in doing so actually lowers the necessary tax burden on middle and lower income brackets.
 
I think a longterm solution is the abolition of the minimum wage, the implementation of a maximum wage, being aggressive on going after tax havens, increasing taxes for outsourcing, public data on wages and salary for any given job, a UBI, universal housing, and universal healthcare.

I don't see the point in getting mad at executive agreements in this case. Moving to treaty would have resulted in something unworkable, the US excluding itself from the deal, and Iran getting 90% of what it wants with basically no concessions.
 
China desperately wants Best Korea to die. They're a cancerous appendix and the only reason China doesn't do something now is, yes, a humanitarian/refugee crisis. The US/Better Korea in the case of reopened warfare, won't make it to Pyongyang because the Chinese will already be there. As far as Iran though, China wants to compete with Russia for influence, and promises of arms and funding in exchange for oil and gas and regional influence. To let China and Russia do this is a huge security risk to US interests and can't be ignored. In fact, it'd be beyond negligent to do so while Iran is starting to face it's millennial demographic crisis which is pushing it away from China and Russia - literally defeat from jaws of victory there.
 
China is cleaning up it's act actually, but shit like the overhyped Fukushima disaster actually slowed China down in nuclear development (fuck hippies). Those hedge fund managers though? Getting their shit wrecked as China's economy implodes while the US is on the upswing. The US is actually in a good vantage point to refocus the world economy on itself since it'd actually be the least hurt (like .5% reduce growth at best) by China imploding, making America a safe haven again for physical investment and tremendously boosting the US economy post Chinese collapse. China can't even pull devaluement shenanigans to up trade, because the collapse has more to do with internal economic factors (their workers being treated like shit, the pollution, the vast overvaluing of property and businesses, etc).

I don't see the point in getting mad at executive agreements in this case. Moving to treaty would have resulted in something unworkable, the US excluding itself from the deal, and Iran getting 90% of what it wants with basically no concessions.
 
China desperately wants Best Korea to die. They're a cancerous appendix and the only reason China doesn't do something now is, yes, a humanitarian/refugee crisis. The US/Better Korea in the case of reopened warfare, won't make it to Pyongyang because the Chinese will already be there. As far as Iran though, China wants to compete with Russia for influence, and promises of arms and funding in exchange for oil and gas and regional influence. To let China and Russia do this is a huge security risk to US interests and can't be ignored. In fact, it'd be beyond negligent to do so while Iran is starting to face it's millennial demographic crisis which is pushing it away from China and Russia - literally defeat from jaws of victory there.
 
China is cleaning up it's act actually, but shit like the overhyped Fukushima disaster actually slowed China down in nuclear development (fuck hippies). Those hedge fund managers though? Getting their shit wrecked as China's economy implodes while the US is on the upswing. The US is actually in a good vantage point to refocus the world economy on itself since it'd actually be the least hurt (like .5% reduce growth at best) by China imploding, making America a safe haven again for physical investment and tremendously boosting the US economy post Chinese collapse. China can't even pull devaluement shenanigans to up trade, because the collapse has more to do with internal economic factors (their workers being treated like shit, the pollution, the vast overvaluing of property and businesses, etc).

I think the more amusing scenario would have been the US not participating in forming the treaty, Iran getting even more favorable terms with Russians and Chinese arms manufacturers, and getting pretty much 90% of the trade it needed while the US misses out on developing a nonvolatile relationship with Iran. The deal is better than basically every other achievable outcome.

I don't see the point in getting mad at executive agreements in this case. Moving to treaty would have resulted in something unworkable, the US excluding itself from the deal, and Iran getting 90% of what it wants with basically no concessions.
 
China desperately wants Best Korea to die. They're a cancerous appendix and the only reason China doesn't do something now is, yes, a humanitarian/refugee crisis. The US/Better Korea in the case of reopened warfare, won't make it to Pyongyang because the Chinese will already be there. As far as Iran though, China wants to compete with Russia for influence, and promises of arms and funding in exchange for oil and gas and regional influence. To let China and Russia do this is a huge security risk to US interests and can't be ignored. In fact, it'd be beyond negligent to do so while Iran is starting to face it's millennial demographic crisis which is pushing it away from China and Russia - literally defeat from jaws of victory there.
 
China is cleaning up it's act actually, but shit like the overhyped Fukushima disaster actually slowed China down in nuclear development (fuck hippies). Those hedge fund managers though? Getting their shit wrecked as China's economy implodes while the US is on the upswing. The US is actually in a good vantage point to refocus the world economy on itself since it'd actually be the least hurt (like .5% reduce growth at best) by China imploding, making America a safe haven again for physical investment and tremendously boosting the US economy post Chinese collapse. China can't even pull devaluement shenanigans to up trade, because the collapse has more to do with internal economic factors (their workers being treated like shit, the pollution, the vast overvaluing of property and businesses, etc).

I think the more amusing scenario would have been the US not participating in forming the treaty, Iran getting even more favorable terms with Russians and Chinese arms manufacturers, and getting pretty much 90% of the trade it needed while the US misses out on developing a nonvolatile relationship with Iran. The deal is better than basically every other achievable outcome.

I don't see the point in getting mad at executive agreements in this case. Moving to treaty would have resulted in something unworkable, the US excluding itself from the deal, and Iran getting 90% of what it wants with basically no concessions.
 
China desperately wants Best Korea to die. They're a cancerous appendix and the only reason China doesn't do something now is, yes, a humanitarian/refugee crisis. The US/Better Korea in the case of reopened warfare, won't make it to Pyongyang because the Chinese will already be there. As far as Iran though, China wants to compete with Russia for influence, and promises of arms and funding in exchange for oil and gas and regional influence. To let China and Russia do this is a huge security risk to US interests and can't be ignored. In fact, it'd be beyond negligent to do so while Iran is starting to face it's millennial demographic crisis which is pushing it away from China and Russia - literally defeat from jaws of victory there.
 
China is cleaning up it's act actually, but shit like the overhyped Fukushima disaster actually slowed China down in nuclear development (fuck hippies). Those hedge fund managers though? Getting their shit wrecked as China's economy implodes while the US is on the upswing. The US is actually in a good vantage point to refocus the world economy on itself since it'd actually be the least hurt (like .5% reduce growth at best) by China imploding, making America a safe haven again for physical investment and tremendously boosting the US economy post Chinese collapse. China can't even pull devaluement shenanigans to up trade, because the collapse has more to do with internal economic factors (their workers being treated like shit, the pollution, the vast overvaluing of property and businesses, etc).

I think the more amusing scenario would have been the US not participating in forming the treaty, Iran getting even more favorable terms with Russians and Chinese arms manufacturers, and getting pretty much 90% of the trade it needed while the US misses out on developing a nonvolatile relationship with Iran. The deal is better than basically every other achievable outcome.

I dunno, not particularly interested in reducing a species to extinction to save one human life. That kind of hyperbolic argument doesn't actually make for sound discussion on conservation, as you'll quickly push people who want to make more nuanced arguments to "well, fuck humans I suppose".

Everything from extraction to storage and distribution is going to monitored, in exchange 3/4 of all centrifuges will be shitdown, and all but one will old types, the last remaning "advanced" one will be for research purposes. Enrichment is limited to 3.67%, signigantly below medical grade of 20% and far below 90% needed for a good nuclear weapon. Basically 90% of Irans uranium has been confiscated and they're strictly limited on maximum storage.
 
The US signed this deal so it could have influence on Iran and personally open up negoatiations. If they refused to take part, the US would basically lose out on having any input on the deal, which the remaining Euro members and China would have gone through with anyway. Iran would have gotten a better deal if the US did not participate, serious.
 
Further, the US likely is seeing a sea change for ME politics - Saudis don't seem to lan on being reliable partners for long, and while Iran does fund terrorists, they're not Wahhabists like what SA churns out. Wahhabism is the direct root of basically all islamic extremism right now, and the US can't make headway in important foreign policy matters when your own "ally" is undermining you. Iran is less worse bad faith actor, it's people are signigantly more cosmopolitan and wish to be part of the global economy, and while interested in regional hegemony, they are more so in a nationalistic, rather than religious sense ala SA.
 
Further, Iran is simply in a good strategic position, has a competent military (no really) for the region, and is likely to moderate over time due to stability combined with an increasingly secular population.
 
What I am saying is, fuck the Gulf States, Kurds, Turks and Persians are the better choice.

This is really unfair to Orcs. Orcs are at least populist and have meritocratic societies, are good at industry, architecture and science, excellent society and coalition builders, goal oriented, and aren't raving fanatics but realists.

Everything from extraction to storage and distribution is going to monitored, in exchange 3/4 of all centrifuges will be shitdown, and all but one will old types, the last remaning "advanced" one will be for research purposes. Enrichment is limited to 3.67%, signigantly below medical grade of 20% and far below 90% needed for a good nuclear weapon. Basically 90% of Irans uranium has been confiscated and they're strictly limited on maximum storage.
 
The US signed this deal so it could have influence on Iran and personally open up negoatiations. If they refused to take part, the US would basically lose out on having any input on the deal, which the remaining Euro members and China would have gone through with anyway. Iran would have gotten a better deal if the US did not participate, serious.
 
Further, the US likely is seeing a sea change for ME politics - Saudis don't seem to lan on being reliable partners for long, and while Iran does fund terrorists, they're not Wahhabists like what SA churns out. Wahhabism is the direct root of basically all islamic extremism right now, and the US can't make headway in important foreign policy matters when your own "ally" is undermining you. Iran is less worse bad faith actor, it's people are signigantly more cosmopolitan and wish to be part of the global economy, and while interested in regional hegemony, they are more so in a nationalistic, rather than religious sense ala SA.
 
Further, Iran is simply in a good strategic position, has a competent military (no really) for the region, and is likely to moderate over time due to stability combined with an increasingly secular population.
 
What I am saying is, fuck the Gulf States, Kurds, Turks and Persians are the better choice.

Everything from extraction to storage and distribution is going to monitored, in exchange 3/4 of all centrifuges will be shitdown, and all but one will old types, the last remaning "advanced" one will be for research purposes. Enrichment is limited to 3.67%, signigantly below medical grade of 20% and far below 90% needed for a good nuclear weapon. Basically 90% of Irans uranium has been confiscated and they're strictly limited on maximum storage.
 
The US signed this deal so it could have influence on Iran and personally open up negoatiations. If they refused to take part, the US would basically lose out on having any input on the deal, which the remaining Euro members and China would have gone through with anyway. Iran would have gotten a better deal if the US did not participate, serious.
 
Further, the US likely is seeing a sea change for ME politics - Saudis don't seem to lan on being reliable partners for long, and while Iran does fund terrorists, they're not Wahhabists like what SA churns out. Wahhabism is the direct root of basically all islamic extremism right now, and the US can't make headway in important foreign policy matters when your own "ally" is undermining you. Iran is less worse bad faith actor, it's people are signigantly more cosmopolitan and wish to be part of the global economy, and while interested in regional hegemony, they are more so in a nationalistic, rather than religious sense ala SA.
 
Further, Iran is simply in a good strategic position, has a competent military (no really) for the region, and is likely to moderate over time due to stability combined with an increasingly secular population.
 
What I am saying is, fuck the Gulf States, Kurds, Turks and Persians are the better choice.

I hate how wehraboos were complaining about the 90mm HE filler on the M26 so they nerfed it down to 1 respawn, same as Tiger II meanwhile they just drive their hard to use nazi bunkers and one shot or cripple everyone with nuke 88s while they tank hits with their stupid large hull volumes.

My favorite part about the Wehraboo rhetoric about "Russian tanks explodey" is that the Russian vehicles have artificially weak gas tanks so they explode at all, while Germans get away with universally strong ammoracks (such that destroying them may not kill the tank, which doesn't happen for any other nation) because the first year of the game was "flank German, kill German". Sorry, Allied crew safety, fuel and ammo placement is superior fascists shitlords, deal with the inherent flaws of your racist, genocidal, fucktard designs.

Tangential, but the US has so far been the best imperial power and replacing a known decent hegemon with an unknown or worse known awful one is dumb. Just because the US is bad at state building (actually, I can't think of an Imperial power that was good at it, the Achaemenid Empire doesn't count nerds) doesn't mean you need to destroy it. I have no interest in the potential successor Imperial powers of China or Russia and I highly doubt they'll be as capable or as forgiving.

They've also done a huge UI update, and almost made deflections realistic (although x4 for catastrophic failure is still too high and fucking lol even with x2 for TD as is real it would only matter in edges cases, in most scenarios if TD is double plate thickness the penetration of the shell is high enough to not matter if there was no TD affect). 10% bounce rate is still dumb, and bullshit because a bounced shot is easily death.
 
I think the worst part that's gnawing at me is what they're choosing for premiums in ground units. I mean, functional experimental vehicles is dumb, seriously, the T-34/100 should sit in the main tree along with a T-44/100, and there is no reason the Super Hellcat shouldn't be on the tank destroyer line. IMHO, the US gets screwed out of a lot of vehicles because they had to be shipped over and unlike the Russians and Germans especially, couldn't and wouldn't just throw entirely experimental shit into the fray because they weren't desperate.
 
I think I had that discussion with Colli once, and the conclusion is that if the US shared a border with Germany WW2 would have ended with the US occupying the smoking crater of Berlin with M29 and M46 tanks, with at least one German tank division nuked to fucking hell. In reality, the Atlantic is what saved Germany from a horrifying case of the disease known as "Fucking Dead".

They've also done a huge UI update, and almost made deflections realistic (although x4 for catastrophic failure is still too high and fucking lol even with x2 for TD as is real it would only matter in edges cases, in most scenarios if TD is double plate thickness the penetration of the shell is high enough to not matter if there was no TD affect). 10% bounce rate is still dumb, and bullshit because a bounced shot is easily death.
 
I think the worst part that's gnawing at me is what they're choosing for premiums in ground units. I mean, functional experimental vehicles is dumb, seriously, the T-34/100 should sit in the main tree along with a T-44/100, and there is no reason the Super Hellcat shouldn't be on the tank destroyer line. IMHO, the US gets screwed out of a lot of vehicles because they had to be shipped over and unlike the Russians and Germans especially, couldn't and wouldn't just throw entirely experimental shit into the fray because they weren't desperate.
 
I think I had that discussion with Colli once, and the conclusion is that if the US shared a border with Germany WW2 would have ended with the US occupying the smoking crater of Berlin with M29 and M46 tanks, with at least one German tank division nuked to fucking hell. In reality, the Atlantic is what saved Germany from a horrifying case of the disease known as "Fucking Dead".

"Enemy rebels within range sir!"
"Fire the port turbolaser batteries. Release the TIE fighters."
 
*Chinese Su-27s explode, the rest scattered by F-18s.*

I think you're confused, Gavins fly