Nationalism then. People love to feel important or like they’re part of something, even if they put no actual effort towards that end. Just identify with the place you happened to be born and convince yourself its victories are your own.
Elder Scrolls is gonna be mid but the next Fallout will be the most immersive ARG ever.
It was mostly other imperialist countries and their vassal states, why wouldn’t they accept another of their own?
We got a really cool legally invisible forever-prison/torture-dungeon on stolen Cuban land, but that’s not technically South America.
Literally the person I am replying to is saying it’s unsafe.
“La la la I make up my own facts” is an embarrassing stance to upvote, let alone put forth as an honest argument.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-47440562
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7015476/
There’s ongoing study about safe exposure levels, but the usefulness of animal studies is limited (mice are a poor metabolic analogue). The World Health Organization stands by 0.7mg/liter in water for chlorate and the key thing being looked at is how much remains on food as residue.
Regulations are only as good as their enforcement. The US has pretty good food safety laws (the discrepancies with the EU tend to be our “prove it’s bad” rather than “prove it’s not bad” stance on common-use ingredients and additives.) particularly with labeling. We don’t have fresh raw cheeses because we decided the best Brie wasn’t worth occasional listeria outbreaks.
Had cheap goods. With the way our food costs have exploded in the last five years we almost certainly wouldn’t have leverage over local production.
Ignoring that, the behavior that protectionist trade laws are avoiding is: Country A using tax subsidies to artifically deflate the cost of a good, flooding the market of Country B where it isn’t subsidized and eventually putting the producers there out of business so they become reliant on trade with Country A. Protectionism like this isn’t wrong, but people generally don’t like being told that they’re being barred from less expensive options so it gets dressed up in nationalism.
The USDA has banned hormones and steroids since the 50s and like 5% of chicken gets the (perfectly safe) chlorine rinse. European countries use the same rinse on leafy vegetables, they just banned it on poultry because they thought it would make processors complacent.
Only a small portion of US chicken gets the chlorine rinse, a practice that the EU recognized as perfectly safe by the way. They banned it because they didn’t want poultry processors to get lazy about other hygiene practices. They don’t import American chicken because the cost difference would destroy the local farms.
It has influence disproportionate to the number of followers. (But Hinduism and Buddhism should be ahead of it anyway, this is a very Western perspective)
Yeah but he can’t taint the sun.
The comics were pretty good too.
Team Fortress was not an “extremely popular existing franchise” even among dedicated PC gamers. What the Orange Box did was let Valve experiment with marketing materials like the teaser videos for Portal and “Meet the Heavy.”
When I was in grade school we had multiple lessons on using Boolean search terms to find useful information. Google-fu used to mean something.
Aichteeteepee, colon slash slash, doubleyoudoubleyoudoubleyou dot…
Sometimes I like to think about what the world would look like if Columbus sank in the Atlantic. How long until another European sailed West?
I’ll be deep in the ground before I play along with that kind of shallow pandering.
Innovation is not the most important trait a society can chase, I’d rather judge on how they treat those that need the most help.
The planet is better off with fewer people
Fuck off with that ecofascist soft genocide shit.
The media is captured, it’s complicit, it’s bought and controlled by people like Murdoch.