Call me a fool, but I like this more than gold.

Bismuth rocks.

The Entropy Centre is a largely Portal-inspired game that will require you to plan out what you’re doing even more than Portal. (Note: there are a few chase sequences and a few battle ones that break this pattern.) And there’s a cute robot called E, and your portal-gun-equivalent has an AI too. Basically, it’s Portal but the AIs are friendly.

And then there’s The Talos Principle series, which is even more like what you’re looking for.

China is the most populous country, as well as one of the largest, to achieve this.

This was made possible due to the One China Policy (1 China = 1 China).

Banning all car journeys under 20 minutes would not only be unenforceable (people will just make their journeys a little longer) and unpopular, but also superfluous and even counterproductive given the other measures that would make said journeys unappealing to begin with.

I don’t know enough about those instances’ leaders to guess whether they’re also misled by propaganda or knowingly supporting these dictatorships and their actions.

I think we might be having a misunderstanding. I thought of “tankies” as denizens of lemmy.ml and similar places, likely not even being Russian or Chinese themselves or living there.

I’m pretty sure you are right about Chinese and Russian imperialism. However, the average person anywhere is not a knowing supporter of imperialism themselves… that’s where propaganda comes into play.

…they are the enemy, they hate all that is good and just in the world, all they know is war and submission

I don’t think even Trump supporters are that horrible people. At worst, tankies are falling for Russian/Chinese/etc… propaganda, possibly due to overcorrecting from American propaganda. None of us are immune to propaganda.

But if we can get the Alex Jones crowd on our side, that might include the Epstein administration :P

“Do not register on decibel meters”

Get a better decibel meter, then?

Afton probably sold his soul to Satan for advanced AI tech or something, idk.

Also, artificial intelligence is a LOT more than GPTs. We had AIs that can win against Kasparov since 1997.

spent on American weapons

Yeah, about that…

Why shouldn’t men also have better knowledge of psychology, health, childcare…?

It takes two to build a strong and stable relationship, let alone a family.

L I F T

Been there, LIFTed that

Was that one guy that tried to contact them their Roswell moment?

More of a vassal/satellite region than an outright colony (which would require a large amount of constant resource expenditure and military presence on their behalf), but yes, the US government likely wants this… or, more precisely, already has it and wants to keep it that way.

And that’s at least part of the reason why I’m on the fediverse and use Linux now.

Plot-wise, Star Wars without politics is just Keeping Up With The Skywalkers

If the school is top secret…

Why can I see it?

Why not a balance between both? Use additional plane revenue to improve rail travel in the short- and middle-term?