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Yeah. Particularly for a sequel where you have a direct comparison to a prior version, it needs to be polished.

For a new title, this still applies if it is part of a family of games (see Imperator).

Stellaris was broken in many ways on launch but had so much promise that we were willing to go through that journey with Paradox to see what would become.

CK3 was actually playable out of the gate.

Wow, I can feel that truck warming me right now!

Yep -- a warehouse ceiling for a cold-storage facility, photographed in the dark, with light spilling from another room, so the camera was also "fuzzy" due to the low light conditions :)

Assuming I have time, and an audience that isn't too entrenched, I will try to respond with with something that goes like:

Science is both a method of acquiring new knowledge and a largely self-consistent model containing the already acquired knowledge. As we acquire new knowledge, we must update the model.

If our sum of all knowledge was perfect, then we'd never update the model. But, over time, the model tends towards "better than before".

As it is physically impossible to be an expert in all things, at some point you have to trust that the people that have been updating or refining the model where it relates to their specific expertise are largely doing so in good faith and in accordance with the scientific method.

This is not the same as faith. The model can be wrong in places and will get updated over time. This is a process. If you understand the process, then you understand science.

(I sometimes will use different phrasing -- the word "model" throws some people, so instead I'll use "the whole body of knowledge" or something like that.)

Wake me up when they have a platform published.

I really hope Trudeau does a last-hour electoral reform shenanigan, as a legacy statement or something. Then I can stop having to decide between strategic voting and throwing my vote away. Alas.

And even then, it would likely have to be repeated occupational exposure to cause issues, not a one-off dust event.

This isn't cyanide or something

Image source? I'm interpreting this as post-flooding mud that uniformly covers the ground and only one spot was cleared :)

Windows 7 still has a similar market share to desktop Linux. I suspect that some of those users are holdouts, rejecting the Cortana nonsense but too stubborn or lazy to switch. But I'd also wager that, in the longer term, a decent portion of that 3% ends up on Linux.

It would be a good choice if I had two wires. This is a single wire, so I'd only be using one of the two contacts. So some of the features aren't needed.

Not likely. Kazakhstan is the world's number one producer of Uranium. So unless the plant requires enrichment in a way that only Russia can provide, I would presume they'd be their own provider.

Actually, that would be very Russia.

I don't know a lot about KZ's current politics, but I know a little. The article talks about Russian involvement, which is interesting, given that Kazakhstan largely imports their oil from Russia. Their attempts to build nuclear have usually been opposed by Russia. Trying to figure out the play here.

I suspect a lot of people are unhappy and are looking for solutions. They aren't evaluating their solutions, just latching onto the first things that make them feel like change is possible.