Dude, you are a horrible human being.

Steganography is a (fascinating) bitch. There are a lot of ways to hide a message in an image which is very resilient to manipulations like resizing, compression or even the loss of information by actually filming a screen versus taking a screen capture.

If you adjust your approach to not rely on a single picture to reliably convey a short message, but part it out over tens or hundreds of frames in a video, it's basically impossible to make sure that the message was erased without knowing the algorithms used or rendering the video unwatchable.

It's an awesome field and nothing new.

Och du, in Dubai gibt es auch ne Skihalle. Mit der nötigen Kombination aus Arroganz, Geld und "Scheiß auf andere, nach mir die Sintflut"-Mentalität können sich einige Leute durchaus den Folgen des ganzen zumindest zeitweise entziehen.

And obviously that account isn't even a day old. Trust him guys, he's only here to debate! What do you mean russian bot/troll account? Naahhhh. Anyway, on an unrelated note, US bad, amirite?

Eh, die erste Meldung zu "starken Explosionen in der Gegend" kam gegen 0400 rein und seitdem gab es keine offiziellen Nachrichten mehr. Klingt leider wirklich nicht danach.

Thank you for taking the time.

I'm pretty sure that nuclear power is vastly more expensive to produce and maintain. Especially when comparing to solar/wind, since fossil power isn't desirable at all due to emissions.

Solar and wind generation is so much more efficient than even two decades ago, newer designs of nuclear plants aren't really any more efficient, but safer and more expensive. So I'm still not getting the push for more nuclear.

Unpassender Vergleich. E-Scooter für den privaten Gebrauch sind klappbar, so groß wie eine größere Sporttasche und meistens von einer regulären Person mit einer Hand tragbar. Und werden bisher im ÖPNV aufgrund ihrer geringen Maße zusammengeklappt als Gepäckstücke gehandhabt.

Same, but that's not the same as calling all other products mediocre.

Oh boy, that is one spicy topic. You could start here.

In short: The lead dev (who stepped down, but may be back again?) is involved in some controversy.

While I can fully understand why somebody wouldn't trust the OS based on that, it's still the most secure and private OS available today IMHO.

It's gonna be interesting to see what the reparations from Russia will look like. Can't be too low to set an example, can't be too high to prevent the population from pulling a Nazi Germany due to having no perspective.

I'm very curious about the future of European military development.

Until now, a lot of decisions regarding the financing of our armed forces and the development/production of necessary equipment seems to have been held back heavily by the unpopularity of spending money on something not (yet) directly affecting the population, similar to developments regarding climate change.

I do hope that we, as Europe and the countries therein, will swallow that pill to prepare for something that will hopefully never happen rather than start scrambling once it is too late.

Same here.

When starting out without having seen all that much of the game beforehand, I saw a great potential for just that expectation you and I shared. The game keeps you jumping from one task to another, managing your initially growing base(s) to produce new necessities, catch new/more pals, explore the map and ...well, that's basically it, so far.

The gameplay loop so far is pretty barebones and the countless bugs, especially regarding basebuilding and -managing, grew all the more frustrating as I was forced to realize that there simply is no goal or endgame besides catching all the pals, exploring the whole empty map and maybe spend countless hours optimizing it all by breeding the best attributes in your pals, i.e. holding F and waiting.

A lot of that is hopefully simply a symptom of it being early-access though, I expect to have a better time in a few months when the hype died down and the game has matured a bit more.