I think it was mainly a design decision about wanting the game to get harder as you progressed instead of easier. Which I have mixed feelings about because divide and conquer where it starts hard but gets eaaier as you clean up can be very satisfying, but factory games can scale in ways that would make it more trivially boring.
We can't even prove that when we go to sleep and wake up the next day that it's the same entity going about our day instead of a new one that inherited all of the memories and everything else encoded in the brain.
Did he (and whatever agents were involved in setting that up) really not know who Colbert was 10 years ago? Though it is hard to tell with the energy he had there, whether he was just playing along or genuinely didn't know that Colbert's whole thing is playing an ignorant conservative white dude.
If you didn't intend to imply that, it's on how you communicated, not how they interpreted it. The way you listed what each does implied you were saying that's how their images worked.
You can glance at the sun but don't stare at it. Even when it's only 1% visible, it's putting out enough light to strain or damage your eyes.
Though it's fine to look at the eclipse with naked eyes when it's total. You can't really see the cool effect surrounding the moon during totality with the eclipse glasses on because it's way dimmer than the sun usually is.
Your eyes will tell you if it's safe to look. If it's uncomfortably bright, then you shouldn't power through that discomfort (and that applies to things other than the sun). If it feels like looking at anything else, then it's probably fine.
Well, with that Atlantic current dying down, Europe might not have to worry about things getting warmer for much longer. Scandinavia especially might get quite a bit colder, like comparable to northern Canada.
I mean, that's pretty much what life on earth does today. It's not like an apple tree conjures its fruit from nothing. Most biomatter was at one point shit or a corpse. By now, probably both many times over. We just use biological protein reshufflers.
I don't think it was ever aimed at nerds. I think it was always aimed at nerd-adjacent audiences that liked nerds (or maybe a stereotypical idea of nerds) but weren't nerds themselves.
The nerds in the show were the spectacle, not the heroes. I always got the impression they were laughing at them rather than with them, though not really in a malicious way, but in a way that still involves contempt.
Contrast it with The IT Crowd, which was absolutely aimed at nerds. Or the Office, which is an example of a show that was able to laugh both at and with its office worker audience.
It looks pretty much right to me. Though hydrogen is sitting on top of fluorine for some reason and there appears to be a box in hydrogen's normal spot, but maybe it's to emphasize the chemical similarities between hydrogen and that column as well as the column it's usually shown in. The numbers are hard to read and I didn't look anything up to verify, but they look correct from what I can see, if a bit less clear than most for how the actinium and lanthanum series fit in.
And I question whether it would even lead to real problems with the current admin or if he'd just call it a good idea on social media and applaud them for dealing with someone for saying such nasty things about them. And unleash riot forces on protestors (or just use it as an excuse to try to ramp things up more).
Part of the problem is that in my mind, morality and religion are only loosely related and are often at odds when dealing with the realities of the main established religions. Like there are people who truly believe that one of the must evil things one can do is deny the existence and supremacy of their god.
And it's that stuff that sits at the forefront of my mind when thinking about religion.
Then there's the whole angle of some people needing religion or the invisible father figure always watching and waiting to punish in the afterlife or else they'd be evil (and actual evil, not "I broke one of the made up religion rules and ate the wrong species at 3pm on a cloudy wednesday and accidentally thought about a woman's bum while doing so"). I can't even relate to this.
I don't think the consequences of that would be a lawsuit. I think they'd go missing and would only be "found" as a mutilated corpse to send a message to anyone else who might have similar ideas. Or, if they are feeling bold enough, they might even do it officially.
It's funny if anyone thinks that strategy can compete with China in the long term. Hell, I'm not sure how much longer the west will stay "on top" in the short term (doesn't really feel like winning lately).
I've noticed a trend that as I understand more, some things become more funny but most things become less funny. I think it's because counterintuitiveness is funny but when understanding increases, the exposed complexity becomes more intuitive.
I think it was mainly a design decision about wanting the game to get harder as you progressed instead of easier. Which I have mixed feelings about because divide and conquer where it starts hard but gets eaaier as you clean up can be very satisfying, but factory games can scale in ways that would make it more trivially boring.