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In the short term, I think Carney is prioritizing "re-industrializing" the country over certain environmental protections.

I certainly have hope that the worst effects will be mitigated by things like what you're describing, but...I'm just not sure.

It is a little odd that they locked it to Tactical - not sure why they did that.

I assume you'll be able to edit the appearance once you've aligned with either the Federation or the Klingons, but I haven't really tested that out, so maybe I'm wrong?

If you're looking for a bright side, you could use one of them to play around with unconventional combinations, like a Tactical officer with a science vessel or whatever.

Also: you've probably noticed by now that the Jem'Hadar faction drops you straight into the endgame (or at least the endgame at it was in 2018), so you may be better off playing your older character for the time being anyway.

I tend to think that most deadlines will be missed, and most budgets will be overrun...the only question is degree.

Beyond Space released.

SC is... I dunno, same as it ever was, as near as I can tell.

Yeah, that's similar to my own thinking. To take the coffeehouse example from the article, if my local coffeehouse were to become a wretched hive of scum and villainy, I would probably stop going there.

To be honest, I was hoping for a little more engagement with the fact that the polarization (or, dare I say, radicalization) under discussion seems inherent to online spaces of any sort, and decentralized spaces aren't immune to it.

I agree that "run by people who care" is important, but I'm not sure it's the answer in and of itself.

I'm also don't think that a certain degree of polarization is inherently a bad thing. But I think it deserves more examination that a simple dismissal as something other platforms have to reckon with.

The Terran Empire is too good for Kevin O'Leary.

Looks like that one came out in 2014, and was not well-liked.

Star Citizen maybe?

I'm probably projecting, but I hope people realize that Trudeau did at much as he could without reopening the Constitution, which is a non-starter.

I have a feeling it's neither enough for the reformists, nor enough for the abolitionists, so it's just kind of ignored.

There's some real interesting stuff in here.

It doesn’t take much to destabilize or stabilize the system, Törnberg found. Even if the threshold for disagreement was quite low, the disagreements became amplified to the point where each random interaction was increasingly likely to exceed those thresholds. More and more users were pushed to relocate until what was once a community with a solid diversity of opinion rapidly became polarized and/or overly homogenous.

Conversely, if just 10 percent of users in a given social media community largely agree with your stances, you will be more tolerant toward diverse opinions that contradict your own. “There’s a certain chance that some users will end up in communities where it’s very homogenous and 99 percent of users are disagreeing with them,” said Törnberg. “That will cause them to leave, and you get this feedback effect just because of the structure of interaction. But if you have a filter bubble effect, where everyone is shown 10 percent of their own type, that creates a possibility for you to find the people who you agree with within the community. And that stabilizes the entire dynamics so it doesn’t tip over to one side or the other and become extreme or overly homogenous.”

Törnberg found some confirmation of those dynamics when he analyzed an actual online echo chamber: the subreddit r/MensRights. He found that members of the subreddit were more likely to leave if their posts diverged too far, linguistically, from the community’s center of gravity.

“Who are the users leaving the community?” said Törnberg. “The users that are more ideologically distant are more likely to leave. So it captures the same mechanism of feedback dynamics, where the community becomes more homogenous and more extreme because users leave—[and they leave] because they feel it’s becoming too homogenous and extreme. Eventually it tips over to one direction. And of course, as the community becomes more extreme, there’s this boiling the frog effect where the users who stay are influenced by the community and become more extreme.”