you might get something out of hunter s thompsons writings. the feeling of change being in the air is something that comes up in his books, particularly fear & loathing in las vegas and fear & loathing on the campaign trail of 72. he was a pretty politically aware and astute man (see his prophetic take in his sports column on september 12th, 2001). he never invoked marx in his writing and I don't know what his awareness of theory really was, but he was generally on the right side of history
voice actors named jennifer are generally good. jennifer hale was the iconic femshep from mass effect. she was also Bastila from KOTOR and fall from grace in planescape: torment
in a shocking display of mod tyranny, I had marked that one myself already, but it's an honor to be nominated 
Yep and I don't see that changing, insane real estate market notwithstanding.
Yep, the statement that First Nations don't have a veto is common and generally true. This is an exception, though as this story illustrates, actually executing a veto is fraught. 
indeed, but this isn't a uniquely Canadian issue. I'm not aware of any state where Indigenous communities actually have a veto over large scale development. Usually it is a question of having more or less input on risk mitigations/governance and deriving more or less economic benefit.
In Canadian Indigenous news, here is a story about the relationship between the Tahltan Central Government (TCG) and Skeena resources, owners of the Eskay Creek mining project, which is on Tahltan land in northern BC. This article is not written with a Marxist lense, but it is not hard to see the material forces at work. I encourage reading the whole thing.
As Canada's role in the future world economy is likely to be driven by the resource sector, I believe these issues are worth understanding for news heads. This is where the rubber meets the road with respect to the political economy of Indigenous decision making. Canada is by far the most obvious location for friendshoring to serve American resource needs, and the vast majority of the Canadian resource sector falls under Indigenous consultation obligations.
Questions are being raised inside a B.C. First Nation after $10,000 was offered to each member ahead of a crucial vote on the future of a major gold mine.
Unlike other mines, Eskay Creek is subject to Canada’s first ever consent-based decision-making agreement with a First Nation. Signed in 2022 between the province and the Tahltan Central Government, the agreement explicitly states the project cannot proceed without the nation’s free, prior and informed consent.
The nation's leadership stoked some members’ concerns even further when, on Nov. 20, it said it had negotiated a $40-million “upfront payment” that would be distributed in $10,000 payments to eligible individuals.
The article goes on to describe different financial and ownership relationships between parties as well as potential conflict of interest.
TCG has a lot of capacity compared to most First Nations governments in BC and are located in a highly desirable area for resource extraction, colloquially known as the Golden Triangle. TCG has a strong track record of negotiating agreements with resource extraction companies and the province which give them an unprecedented amount of say in project development, and implementing UNDRIP.
Nisga'a Lisims Government, home of the first modern BC treaty from 2000 (The Nisga'a Final Agreement) and benefactor/partner in the Ksi Lisims gas terminal project is also in the same general area. See my previous post on Ksi Lisims from a few months ago.
One of the key constraints to understand is the size of First Nations governments relative to the economic size of the projects in question. TCG is about 3000 people and Eskay alone is a several billion dollar project, which is one of several major mines in the territory, with more in development. The possibility for regulatory capture increases in these circumstances. It's the regulatory equivalent of the old joke that if you owe the someone a thousand dollars you've got a problem, if you owe someone a million dollars, they've got a problem. This issue is common to anytime a large industry player comes to a small jurisdiction (think of the sway Walmart has in a small town).
There are also limits to what specialized technical expertise exists in a community of 3000. There is tremendous traditional knowledge in First Nations communities, but this experience does not extend to the detailed design and operation of large open pit mines, tailings dams, pipelines, or shipping terminals. It's easy to dunk on technocracy, but the reality is that if a community decision is made to support resource development in a Nation's territory and to use the economic activity associated to support the Nation's community, then there is need for people with a high degree of training to understand, regulate, and make decisions related to these complex resource projects. That kind of person ideally comes from the community itself, but there is a limited local workforce to draw from, especially Indigenous communities that have suffered from genocide, residential schools, poverty etc. in living memory.
The Canadian legal system including the Indian Act is structured to support assimilation. It does so more softly than it did 100 years ago and there is less focus on cultural assimilation, but incentives for economic assimilation are just as strong as ever in a country founded to be hewers of wood and drawers of water.
Thank you comrade 
Can you elaborate on this? Just a little, as a treat
https://open.substack.com/pub/quadzillahikes/p/dc-shooter-served-on-cia-assassination
Long form article on the milieu of death squads operating in Afghanistan that gave rise to the DC shooter, imperial boomerang
Some people are saying its a terrific boomerang, the best of all time
This feeds into rare earth issues as well. Aluminum smelting leftovers are a source of rare earths, and if you don't smelt, you aren't getting them
Casting pearls before swine
But yea agreed with other posters, rare Chinese aphorism L. Cows are quite social and like music
I had a 16-17 year old colony that is started just after oddysey came out. It was pretty sweet, with a big boxy porcupine of a gravship housing a couple royal vampires. Eventually I made a home base castle to go along with it too. Now I'm waiting for more of the vanilla expanded gravship mods to come out to play more.
Meanwhile, I've been playing monster train 2 a fair amount. It's a good one. The art and overall aesthetic are pretty goofy but the underlying game is solid. Underlegion and Lazarus are my favourites, but I still haven't cracked covenant 10.
I'll probably finish off the Hades 2 revised ending over holidays. I finished it already on the release version but the revised ending is good so far.
If we get some good snow I'll check out frost punk, but that game seems wrong to play if it's warm out.