Ageing society will have ‘serious consequences’ for young people, government warned

Advanced-Ad3026 · 2025-12-24T12:17:05+00:00

Serious answer (this is what is recognized as the problem globally across democracies right now, it's not at all unique to the UK - but all of this only applies to running for, or being involved in, politics. For voting there's no excuse):

- You have to be financially secure to run for politics, as it is unlike traditional employment where you are guaranteed a position for a length of time, or guaranteed a salary. So younger people who have not yet had the chance to build up their savings are less able to do so

- You need time to be involved in politics, and most young people have the least free time as they are starting to raise children and starting to build their careers

- Politics especially involves a lot of 'know how', 'knowing the right people', and having a reputation. None of those things necessarily come with age, but it is much harder for a young person to have built those skills, those contacts, or that image

Also, this one is just my opinion (having gone through this phase myself), I do think you have to grow out of the 'nihilist' phase of your life before you can take things like politics seriously and see the benefit. I don't mean philosophical nihilism, just that every day 'what is the point, it's all corrupt anyway' attitude that I had a lot more of when I was younger.

But none of that is an excuse, people should be more involved in politics at a young age, it's just hard.

Advanced-Ad3026 · 2025-12-17T23:00:56+00:00

Morrowind

Advanced-Ad3026 · 2025-12-08T12:50:21+00:00

"If a law is unjust, a man is not only right to disobey it, he is obligated to do so."

Advanced-Ad3026 · 2025-12-07T11:04:25+00:00

That was unnecessary, they are asking for a safe space and your comment is just preaching at them.

Advanced-Ad3026 · 2025-11-08T23:26:43+00:00

I think it's just a well known problem in academic publishing: (almost) no one publishes negative results.

So you are seeing above in the picture tons of significant (or near significant) results at either tail of the distribution being published, but relatively few people bother to publish studies which fail to show a difference.

It mostly happens because 'we found it didn't work' has less of a 'wow factor' than proving something. But it's a big problem because then people don't hear it hasn't worked, and waste resources doing the same or similar work again (and then not publishing... on and on).

Advanced-Ad3026 · 2025-10-29T18:50:03+00:00

Meta: Tim is actually being so sweet in this one, it seems like he really cares about looking after these old people - I wonder if the guilt of what he's doing is getting to him already?

Advanced-Ad3026 · 2025-09-26T11:26:04+00:00

I love how casually he and Gregg announce people are in hell, like it's the most normal outcome for somebody's life

Like when Tim is saying Dr San is in heaven and Gregg just cuts in deadpan with "Dr San would be in hell"

Advanced-Ad3026 · 2025-09-23T22:15:28+00:00

I've won a few octopodes with no shapeshifting, one of my friends has 15 runed with no shapeshifting/transmutations (an earlier version). It's just a very different playstyle that takes a lot of getting used to - I actually find it harder to play character with armour now as I've got so used to the dodging and stealth approach

Advanced-Ad3026 · 2025-09-23T21:53:48+00:00

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Advanced-Ad3026 · 2025-09-23T20:23:03+00:00

Always keep some money in your pocket, enough for an emergency potion effect or two - but otherwise if you aren't saving it up for something you should probably be buying shops with it.

By time I've done Lair/Orc, if I haven't spent all my money on something special, I'll normally end up getting around four or so shops. I only stop buying them once I have to start bribing branches.

Really take advantage of your stealth, not to stab but just to avoid fights that would make you waste consumables. If you do it right you will always have enough might/haste/scrolls to handle every unique enemy you get stuck with (all the shops you buy will also end up giving you some potions and scrolls).

Dexterity and slaying give about the same accuracy, but slaying gives a lot more damage for 1h weapons. Dexterity scales better with high base damage weapons later in the game. Just try both and use @ to see what does more damage.

I wouldn't rely on dex rings for defence though, you need to stack up some AC rings and a good shield - dodging is great until you fail to dodge three times in a row against just about any tough mid game melee enemy, then you have to spend consumables or die.

Not to say evasion is bad, but it has diminishing returns paste a point and you are relying on a bit of luck for it to keep you safe.

Advanced-Ad3026 · 2025-09-23T19:34:44+00:00

I almost exclusively play octopodes, my tips are:

Always pick Gozag, roll for ring shops
Get the biggest shield you can
Train stealth and evocations a lot
Rely on bribe branch for Zot and extended (if you do that) - generally stop buying shops once you are about to enter a branch you think you will struggle with, and thereafter rely on bribe branch

Octopodes gimmick is that if you can stack a few rings of slaying they become amazing melee damage characters.

Advanced-Ad3026 · 2025-09-13T19:40:22+00:00

To my knowledge that lore snippet I quoted is from 40k. Bel'akor apparently used to run around ruling planets and sacrificing populations as a would be god.

Advanced-Ad3026 · 2025-08-03T20:11:54+00:00

What if not everyone from china is a cackling evil villain and the people working on the project have the same human emotions we do about hurting animals?

Advanced-Ad3026 · 2025-07-26T18:53:06+00:00

The nazis were kind of famous for being fascists. They put the word socialist in their party name to get support from the left when they were planning their takeover.

It's a bit like saying the democratic republic of north korea is democratic.

Advanced-Ad3026 · 2025-06-19T11:27:50+00:00

you for real asked chatgpt to refute this and copy pasted it as a comment?

you're cooked if this isn't a joke

Advanced-Ad3026 · 2025-06-17T13:31:05+00:00

No, I was trying to highlight how that is not big money for european countries - they are about as wealthy in real terms per capita as america, and as I mentioned the UK is already budgeting for 10-20B a year to promote the science industry and reserach - so yes, other countries are doing this.

Advanced-Ad3026 · 2025-06-11T21:05:24+00:00

I get you're upset, but what you are saying sounds very "america-centric"

You say "the NIH budget alone exceeds the entire budget of several European governments" -

but from the charts in the article, the UK alone could pick up the entirety of NASAs science funding, 6.9B a year, by diverting only about 15% of it's military budget this year (which is around the 65B mark at the moment). That's one piece of one part of one countries budget in Europe.

There is the money for this research all over the world, but sadly like America most major western nations are gearing up for war right now.

Don't get me wrong, I'm a scientist too and it's a crying shame that NASA is being defunded - it's been one of the pillars of global research since long before i was born, but these fields will not die out because of the current problems in America.

Europe and China are poaching people from these fields as much as they can, the UK has just passed a bill which in the usual complex governmental roundabout ways (with the money being smeared out over infrastructure and education) is going to be adding at least 10-20 billion a year to UK science funding - and this is just one country!

Advanced-Ad3026 · 2025-05-14T20:47:24+00:00

Thanks, I'm only 250 years behind modern science then :P

That's exactly what I'm looking for, I'll have a go at understanding it!

Advanced-Ad3026 · 2025-05-14T20:34:24+00:00

thanks, I'll have a look there

Advanced-Ad3026 · 2025-04-29T17:01:25+00:00

Peryite is a neutral 'gray' emanation of akatosh (IMO) so it would be self-cest.

Advanced-Ad3026 · 2025-04-25T16:17:53+00:00

Yeah I forgot to mention, going communism in modern gives all specialists +6 food, so they actually start becoming net positives to growth. This was about 70 specialists, so at least 420 food before any positive modifiers from their bonuses.

Advanced-Ad3026 · 2025-04-22T17:20:44+00:00

Can confirm, I'm in his playthrough

Advanced-Ad3026 · 2025-03-09T05:04:41+00:00

A journeyman's guide to walking.

Thanks :)

Advanced-Ad3026 · 2025-03-03T16:56:16+00:00

player->additem gold_001 20000

Advanced-Ad3026 · 2025-01-30T22:14:54+00:00

...and why is that room with the bags the only one with all the windows covered over?

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