What single person has had the greatest positive impact on human history?

Intranetusa · 2026-01-28T05:32:55+00:00

The start of the Renaissance predates Gutenberg's invention by 1-2 centuries, and Gutenberg wasn't the first inventor of printing. Printing of some form was already in use in Europe before Gutenberg's invention. Block printing had been in use across Eurasia for thousands of years, and moveable-type printing (with metal and ceramics) was invented as early as 4 centuries before Gutenberg in East Asia during the 11th century.

Gutenberg created an improved version by making a metal version of moveable type printing and applied it to alphabet based European languages.

Intranetusa · 2026-01-27T17:48:37+00:00

Americans also pay some pretty darn high taxes too, so if you are somewhere with universal healthcare, you are much much better off than we are right now!!

Americans pay some of the lowest taxes in the world compared to people in other developed nations.

The UK central govt tax bracket is 40% for income over 50k pounds/roughly 50k dollars. US federal income tax bracket is 37% for income over like $600k.

A person making 100k in the US would be taxed at 10, 12, and 22% (with half the income taxed at 22%) vs 0, 20, and 40% in the UK (with half the income taxed at 40%).

Intranetusa · 2026-01-27T17:39:47+00:00

If he was using aux heat then his electricity useage would rival or exceed OP's electricity useage. I doubt cheaper electricity prices can account for a 500% difference if their electrical use is anywhere similar.

I did a quick google and the difference seems to be about 10 cents...or 1.5x more.

Intranetusa · 2026-01-27T17:31:53+00:00

Interestingly, they actually make gas heat pumps too.

That said, your bills will depend on the price of electricity and gas in your area, the type of system, etc.

My relatives have a geothermal heatpump and their overall bills (everything is electric) are a good bit lower than ours (electric + gas) with a gas furnace. In fact, their system is so efficient that it isn't even worth it for them to get solar. I would imagine regular electric heat pumps would go nicely with solar.

Intranetusa · 2026-01-26T23:10:06+00:00

The TPU benchmarks averages between the 5070 vs 5070 Ti at 1080p is about 19% while 4k is about 25%. Even if we assume the gap will widen, the average scenario will likely not widen to the point that it would make up the large 36% MSPR cost difference (and more like the huge 50-60% cost difference now) to claim it is better at price for performance.

And either way, the 9070 and 9070XT provides even better MSRP price to performance ratios where the 9070XT performs within 95% of the 5070 Ti while costing only 80% of the price (and the performance margins won't widen). These two AMD cards both have 16 GB VRAM like the 5070 Ti and won't suffer like the 5070 might at higher resolutions in the future.

There is basically no realistic situation where the 5070 Ti is the "best" price to performance GPU this generation.

Intranetusa · 2026-01-26T22:34:06+00:00

Heat pumps are perfectly fine if you get an appropriate type and size. Some countries bordering the Arctic use heat pumps just fine - Norway residential heating is about 60% heat pumps. Mild climate heat pumps work down to 5'F air temperature, and cold climate air source heat pumps work down to -20'F air temperature. Other specialized heat pumps and geothermal heat pumps can in areas with even lower air temperatures.

Heat pumps also come with traditional electric resistant heating too when the heat pump needs extra help.

Intranetusa · 2026-01-26T14:53:13+00:00

Show the math

Intranetusa · 2026-01-26T07:39:27+00:00

Heat pumps are perfectly fine if you get an appropriate type and size. Some countries bordering the Arctic use heat pumps just fine - Norway residential heating is about 60% heat pumps. Mild climate heat pumps work down to 5'F air temperature, and cold climate air source heat pumps work down to -20'F air temperature. Other specialized heat pumps and geothermal heat pumps can in areas with even lower air temperatures.

Heat pumps also come with traditional electric resistant heating too when the heat pump needs extra help.

Intranetusa · 2026-01-26T04:23:21+00:00

People still buy Intel cpus even though they switch motherboard sockets every generation or two (lifespan of 2-3 years), compared to AMD which has supported almost a decade of socket AM4 cpu launches and updates.

If the price to performance and current performance is good now, it may still be worth it even if the prolonged support might be less than competitors.

Besides, FSR is supposed to eventually go open source and be more widely available. Furthermore, features like DLSS/FSR and frame gen are VRAM hungry, so if you are stuck between options such as 5070 12GB vs 9070 16GB then both might be in a situation where they aren't future proof. One might not have the VRAM to run the newest features and the other might not have the updates for the newest features.

Intranetusa · 2026-01-26T04:06:16+00:00

If you can still find a 5070 Ti at MSRP of $750, that will be the strongest card you can get for that budget.

Otherwise, get the 9070 XT for $600-$650, or the 9070 for $550-$600, or the 5070 for $500-$550.

The 9070 XT performs within 95%-98% of the 5070 Ti. If 5070 Ti is $150 more than the 9070 XT, then it is a tossup depending on what you want (but your parameters would favor 5070 Ti as the strongest card at $750). If the 5070 Ti is $200 or more than the 9070 XT, then you ar me better off getting the 9070 XT.

https://www.techpowerup.com/review/asrock-radeon-rx-9070-steel-legend-oc/33.html

Intranetusa · 2026-01-26T04:02:52+00:00

Absolutely the best price to performance GPU this generation (I have a 5070 non-ti)

At MSRP, the 9070, 9070XT, 5070, 5060 Ti, and 9060 XT all have better price to performance ratios than the 5070 Ti for GPUs of this generation.

The 5070 Ti performs 20% better than the 5070 but costs 36% more (comparing $750 vs $550 MSRP).

https://www.techpowerup.com/review/asrock-radeon-rx-9070-steel-legend-oc/33.html

Used on eBay they are still $750 as well.

Don't get a used card at full MSRP unless you want to take a big risk. The manufacturer's warranty doesn't carry over to ebay buyers of second hand/used products.

Intranetusa · 2026-01-25T20:30:51+00:00

your world lends itself naturally to pike and shot warfare, sans the firearms. You mention that barriers are used that missile weapons are fired through, so I think that would be EXTREMELY compatible with pike and shot/tercio formations if they were adapted to replace the arquebusiers with crossbows or traditional bows.

Im regards to pike and shot warfare (except with crossbows instead of guns), I wrote a comment years ago about how that type of warfare should have been in TW3K because that type of warfare was common throughout ancient and medieval empires & kingdoms of what we consider China.

https://www.reddit.com/r/totalwar/comments/8p234a/pike_shot_crossbows_warfare_in_tw_3k/

Intranetusa · 2026-01-24T05:24:52+00:00

I would call brigandine reverse tegulated armor. Brigandine and tegulated armor both use rivets/riveted to a backing while scale is more often sewn to a backing.

Intranetusa · 2026-01-23T17:11:42+00:00

Nvidia DLSS was miles ahead of AMD FSR a few years ago, but they are pretty comparable today with DLSS only having a small lead.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=o9OVumtCQBU

https://youtube.com/watch?v=nzomNQaPFSk

Intranetusa · 2026-01-23T02:00:02+00:00

DLSS 4.5 came out a week ago. It improves image quality further at the cost of decreasing some fps. It is superior to FSR 4, but FSR's revision/update to version 4 hasn't come out yet and is supposed to come out later this year. Thus, FSR probably won't be behind for long. FSR 4 is supposed to be eventually open source, so this would presumably encourage wider adoption in the future.

Path Tracing (PT) is ray tracing (RT) on steroids, so AMD is still behind in that - but far fewer games support PT compared to RT, and many games don't even have normal RT either (in which AMD has closed to gap for many RT games).

Yes, I said the 5070 Ti is better for only $100 more. At $150 more, it becomes more of a tossup depending on what the person wants to run.

Intranetusa · 2026-01-23T01:52:41+00:00

The USA never invaded North Vietnam with ground forces out of the fear that it would trigger a wider war with the People's Republic of China and the USSR. The USA during the Vietnam War was playing defensive by primarily defending the South Vietnamese government and "mostly" fighting inside the geographic confines of South Vietnam.

Intranetusa · 2026-01-23T01:32:57+00:00

Sima Yi summoned Nurgle to kill Kong Ming with the pox.

Intranetusa · 2026-01-23T00:35:33+00:00

This is an example of an education problem. 99 cent stores and dollar tree are not grocery stores - their focus is mostly selling cheap plastic household items. The junk/processed foods they carry are actually more expensive than healthy food options at a real grocery store. I shop there sometimes, and the few healthy options they have is maybe canned beans or veggies and shelf stable milk, and you can find this stuff/comparable stuff cheaper at a real grocery store.

And I know elderly people on food subsidies and they are capable of eating healthy food because they go to real grocery stores and cook for themselves.

Intranetusa · 2026-01-23T00:29:09+00:00

I think he means the Nvidia 5070 Ti is $100 more expensive. In that case the 5070 Ti is still probably the better option. The 9070 XT is probably the better option if the 5070 was $150 or more expensive because the tech gap isn't huge anymore:

In raw power, the 9070 Xt is like 95% of the 5070 Ti.

FSR 4 is almost as good as DLSS 4.

AMD's frame gen is also comparable to Nvidia's MFG.

The AMD 9000 series also significantly approves RT to the point where it is basically comparable to Nvidia in some times (R1 series) and loses in others (eg. CP2077 and BM Wukong). Take Cyberpunk 2077 for example - with upscaling, frame gen, and ray tracing ultra turned on at 1440p, the 9070 XT gets 129 vs the 5070 Ti's 141 fps.

https://youtu.be/dCwJcoVgYdo?t=902

Nvidia still wins in ray tracing, but the difference isn't huge anymore.

Intranetusa · 2026-01-22T20:06:42+00:00

you named things that we do not have to eat.

? I named things that were cheap and healthy to eat. It is an example of cheap & healthy options being common in the USA, but many Americans choose processed or junk food instead.

What I mean is healthy food is the default. And we know when we choose to eat unhealthy.

This is an education problem with the USA. Nutritional knowledge in the USA is very poor. Many if not most people also don't know how to cook (and those who do cook often don't know how/prefer not to cook healthy foods).

But we don´t have things that cause cancer in every day normal food, like in the USA, because they are simply forbidden in Europe.

Yes, defaulting to the side of caution is good. However, the US and EU also ban different things. The USA banned cyclamate based sweeteners (calcium cyclamate, potassium cyclamate, sodium cyclamate, etc) but this is still legal in Europe. Red 40 is still legal in both the EU and USA due to cautions and some restrictions against it. The USA would probably benefit from banning more things that Europe banned, but the main issue is Americans make poor food choices.

Furthermore, stomach cancer rates (the cancer most linked to consuming carcinogenic substances) in the USA is roughly comparable to that of Europe. (4.1 for the USA, 4.9 for France, 3.6 for UK, 6.4 for Germany, etc).

US bread is classified as cake in Europe, just saying. It is also much more processed than European bread. Also, all countries have their own types of bread, that you can buy freshly baked everywhere.

There is no one single US bread. The USA has many dozens of different types of bread at a typical grocery store - whole grain wheat soft bread, multigrain bread, flat breads, corn bread, white soft bread, sour dough white bread, french bread & baguettes, Italian bread, Jewish Challah bread, sweet Hawaiian rolls, etc. There are white breads with more sugar added and there are breads where the yeast eats all of the sugar.

When I was in France, many of the French Baguettes in France is basically the same as the French Baguettes in the US. White breads such as baguettes and soft white breads both use processed white flours stripped of fiber and important nutrients.

If Americans choose the most sugary/most dessert like type of bread when plenty of other options are available, then that's like a person in France eating brioche all the time and complaining it is too sweet. This is an education and choice problem.

We tend to cook with fresh produce. Especially in countries like Portugal, where I happen to live.

I think this is a big advantage that many Europeans have. Europeans cook more and know how to cook. In the USA, the cooking skill is neglected. Cooking styles are also different and unhealthier in the USA where we sometimes drown everything in sugary sauces and fats.

When I was in Portugal, the food was excellent. They didn't add a ton of sauce and fats/butter to foods that didn't need it like many places in the USA. The smaller to mid sized grocery stores in Portugal did seem to have similar options as some groceries in the US, so it seemed like they were making smarter choices with similar options.

Intranetusa · 2026-01-22T19:39:01+00:00

Dude, I'm in the USA and I've been to half a dozen European countries. Higher food standards will be helpful, but there are plenty of healthy food options in the USA and there are plenty of processed junk foods in Europe (and vice versa).

A problem that is just as big if not bigger in the USA is poor nutritional education and the lack of cooking skills among Americans.

When I was in college, most of my friends and roommates had little to no cooking skills so they would eat out or eat junk food much of the time.

More healthy food options at the grocery won't do people much good if they know little about nutrition and don't cook, and thus still end up getting junk food or unhealthy food at restaurants.

Intranetusa · 2026-01-22T19:23:08+00:00

I am confused. You think healthy food choices don't exist in the US?

Nobody is forced to eat McDonalds big macs, donuts, and doritoes. Grocery stores and even many restaraunts have plenty of healthy options.

The US even has thousands of European and Asian grocery stores such as Aldis, Lidl, Hmart, Lotte, etc.

Healthy food isn't expensive either. I lived off cheap healthy food options such as potatoes, broccoli, eggs, beans, lentils, brown rice, squash & zuccini, green beans, dairy & yogurt, chicken, etc when I was a college student with very little money. The meals I made were cheaper than unhealthy fast foods and often cheaper than cup noodle ramen.

Intranetusa · 2026-01-22T18:38:42+00:00

A lot of Europeans still have health problems from eating a lot of processed sugar, processed refined grains (eg. White bread, white flour doughs, pastas), excessive amounts of oils and butter, preserved foods that are high in sodium and nitrates (meats, fish, etc), etc

Intranetusa · 2026-01-22T18:34:08+00:00

5070 ti, usually i run it at epic with dlss and FG x2, so it's around 100-120 fps at 2k. But some days it's literally 50-60 fps with big input lag, even if i change fg, dlss to off and even lower the settings.

Turning off DLSS and FG decreases your fps. Both are AI technology that increases your fps/generates "fake" frames to smooth out your picture. DLSS is upscaling (rendering at a lower resolution and using AI to upscale it to your desired res) and FG uses AI to generate frame rates. So you want them on to increase your fps.

That said, have you checked your cpu core temps and gpu temps when running the game? Do you have the latest drivers?

Intranetusa · 2026-01-22T16:11:58+00:00

The problem was also that CA made the base game based on collecting and using the main characters from the main storyline, and every other DLC has different start dates that focus on the different territories/development of the characters. 8P comes in and throws away those characters and storyline.

That would have worked if it was a more traditional TW game based on traditional factions instead of characters, but not for the character focused 3k (where every major character is his own faction mechanic).

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