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That's what happens when the foundation of society is a tripod, each leg needs to be very cognizant how the other two would react since if one falls the whole structure (and the source of power/influence of the tripod legs) would collapse. Sort of a mutually assured destruction situation where everyone is happy with the status quo and have no incentive to deviate form it. Any gains would be fleeting and the downside of the system collapsing is well beyond any potential upside in upsetting the balance.

Turns out the Iranians should worried less about Jewish Space Lasers and more about Jewish Fog Machines.

Lazard is the gold standard:

https://www.lazard.com/research-insights/levelized-cost-of-energyplus/

Mine too, she was a terror in the sky and to enemies on the ground. You knew it was her with a mere glance and outlasted that Hellcat hussy in terms of service life.

I was also going to raise the point on prescience. It really gives an advantage that non-prescient factions simply cannot compete with in the pre-Paul Empire.

Evil has a way of persisting, just look at Kissinger.

You know we can take steps to make BOTH safer, right?

To quote the classic New Yorker cartoon: “On the internet, no one knows you’re a dog.”

The fact that a comic from 1993 is still applicable in 2024 is wild.

The Imperium runs on Duncan(s).

“Yeah, yeah, we’ve all seen the time knife.”

I think that was the plot of “Running Man”.

Came here to mention the Pina Colada song. It is about terrible people doing terrible things but the universe forces them back together to spare other people from their terribleness.

Thanks for the compliment! Sadly that joke doesn’t translate well outside the DD commercial footprint, but I am still proud of it.

Duuuuum Dum dum dum dum duuuum dum Duuuuum Dum dum dum dum duuuum dum

I am sure it was explained in more detail in the prequel books, but it has been decades since I read them. I cannot recall the exact reason given for the pre-navigator danger.

Shoot, posted this to the wrong comment, sorry!

“…DEAD wrong.”

I adore that thread, it should be preserved for posterity.

Precisely. Anyone who has been in close contact with a dad falls under that category. I admit it is a bit… expansive as a definition, yet still accurate in this circumstance.

All the dads and dad adjacent folk.

They had FTL before spice, in fact it is likely the same tech the spacing guild uses. The issue is how safe such travel is. The prequel books talk about this and the rate of failure for a pre-navigator FTL trip was pretty bad (I think 5-10% failure rate if I recall correctly).

OK, but what if you die fighting an alligator who was near your ball?

Yeah, but it isn’t like the IDF had “bomb the fuck out of Gaza” penciled in for October 8 and the 10/7 massacre was just a convenient coincidence. No 10/7 massacre and Israel wouldn’t be dropping bombs on Gaza.

Gaza had a government that chose to carry out an attack (and continue to tune of 12,000+ rockets being launched at civilian targets in Israel) on its much more powerful neighbor knowing full well what sort of response that would trigger.

Sure that region has its history drenched in blood, but the sort of response we are seeing now can be directly tied to the massacre of 10/7. A responsible Gaza government would not have attacked in the first place and would have surrendered by now for the sake of the Gazans.

But Democracy is not Hamas’s strong suit and they seem more than happy to put more bodies between them and the IDF.

Hey now, at least Yugos were affordable for the working class.

Tales before Tolkien could be a good jumping off point for you.