Pretty sure Lazerpig made a 20min rant video about this exact topic, specifically regarding why Sea Of Thieves sucked as a result of its forced-PvP for PvPers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGWOgMcMJ8c
Regen braking exists, and everyone does want it, because it gives free power when you hit the brakes. The reason nobody adds it is because up until recently, you could only have coasting or regen braking, and not having to pedal literally all the time is just far more important for bikes. There's a recent tech, freegen? Called something like that, it lets you have both regen braking and coasting,
The irony is that they can't, but their greatest weapon is that the people they fight think they can, and flee without even trying. And this post is making the exact same mistake, while also assuming they're invincible. The answer to the post is the post. That or pointing to the post and laughing.
While that's all true, if the US built the solar future then it would also be true of the US. Altruism unfettered by vested self-interest doesn't really exist at a strategic level, and at the end of the day the reasons why we avert planet-scale mass suicide are kind of irrelevant, as long as we get it done.
Being certified as the winner is not the same as being the winner. There's nothing contradictory about both claiming Biden was certified and claiming Biden was falsely certified - so this isn't like the "state's right to what?" thing, finishing the sentence for them doesn't change the statement.
In Factorio 2 (yeah sure, Space Age is "just a DLC", right), the final armor is basically a coffin. The dev diaries explicitly state their intention on it. They also explicitly say that the protagonist is not the 'good guy', for that matter.
Definitely more, in the short term. If only because steel mills operate at phenomenal scale, and are decades old and thus have long since paid off their mortgages.
The pressing process of the wood takes a couple of hours, and while it's really impressive that they got it down from a week, that means they'll need a lot of presses to scale the whole thing up. Which means $$$, and realistically means they ought to throw a lot more $$$ at reducing the pressing time needed before they can undercut steel.
There's definitely potential though - steel takes a fuckton of energy (1500 degrees IIRC) whereas this wood only requires 100ish degrees and some constant pressure. And energy is money, and chopping down your major input 15x is amazing. If they can solve the manufacturing speed problem, then they're undercutting steel even if they don't win on material properties.
To be fair, streetcars were sometimes a grift that weren't intended to work in the first place. Not all, but some.
See, electric companies pushed for new suburbs to be built with electric streetcars, because if you need to put in all the wiring for a streetcar, you might as well just electrify the entire suburb while you're at it. Which is what electric companies wanted; the streetcars were just an excuse to get the wiring in. They didn't actually care if the streetcars made sense or stuck around, as long as the electric wiring stayed put.
So electric companies would happily push for nonsensical streetcar layouts that maximised the number of electrified households, and then someone else would come along and say "this is idiotic, let's rip it up" (possibly because it's true, possibly because car/oil $$$) and the electric companies wouldn't push back, because they didn't care either way in the first place.
Stalin never even claimed that the USSR had achieved communism, yet somehow every grandma in his “state socialist” empire thinks full communism was reached and the state withered away like Marx predicted. They believe lies he never even told.
He did claim to be communist though - as in, he is ideologically driven to attempt to bring about communism. So calling the USSR "communist" is 100% correct. And naturally, what do you call life under communists? Communism! (This is wrong, but it's an understandable switch-up).
To be fair, they presumably had an office before Zoom existed in a usable state.