If you're concerned 😟 about giving conk free publicity, maybe avoid saying the true name of conk. Publicity has the most effect when people don't know about the product being advertised. So by calling it conk, you make it harder for people who don't know conk to learn about conk.
Another point that just came to me: Ads are the most effective if the customer doesn't know about the product being advertised. Everybody already knows about Conk. (I'm referring to them as "Conk" now). So, Conk probably doesn't need that annual "Holidays are coming" ad.
My hypothesis is that Horax is high. As in, the monolith is some sort of bong for archotechs, and Horax is indifferent enough to not light it himself, but if you light it for them, they'll start smoking.
There's an elephant in the room here I mean to address: The ritual requires a prisoner as target, who is aged and suffers brain damage as part of the ritual. Sort of sounds like they are the offering.
The problem I have with your theory is that, if Horax wanted one of your colonists, they could just take them. All of the rituals work by calling upon Horax, with them doing the actual work. The existence of the skip abduction ritual implies that Horax can grab anybody from anywhere on the planet. Given that Horax is perfectly willing to send anomalies to attack your colony, it stands to reason that if they had interest in random colonists, they'd just grab them with skip abduction.
If socialist means centrally planned economy, and all countries are centrally planned, then all countries are socialist.
World revolution achieved! We did it, lemmy.
Edit: Jokes aside, I don't quite get why you two are arguing. You seem to more or less agree that the study doesn't actually discuss socialist countries.
A cubic meter is a thousand liters, Which seems to be a lot of water to use in a 12 hour period, statistics I found point at an average water consumption of 100 to 130 liters per day, so a regular consumer would never even get close to the point where it doubles, and therefore would be unaffected. So why do you think this would hurt poor people?
You can go there right now and check. I personally haven't heard of Maga.place before finding this thread, but the name sounds off-putting. I'll take a closer look though.
Edit: It appears to be an instance run by some weird right-wing guy.
A shutdown means that the government is insolvent, though. At some point, the funds will run dry without borrowing more. A default would likely send the US and world economy into a recession. Though could be that Trump will just bypass congress to borrow more money anyway.
If it helps, those AI videos allegedly cost Sora 1$ per second of video to produce, and it takes quite a few tries to get it right. There's no way to make it profitable in its current form.
Maybe "Seele mein" by Eisregen for that existential dread. Problem is, the song is in German.