fossil fuel extraction mitigates climate change.

To be fair, that’s not what they said. They said reducing emissions is compatible with maintaining fossil fuel extraction, which is technically true. It’s just really disengenuous.

Reducing fossil fuel usage while maintaining production means you’re selling more, which means you’re moving carbon emissions to another country’s balance sheet.

Wouldn’t surgery like that completely destroy your ability to detect direction of sound?

They pushed a driver update. That update is broken and causes the bootup sequence to fail.

Similar logic I’ve seen, but this one is a bit more interesting and nuanced:

Indian villager: Our dairy cows are well treated, are basically family members, and we don’t separate calfs from their mothers. We only harvest excess milk.

Internet vegans: Yes, but none of our arguments are talking about people in your situation. We’re talking about people buying liters of milk in supermarkets from corporations.

When did I use either word you’re talking about? I’m here in support of the milk industry!

Personally, I don’t see how forcibly impregnating cows and then taking their newborns away as soon as they are born in order to ensure we get all the milk could be considered cruel. Everyone knows that all non-human animals are simply automata with no ability to experience emotions. Cows, like dogs or cats, have no ability to feel so we can do anything we want to them.

Also, veal couldn’t exist without our wonderful dairy industry. Think of all those veal steaks you’d get rid of without the newborn males to slaughter from the dairy industry.

Davos: “There is land in the reach, go start your own house”

Unsullied: “You… you do realize what we are, right?”

Tourists in Bulgaria, for example, always get caught out by this. They shake their head for yes and nod for no.

Exactly what I wanted to say. All that talk of “perfection” makes me imagine them snapping and going full psycho because a train was cancelled and they need to book a different one.

To OP: just stop trying to plan that much. A general plan is good. Just be aware things will change and that’s ok. As long as you two are having a good time, the rest really doesn’t matter as much as you think it does.

If you want a little psychological trick to make the trip more memorable than it otherwise would be, whatever you think is going to be the most impressive, save it for last. Our memories have a very strong recency bias.

History is full of examples of small forces outsmarting and outmaneuvering larger forces.

Yes, but not every war forever for whichever nation the player is piloting. Once you’ve “solved” combat in a game like this, then suddenly every general for the rest of history for every nation you ever play is a super-genius, which feels pretty ridiculous and gamey.

It is a geopolitical simulator

Yes. Completely agree. Micro-managing individual battalions doesn’t fit very cleanly into a game about geopolitics. War is a part of it, but not at that granular a level. To take this into hyperbolic extremes to illustrate a point, just because a game includes warfare doesn’t mean it has to have a first person shooter segment.