Details are different, but there have been lots of examples over the years. Andrew Jackson had his "kitchen cabinet". There was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teapot_Dome_scandal, Watergate. There are plenty of other examples. In large part if something is an example or not depends on your politics - people tend to overlook the mistakes of someone they support.

Or we'll have ecological collapse.

Go look at the amount of grants getting funded this year and tell me we aren't completely gutting the national research apparatus.

I just need to look locally and see we're in trouble. NIST, NCAR. Super Drought conditions forming in the West.

This isn't good.

But hurray Moon missions, I guess. Pity we're causing the entire World Economy to collapse with a unneeded war.

Rather unfortunate timing that the original Apollo moon landing also happened in the middle of the Vietnam War.

Well, when you zoom out a bit, it’s not a stretch to say that both Apollo and Vietnam shared the same goal of countering the USSR.

The Vietnam War was us violating Vietnamese sovereignty and self-determination and losing.

…and why did the United States feel the need to do so?

Honestly, that coincidence was NOT lost on me.

Part of me finds it inappropriate to do the two things at once. Advancement in scientific knowledge being somewhat at odds with blowing up one of the oldest civilizations in the World.

Your life must pass by really slowly with a lot of waiting if you don’t do more than one thing at a time.

It's a game of priorities I guess when resources are limited. And no: I can't do everything, everywhere, all at once. Can you?

Big rocks in the pickle jar first. For you that includes wars when talking was working?

I can't eat good feelings

The studio is also like 5x as fast as those machines.

What's your point? Of course processors have gotten a lot faster between 2012 and 2025.

I was talking about the form factor of the machine.

Need to amend constitutional rights to privacy then these laws can be struck down in courts.

It's already there, in the European Convention on Human Rights [1], Article 8:

ARTICLE 8

Right to respect for private and family life

1. Everyone has the right to respect for his private and family life, his home and his correspondence.

You have the right to privacy, just no actual privacy. Just like in Life of Brian, where Stan/Loretta has the right to have children, but can't actually have children.

1: https://www.echr.coe.int/documents/d/echr/Convention_ENG

I feel like that would end with the same surveillance loopholes that Google, Microsoft and Apple exploit today.

Users need the ability to choose operating systems and software that is not exclusively green-lit by a first-party vendor. It's not glamorous, but pretending that software isn't a competitive market is what put us into this surveillance monopoly in the first place. "trust" distributed among a handful of businesses isn't going to cut it in a post-2030s threat environment.

This is what I've been saying to the people who blame the voters for Trump's win in 2024. Democrats knew how dangerous he was and how weak of a candidate he should have been and they still decided to skip the primary and run an unpopular candidate so late in the race after it became clear that Biden wasn't going to make it after the first debate. They met a serious and decisive moment with incompetence and the public is facing the consequences of that. They should be taking this all more seriously and doing introspection on the loss rather than blaming the voters.

Using a new york post article to dismiss the insurgent left on grounds of experience is one way to describe it I guess. Schumer and Jeffries have decades of experience between them and the Democratic party has the lowest approval in its history among its base. Kat Abughazaleh is more in step with where that base is on foreign and domestic policy, ignore the progress her wing of the party is making at your peril. There will be more Abughazalehs and Mamdanis in the future because those politicians are actually interested in delivering public services to their constituents instead of more technocratic hand wringing combined with the bloodiest period of foreign policy since Vietnam.

This "Democratic party has low approval" thing is a canard. The Democrats have low approval because Congress has low approval and because the Democratic base is angry we're fully out of power right now. Many of the people responding to polls saying they disapprove of the party would crawl across broken glass to vote for them in the midterm general.

Abughazaleh has 0 experience governing. To claim that she is actually interested in delivering public services when there is literally no evidence of that is laughable. There were 2 other candidates in this race from the insurgent left as you call it, both were local and have experience governing. If the insurgent left voters backed either of them they very likely would have won. Instead they backed a tiktok clown and it cost them.

You may have misunderstood my point.

I'm not discrediting anything except the notion that this was business as usual and the winners were as expected.

The article was simply the first I found as reference (could not remember the original source I read about this) and I make no comment on its bias.

This is starting to get into 2015 "nothing to see here, Donald Trump will never win" levels of denial.

I may be taking out some frustration on you undeservedly here.

Slay the Spire 2 was shipped using godot. I've found it's easier to develop on than Unity. This is an outdated understanding imo

I love Slay the Spire 2, it is a very good game, but it most honestly doesn't look or feel technically impressive.

Not all serious games need to be technically impressive.

Yeah people groan about GDScript but the performance code in the engine is written in c++. Since they added static typing, GDScript is perfectly adequate as a scripting language