I am usually able to find a place faster on agoda.com than on airbnb fwiw.

It makes sense, hotels are almost always a better experience than an AirBnB, unless you have a special location like this one or an area without enough hotels.

Why stay at a sketchy house that makes you clean, when you can stay at a hotel that cleans for you?

This.

They aren't going to use the beam on illegal immigrants, they are talking about making a plan to potentially use it. Enough to get headlines, not enough to do anything.

Here is some footage of the device in action. It was originally thought to be lethal because of the water, but that was mistaken understanding.

It's not always harmless.

The thing that worries me isn't "new" weapons, those are a perpetual problem of humanity.

The thing that worries me is that now people/countries have an understandable incentive to intentionally induce Kessler syndrome.

For young men in San Francisco, there's 10% more men than women. Where is the fascism? China has 7% more men than women, a 30 million surplus - if you're talking about urban areas with jobs, the numbers are far higher - and are people getting violent frustrations out in the street? India has 46 million more men than women - where's their WW2?

The theory may just be shit. Stop writing essays about it.

Instead of willful ignorance, it could just be that not having video games will bring back conditions leading to WW1 and WW2 was just a incredibly bad, bizarre take.

Anyway, even the women thing wasn't true for WW2. If you were a man who survived WW1 surely you were drowning in pussy.

Point taken, but it only takes one good ICBM to ruin your day. Russia doesn't like Golden Dome, but China is the one on the warpath towards America (in both the Philippines and Taiwan).

But why AAA video games? Why not phone games? Indie games? Older games? Movies? Drugs? Something else?

It's not like there's no other entertainment options out there.

What a bizarre take. You're suggesting men need either easy dates or cheap AAA video games or WW1 and WW2 happen?

KOTOR 2 and Baldur's Gate 3 are very good.

KOTOR was a great game. Then EA bought them and they released Mass Effect 2, Dragon Age: Origins, and Dragon Age: Inquisition. Three of the best RPGs ever to my mind.

Hate to see Bioware go...but when Mass Effect 3 came out in 2012, and surely 90% of the employees have moved on, how much institutional knowledge is there to make the next game in the series? (Sorry Andromeda)

Golden Dome is an escalation.

Interesting. Makes me want to work at a chemical plant for a while to see how it goes.