When monsters arise, you fight them. Not because you can win, but because they must be fought.

Will the regulatory body be stacked with, and bribed by auto execs?

Yes, I’m aware of the treaty, but that thing won’t be worth the paper it’s written on if the billionaires think they can have their own asteroids.

I’m not sure, but that might exceed the total monetary value of the entire solar system if completely disassembled and sold as raw material. Anybody wanna try and do the math? Cause I know I can’t.

Yes, those things are indeed food.

I mean, wasn’t gonna.

I’d have to look at Ajit Pai.

… in Minecraft!

You might want to ask Ajit Pai.

No one has made fun of me yet for using PopOS.

Well, it’s a critical text in the history of Wicca, since it began the practice of burning accused witches. It also contains a great deal of the prevailing myths of the time regarding them. Its title translates to The Hammer of Witches. Finally, besides historians, they’re some of the few people keeping the text alive in the eye of pop culture, since the church no longer wants to be openly associated with it.

Because it was the official church doctrine they used to begin persecution of anyone charged with witchcraft in the European middle ages. It didn’t simply justify all the tortures the church is famous for; it set that ball rolling as the legal document behind it all, written by a bunch of deranged zealots. It was used to genocide the native European religions and cement the power of the church. The perfection of the art of torture, all the burnings and rigged trials, all those horrors began with that book. Anytime you hear people freaking out about witches even today, anywhere, Malleus Maleficarum is the root of it all. Throughout the centuries, it shaped the brutality of European colonialism around the globe as one of the most influential books most people never heard of. Due to the extent of colonialism, it destroyed more lives and culture, and caused more agony and torment than probably any other book ever written.

It’s obscure, archaic, dogmatic, bloodthirsty, batshit legalese translated into Old English from Latin. These days it’s mostly of interest to particularly focused scholars, Wiccans, and edgy teens dipping their toes in. I wouldn’t expect it to be a good read.

For maximum WTAF, throw in Demonology by King James. Yes, that King James.

Probably the most evil book ever written.

Regardless, there are far more resources much easier to obtain in deep space than we have down here. That doesn’t change even if gravity is less of an obstacle to them.

Because all you’re doing is wildly speculating about a man without a shred of evidence.

Lewis is well-known for having an Oedipus complex. There is nothing to indicate he was attracted to or abused children.

Men can grow up. It’s just that modern society seldom cares to teach us to be proper men. So instead we often simply remain undeveloped.

Eh, natural resources are far easier to extract from asteroids and moons than to haul out the gravity well of the biggest rocky planet in the area. And they wouldn’t have to mess with the nasty apes for any of them.

This is how all world wars began. Major powers don’t start them with each other. That’s too dangerous. Instead they always let themselves get dragged into it by their proxy nations.

I’m including the Peloponnesian War, which tore apart the Greek empire quite similarly to WW1 & 2. It didn’t start with Athens and Sparta directly.

It would be fine to engrave the cases, but not the bullets. It would change the balance and aerodynamics, making them highly inaccurate, and that is dangerous and highly unethical.

Now if you wanted to make them underpowered or duds, I suppose there’s an argument for that. You’d have to reload them yourself though, and it’s possible you could be held liable.

It’s the same thing that always happens in any economic system where the wealthy, powerful, and corrupt are allowed to remain in charge.