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  • https://fallout.fandom.com/wiki/United_States_annexation_of_Canada

    The primary reason for the annexation were Canada’s natural resources, considered vital to the American military effort in the Sino-American War.

    The tipping point came in 2072. As the U.S. escalated its exploitation of Canada’s resources, her people took to the streets. Protests and riots erupted in several Canadian cities and an attempt to sabotage the Alaskan pipeline by unknown forces was foiled, but provided the U.S. Government an excuse to officially annex Canada.

    When pictures of the atrocities committed in the name of the United States made it over the border, they sparked unrest and protests from the American public. Both sides thoroughly armed, it had little impact on history, as former Canadian land provided much-needed resources for maintaining the war effort, and the country was overrun.[Non-game 5][Non-game 6]

    In a statement to the press, Buzz Babcock, commander of U.S. forces in Canada, cited security concerns as the primary reason for the annexation. He also stated that “Little America” was always the property of the United States and the U.S. military announced the official annexation of Canada on June 3, 2072.

    Even among the military, the annexation was met with mixed reactions. For some, the act was considered criminal.[5] Open warfare between the opposing armies across the former nation commenced, with the Yukon becoming one of the many fronts alongside Anchorage in the Resource Wars.[6] Despite the outcry, the military initiative forged ahead. Propaganda portrayed the annexation as a “liberation”, with comic series such as Tales from the Front and cartoons such as Armor Ace and the Power Patrol championing U.S. occupation forces while vilifying Canadian resistance; for instance, the villainous “rogue robots” of the Yukon Five in the Armor Ace board game Cold Steel were explicitly described as part of the “Yukon Uprising.” Vault-Tec in particular sought to bank on the annexation as they began building and advertising available Vaults in “newly-annexed Canada.”

    Fallout is supposed to be over-the-top dystopian parody, but here we are.

    Just… don’t show any of this to the administration, hm?


  • Its semantics, and a subject of ongoing debate.

    Per wikipedia, I really like this proposal:

    Astronomer Jean-Luc Margot proposed a mathematical criterion that determines whether an object can clear its orbit during the lifetime of its host star, based on the mass of the planet, its semimajor axis, and the mass of its host star.[210] The formula produces a value called π that is greater than 1 for planets.[c] The eight known planets and all known exoplanets have π values above 100, while Ceres, Pluto, and Eris have π values of 0.1, or less. Objects with π values of 1 or more are expected to be approximately spherical, so that objects that fulfill the orbital-zone clearance requirement around Sun-like stars will also fulfill the roundness requirement[211] – though this may not be the case around very low-mass stars.

    It basically means a planet should be big enough to consolidate all the stuff in its orbital area, not be part of an asteroid field. That makes sense to me.


    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwarf_star

    “Dwarf” stars are even more confusing, as it basically a synonym for “normal,” as opposed to “giant” stars (which are relatively puffy and big for their mass/temperature), or more exotic stars. But the term is also used for special cases, like the relatively exotic white dwarfs (remnants of exploded stars with very strange properties, extreme density, and not “burning” like a star traditionally does), or “barely a star” brown dwarfs.

    TL:DR: If an astronomer asks you to name something, you should say ‘absolutely not.’






  • Beautiful.

    But…

    Republicans have been generally older folks, and what they’ve seen in the last 60 years is a rapid turnover of the world they knew.

    This is an iffy assumption: https://www.axios.com/2024/09/28/gen-z-men-conservative-poll

    The very youngest voters — 18-to-24-year-olds — say they’re more conservative than the cohort that’s just older, according to the latest Harvard Youth Poll.

    The younger generation of men is more likely to identify as conservative than as liberal.

    Between the lines: They were hardest hit by COVID-19 and felt ignored by the establishment, John Della Volpe, director of polling at the Harvard Kennedy School Institute of Politics, told Axios this month.

    The youngest members of that group were just 10 years old when Trump was elected president and see this chaotic political era as normal.

    “They think of Trump as an anti-hero and not a villain. … I think it’s less about policy and much more about personality,” Della Volpe said.

    Welcome to the TikTok, podcast and Discord era. It’s not just disillusioned older folks that turned to Trump, but younger folks who are completely immersed in algorithms, influencers, and echo chambers, and understandably feel the system has failed them.










  • brucethemoose@lemmy.worldto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneruler
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    ChatGPT is awful.

    Use literally anything else. Qwen, Deepseek, Minimax, Llama, Cohere or Mistral APIs, even Gemini, they all have options call Musk a Nazi without berating you.

    EDIT: I just asked Arcee 32B on my desktop, had no problem with it.