LeonineAlpha

Living in one of the recent cities listed

Those games were NOT PROFITABLE. The IOC, etc, SAYS they were by:

Completely discounting Policing/Security Not including any venue construction costs And a whole bunch more sleeze (not) accounting (multi Billion$, for a winter, seen 10x higher for some summer bills)

Their idiotic "profitable" rhetoric is spuriously true, if you do some bullshit accounting, whereby the ticket revenues exceed the labour bill, on-site (and never mind they conned legions of "workers" into scabbing for "room+board volunteers" which was actually a cot and hotdogs in moldy leaking freight containers)

Multi billion $ hole, that we the people pay debt servicing on eternally, and our city became a haven for international money laundering after, one of the most unaffordable places in the world now...

Yes, but...

Per the rules of the game:

British PM publicly states "The game is afoot" Then Whole new game! (Never very long;)

They call him TnT, cause when he goes off, someone's gonna get hurt...

Watch "Chernobyl" by HBO, if u old enough to remember that, at the time it was all lies and cover ups.

I did a deep dive into reactors in general and concluded:

Even with "better, safer (theory 100% safe)" reactor designs are vulnerable to fail (sometimes catastrophically) given

1)external(Social, energy) pressure: 3Mile, Chernobyl, Fuck-You-Shima, all were entirely preventable BUT given "social" pressures (whether capitalist, communist or zibatsu) there is always pressure to do things "cheap"

2)all reactor designs, when off line, need (sometimes up to 2 years!) of cooling to avoid disasters. This means when you wanna turn off, they are massive long term energy vampires. Thusly: all reactors, given social collapse, where there is not freely available staff and surplus power, red line, sometimes to meltdown. So plagues, war, catastrophe, social breakdown... all over the world...

3)"safe" reactors are designed so for 50 years. They are then "unsafe" but it takes years and billions$ to shut them down (and you need to replace capacity!). A vast number of original power plants are past or passing threshold. To my knowledge, no political system pre banked the money and resources to shut and replace. So we are just patching cracks, and operating less safely (there will be a bunch of these disasters in next decades)

?What kind of idiot lights a fire that you can not extinguish, and can not leave unattended!

I go Prince-of-Persia/MaxPain. It has probably saved me sometimes, but mostly it just results in people thinking I'm a spaz.

Watch "All watched over by machines of loving grace" BBC, Curtis; might be also on some dread YouTube. The cow portholes were part of (unexpected) scientific disproof of the trite popular wisdom of "Ballance of Nature." Whole series is a trip, if maybe a bad one.

Not sure of their intended reference but: Cassandra in Illiad esp Trojan Horse incident Legolas, LotR, and many other Elves in Silmarrilion and Apendices Various Atreides in Dune (though they can force people to listen, lol) I had the (mis)fortune of later viewing video of an incident where I "activated." Atm it seemed to me a very long slow progression (like 10 seconds?) But video-wise it all played out in like a second. The other takeaway was that all the stuff that I saw as "obvious" was greatly exagerated in my perception, so it was obvious to me, but impossible to get neurotypicals to credit (even to want to do) the zoom in and slow motion analysis that would be needed. I found the experience very upsetting/isolating because it proved impossible to get people to understand my perspective.

Through the darkness of future past The sorcerer yearns to see One clear path between two worlds Come fire, walk with me

In the old sitcom "Happy Days," after far too many seasons, a new episode featured The Fonz, blue screen water skiing, a crappy looking shark prop, and the Fonz literally jumped over the shark.