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I have no idea if this is true, but it certainly fits the very strange vibe of the game.

It's like how I would imagine the most violent cops see the world.

All people are awful. Every criminal is a heavily armed, highly trained, fearless lunatic, who does not care if they live or die, as long as there's a tiny chance they can hurt more people. Civilians are uncooperative, ungrateful, and suicidal.

Every deployment, no matter how routine, will likely lead you into an ambush by dudes with assault rifles.

Avoiding bloodshed is almost impossible and even trying is likely to get you killed.

The game has some of the strangest bugs.

The last time I tried to play, I had no UI at all, but only in multiplayer. It worked fine in single player, but if I joined or created a multiplayer game, the whole HUD was just gone and nothing could make it appear.

That's really the only time I've tried to play it since 1.0, and I'm not going to blame them for bugs in early access. But loosing the mission after the last civilian (Daniella Voll) managed to trap two officers in a bugged closed and slap us to death was as infuriating as it was hilarious.

Never found even harvesting to require more than the occasional puff of smoke. But we had Buckfast, and made sure to replace the queen of any aggressive colony. Maybe you have more aggressive breeds.

Looking around there does seem to be people who use tobacco. I guess poisoning the bees probably makes them more docile 😅 Still a bad idea though

This sounds strange. You really don't want to make them abandon the hive. You want to disrupt the hive as little as possible.

I don't believe they'd use tobacco, as nicotine is especially toxic to insects (and has a long history of being used as an insecticide).

Beekeepers burn paper, woodchips, or really anything that burns well that they have on hand (that isn't toxic). Source: Have used smoker while handling beehives.

I could change it in the settings. I just hadn't used it in a long time and it took me a bit to realize that this default was why I suddenly had trouble telling the tools apart.

But if the differences are that big I'm probably still on 2. Looking forward to seeing what 3 will bring then :)

A stronger argument IMO is that those types of crimes are premeditated, calculated and committed by those who have many other options. So deterrents are likely to actually work against them.

Not that I agree with you. But there's an argument to be made for using deterrents where they are likely to work. Rather than against the desperate or impulsive.

If it's pornography of an unwilling subject, surely the distribution and consumption is harmful to the subject, as it's a violation of their privacy and integrity.

If someone had put secret cameras in your bedroom, would you be completely cool with them selling the pictures online?

What if you were abused, let's say threatened with a weapon and forced to undress in front of a camera, a traumatic experience for sure. Afterwards you learn that the film is being traded between people who get off on this stuff. Would that really not feel like a further violation?

Would you really be unaffected by the knowledge that for the rest of your life, at any time, there could be creeps getting off on your abuse?

I found Inkscape when I needed to make some diagrams, and even though that's not really what it's for, it blows dedicated diagram tools out of the water.

Inkscape is actually fun to use because it strikes a nice balance between easy and powerful.

My only problem with GIMP lately has been that by default it's used monochrome tool icons which are really hard to tell apart. Which seems like a real form-over-function decision (likely made by the distribution though).

My experience with Jetbrains was that they did not rely on vendor lock-in, but on actually making a product worth paying for. I could move my projects away from their suite easily, the build tools and scripts where all third-party open-source. I just didn't want to.

But perhaps things are different in other spaces. I can imagine using Kotlin might lock you in more.

Just shifting the tax burden from salaries toward capital should make it less of a problem. When capital income is taxed less than salaries wealth concentration gets worse as workers are replaced.

But hey, GDP line goes up, so it must be good right?