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It's worth paying attention to what the UMKC people say, they're about the only economists who are actually connected to the real world.

Of course, they'd charge you $300 for having to make the effort.

It's been a while since I messed with it, but I'll try and give you my recollections that might be outdated.

First, GoG version, at the time at least, did not ship with the creation kit. So that sucks.

The big problem I think was the address library. Major version changes change the layout of the game's memory, which means something that directly addresses game data has to update constantly. When I was playing it about a year ago, that mod had not been updated. A bunch of more sophisticated stuff depends on that library, so it breaks a lot of dependencies.

SKSE itself works, and more basic SKSE mods like SkyUI work fine.

So I mean, the GoG version is playable. Personally I despise how much Steam has normalized intrusive DRM and basically refuse to use it. If you don't care, then you will probably have a better time with the Steam version.

They should just start posting rules. You know, screenshots of laws, photos of stop signs, warning labels...

Even apart from that, it implies that a sixth grader is not only a gay furry, but he has no problem letting his teacher know he's a gay furry.

I think not caring about being cool only amplifies preexisting coolness. An entitled boomer isn't gonna become cool just because they're even less self-conscious about their obnoxious opinions.

As others have noted, I don't think you can bait any relevant information from them. And this works both ways: some people are okay with homosexuality (or whatever) in the abstract but "don't think it could happen to them," if you catch my meaning; other people, love for their relatives overcomes homophobia.

Incidentally, this was part of why Pride became what it is: since it's easier to hate Someone Else than your own family, coming out en masse forces people to confront homosexuality as a tangible rather than abstract thing, in the context of people they love.

I don't have any particular advice for you. I can only say that I don't regret having come out.

I... think the only difference is that potential eavesdroppers could determine the number of files, and their rough size. And I guess... the filesystem location on the target server. I mean the main thing that'll be unencrypted is the FTP headers, so whatever else is in there.

No future but what we make for ourselves—and we sure have done a shit job.

The actual goal of political economy should be the well-being of the people. Price stability can be a means to that end, but it can also diminish standards of living. Certainly, price stability is not an end in itself.

To clarify what I mean, this current inflationary period is being caused by transient supply disruptions. They'll clear up on their own. Apart from Japan, what are the central banks of the world doing? They're trying to throw their economies into recession. Because of transient inflation that was not caused by runaway demand.

It's tricky to talk about actual gold standard days, since economic data aren't very reliable that far in the past, but historical accounts don't exactly paint a rosy economic picture. Whether there was price stability, I'm really not sure, but I do know there was mass unemployment, frequent economic crises, and widespread poverty.

Finally, the Eurozone... Their recession following the global financial crisis lasted longer than other advanced economies, because the Stability and Growth Pact is the opposite of sensible economic administration. Indeed, Europe is in a downward binge-purge spiral of—crisis happens, better ignore excessive deficit rules and let the ECB buy sovereign debt at its discretion; well the crisis is over, time to fuck up European economies again; oh no there's another crisis, better ignore the SGP again.

At some point I might have to leave the US, so it's a shame that Europe isn't a viable alternative.

Nothing has inherent value. Inherent value shouldn't be confused with practical value. Anyway, while gold has some practical value nowadays, being a corrosion resistant electrical conductor doesn't explain why people wanted gold more than a hundred years ago. Thinking there's something special about gold that makes it valuable irrespective of social beliefs or practical uses is just... the world's least interesting religion.

The fact is, money has value because it's the only thing that can be used to pay taxes. So for the next level, I've never quite understood what "social construct" means. Is being punched for cosplaying a Nazi a social construct? Not the justification, but the fist, is the fist a social construct? Is being harassed by the IRS because you're a sovereign citizen who uses self-issued Freedom Dollars and doesn't believe the Sixteenth Amendment was duly ratified so income taxes are illegal, is the harassment from the IRS a social construct?

It's a shame they didn't go for that goofy andorian costume.