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And that is pretty much all we get from the major news organizations of late. Basically, for the last decade or so. I still remember when the 'news' was exactly that. News. No political bias, no editing of stories to support a particular political view. Just facts, all of them. Not leaving out little bits and pieces because they didn't support the message you were trying to forward. Of course, that was back when you got the news in half hour segments. 30 minutes of 'local' news, then 30 minutes of national news. With the advent of the 24 hour news cycle, all that went out the window, and ratings/political message became more important than truth, and facts. Sorry, I don't watch television. Newspapers, books, magazines, radio. Multiple and various opinions and different perspectives. Double checked sources, fact checking before publication. But I am sure that you will now tell me that the printed press is also "fake news" and biased. heavy sigh

Bias is expected in everything, simply because human beings are all different. Outright lies, malicious distortions and propaganda are a different matter entirely.

I will just leave this here in case anyone cares to see how Fox News describes their own reporting. And before you bash the liberal press, remember that the court records are public and can be seen by anyone who wishes to view them. https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/09/judge-rules-fox-news-tucker-carlson-not-source-of-news-defamation-suit-mcdougal-trump.html So the question now becomes, are the folks extolling the virtues of Fox News a "reasonable viewer"?

No one will ever be able to supply you with the proof you seek. You have made up your mind and closed it down, so any fact, proof, evidence or reality that contradicts your preconceived belief system will not be tolerated or accepted. You will cling to old falsehoods, even in the face of proof which unfounds your beliefs. You are a zealot.

On Donald Trump and his inability to speak true, FactCheck,org records an average of between 16 and 22 false or misleading statements made my Trump EVERY DAY. Source: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/factcheck/fact-checker-president-trump-made-19127-false-or-misleading-claims-in-1226-days/ar-BB14RCpH As for Obama being the worst President in the last 100 years, no. The only real issue that most folks have with Obama is that he was melanin blessed.

My first ever game was Colossal Cave Adventure, considered by some to be the grandfather of today's RPG games. I fell in love with this interactive, line mode, RPG on a Honeywell computer. A version of that game is available free via the Microsoft Store, if anyone is interested.

I use a 40in UHD HDR television as my primary monitor. First, I like viewing the gaming screen over my toes, and a larger monitor simply makes that easier. Second, in spite of all the statistics, televisions are manufactured to be more robust and tolerate a wider range of conditions. So they tend to last longer than simple monitors. Now, a larger screen surface does present some challenges. Most specifically in the area of applications and text sizes. For myself, I set the resolution as high as I can and them set the image size as low as I can and still read the text. The reward tor this is that when working at the desk making mods or typing in forums, I am not overwhelmed with huge text and have a much larger viewing area. I also have two 32in Display Port monitors which increase the work surface when working on mods. The render window on the big screen, and forms and lists on the other two. Makes working on mods a lot easier. Finally, to prevent picture burn, I have the inactivity limit set to ten minutes and then a blank screen. I also use the features in the Television which will power the TV off if it is idle for a fifteen minutes. So now when I fall asleep at my desk, my monitors and TV aren't punished. :D

Can you not equally solve this by pressing Ctrl and + to zoom the browser? That seems simpler. I would, if it worked. In my experience, it does not affect the captcha popup.

There is a very real issue with hCatpcha (and recaptcha for that matter) on higher resolution monitors. The captcha image screens do not scale well, and so on a high resolution monitor, the images that one is to choose from are so small as to be pretty much indistinguishable from each other. The current solution, reset your high resolution monitor to a lower resolution (1024x768 or 800x600) so you can see the captcha images. Then, when blessed by captcha, reset your resolution to one more in line with why you paid for a hi-res monitor. Alternatively, hook up an old monitor to your system so you can drag the captcha onto that screen and work from there.

Installing or uninstalling any mod midway through a play-through is a dangerous and potentially fatal act. You can kill a save and a game half a dozen different ways and not know for days, weeks or longer. My advice, bite the bullet now, and start a new game. And use the UFO4P mod. It fixes far more than anyone imagines. Fallout 4 is a far better game with UFO4P than without.

Just a thought here. Users are paying for mods from Nexus right now. They are doing it with reduced download speeds and ads for users who will not directly provide financial support to Nexus. But with paid mods ... As of this writing, nexus brags they have had in excess of 4.1 billion (yes, with a 'b') downloads. At two bits a pop, that is still over one billion US dollars. Split that between Nexus, the authors and Bethesda, and everyone would have made some real money. but alas, users would rather have (and whine and complain about) ads and reduced download speeds so the mods remain free.

Okay, once more on Ice cores. Ice cores have demonstrated that the earths climate and atmospheric contents goes through cycles, and that there are spikes and pits in just about every variable that can be measured. But nowhere in the ice core record is there recorded such a precipitous and steady rise in green house gases in just a few centuries as is contained in cores covering the period of the last millennium. Further, the ice cores demonstrate a direct correlation to the rise of industry and burning of fossil fuels. So the ice cores are one piece of direct evidence that human activity is responsible for a rise in green house gases and the rise in global temperature. So the ice cores are indeed an inconvenient truth. Just not the way the scientifically ignorant climate change deniers would have the world believe.

And with that, I will bow out. I will not discuss superstitions and conspiracy theories. The world is not flat. We did land a man on the moon. Evolution is real and ongoing. The world is 4.5 billion year old. Man made global warming is real. Cow farts and belches do not emit as much methane as leaking oil wells and natural gas pumping stations. There has to be intelligent life somewhere in the cosmos, because, given the previous post, it is demonstrable that it does not exist on this planet.

As I understand your position: It's cheaper to buy raw materials elsewhere because it costs too much to produce at home. It costs too much to mine and process the raw materials at home because of government interference. When the government interference is eliminated, It's still cheaper to buy the raw materials elsewhere. So the government regulations and their impact on production costs are not the driving force when it comes to purchasing raw materials off shore. Reread what I wrote. The EPA has relaxed SOME of the restrictions, but, there are still MANY in place. The EPA didn't simply dry up, and blow away, they are still there, over-regulating as usual. And yes, it is currently still cheaper to buy from China, than to produce in the US. EPA is one major driving factor there. Labor rates, and such, are another. All of the restrictions on tailing maintenance and runoff, heavy metal runoff, ground and surface water contamination, open pit recovery, well integrity, well spillage and containment, pumping emissions, and sensitive environment protection have all been eliminated or watered down to the point of non-existent. And all the punitive language in EPA regulations has been declared null and void. So which regulations are left? Ok, that covers mining. You do understand that is only the first step, right? Still need to refine it into a usable form. Your assumption about what I do and do not understand says more about you and your thinking than it does about me. Consider. please, that you might not be as omniscient as your assumptions imply you believe yourself to be. Now, the highlights are for processing and refining as well as mining. Also relaxed where the air quality standards, including the reduction of CO2, CO and methane emission strictures. Hell, the administration even pressured Congress into dismantling the authorization which allowed California to implement and enforce air quality and emission standards which exceeded national standards. According to one industry joke, the only thing which is still regulated is worker flatulence. And that joke was precipitated by a panel discussion which included a review the new "fast track" EPA certification process, which one pundit said consisted of "Yup, you filled out the form". Further, the panel reviewed the relaxed OSHA standards for smelter workers safety, including removing the restrictions on airborne super heated particulates, and the handling of toxic and hazardous materials my industry workers. The panel also reviewed the Department of Transportation's relaxed limitations on over-road transport of toxic waste, radioactive waste, and hazardous materials. In other words, there are precious few restrictions left. The only cost which remains is human, and the labor market is so much cheaper in Asia, Africa and South America. Those labor markets are such that a worker is paid less in a year than American workers make in a fortnignt. The cost of the work being done is a third world country is a greater consideration than any government restrictions, because it means that it's cheaper to produce there and buy than to produce here. Regardless of governmental regulations. Further, there is a distancing affect when manufactures buy their materials from foreign entities. Under current law, American industrialists cannot not be held liable for the environmental impact of the mining and processing of these materials in other countries. This distance gives the industrialists insulation form any damages which might arise from legal claims against the mining operations. The only thing which can impact the American industry is the social displeasure which can accompany American industries supporting and enabling the horrible conditions and consequences of unsafe and insane practices. But mostly, with the possible exception of blood diamonds, Americans ignore those conditions so they can have a new iPhone every year. Now, with all of that said, there is another concern within the industry which has some running scared. There is the very real fear that when the existing administration goes away in one or five years, that the regulations and restrictions will come flooding back, that the new limits could be even more restrictive, that the penalties for violating restrictions could be even harsher, and that the restrictions could even be made retro-active. That knowledge stops some developers in their tracks. They know full well that, should they go forging ahead, any follow-on administration would in all likelyhood be indifferent to any pleas for forgiveness from those industrialists who deliberately "mess the nest", as it were. So what is stopping a host of mining and drilling industrialists, isn't truly the regulations or even the cost of production by third world countries. It is the knowledge that what they do is potentially harmful to the environment and to humanity. They know that they can and, probably, will be held accountable for any actions they take which could be perceived as "crimes" in the broader sense. Simply put, they fear that a more enlightened and responsible successor administrations might put them in jail.

As I understand your position: It's cheaper to buy raw materials elsewhere because it costs too much to produce at home. It costs too much to mine and process the raw materials at home because of government interference. When the government interference is eliminated, It's still cheaper to buy the raw materials elsewhere. So the government regulations and their impact on production costs are not the driving force when it comes to purchasing raw materials off shore. Reread what I wrote. The EPA has relaxed SOME of the restrictions, but, there are still MANY in place. The EPA didn't simply dry up, and blow away, they are still there, over-regulating as usual. And yes, it is currently still cheaper to buy from China, than to produce in the US. EPA is one major driving factor there. Labor rates, and such, are another. All of the restrictions on tailing maintenance and runoff, heavy metal runoff, ground and surface water contamination, open pit recovery, well integrity, well spillage and containment, pumping emissions, and sensitive environment protection have all been eliminated or watered down to the point of non-existent. And all the punitive language in EPA regulations has been declared null and void. So which regulations are left?

As I understand your position: It's cheaper to buy raw materials elsewhere because it costs too much to produce at home. It costs too much to mine and process the raw materials at home because of government interference. When the government interference is eliminated, It's still cheaper to buy the raw materials elsewhere. So the government regulations and their impact on production costs are not the driving force when it comes to purchasing raw materials off shore.

A large portion of the EPA regulations for environmental protections have been rolled back or eliminated in the past couple of years, making mineral, coal and oil exploitation pretty much wide open. Further, the US Department of the Interior and it's Bureau of Land Management was given a tonne of public lands reclaimed from eliminated National Parks, National Forests and National Monuments, which DOI and BLM then sold to private mining companies for exploitation. So is that old, tired, "but the government and the EPA won't let me ...", argument still valid? Currently. Yes. It is. Various companies may now own mining rights to what was once public land, but, so far as I have been able to determine, no one is exploiting that, as yet. It's still cheaper/easier to source those materials from China..... (who is one of the VERY few producers of such.....) At one point, china was making noises about dramatically reducing exports of those materials, but, so far, they haven't gotten as tight as they were at first considering. So, so long as getting them from China is cheaper than producing them here at home, no one is going to bother producing them here. And it isn't such "The EPA won't let me." as it is "The EPA has made it too expensive to be profitable." The EPA and their regulations have been eliminated or reduced to the point of almost non-existent, so how is it that the EPA is still impacting the exploitation of minerals, coal, oil, an other natural resources?

A large portion of the EPA regulations for environmental protections have been rolled back or eliminated in the past couple of years, making mineral, coal and oil exploitation pretty much wide open. Further, the US Department of the Interior and it's Bureau of Land Management was given a tonne of public lands reclaimed from eliminated National Parks, National Forests and National Monuments, which DOI and BLM then sold to private mining companies for exploitation. So is that old, tired, "but the government and the EPA won't let me ...", argument still valid?

And be careful with the Anti Facist rhetoric, lest someone think you were a member of Antifa. Indeed I did. I should reread this thread. Everyone should be Antifascist. Antifa however are not. They are fascists. Antifa is an abbreviated form for Anti-fascist or Anti-fascism, depending on who you ask. In either case, ANTIFA doesn't really exist except as an idea. It has no organization, and is basically an banana leaf which covers a lot of organizations. Sources: https://patch.com/us/across-america/what-antifa-5-things-know-movement and https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/06/what-is-antifa-trump-terrorist-designation

I did not bring up diversity, you did. And be careful with the Anti Facist rhetoric, lest someone think you were a member of Antifa.

The challenge with making anything at home in an industrialized nation is the cost of labor. And for the record, "the cost of labor" can be considered a euphemism for "the cost of a human life". In industrialized nations, populations are declining and in several cases have dropped below the mathematical "replacement level", raising the value of each individual human life. Further, as populations in industrialized nations continue to age, the number of people able to work is declining faster than the population, further increasing the value of each person. So the abundance of low value bodies necessary for factory work must be obtained in nations which still have substantial and growing populations. And on this planet, that is several nations in Asia. Whether we like it or not, the planet needs the work force in Asia just to sustain it's industrial base, and that requires cooperation, or globalization. No industrial nation can be truly self reliant any longer. Resources in most industrialized nations are quickly becoming scarce to non-existent. So critical resources must be imported from elsewhere. There are two historic methods to obtain resources from other nations. By force or by cooperation. Globalization is an alternative used by the industrial nations of the world to get and share resources from other nations by cooperation. Getting resources by force is no longer a truly viable alternative. Finally, diversity is where new thinking, new ideas and new methods originate. The absence of diversity simply creates a monochromatic echo chamber where innovation ceases and progress stagnates. Diversity and the broader range of critical thinking it produces is exactly what is needed to solve some of the existing problems facing the planet and the people inhabiting it. We need more diversity and inclusiveness, not less.

I have been a lurker here for a long time. I even gave up on Nexus when they required me to create an ID to download even the simple stuff. But, after being chastised by a friend for being an ass, I decided to tighten my loin cloth and give back a bit. So, I have created an ID and published a mod. It's one of my simpler ones, but baby steps. We'll see how it goes.

In my best Lily Tomlin / Ernistine voice, "Never mind".