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"ideology is when someone has a robust understanding of how people's cultural biases creep into their views and actions, and attempts to act upon this in their work, just looking at the data is when you use pop science to do eugenics apologia" get me out of here lmao Also I think it's funny...

It's not moralizing puritanism to point out to someone that the things they're saying are transparently false to anyone with an understanding of genetics and population dynamics that goes beyond highschool biology class lmao Also hey don't blame me, it's the weird eugenics apologia crew that...

I would remove all reference to the idea of "genetic health", "damaged genes" etc. this is explicitly a eugenicist framework. But otherwise, sort of. The first thing is that mutation rates in mammals (and all large animals tbh) are extrewemely low, and so that's basically a non-factor here...

Who are you arguing with? I literally did not say any any of the things you're arguing with here lmao.

Unfortunately for the eugenicists among us, these anecdotes simply do not generalize in the ways they describe. This is immediately obvious to anyone with a background in population biology, population genetics and/or conservation

The impacts of inbreeding have been massively overemphasized in popular awareness by science and pop-science that was(and still is), more or less, explicitly eugenicist(as a user in this thread has so *kindly* demonstrated for us), so theres that. Isolated populations that don't drop below ~500...

I think that mostly makes it even stranger that the system is spending millions of extra credits per ship on military grade hardware when they presumably have fairly thin margins, but whatever works for you

Also messenger systems have an ancient affiliation with Empire, the USPS and whatever gb calls theirs are not the first iterations of this thing. Also older ones tend to be *more* affiliated with power, not less

That's real, but the analogy kind of falls apart because if you get caught intentionally messing with the mail the government will absolutely come after you in force. Accidents happen, but sabotage leads to repercussions(if you get caught)

The second one is really silly though, so there's that lmao. I guess another alternative would be to just have a clamp3, clamp4, and clamp5 (i think clamp2 is extraneous, because the smallest tonnage of clamps you would want on a gantry for a large tender is 2 clamp5s which is 100t) on each...

I was thinking about battle tenders just now. I was planning on using a design that can lift 2 main line combatants, so probably using 2 clamp 5s is sufficient. However, giving the tender some flexibility, so it could carry some combination of: 1 first rate ship, or handful of cruisers, or a...

Iirc, the main thing about (spear vs sword) + shield is that one dude with a sword beats one dude with a spear, the same with 2 dudes each, and so on, until you reach some point where theres enough guys that the spears can form up and exploit their reach, and the swords cant just run around the...

I'm fairly sure that all of the places where robot endurance is referenced it's described as if the whole system just runs on electricity, and there's certainly nothing stopping you from making an RTG or solar panel powered missile, imo the implication here is that the "thruster" also runs on...

If you can use it to disguise a medium bay in a 130t ship, I don't see why you couldn't use it to hide 100t of ramscoops in a 1900t ship, weapons arw the only ship component explicitly called out though

Perhaps with an adjustable hull?