Cethin

Some games include launchers for practical reasons. Launchers allow you to change settings before having the game up, for example, which can be nice. They also sometimes can do mod management, though this is less common. Paradox does mod management through the launcher, for an example of that.

Usually the launchers suck though and only slow things down, but you can also usually use an argument to skip them.

We can take control of congress in 2.

No, the reason is because it works better for search engine optimization, and also to display ads. A copyright wouldn’t protect the recipe from being stolen from the article.

I don’t disagree, but also I can find hope in this too. Humans likely aren’t going anywhere, nor is the Earth. Us getting largely wiped out us a chance for a fresh start. We’d lose a lot, and there’d be a lot of suffering, but I personally can also find hope in a soft reset. Most of our information probably wouldn’t be lost, but we could come back and hopefully have an understanding of how we can impact the planet.

This volcano isn’t it though. It’s just going to hurt a lot of people, but it’s not big enough for any kind of reset of societal norms.

It is true that volcanoes have an effect. It’s just nothing compared to the scale humans are working at.