Colonialism is definitely a unique sort of evil. If you don't think that I'm sceptical that you're particularly broadly read.
The scale of atrocities committed is just beyond comparison, like the most hardcore genocide in ancient times (that we have evidence of) was against a single city. In colonialism we are talking about continents.
good sirs, is thou engaging in buggery if thou makes record of thine notions?
licensing your comments has the same energy as throwing salt over your shoulder.
Yeah that doesn't mean we're running on an alien projector. Science communication of theoretical physics is horrible.
Anytime you find yourself getting excited about some galaxy brain SciFi stuff just clap out some chalk board erasers and inhale the dust. That's about how pleasant and exciting theoretical physics is (and how worth doing, fight me you keyboard tapping nerds) and it should help you get in the mood for appreciating findings.
That's capitalists not scientists. Scientists make bridges possible, capitalists charge you to cross them.
Why do you assume it's not the reporting that's stupid?
Whitehack has the best magic system.
If you have a spell called "Practical deflagration" then you can use it for stuff that sounds like what it is cheaply. So idk lighting a campfire is maybe 1HP, setting someone's closes on fire is maybe 1HP. Throwing an orb of fire that explodes is further from the wording, so maybe that's 3 or 4 HP (figure it out at first use).
Flexible, on hand, rewards player creativity, balanceable in play. It's good shit.
Especially when you get to stuff like "my class is combat linguistician and I cast conjugate"
So genocide is the key word. A lot of conquest did not involve the displacement or extermination of entire peoples until colonialism.
Conquering a place was largely "so you pay tax to me now" prior to colonialism, at which point it became more "so you are subhuman and need to be exterminated or bread of of existence"