Isolated and without knowledge :|.

Thank you for your kind words, it is appreciated, and helps.

I’ll have some knowledge for free, pls!

Well, if someone wants to take over for a while, I mean …

C-SPAN should really caption who is speaking, not the meatsuit the speaker is piloting, that is just confusing.

(Oh, I’m so sorry, forum life changed me, I assumed against my instincts! I actually love play-fighting on fictional shit & taking comically one-sided stances for the duration of the debate, whatever side is less represented atm.)

To democracy?
But we had the democratic senate (except the leader) for several months into our glorious Empire!

We ofc had to dismantle it bcs the floating podiums burned through too much electricity & we stand for efficiency.

Just look at our newest high efficiency orbital battle station (Death Star), it obliterated Alderans unemployment rate in seconds!

(We should built more tho, they have a super sensitive g-spot.)

I love the fancy twisty-twirly urethra!

Look how smart they have gotten since turned gay!!

Ok, but I could oppose gay marriage & still want to say “yes” to a proposal for such.
Bigotry is about denying others, not yourself.

/s
(Well, not sarcasm, whatever this is)

It’s not a bad way to go I would say.

Noble even.

(It’s super funny to me when I say something about the other side & immediately get folk arguing I’m simping for the side I didn’t even mention. No sides are ever just good or bad, my friend. Not to mention it’s fiction in this case.)

Hehe, you telling me you liked Palpatine before he was cool, when he was still Supreme Chancellor of the Republic?
The leader that Lucas said was inspired my Nixon?

Isn’t the new show just canon saying they forced them/the jedi had to bring them in bcs of the threat they would become sith?

Also nobody went & rescue Vaders parents, they just bought a child slave (if he would work for them that is), and neither the planetary royalty nor the galactic Jedi order didn’t have the funds to buy two parent slaves (or help the planet for that matter).

The Jedi council are unelected folk (from a religious sect) just doing things bcs they can. Like kidnapping all force-sensitive children.
They are like the Church in the middle ages with a private army, public funding, more powerful than most state officials, not subject to state laws, and not disclosing their affairs or motives publicly.

But the Republic was also fueled by greed and corruption … so just new management?

(… not even that new actually?)

Some propaganda:

Tho OPs pic’s point remains - SW is a space western & can’t give us the full picture of how the average world lived under either of systems, but going from widespread and generational corruption (not just the Jedi, but starting there) to a single point of power (dictatorship) initially lowers the corruption & dethrones (or recruits in diminished way) various mini-powers/leaders/mobsters bcs if nothing else they are simply a threat to the image.

At any rate, never be ok being governed by a 900 year old unelected frog that can’t spot a Sith Lord if they shared a urinal at his visit to the senate (and the frogs religious zealotism is centred around genociding said Siths).

Yes, that is why I used the quotation marks & further explained that the “heat up the room” in your case would be ‘a simulation of environment’.

Eg, a tree at 20°C has an extremely low chance of spontaneously combusting into a self-fueling oxidation event (lol, shit’s on fire, yo) in your average environment, but those chances at 200°C are much higher.
In order to test this spontaneous combustion theory (whilst having no regard for the life of the tree) you would need to simulate that 200°C environmental conditions. … by heating the air around the tree.
In that case you would heat up a chamber or whatever and in turn eventually maybe burn the tree.
This wound still test/prove the spontaneous combustibility thing.
You bringing open flame in contact with the tree however would not* be that - that is just actively (non-spontaneously) starting a reaction.

This is an experiment trying to test some natural conditions. Every test as such (eg if witnessed by a clueless alien observer) is you doing something actively so ofc none of it is spontaneous.

*unless the environmental conditions you were testing/simulating would be “open 1000° flames/plasma completely everywhere” … but you may not get a grant for testing “if wood added to fire also burns”

We knew in 2015 what the end-game was, absolutely clear.

Megacorps don’t do shit if they can’t bring the market to a point they can monetise it, preferably in a way where the market has no other/different choice.

Yes, afaik in science community that is in fact the correct use of the word, meaning from “environmental” conditions (well, it’s test conditions for the environment in this case) and not from an active, localised influence.

It happens sometimes for me too, short periods only tho (last few months).

That special ‘hydraulic water’ was purchased at inkjet ink prices tho.