Bellerophon

There is a Sandbox for getting feedback on questions before posting them but I don't know how active it is.

@Fulano Asking why people would bother with railguns might get it closed as opinion based.

@DTCooper Probably. Depends on where you are, preparation, how much the initial nuclear strike damages stuff etc.

I think the problem is all the various lurkers lurk at different times so there's very little conversation.

I think a lot of people drifted away in the wake of all the SE firing people stuff.

@dot_Sp0T Not many people. I check in sometimes.

@DTCooper Also, other than the general setting and similarity to the New California Republic's name that document doesn't seem too similar to Fallout.

Try looking at a variety of post-nuclear stories. The more variety of stuff you are ripping off the more original the world will seem.

Almost certainly not one in common use at any rate.

@HendrikLie I'm not sure there is a specific word for that.

@Shalvenay More flies and less birds for a start.

At least you took the sensible approach and went for readability. Too often people just fill books with made up words that are confusing or break the flow.

Yeah, just doing a find-replace probably won't work.

@Halfthawed What's it about.

High, it's for a D&D campaign so it's following mostly those tropes.

@Shalvenay Not too bad. Trying to build a reasonably coherent fantasy world in a very short time.

Hello @Shalvenay, hows things?

Looks good.

@KorvinStarmast Potentially also Inuit as a candidate for earliest stiff boots depending on if their boots are stiff or not.

@KorvinStarmast That's a good point. I wonder if any more nomadic/horse based cultures had boots earlier.

Tough to say. From what I can tell Greek boots were soft and you tied them to your leg, Roman ones I think were more stiff legged.

Looks like Rome and Egypt had boots but they were an upper class thing.

Yeah, I have hit a dead end on my research into it. Slipping a knife into a boot to hide it seems like a pretty simple idea so I would guess people probably began doing it pretty much as soon as they had boots, knives, and reasons to hide them.

I found a website suggesting the term "boot knife" originated from the early USA but I'd be willing to bet that the practise of carrying a knife in your boot is probably older.

I'm doing fine. Using the time to try to get all the 3D modelling done of some characters and stuff I had in mind.

@Shalvenay Hey, how's it going?

Or fly at light speed whilst writing.

If needed you can always create more time. Just get a device that speeds up the passage of time in the local area.

Probably the axe.

I wonder how strong you can make the bolt before you risk hurting the users arm with recoil.

Don't know if you've seen it but there are some designs for small geothermal plants that could work even in areas that aren't geothermal hotspots. Obviously the output is nowhere near what they get in Iceland and I think at the minute they aren't really economical to install but it could be useful in future for areas where wind/solar aren't great options.

i reckon the boost will be temporary depending on what happens. If the crisis is still going on in a few months and people are really feeling the economic losses then it might fall.

People who feel afraid wanting continuity and something familiar so the incumbent gets a boost maybe?

War often gives politicians a boost because of the patriotism it stirs up but it does seem odd to get a boost in a health crisis.

Depends if you believe true love exists or not.

That said comparing countries is tough since testing regimes differ. For instance the UK only tests people in hospital so more minor cases don't show up in the figures and the death rate ends up being inflated.

Europe is a weird one. Italy has a massive death toll and Feance, Spain UK etc are going the same way but Germany has probably the worlds lowest death rate.

@Halfthawed That source doesn't say being gay is a choice though. It says it is probably not biological. There is a major difference.

Norway is quite nice but it has its own problems. Plus you can't just copy a country's laws and expect it to work in a different country with a different history and culture.

@TerranSwett In the UK you can't fire people for short-tetm illness. Firing people for anything is relatively controlled and you can't just fire someone without going through other steps first unless they comitted gross misconduct or fraud or something.

Plus most of the good ways to eat healthily cheaply involve buying in bulk and batch cooking which is hard to do if you don't have the capital to start with.

Eating healthily can be done cheaply but it is more difficult and tends not to make you feel as full so if you're hungry and don't have much money then it is easier and more tempting to go for the processed, high calorie/low nutrient option.

The thing with people in poverty being obese is that they are often simultaneously obese and malnourished because cheap, easy food tends to be pretty poor in nutrients.

To be honest a lot of social and economic problems can be solved by killing everyone.

If you think don't think death is a negative you can eliminate poverty by killing everyone.

Technically it's posdible to solve domething with no negatives as long as your sense of negatives sufficiently diverges from the norm.

You'd also end up increasing unemployment massively overnight as a bunch of soldiers need new jobs.

@HenryTaylor Your molecules are more ordered at a local scale than random gas clouds but the energy requirement to maintain life increases entropy as most of this energy is converted from more ordered forms into highly disordered heat. Entropy can only be decreased on a local scale. On the scale of the universe you can never decrease entropy.

I have read through this question and I no longer believe it to be too broad. It appears (correct me if I am wrong) to be asking for a list of question/research topics for Pureferret to look into in order to make their world believable. It is not asking for answers to these questions. Puerferret, you might want to try and make this clearer ion your question if you want it to be reopened.