We call that smothered here on the west coast, but you have to request it.

Does anybody still want that? I feel like the Firefly love died right about the time we learned Joss Whedon is a piece of shit

As with most things, it is not that simple. First off, it is not one fish species:

Fall chinook salmon numbers plummeted by more than 90% and spring chinook by 98%. Steelhead trout, coho salmon and Pacific lamprey numbers also saw drastic declines.

That is a big part of the ecosystem, and losing all of that is also bad for people in the long term. Water quality was an issue with these dams, with toxic algae blooms being common. They are also restoring the ecosystem along the riverbanks, which should help mitigate the ever increasing wild fire threat that southern Oregon faces.

On the power production front, Oregon is moving away (albeit slowly) from methane plants. The plan is to be there by 2040, which is just over 15 years, not 30.

https://www.opb.org/article/2021/06/26/oregon-lawmakers-carbon-emissions-reduction-goals-state-energy-grid/

Overall, this is not a one or the other kind of thing. Restoring the rivers and habitats can, should, and is being done while simultaneously working to clean up the grid.

Beehaw is really my only social media unless you count personal discord servers, so not a result of doom scrolling in my case. I have just seen what hyper capitalism does to new tech (looking at you, AI). But yeah, good point, in this case labor displacement is more of a concern. The article mentions requiring servers still, so that is what brought to mind the Amazon grocery stores.

Gods, I wish we lived in the kind of society where when I see something like robot servers I could simply say, "That is cool." Unfortunately thanks to the capitalist hellscape we are in, my reaction is "How are they going to exploit people to make this work." Like how the Amazon grab and go grocery stores turned out to be just people being paid super low wages

There is one stockholder that has tried multiple times. The issue is the whole Tesla board are all his cronies, and a large portion of stockholders have bought into the cult of personality

Fuck, I thought those were federal laws. Sounds like they should be, oh wait right wingers want to get rid of federal labor laws too

Todd in the Shadows went a little deeper on that. Mostly saying they were so fit and sexy that they inspired American fitness culture. Which is just not true.

I've played through all 3 acts. Obviously in no way have done everything, but I never ran into a situation where your character would get killed for a bad dialogue choice. The "Volo's eye" event referenced is for sure an example of the telegraphed outcome being the opposite of what actually goes down, but I really can't think of another time that happens. Even that choice did not end in death. Some options end in tough fights, and maybe fights above your level, but I was never surprised by them.

Bringing up save scumming is an odd criticism for a CRPG. That has been a long running discussion, but you can choose not to do it if you don't like it. It doesn't mean it is bad game design to include saving whenever you want.