To honor the great actor that just left us (Tom Skerritt), perhaps something he starred in.

Although the one probably most fitting would be "Alien".

Has lots of the exploration, adventure and maybe even some hope (if you want to see the ending that way).
Not so sure about the "love" part. On the other hand, one of the stars is a cat!

The feeling is definitely somewhat post-apocalyptic, but also as non-cozy as it gets.

But for coziness, there also is "Picket Fences", so maybe a double-feature?

Well, chances are you can't resist using it on yourself and get addicted to it.
I think there even was some mention of it in the books...

Happy to live in a country in which it basically is illegal to do work for your employer while on sick leave.
As it should be.

Ok, that's the most evil one I've read so far in the comments...

The "Bobbler" from Vernor Vinge's Peace War series.

It's a device that can remotely enclose arbitrary volumes within "Bobbles", which are impenetrable and in which the time stands still.

It is instantly used as a kind of passive weapon, enclosing all known nuclear sites and big military installations in one go to force peace (although in the story this backfires into a strange kind of authoritarianism).

What's special about it is, that its weaponization is only a kind of secondary use, its later uses propel humanity into a technological golden age.

In the future, will we need VPNs that also change their DNS depending on which country the exit node is located in?

I am just in the middle of a "Picket Fences" rewatch (which I recommend to everyone: It's a thoughtful series from a more civilized time...).

RIP, Tom
The world will miss you.

The screenshots of the game don't look bad.
Certainly worth a try!

I would love to translate the sentence into actual German for you, but unfortunately it is broken so much, that I have no idea what patriachatpirat was trying to say.

I was at first considering "Mein Schnitzel" to be the name of some restaurant, but there is none of that name in Erlangen (where this image has been taken, you can determine it by the distinct logo on the bus time monitor).

It's like they put extra effort into making their post as bad as possible.

But that free international market argument applies to all (well, most of all...) countries, which is exactly my point. Modern China is as exploitative as any other highly developed modern country, independent of economic system.

Looking at the top 3 exports of China (by a wide margin before anything else):

Electrical, electronic equipment $1016.58B
Machinery, nuclear reactors, boilers $603.82B
Vehicles other than railway, tramway $248.31B

That's all high price stuff.

Combined with its huge trade surplus, this is a classical "Buy cheap resources - sell expensive highly processed commodities back" scheme, the same as e.g. the uprising European industrializing nations employed as a strategy during their colony exploiting times (and to some degree still do in a similar fashion as China).

No, there is nothing equal here.

Der Schatz im Silbersee

Why didn't I know that there exists a Karl May computer game?
And it even seems to be still available as some grey-area abandanware download... :-D