well, north korea does not have oil afaik, so there’s no reason for the us to invade …

And if there was they wouldn’t ever give it to regular civilians.

takes 20 years for patents to expire and cheap generica to become available

Random thought: If there’s a breakthrough in life-prolonging medication in the next decades (i.e. you live to 120 instead of 80), that would mean that world population would go up by 1.5x simply due to that, so if there’s no prior drop in numbers, that might not be sustainable.

mfw when gas is actually a liquid

be dubai
build city in the middle of the desert
literally nothing grows here
we import all our stuff
trade blockade
gonna starve
mfw

Also how did people historically live there? Before desalination plants

can’t say that i’m surprised

And that’s why it’s good that we have thrown away around 50% of our food so far, so we have significant buffers now.

i don’t think so

It removes a country’s ability to resist resource extraction

i’d say resource extraction requires political stability, actually, since mining sites are big and difficult to defend and also immobile, so they can’t just be moved out of the way when there’s danger. and also the long transport lines for minerals are long and therefore difficult to protect.

yes /s

oh! firefox translate doesn’t give me much of a meaningful translation, but it seems to be about north korea?

This feels relevant in light of recent events:

Gendo - Aim Through Impact Into Paradise

I was under the impression that Trump launched this war to have a pretense to give money to the weapons industry. Because more weapons -> higher profit -> higher stock valuations, and as we all know, Everything’s Fine as long as the Dow Jones is over 50k.

Like, literally anything that happens makes the economy go up, as long as anything happens at all. When you build schools, the economy goes up, because somebody has to build these schools. When you build rail network, economy goes up. When you start a war and produce lots of weapons, economy goes up.

I wonder why the economy is always made to go up in ways that hurt people, instead of ways that, you know, actually help people.

Do you have a source for that quote? I would like to send it to some people.

ia litni kwri shmali

did i get your username right?

u should learn about maths.

you can start with 4 problems, then solve them and create 2 new ones instead, then solve them as well and create 1 new problem instead.

even while you are creating new problems, you can still be doing more good than harm. learn some maths.

industry propaganda

the thing is that cleaner production methods benefit big industry because they get to produce higher-quality products which makes them more profit due to higher price.

It’s all random bullshit. Reality is just monkeys on typewriters. You can safely ignore it. Don’t let it ruin your day.

excuse my german dialect but i gotta release some steam: des duad weh beim lesen. aua.

I’ve started thinking that it’s not so much about blackmail after all, instead it’s about connections and relationships.

Consider this: Epstein clearly had thousands of customers. I don’t have any actual number in my head, but clearly it must have been a lot and seemingly everybody knew about it. Like, if you look at how many people are related to all this, it’s impossible to think that nobody knew anything. Probably, a very large number of people knew what was going on; but nobody bothered to do anything about this. Why? Because they didn’t care. To them, it was just business as usual, everybody’s all in on this anyways, those that aren’t have no actual power, so who’s gonna do anything?

Like, even if it did get public, i’m pretty sure most of the people involved felt certain enough that nothing bad would happen anyways. Considering there were mostly no consequences till today, they’re mostly right, i’d say.

Instead, they just used the parties and connections as a networking platform, getting to know other influential people and stuff. That’s IMHO the bigger reason why mossad is involved in all of this. Not for blackmailing purposes, but to be in the center of a network of connections that gives them a lot of strategic influence in the world.