To the level seen in the USA? Absolutely. Community used to be important for the functioning of society. It has been atomized by the USA government and the economic hegemony.

They aren’t charging $2mill. They are charging ¥2mil or crypto equivalent. They are intentionally demolishing the Petrodollar.

More power to them.

What a group of incredibly disgusting wankers.

That does not mean the straight is open. In fact the 10 point plan specifically states that they will control the straight and exact a fee for each ship.

Some human has to type in the coordinates and prep the missiles. Unless trump is doing that, someone else is complicit in the death of civilization.

Do you understand the concept of “delayed consequences”?

…and in the eyes of the people there is the failure; and in the eyes of the hungry there is a growing wrath. In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.

I feel like those are criticisms that should be leveled at the people who built the thing specifically designed to exterminate life on the planet by heating it up as fast as is physically possible with current technology.

If a machine is destroying life, it would be nice to be able to reuse bits for farming or something but just stopping the extinction is sufficient.

Execute all executives.

In what way are data centers GOOD for the environment?

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I’m shocked. Flabbergasted. Befuddled. Incredulous. Stupified.

I’m out of words now. Who could have seen this coming?

Bold of you to assume my knickers can be untwisted.

Nah man. The president in Idiocracy listened to smart people about how to help his citizens. He cared about them and their ability go to the thunder dome for entertainment.

Even if he were punished in the afterlife, I don’t believe that whoever would be punishing him would do a thorough enough job. I’d like to see to it personally.

There are many people that need to made an example of.

Well I also seriously doubt they would nationalize anything.

Nationalize it. The public now owns it and it pays for utilities for the public.

And when there is a massive global heat wave this summer, as seems likely with an unusually large el nino, and there are crop failures the world over, after they have used a lot of their stockpiles, what happens then? It seems unlikely that the global oil economy will return to a stable rate any time soon.

Every fertilizer plant in Bangladesh is closed. Many in India are. I’m sure you can find further examples, or will in the next week. I agree that there are ways to mitigate this, but there are going to be famines in entire regions.

I imagine the first, as he has been slobbering on their dongs.

How quickly do you think that will happen? Who do you think owns that land? Who is going to work that land suddenly? Where are the tools to do it? Where is the water for those plants, as in many areas you need extensive irrigation networks for that? Industrialized farming is the method that we have been feeding billions, and if you suddenly turn off one of the inputs, MANY MANY POOR PEOPLE WILL DIE. You can’t just DOUBLE THE ARABLE LAND COVERAGE in a few months.

I expect that many people will try to do what you suggest and it will be woefully inadequate and there will remain a devastating famine.

And your response was “eh it’ll be fine.”