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Well, that turned political quickly.
Yeah…
After reading the title I thought of that person in seemingly every office’workplace who fucks shit up on purpose so it gets assigned to someone else.
Well, that turned political quickly.
Yeah…
After reading the title I thought of that person in seemingly every office’workplace who fucks shit up on purpose so it gets assigned to someone else.
This isn’t a science post, it’s a political agenda post.
It must be awful to live in a place where scientific study into human well being is political.
It sounds like some undeveloped country where you can’t drink the tap water.
It is as realistic as that other nature documentary, Sharknado.
Sort of, although Pom is at least a century older as Seppo was coined during world war 2. It comes from the rhyming slang Yank to Septic Tank to Seppo.
It came from the swagger of the US service men in Aus during the war and the implication that many of them are full of shit.
replace all roads with steel plate
Rusted out roads in 3, 2, 1 (years)
Don’t worry Captain, it is logical. The needs of the many outweigh
The needs of the few
…or the one.
When the earth was basically Hoth made real.
Yup. Though original is probably the better description.
Don’t put yourself down like that. It really was a good piece of fiction.
That’s a great story you have there, you should pitch it to netflicks.
Which China has never ruled
True, the CCP claiming The Philippines would be seen as ridiculous by the rest of the world.
Then again, the CCP has never ruled Taiwan either…
Not technically.
The country’s formal title is: The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
Northern Ireland is not part of Britain
Seeing that most cargo ships sail under flags of convenance, how do they plan on telling the difference between fiends and foe?
They don’t want control, only profit.
And they will struggle to get that. They will spend billions and years setting up the infrastructure to extract resource wealth of the region, which is considerable, then the problems will start.
Welcome to the age of positive feedback. The ride will not be fun but it will be spectular.
Sadly children born in the last decaded will look on the 2020s as the good old days and they will be right.
This quote, the origional souce of which is hard to find, is sadly relevant.
When the last tree has been cut down, the last fish caught, the last river poisoned, only then will we realize that one cannot eat money.
Yes, because they are currently the ones with the support (or at best acquiesce) of the most of the tribes.
But the currently in the previous sentence has a very short half-life.
I am not telling China to stop, far from it. It will be fun to watch their grand plans to fall to shit the same way the USA’s did.
I thought that the billions they have already pissed away on the belt and road project would have been a cautionary lesson. But it seems not.
Afghanistan was an ally of Alexander as well, until such time as it was no longer beneficial to the tribes in control.
The world sees Afghanistan as a country in the modern sense, when it is actually a tribal society that is no more politically cohesive than it was in Alexander’s day.
When you are travelling and ask an American where they are from, they will often say their state, rather than the USA. To them this means a lot as they identify with their state more than with their nation but to outsiders it means nothing, we see than all as Americans.
Afghanistan is the same but a 1,000 times more intense. Ask them what they are and they will reply Pashtuns, Tajik, Hazara, Uzbek, Turkmen, Baloch, Sadat, and about half a dozen others.
And yet the 10,000 years of the clock’s run time is not even a single tick in comparison to geological time or the lifespan of the sun.
Human life spans are so short in comparison to the wider universe it is hard for the human mind to grasp. We are not even a blink in the eye of a person who lives to 100.
Ah well, it looks like it is China’s turn to pour money and material into Afghanistan in the hopes of profit and control.
I am sure it will go as well as it did for the USA, the USSR, the British Empire, The Russian Empire… and Alexander and the Macedonians.
Reads post and your comment. Checks what community I am viewing.
Well, it was fun while the fediverse was not just a cesspit of US politics