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Re: An essay in futility, too long to read :)
« Reply #17840 on: 05/03/2021 09:59:06 »
Nah, you're incompetent, all of you. Locked in by a game of inequality, and a lack of real democracy. The only thing this game understands being 'new leaders', as some sort of Moses leading it out.

But that won't work.
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Re: An essay in futility, too long to read :)
« Reply #17841 on: 05/03/2021 09:59:38 »
Ideals and beliefs. That's what it is about.
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Re: An essay in futility, too long to read :)
« Reply #17842 on: 05/03/2021 10:16:10 »
Another example is the Baltic. Where you think you see 'leaders' of the 'green revolution' as Norway with its oil and gas sales, and Sweden, And Denmark, Finland, and the list goes on. It's becoming one of the biggest dead zones in the world today. and that's also where Russia lays its new pipe network of 'Natural Gas' to Germany, under water. and then ship it over to the UK, so you can 'solve' the climate crisis.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/100305-baltic-sea-algae-dead-zones-water
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/07/180705084213.htm

you don't see those kind of things, the water will still look 'healthy' to you. But under the surface, it's dead.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/energy/why-the-world-worries-about-russias-nord-stream-pipeline/2021/02/25/1d4d3122-77ab-11eb-9489-8f7dacd51e75_story.html

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Re: An essay in futility, too long to read :)
« Reply #17843 on: 05/03/2021 10:19:21 »
We're doing it to ourselves, right? In the name of 'living standards' and 'progress', right?
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« Reply #17844 on: 05/03/2021 10:24:16 »
then you sprinkle global warming over it, topsoil degradations, water and groundwater, floods and droughts, worse storms in winter and in summer, the whole year actually. And your circle shrinks, wherefrom you can get your food, your living standard, your clothes, your electronics, rare earths minerals metals assets. Then you add small arm wars climate wars. And nuclear wars. Migrations, you letting them die outside your border. How do you think it will look, and how do you think a civilization will survive it?
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« Reply #17845 on: 05/03/2021 10:28:35 »
And the last question becomes.
Is such a civilization worth saving?

I wonder about that one.
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« Reply #17846 on: 05/03/2021 10:31:10 »
If you ask earth I think you have your answer.
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Re: An essay in futility, too long to read :)
« Reply #17847 on: 05/03/2021 14:06:19 »
It's a question of honor.
Your honor.

What you deem worth living for. Like that guy walking unarmed into a killingfield.
If you don't have it, don't come complaining to me.
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« Reply #17848 on: 05/03/2021 14:34:15 »
As it is today you're letting the worst examples of humanity steer you. And the reason they float to the top is this game you play.
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« Reply #17849 on: 05/03/2021 14:34:45 »
It's time to change this game.
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« Reply #17850 on: 05/03/2021 14:40:33 »
Thinking that a better gun will make you honorable is a joke. a 'armed revolution' is a even worse joke today, yesterday was the time it might had a chance, before our surveillance societies and modern tech. And in the end, no armed revolts ever made a change to your game, anywhere. It comes back to you, your ideals and your beliefs, and your honor.
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« Reply #17851 on: 05/03/2021 14:41:35 »
See why I call you failed?

How many of you are ready to walk to that killingfield.
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« Reply #17852 on: 05/03/2021 14:44:53 »
How many of you know what honor is?
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« Reply #17853 on: 05/03/2021 14:46:52 »
How many of you honor the earth you live by?
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« Reply #17854 on: 05/03/2021 15:29:22 »
I put too much expectations on you, don't I?

Well, you get born, and then you die.


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« Reply #17855 on: 05/03/2021 15:37:40 »
One of those jokes.    https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20210303-the-unsure-future-of-roads-and-buildings-on-melting-ground
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« Reply #17856 on: 05/03/2021 16:41:58 »
If, and that is a if, you enjoyed Log Horizon as I did there is a second season existing.

https://animekisa.tv/log-horizon-2-episode-1

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« Reply #17857 on: 05/03/2021 23:56:42 »
Well, a step in the right direction.  https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/mar/05/covid-vaccines-who-chief-backs-patent-waiver-to-boost-production

Then we have the game.  "  The WTO meeting will discuss a proposal for a waiver of intellectual property rights – in this case, vaccine patents – put forward by South Africa and India and now supported by 100 countries. Member governments are split on the issue, broadly with low- and middle-income countries in support and rich countries opposed. "


Either you play it or you don't.
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« Reply #17858 on: 05/03/2021 23:57:24 »
Kind of sux being a player, doesn't it
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« Reply #17859 on: 06/03/2021 00:00:09 »
If it was a game, a digital one, I would opt out of it. And so would most of us. What would be left would be those either believing themselves to be able to eat the cake and keep it, or / and those only caring about themselves.

Let's see how it develops.
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