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It's all in your head, this game. And it leaves you no choice.

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Maybe I should put a warning text on this one?

Read it, at your own peril.

"Madman Apocalypse" by Dosei


You know what they say about Warcraft, it's all about the killing.
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Thinking of it. The fantasy before I found eerily surrealistic, didn't I?

Well, gotta keep it up, so this one starts on S too


Sarcastic

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Think the label will be

A brave new world, and Country

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Sweden and aid

https://www.weforum.org/stories/2016/08/foreign-aid-these-countries-are-the-most-generous/

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Sweden USA

https://swedenherald.com/article/sweden-seeks-clarity-from-us-on-15-million-dollar-aid-funds

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And then  USA instructing ....

"Countries and cities across Europe have received similar outreach from U.S. embassies, including France, Belgium and the city of Barcelona, all of which lashed out at the U.S. efforts to expand its anti-DEI policies to the continent."

Not only pompous but embarrassingly so

https://apnews.com/article/sweden-stockholm-dei-us-embassy-c94c5bf4f584c1041709d97884439ef8

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Although, yes, with a definite smell to it, and, what do you know  .....

Sweden 'reconfiguring' aid

https://swedenherald.com/article/sweden-may-change-its-aid-after-usas-announcement

" The other, perhaps more realistic view, is that this is really about the neoliberal imperative to cut budgets and reduce overheads, and is therefore just a new form of subcontracting. It may not broaden the funding very far in practice. The Swedish CSOs are hoping to reinstate their agreements with Sida through the tendering process. "

https://www.development-today.com/archive/2024/dt-4--2024/the-break-up-of-swedens-civil-society-funding-system-as-seen-from-abroad

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It's a trend, and one I have expected and predicted before

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Mr Trump and USA its leading star

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But also a result of what is happening around us, losing resources and losing against global warming on a daily basis.

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Aid may be ever so failable, but that doesn't mean we can stop. It's about that consensus and our constant failures getting it. Each man and country for itself a sure way to extinction.

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There are no saints here, we're all human

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So yes, what's happening in, and to, Sweden is part of my worst case scenario. The one you follow so well

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And, let's see ...

Thinking of China and that methane rocket

'in a warming world'

https://serc.si.edu/media/press-release/hotter-temps-trigger-wetlands-emit-more-methane

as for why?

" Lan and her colleagues at NOAA have observed a rapid increase in atmospheric methane levels in recent years. While previous studies have shown fossil fuel production accounts for 30% of global methane emissions, Lan and colleagues have noticed a steady increase in emissions from microbial sources since 2007."

https://phys.org/news/2025-05-vicious-methane-emissions-wetlands-exacerbate.html

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So the 20 year definition of GWP (Global Warming Potential) will be the one that wins, while the hundred year GWP increasingly will look as something for the mentally retarded.

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Hmm, yes

Blocking patterns

Hot  2025

https://www.yourweather.co.uk/news/trending/heat-buildup-in-the-atlantic-could-cause-europe-s-hottest-summer-ever-recorded-in.html

Cold   2024

https://journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/clim/24/22/2011jcli4075.1.xml

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You're going to a interesting world to meet, and thinking that you can hunker down, hide and pretend nothing is happening won't stop it.

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You're going to an extinction event.

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And wars

https://www.newindianexpress.com/nation/2025/May/17/farmers-body-urges-centre-to-utilise-indus-river-water-to-tackle-irrigation-woes-in-north-india

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Don't we like that word, 'climate change', ever so neutral.

https://insideclimatenews.org/news/24012024/a-historic-and-devastating-drought-in-the-amazon-was-caused-by-climate-change-researchers-say/

Getting sick of it