how is this different than europeans learning english at 10 years old? except the earlier onset age.

The US government wants people to be stupid so they can be manipulated more easily

lots of countries have hosted US bases because they sold oil and made good business that way … now it’s becoming clear that they won’t be selling oil to the US in 10 years, so better start kicking them out now that they’re of no use anymore .

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

Ringing ears is often connected to psychological stress, which can have a myriad of factors, such as metabolic stress. Literally anything can cause it. I often get it when eating mold cheese (the edible type they sell at the supermarket) because despite being edible, it still does something inside my body and it takes a while for my body to process that.

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 did once and the next day i could hear my roommate shrubbing the bathtub with some cleaning utensil … so i guess it smelled and he was sensitive to it? But i couldn’t smell anything, idk.

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?