Semjaza @ Semjaza @lemmynsfw.com

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"X, Y, Z, now I know my alphabet so I can keep it in my clever head"

... How would you pronounce it?

But there's about enough housing for everyone too... Just that it's of houses are sitting empty across Europe, North America, and China.

And lots of the food wasted in those places (minus China) is imported from places with less food security, such as Brazil, India, and Morocco.
So it's almost like the energy use and infrastructure is already part of the problem and solving it would take less.

My point is that Malthusian was never correct, and the problems are ones of distribution. Not number of humans. (And Malthusian worries tend towards genocide naturally, that they've been shown consistently to be wrong should make them doubly suspect.)

It's been much the same for every big technology that's come along.

TV, radio, electricity, boats, all led to people using the technology of the age to interpret the world.

It's not though, seeing that a very large proportion of the world's population get by, and that about 1/3rd of all food produced for human consumption is wasted each year. (Checked the UN source it's 19% of food that makes it to people, and 13% of food pre-end point in the supply chain).

And this is without starting to consider the energy inefficiency of feeding livestock to feed to humans.

Also an awful lot of the world gets by with much less than US or much of Western Europe does. There's a long way between our surplus of food and food insecurity.

Love this game archeology stuff.

It was an interesting read and should remind us how quickly things can be lost without proper archival systems.

Plus, the day to day and normal is often forgotten or overlooked by history as us fish never write about normal water and currents.

Does the entry into NATO not drastically change things, especiay in case of a large war as neutrality will be much harder to maintain?

May I ask where it is you live?

Do you think this info graphic is more or less worrying if it is numbers of living beings rather than biomass?

Who said 16?

Who said the licensing requirements would be the same?

All the best to you and your imagination. (Though Walt Disney is very much not anti-gun or war.)

everyone: talking about restricting access to guns
you: make comparisons to cars
I: point out cars are restricted use
you: "great logic homie"

I didn't realise anyone could legally use a car without training and license.

A gun does considerably more damage more easily than simply being strong.

You don't even need to get close. You don't even need to keep meaning to hurt or kill, a single moment's pull of the trigger can do it.

I agree with your view for how they're seen in universe, but "anti-hero" is a Doylian status rather than Watsonian.

Holden follows heroic, regarded as heroic by our 21st century Anglo-European society morality. Alex, while the heart of the gang is more of an anti-hero due to his commitment phobia and run of failed relationships.

They're all (except Amos (except he kinda is in his own way)) admirable characters, and worthy of emulation.

Clarissa, like Fred Johnson, and to a lesser extent Avasarala (although more so in the books) started off in antagonist roles, and thus tend to be more anti-hero /accepting of less moral choices because of that. Good arcs and development with all of them. But Johnson is more supporting cast, so doesn't quite get to anti-hero for me on that count, but made difficult choices to make up for past crimes.

Really? Holden damn close to the platonic ideal of a reluctant hero, with a strong moral compass.

He wobbles a bit later with all the PTSD, but generally always tries to do the right thing the best way he can.

Naomi and Bobbi too, Naomi did bad stuff in her back story, but she's much surer of herself and her sense of right and wrong due to that. Bobbi possibly a very mild anti-hero as she can lean a little blood knight, but not quite anti-hero in my view.

Drummer and Fred Johnson are much more morally grey, and start out as more antagonists than they end up being.

Avasarala is similar, but she's also a magnificent foul mouthed mother. She can get anti-hero status for sure.

Amos I think is more of a villain protagonist (dueteragonist?) than anti-hero.

Miller is anti-hero in the Shinji Ikari type.

Yes, the "pax" Americana has not been good for vast swathes of the Earth.

I have a soft spot for it, especially the eponymous track - but it's not their best work, but the title song is a great one the way it crests up.

Honestly, it's really mainly historical clout.

Failing to conquer Taiwan was seen as the one thing Mao failed to do, and a strong leader managing it could make a claim to have surpassed Mao as great leaders of China.

The PRC is a massive fan of historical determinism and narrative might. Reunification would be a massive win for the pride and honour of the leader who did it. It's also a big thing for the average PRC citizen, they don't want war - but have had a lifetime of propaganda about it and are (somewhat rightly) worried about US aggression.

Technically correct, but the DPP would like to change that but the PRC doesn't allow the RoC to change that and relinquish the change as breaking the 95 consensus is seen as being an official declaration of independence, so the DPP has to stick to the "we're already de facto independent" line.

Likewise the PRC is a security risk to Taiwan. It's understandable why the RoC would like to be close to the US.

I wish that a peaceful not US involved solution could be found.