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The poor tropics are especially screwed. Also all the cities on the coast

And there's optimism in climate change, zeroing our carbon burn is straight forward. It wouldn't take a decade if we could agree on the sane path

But we have pushed so much CO2 into the air, and so much heat into the sea we need to do better than zero. I'm pretty pessimistic

The most likely way I can see the fall of America is through a breakup of the federation. If you're in a bad state it could be bad

We haven't had a world war since WW2. We haven't got two likely sides now. China owns too much of the West, Russia is no longer credible

Nuclear war is no closer now than it was during the cold war. Everything then was on a hair trigger. Now it'll just take a psychopath in charge, and no one willing to ignore the order in the command structure

I bought a house with the money saved from buying windows*

*This is a lie

I don't understand how McDonald's does so well in Australia, since our traditional takeaways do such good burgers and better chips (fries) a home cooked version true to the fish and chip place original

Though my partner prefers the burger "plain" which omits the bacon, egg, and pineapple

We have plans for how one would modify the Sun. The physics is fine. The machines are enormous.

But over all we expect intelligent life to be able to spread to other planets, we expect them (and us) to capture more than their planet's share of their star's energy

But we see no evidence of it happening

So really there are two options

• It's too hard to use enough energy to be seen; or
• There aren't other intelligent species in the observable universe, at least none that can reach space

I feel the community is split between Voyager and DS9

Humans also are really bad at returning digested seeds to the environment. Unlike all other life we process our shit

We use oxygen to oxidise stuff for energy. Nothing odd about that, practically all Earth life does that and has since the oxygenation crisis

Caffeine is mostly an insecticide. Luckily for us it's a stimulant. Unluckily for many it's physically addictive

Vegan restaurants are widely known to be super cheap

"republic" is opposite to "monarchy". It is unrelated to democracy or authoritarianism. Nazi Germany was a republic. France is a republic.

Your republic is flawed by design. Your founders didn't trust democracy so they weakened it, the country hasn't managed to improve the democracy since.

Australia is also a Federation, but a monarchy not a republic. Australia is quite a bit more democratic than America

Luckily we don't build clocks for n-dimensional time

My grandfather clock is correct* about once a week when I wind and correct it

*It must be correct as it's very slightly fast (less so than can be fixed with a quarter turn off the pendulum screw) and I set it slightly in the past

The people with the most experience with nitrogen suffocation are scientists working with animals. It's the current best ethical euthanasia method.

The exit bag uses nitrogen suffocation as a suicide method. It's a bag that encloses the person's head. If they felt a mask could have been used, they would have

In Rome they tell you the fountain water is fine. Though I suspect some is fed through lead pipes

Adelaide water is fine now

Australian here, yes. Our tap water is pretty good