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And to add to this, thanks to Chinese tech a lot of the sub-Saharan nations are pretty much 100% non fossil fuel in terms of their energy infrastructure.

That's the most likely scenario. The less likely but more scary scenario is that no one wins, but everyone loses. A lot.

It is rather rare that someone actually this committed to seeing the world burn so that they can be king of the ashes actually gains a real measure of power. And every time, the cost to remove them is high. One can only hope that cost won't be too high this time.

Yes. And unfortunately, quite often the consequences of that aren't limited just to them.

Tbf Sean Bean getting killed really isn't a spoiler considering how often it happens.

Yep. And again, they are going up against a force of nature that really doesn't care about their beliefs or their grudges - only scientific fact matters to it. Honestly don't know how some folks don't grasp that.

Or otherwise neutralised, yes.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckg2xyyj9w5o A second child has died from measles as an outbreak of the highly contagious virus continues to grow in western Texas. The school-aged child was not vaccinated, had no underlying health conditions and was in hospital suffering complications from measles, Aaron Davis, the vice-president of UMC Health System, told the BBC. US Health Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr, who has faced a backlash over his handling of the outbreak, visited Texas on Sunday in the wake of the death, which is the third overall in recent weeks. A virus is not susceptible to bargaining, prayer or one's denial of what scientifically works and doesn't work against it.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cz79ewg193ro Crowds of protesters gathered in cities across the US on Saturday to denounce President Trump, in the largest nationwide show of opposition since the president took office in January. The "Hands Off" protest planners aimed to hold rallies in 1,200 locations, including in all 50 US states. Hundreds of thousands of people turned out in Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York and Washington DC, among other cities. Protesters cited grievances with Trump's agenda ranging from social to economic issues. Coming days after Trump's announcement that the US would impose import tariffs on most countries around the world, gatherings were also held outside the US, including in London, Paris and Berlin. Not sure how much it'll amount to, but...

So much fallacious argument there. For one thing, as if Israel being a "democracy" and an "ally" (both subjects of debate in of themselves) makes any policy they share with, say, the Chinese, somehow palatable.

They view human (and other) life and dignity as a dispensable punchline and want as many other people as possible to feel that way too. Quite apart from being utterly morally abhorrent, it's also practically incompatible with any kind of future that doesn't involve horrific dystopia.

Yeah, but they're shit.

As are their crisps and most of their drinks products, hot or cold.

Never apologise. Never explain. Never admit fault.

In other news, mobile phone footage shows the IDF are full of it regarding the murder of emergency workers last week. Quelle surprise.

Likely so. However, that hasn't stopped the tariffs against other nations with (presumably) equally vital imports. I'm just going to apply Occams Razor here and go with the simplest explanation: that this current US administration considers the current Russian regime at least a potential friendly and an example to follow.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgkje35gd3eo.amp It would appear that the kind of political divides that we're seeing in the Anglosphere are not simply limited to there.

Still roughly 3 billion worth of goods last year, apparently. Not sure what specifically. https://ustr.gov/countries-regions/europe-middle-east/russia-and-eurasia/russia Edit: interesting blog article on the matter: https://www.russiamatters.org/blog/why-was-russia-spared-trumps-tariffs

Fair to say.

Apparently.

Nah, what the supposed moral code inflicted by all parts of the Abrahamic religions on society has itself inflicted... ... you're right, we really shouldn't have that conversation.

... in the UK, a country with less than 1% of the world's population, and a proportion of that smaller percentage having some form of an investment account, yes. I stand by what I said.

... to that minority of people lucky enough to have the capital to invest and know the timing and the market, certainly.

No disagreement here either. The problem is complex, but finding the solution is a critical part of advancing forward as a society. NB. I'm reasonably sure that those in the past had issues with depression and other forms of mental atypicality, it just wasn't talked about as much or simply dismissed. They certainly had every reason to be depressed about their lives, given how hard almost all of them must have had it by comparison to today.

I don't doubt it. But I would draw attention to the "statistically significant" part of my last post. I'd be happy to be proven wrong, but I'm reasonably sure that throughout the history and present time that they've been disenfranchised, quite a lot less women proportionally have turned to forms of violence against other people as an attempt to sort those problems out than blokes. If it weren't the case, the history books would run far more red with such incidents than they already do.