Bahahaha yeah I know about this shit. If you put it in a show people would say it was unrealistic and too over the top. Cheers to the Nigerians, I hope they get many years of good service out of the trainsets.

LOL, my French friend said he smoked cigarettes in class in high school. The teacher would be smoking too.

Maine banned billboards awhile back. It's nice.

Yeah it's a real shame Talgo has never taken off in the US. We're so bad at trains it's like a bit at this point.

I thought Thomas Jefferson was Bill Clinton at first haha

There's no way humans will ever colonize Mars on a large scale. There might be some astronauts who land, like on the moon, but no one will ever live there. Humans can't live away from the earth.

Self-driving cars are never happening either.

No no no. Breastfeeding is a side issue. Being a woman is controversial in the US.

I'm watching a bunch of irresponsible, penny-pinching ranchers lose their swine herds because they're trying to maintain short term profitability. Constantly a day late and a dollar short.

100%. None of these billionaires actually strike me as particularly well educated about demographics, and belief in overpopulation is incredibly normalized in our society -- which I don't think is an accident. I've had lots of arguments with libs and even genuinely leftist people about how overpopulation isn't a problem, overconsumption is. I believe that all human life has value, and that the environment is primarily being destroyed by and for rich people and their militaries. I think if we get rid of that shit and build a rational agricultural system we can easily live comfortably with this many people, in balance with nature (which I also think is a lot more capable of springing back than many people think).

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I genuinely think part of it is that if Westerners recognized that what is currently going on is genocide, they'd have to recognize that their ancestors committed genocide by spreading smallpox etc. They'd rather remain in denial.

Also like 700 people worldwide died and we were talking about it for years.

Now covid has killed well over a million people and you barely hear a peep. It's incredible.

The good news is the power will probably go out permanently before most of that shit works.

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Yeah but by then it will be (is?) totally out of control, Sorceror's Apprentice style. Too late to change policy.

TBH things were pretty fucked before covid too so uhhh welcome to the cult I guess. It's not very much fun, but people tell me I'm wrong less now than they did before 2020.

This is something of a conspiracy theory, but personally I think a lot of what's going on is most members of the ruling class truly believe in overpopulation/Malthusianism and aren't just happy to watch working people die, but actively encourage it.

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It's just different. People have always had pen pals and things like that.

You're not necessarily wrong I just think this is a kind of... needlessly negative perspective on the situation.