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[MarcAFK]

When you can't walk around with a backpack full of random wires it's time to emigrate to the Middle East, they're less oppressive.

[Vilanat]

I wonder how Turkey's economy will react to Erdogan's/Muslim Brotherhood's Islamization of Turkey.

[redwallzyl]

Their credit rating just dropped so probably not going great.

[Rolepgeek]

My local supermarket was also just a case of someone forgetting a bag in a shopping cart.

It's getting more and more clear that the terrorists have won.
Maybe I should just emigrate to Israel, at least their wall is finished.

The trade-offs society seems to make are rather interesting to consider.

Diversity, or stability?
Innovation and creativity, or community and cooperation?
Liberty, or equality?
Privacy, or safety?
Efficiency, or variety?
Corruption, or abuse?
Disease, or pollution?

Speaking of, I have to ask LW what he thinks about Aarhus and it's approach to deradicalizing it's populace. I mean, the rest of you are free to answer too But my guess is that he's at least seen it and I'm interested in his perspective, considering the importance that I think he places on retributive justice.

As a side question, actually, how do you feel about adopted kids, considering your views on family, LW?

And should I just make an 'ask LW' thread? That seems likes something that should exist. The densest possible concentration of shitpost, wherein we might discover enlightenment, and be reborn in our next life as a spambot.

[Sergarr]

It's getting more and more clear that the terrorists have won.
Maybe I should just emigrate to Israel, at least their wall is finished.

Nah. The terrorists are losing, and losing hard, given by ISIS recent major territorial and material losses. These terrorist acts are simply the only way of war possible for an organization that can do nothing to attack our soldiers from blowing them up with impunity, but even with using these kinds of tactics, the kill/death ratio is still grossly in our favor.

[martinuzz]

They might lose the military conflicts, but they have destroyed our civilization

[Sheb]

What? Nah, we're good.

Rolepgeek,: I read quite a few things about the Aahrus efforts. I've not seen numbers on whether it works or not though.

[Grim Portent]

They might lose the military conflicts, but they have destroyed our civilization

No previous terrorist movement has, I don't really think this one will either.

[Sergarr]

They might lose the military conflicts, but they have destroyed our civilization

Our technology improves at an unprecedented rate and our society is overall more advanced than it ever was before and gets better with every new day, what drugs are you on to imagine that people fearing enemy action due to the ongoing war (which is perfectly fine, since it's a fucking war) are somehow a sign of having our civilization destroyed?

What do you think our civilization is made of, hugs and puppies? Do you even history?

[Loud Whispers]

Spoiler: To Sheb (click to show/hide)

I said he was de-Muslimifying France.

At that ratio he's not

Yup, you just describe international law.

Now we just need to get the peer pressure going on how smoking oil is not cool

Europol and Frontex are coordinating agencies, that don't have the right to deploy and fight crime/immigration directly and have a combined staff of 1284. Eufor isn't an organization, but the name given to joint military missions. Merkel decided to grant asylum to Syrians.
Meanwile, the Austrian federal police number 20,000, for a much smaller stretch of border. So yeah, Austria is more Powerful than the EU.

Austria stronk

Although apparently I was wrong on the unanimity for the council, at least for the refugee quota thing.

I reckon if there were unanimity, border controls could've been postponed for another 5-15 years
Hell, best case scenario the EU could've just absorbed everything from Atlantic to Pacific (would the EU absorb the eastern part of Russia?)
I guess that's something to consider in /AGG/?

I skipped that whole part, because the first link I clicked was that one. Are you even trying? This number is for all migration, including EU migration. For someone who complains about "one-size fit all" policy, you have no qualms about mixing everything.

-You skipped the whole part
-Complain about numbers

I literally included all the numbers, all of them
You skipped them
God's sakes man I've done all the work getting these numbers, I can't make you read them for you xD
P.s. read the Reuters news, they're uncertain whether that article counts the asylum seekers, which was measured at those who claimed asylum was 1,500,000 - not including those who weren't logged
Not even I have the breekiness to say I ignored all your stats and then complain when I can't find the stats :P

Spoiler: To Martinuzz (click to show/hide)

They might lose the military conflicts, but they have destroyed our civilization

Don't blame ISIS, they did fuck all
You destroy yourself long before anyone on the outside walks in lel

Spoiler: To Rolepgeek (click to show/hide)

Speaking of, I have to ask LW what he thinks about Aarhus and it's approach to deradicalizing it's populace.[/url]

Bringing ISIS fighters back to your streets on purpose is retarded

As a side question, actually, how do you feel about adopted kids, considering your views on family, LW?

Adoption is something people do not consider often enough, which is fitting considering orphans get ignored so much
We had bad PR in the UK due to some adopted kids murdering their parents, which I suppose is how refugee welcome activists feel whenever a refugee murders their carers, it makes everyone reluctant to lower their guard and adopt. There is the family planning angle where abortion has become much more preferable to foster care, which I think if countries like Germany seriously want to keep increasing their population, should consider. Then there is the issue on how what fostered children there are, if they grow up without parents they are highly highly likely to become fucked up as adults with shite career prospects/high likelihood of drug use/violent crime/mental illness. Brought a tear to my eye when some bloke started a charity to teach boys without fathers how to be a gentleman, adorable seeing all these kids wearing oversized suits learning that they have ways out other than the gangs. In short; it's awesome - but you really should screen prospective parents stringently before handing out these kids (Australia and Canada had serious pedo cases). Sibling orphans should never be split, and attempts should be made to get kids fostered as young as possible (older they are the harder it is to get them fostered). Our gov grants up to £50,000 to prospective foster parents to help them care for the kids, as long as you screen for idiots who try to abuse the system by adopting kids and neglecting them for grant money this is more or less ok. Also on a more temporal way, in the West, women who focus on advancing into elite careers over family can still found their family without expensive IVF treatment and just adopt some kids who need a family, win win. Not too many jokes or EU-related stuff, but to relate this to the European Union, the free movement of people and adoption means international adoption within the European Union is something significant.
I'm more suspicious of international adoption because there's less social services can do if kids are given away to couples who turn out to be neglectful/malevolent and trophy children and human trafficking is another concern, particularly if couples are rejected in their home country for being unfit for parenting and just go abroad to a country with lower regulation. Besides that, seems all right. Just make sure the kids are really, really young. It is better if they're too young to remember home or their mother tongue, so they don't have to experience any shock upon adapting to their adopted home.
Failing a collapse of Schengen area, this is an area in which EU bureaucrats should probably begin coordinating regulation between nation states. Start a motion for common principles of adoption 5 years from now, start coordination national governments towards common adoption policy 10 years from now, 15 years from now make it legal obligation of EU states = shit but at least shit with bureaucratic oversight

And should I just make an 'ask LW' thread? That seems likes something that should exist. The densest possible concentration of shitpost, wherein we might discover enlightenment, and be reborn in our next life as a spambot.

*Kitchenbot. Spambots only sell you things you don't need, but you will always need kitchen (or you die from lack of kitchen)

Spoiler: To Sergarr (click to show/hide)

What do you think our civilization is made of, hugs and puppies? Do you even history?

It was kinda spooky reading how in the UK our British history books were being altered so that Britain has had African settlers since Roman times and was always a part of European Empires (never forget, St. George = Turk). My favourite was when I was in Uni and my gommie professor kept going on about how England didn't exist
YURI YYYYYYY
Also one OwlBread would probably roll his eyes at if he saw this, about how in the runup to the Scot referendum an archaeological breakthrough revealed that the Scots north of Hadrian's wall worked with the Romans instead of raiding them. The timing of this was so coincidental I still wonder if it was legit or not

So yeah, history's pretty fucked right now

[Dorsidwarf]

The archaeological dig was probbably as accurate as most archaeological digs.

That is, entirely based on conjectures from badly-paid Middle-aged people with bad teeth and unpleasant hats. Who, while extremely skilled and experienced at these conjectures, will still construct an entire settlement with a long history and at least thee wars out of two pots and a skeleton dug up by even-worse-paid graduates.
(When in fact actually Machinitus the trader broke his neck falling off the wagon and was buried at the side of the road with the antique pots he'd been given.

My father spent eight years of his life dedicated to becoming an archaeologist,graduated, spent one summer on a dig site with Phil Hardy ( the Time Team one) and immediatly went into finance and IT instead.

[Loud Whispers]

The archaeological dig was probbably as accurate as most archaeological digs.
That is, entirely based on conjectures from badly-paid Middle-aged people with bad teeth and unpleasant hats. Who, while extremely skilled and experienced at these conjectures, will still construct an entire settlement with a long history and at least thee wars out of two pots and a skeleton dug up by even-worse-paid graduates.
(When in fact actually Machinitus the trader broke his neck falling off the wagon and was buried at the side of the road with the antique pots he'd been given.
My father spent eight years of his life dedicated to becoming an archaeologist,graduated, spent one summer on a dig site with Phil Hardy ( the Time Team one) and immediatly went into finance and IT instead.

One of my life goals is to build my own house to standards that will last 1000 years so I can confuse archaeologists with random bullshit, like spring loaded coffins, shitposts on the walls, fake curses, allusions to household gods that don't exist, wrong descriptions of culture, elaborate fake histories e.t.c.

[Dorsidwarf]

The archaeological dig was probbably as accurate as most archaeological digs.
That is, entirely based on conjectures from badly-paid Middle-aged people with bad teeth and unpleasant hats. Who, while extremely skilled and experienced at these conjectures, will still construct an entire settlement with a long history and at least thee wars out of two pots and a skeleton dug up by even-worse-paid graduates.
(When in fact actually Machinitus the trader broke his neck falling off the wagon and was buried at the side of the road with the antique pots he'd been given.
My father spent eight years of his life dedicated to becoming an archaeologist,graduated, spent one summer on a dig site with Phil Hardy ( the Time Team one) and immediatly went into finance and IT instead.

One of my life goals is to build my own house to standards that will last 1000 years so I can confuse archaeologists with random bullshit, like spring loaded coffins, shitposts on the walls, fake curses, allusions to household gods that don't exist, wrong descriptions of culture, elaborate fake histories e.t.c.

Lottery goals: funding LW's House of Archaeological FuckYou

[Orange Wizard]

The trade-offs society seems to make are rather interesting to consider.

Diversity, or stability?
Innovation and creativity, or community and cooperation?
Liberty, or equality?
Privacy, or safety?
Efficiency, or variety?
Corruption, or abuse?
Disease, or pollution?

I really have to wonder why these are all mutually exclusive

[redwallzyl]

The archaeological dig was probbably as accurate as most archaeological digs.

That is, entirely based on conjectures from badly-paid Middle-aged people with bad teeth and unpleasant hats. Who, while extremely skilled and experienced at these conjectures, will still construct an entire settlement with a long history and at least thee wars out of two pots and a skeleton dug up by even-worse-paid graduates.
(When in fact actually Machinitus the trader broke his neck falling off the wagon and was buried at the side of the road with the antique pots he'd been given.

My father spent eight years of his life dedicated to becoming an archaeologist,graduated, spent one summer on a dig site with Phil Hardy ( the Time Team one) and immediatly went into finance and IT instead.

i have been on one dig and it was meh but I'm going into underwater archeological survey which is much more interesting. i get to work with people and equipment that has been and worked on the titanic. also less squatting more hovering and better preservation.

the titanic's overrated, archeology worthless and disintegrating but still cool.