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[LordBaal]

Oh the USSR was the one that fucked them.

I think post war Japan is an even higher example of human determination to prosper in adversity.

[scriver]

Nah, the westies fucked them over again after the unification.

[ChairmanPoo]

Didn't West Germany get a lot of debt relief post WW2, too?

[Dunamisdeos]

At that point I think it qualifies as a poison.

Yes, happy birthday. Here is a vial of lethal compounds for you to enjoy. I will witness. Also, sign this paper from Metlife.

[dragdeler]

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[Egan_BW]

At that point I think it qualifies as a poison.

Yes, happy birthday. Here is a vial of lethal compounds for you to enjoy. I will witness. Also, sign this paper from Metlife.

Aw man! I love lethal compounds!

[MaximumZero]

One day, I'd like to taste Resiniferatoxin. It's supposed to be equivalent to 16 BILLION Scoville Heat Units. I'm not entirely sure that I'd survive the heat, let alone the face that it has the word "toxin" in the name.

I love hot food. I don't mean, "Yeah, curry is nice." I mean that if I could, I would eat the sun.

[Egan_BW]

Do it and send updates as to if you die or not.

[scriver]

How many papapricas are that

[JoshuaFH]

I was thinking, when global warming destroys human civilization as we know it, and humanity is forced to regress back to their humble, agrarian origins, the dominant polities will revert back to the family unit, and on the larger scale, the family dynasty. Assuming we still have some semblance of the tech we have today, I wonder if the serf of tomorrow can use an app with sophisticated AI to predict the ideal arranged marriage for their child. Not calculating romantic compatibility, but projecting the probable success of the marriage financially, the odds of good grandchildren, and forecast for the political ramifications.

The thought just tickled me, in a cynical kinda way.

[LordBaal]

Nah, if anything we will colonize the moon in force and drink plenty of vitamin drinks.... oh wait that was a game.

Realisticaly, the flooding is a minor incovenience compared with the thermal runaway, we  could live just fine with less land and even adapt to extreme climate with all our tech and even social system more or less intact save  for the pratical changes, I mean surely there would be changes but the flooding wont occur like the cold storm in the day after tomorrow movie, it will be gradual (as is happening rigth now) and people will have time to adapt to it.

We wont survive in venus(like) enviroments.

In the end it would be better if we can avoid all of it and behave better with out only biosphere so far.

[ChairmanPoo]

I was amazed yesterday because I discovered that, unlike his son's, Philip's (of Macedon) tomb and remains have been conclusively found and identified. There's even a forensic reconstruction of philip's face

[TD1]

I knew of the reconstruction. Ol' Philip was a right devious bastard.

For an unbiased opinion just ask Demosthenes!

[Loud Whispers]

I'm more impartial to Alcibiades being the top foremost devious ancient greek

[delphonso]

Philip and Alexander weren't even /real/ Greeks.