so, um... is that for hanging war medals off of, ooooor.....?

when i hear macaroni, i think south park’s MCP / Moses demanding macaroni pictures. “ I desire.... macaroni pictures...” - Tronish Moses.

i think Russia needs a regime change. invading a back-water place for resources is one thing, but places with cultural history invading neighboring places with cultural history is pretty passe. hate to think humanity is just doing the same shit over and over and over and over and over. if thats the case then ban all…

lol help me jebus

what, thats full grown lemon frog?..... how crunchy?......

hows the HBO stream?

LOL ‘look out, hes got a dick!’

maybe if we had nicer trains people would behave better instead of allowing ourselves to be treated like labor cattle. first step maybe actual competition - is there a city anywhere that has multiple train companies on the same route? sounds crazy but a monopoly will just make things worse and worse over time.

shit

not every region has technology. as well, the automation plants have to be manufactured with people first, maintained, research and developed so theres a new model every year to make company profitable etc etc.

i would introduce idea of technology to any ‘shrinking’ region. if GDP goes up as birth rate lowers, its probably an increase in technology. if GDP goes down in that case, then there is technology but not a high enough percentage of the population has access to it.

maybe you are thinking of birth ‘rate’, and not taking into account immigration being opened up in these few instances in time. always need cheap labor. also, think globally, since resources come from everywhere. im not sure there is a single self sufficient region on the planet, ever. except from propaganda from…

i agree higher technology industrialized regions usually have retirement plans so you dont need to have large families. but:

theres three main points this reminds me of:

“birth” “rate”... think. then there is obviously immigration. any government that wants more citizens is because they want more labor units as soldiers or workers, and since any industrialized region is based on a credit/interest pyramid scheme. you need more workers to replenish the GDP for retirement funds which are…

how are the natural resources in those areas? natural boundaries? easy trade routes? climate? should people even be living there? what can you create from that land that you can export in order to import things you want.

LOL, i designed an actual product that uses soy and rice with bland branding from the actual film. now with 20% more people on the wrapper..... never got past design stage tho.

in regions that do not have retirement plans for the poor, having as many kids (future labor units) is your only instinctive option.

and while technology is used to survive better, the green technology will fail as well. every green technology requires manufacturing, and on a scale of billions of consumers, even the most safe manufacturing produces some kind of pollution or exploitation or something.

what about suffering. looking at that video, it seems to be the biggest persuasive pull into the subject. its not a question of survival, but how successfully you survive.