My story is set in the modern world. A businessman sets up shop in a developing nation, using wealth he obtained from business in his own country to run a profitable business in the developing country. By so doing, he increases the infrastructure of the country, and aggressively expands his bus...
well, to be honest, last time we had an economic fallout, which lead to the countries to fall back to isolationism... that did not end so well
that the triumpf of emotions against reason
electing someone who is openly racist, xenophobe, sexist, and a few other nice words
international relationship is about moderaite words and equilibrium. And if Trump does what he promises, he is changing the whole world's equilibrium.
And I'm not sure we would really improve from it.
Plus, the USA being an example for many countries in Europe, I would not be surprised to see the like of FN, AfD or UDC win their respective elections (note, I'm not saying they are all at the same level, but they do share that isolationist and patriotic views).
The politics of hatred, and division are winning everywhere. I'm growing more and more convinced that democracy is a terrible idea ... it's just we still don't have anything that isn't worse.
I can understand being angry at the political establishment and just how much they are in the pocket of big business. But people like trump and farage are part of the problem, not the solution.
Pre-emptive strike: Let's try and keep this chat nice, eh? There are many other places on the Internet for ranting/gloating/panicking about the elections. I'm not asking for a moratorium on the subject, but keep it squeaky clean please.
Like we learned with Pokemon Go, not every public space is suitable for every possible use.
@TimB the thing is: Trump is a successful businessman, making him president will make the US a successful country which means there is more money available so people can earn more and live better
It's saying what people wanna hear that gets you their votes; same is here on WB - there's many questions that are extremely successful not because they're good but because they're simple enough for a broad mass to understand (or make them think they do)
@TimB yeah, I admit I was wrong there, I thought that being more moderate than Sanders she would have the best chance to get the Republicans who felt Trump was a bad idea. How wrong could I be...
the parallels with nazi germany & pre revolutionary russia/china are what really scares me. It's not trump/brexit as such. It's what they say about the direction the world is going in.
@TimB I am designing a basic sail-airship and there's a bunch of issues that I know are there but cannot see (besides the ones I see, such as how I would possibly retract the sails)
the airship is being carried by the wind already, sailing ships on water work by exploiting the difference in movement between the wind and the water
once you're already airborn there is no difference, you need active propulsion, the best you can do without that is adjust altitude and try to find wind going in the right direction
:rubs eyes: I wonder if I've been changed in the night. Let me think. Was I the same when I got up this morning? I almost think I can remember feeling a little different.
technically it will be denser, since the metal of the tank weighs more than the same volume of water and the air inside is replaced by water of equal density
I know it does not have much with what you are just saying, but I have to share that article: rue89.nouvelobs.com/2016/11/09/… (in French), "The victory of Trump is the victory of trolls" (own translation). I found that title funny.
@DaaaahWhoosh He mocks disabled people, women, minorities and religions without regard to reality and preyed on peoples basest fears to get elected. Not to bad means there's actually still a country we recognize when he is done
Trump in of himself is bad but I'm actually more concerned about the fact of his election than what he might do now he is elected. The fact that an openly mysogynistic sexual offending serial bankrupt billionaire egotist (who matches all the profiles for a corporate psychopath btw) who got rich from ripping people off is considered by millions of people to be fit to run a country... what does that say about the world?
Trump will make himself very rich, grind a bunch of people to dust to do it, and set back minority rights and societal progress by a generation. It's not the end of the world. The state of society that allows him to come to power in the first place. That is voting for brexit, for UKIP, for the French national front, neo nazi parties in Germany, etc, etc.
The "news" outlets that have abandoned all pretense of being anything but partisan speaking heads for their billionaire puppet masters ringing out a song of "hate hate hate" and cheering on the screaming mob of people turning on each other while their masters get quietly richer and richer and richer and pull the strings. That is what worries me.
Now it could be argued that the state of society represents the idea that humanity is unfit to live in a world where living is not hard
For example everyone can at the click of a button get anything they want, but most do neither understand how that button works nor why they're suddenly indebted
@ArtOfCode Is that a comet spouting racist and otherwise offensive things as it falls toward the white house where it will make a large smoldering crater?
@AndreiROM I have designed a cool looking sail-powered airship and then @TimB made me sad by saying that they don't do anything for the airship because the ship will be drifting in a homogenous mass of air, so be always as fast as the surrounding wind
@AndreiROM Lol. In case anyone reads and believes that...it also doesn't work :p
@dot_Sp0T can you flap the sails or spin them or something? If you turn them into active propulsion then they could work
or if you have magic then "because magic"....if the sails were catching the aether winds not the regular ones and the aether wins flowed different from air, then we're back in business
@AndreiROM that's not that stupid an idea actually; I could create primitive jet engines to power the sails by burning liquids in a chamber with only one exit towards the sails
@NexTerren they can use wind. There's just no point in sails as the ship doesn't have to fight any currents or drag, so it'll have the same speed with and without sails
@AndreiROM Sometimes something "works" or "is the case" and then when it's further tested it turns out it was wrong. I'm waiting for peer reviews and reproduction by other parties before I buy in.
@dot_Sp0T Are you sure? It seems like it would have greater effect if you can increase the surface area affected by the wind in ratio to the mass. Like how boxy cars are more affected by strong winds than small cars.
@NexTerren they won't work the same way as in ships though; what they'll do is, as you say, increase the area that is affected - thus when changing between winds the ship will adjust to the new wind faster than without them, other than that there is no point. And the cost of tremendous wooden masts to hoist the sails might as well cancel this out as the gasbladders/balloons needed to grow in size
@TimB don't have none of that fancy mumbo-jumbo, alas the second thing is how I concepted trains before I introduced more mountains to discourage trains
So I guess I'll simply use the sails as a means to increase the area that is affected by changing winds in order to have faster changes in direction and speed when gaining/loosing altitude :D
Wait forget that, I'm using magical lifting gases with negative mass; displacement won't do me no good
I'm going to say it's like a prostate exam. The next four years are going to suck, but I think America is going to be better off after Trump is gone as opposed to after Hillary.
@AndreiROM it bothers me enough that I have not found a way around introducing a gas with negative mass; I don't want to add more magical properties to it - e.g. it can compress and expand, the more compressed it is, the more lift you will have for less volume (negative weight)
@AndreiROM that's why I'll likely use hot-air-ballonnets for altitude changes; but the reason it works so well is, that hot things expand und thus displace more cold air, so they rise. The gas doesn't work with displacement, so the airship would be heavier than air weren't it for the negative mass provided by the gas
@TimB It's not the Trump stuff that scares me as much as people being convinced he's the second coming of the Lilithu demon come to eat their children-- the talk on my twitter and facebook feed is all elites discussing dismantling the American election system because someone they/we didn't like got elected...
@AndreiROM let me break it down: AIR is a mix of gases. This mix of gases takes up a certain amount of space per liter of it. This mix of gases takes up more space when it gets hotter, because the gases do something called expanding. As the hotter mix takes up more space it is getting pushed towards the top of the container, where the density (weight/volume) is less than at the level the gas is currently at
@SerbanTanasa isn't that what politics is all about?
@SerbanTanasa when someone like trump can get elected then something is seriously wrong with the system. Wanting to fix it seems like a reasonable response
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