best policy when you come to a can of worms is chuck someone you don't like in, and use their body as a bridge while they're sinking in inconsequentials
@RichardU all character building stuff
lots of people don't make it out intact... so you're ahead on life
I had to look up LGBT... apparently it is now LGBTQ
@Kilisi these are dangerous times. I've been rereading Orwell. One thing I think was missed when we were taught about the book 1984 was that Big Brother was, in fact, honestly and sincerely loved by the masses. All of this PC crap is the masses crying out for Big Brother to manifest and save them.
@RichardU I think we're getting a slowdown on stupid VTC lately.... might be wishful thinking though, but it's the impression I'm getting
@RichardU I see it as a sign of weakness/decadence....
the thing about Big Brother is there weren't numerous external forces watching hungrily from their bomb crater their dead family used to live in. And other powerful external forces just biding time.
@Kilisi I agree. My grandparents came from the depression in Germany to the Depression in America. In America, my grandmother was for all intents and purposes a slave for a while. She ran away from her job to marry my grandfather and went into hiding until she found another job.
We also know people who climbed the Berlin wall. These people running for safety don't know how dangerous their safety is.
@Kilisi yeah, we didn't have much left. We lost family in the war, to the camps, My grandfather's home city of Pforzheim was one that was firebombed into ashes. It was brutal.
Whole Pacific Islands were prison camps to the Japanese. But disease was the big killer. Samoa lost nearly a third of it's people when New Zealand didn't quarantine a ship with sick people on it.... so many dead so quickly and the survivors all sick that there were not enough healthy people to bury them.
@RichardU external decisions can cause a whole bunch of misery.
@Kilisi and so fourth. One lament of sailors last century was that "We have gone from the age of wooden ship and iron men to iron ships and wooden men"
I wonder how soft our grandchildren's children is.
yep, even if it's the neighbours, Australia is right next to PNG but won't get involved. So there's a modern army openly annexing land and slaughtering the tribal inhabitants with no interference. Yet Middle East gets a group of religious bandits and it's World News... ironic
@Kilisi It has nothing to do with the fact that there are few resources to exploit(like oil) in PNG. Just like the vast oil fields in the middle east have no bearing on our willingness to send other peoples children off to die in a fight that is not over that oil.
@IDrinkandIKnowThings It's part that, and there's also the narrative that "White man evil". This is why we don't hear about the horrors going on in South Africa right now, especially since that is being done TO the white farmers
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@IDrinkandIKnowThings PNG has lots of valuable resources, but stone age tribes don't exploit them so they're being taken and the tribes wiped out.
Australia is happy to exploit the resources they have an interest in and have a few mines, but not get involved against a modern army on behalf of the natives even in diplomacy
They're just stone age tribes.... but they're still human beings.... my own people were stone age 2 generations back
" We are all the sum of our tears. Too little and the ground is not fertile and nothing can grow there; too much, the best of us is washed away. "
"Why does any advanced civilization seek to destroy less advanced one? Because the land is strategically valuable, because there are resources that can be cultivated and exploited, but most of all, simply because they can."
@RichardU personally I'm a fan of "Everyone dies alone. But if you mean something to someone—if you help someone, or love someone, if even a single person remembers you—then maybe you never really die at all."
My employer (a small company) is hiring an IT person. The person hiring and writing the job ad loves SNES video games and grew up around that time.
The job ad for the IT person has a section for "bonus skills" that includes sentences about the person's skill level about specific SNES video games...
I never had any delusions about me being strong by any stretch of the imagination, but even a burned-out, broken-down, dilapidated, disillusioned, cynical wreck such as myself must seem like Hercules by comparison.
@IDrinkandIKnowThings triggered isn't the word I was thinking of.... perplexed maybe.... stultified? Gobsmacked? most assuredly, but not triggered
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