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TEAYCHES
Jun 23, 2002


haha

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Jun 4, 2011

by LadyAmbien

THS posted:

if we dont change our ways eventually, we are dust

We will become dust, some other rear end in a top hat will take over etc

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Jun 4, 2011

by LadyAmbien

Insulted by my phone

TEAYCHES
Jun 23, 2002

EXTREME INSERTION posted:

We will become dust, some other rear end in a top hat will take over etc

if the planet were an infinite grab-bag of free energy, resources and invincible ecology maybe

Bishop
Aug 15, 2000
I was gonna post in german but drat the conjugations are hard so uh,,,,,, das is nicht gut

Ignatius M. Meen
May 26, 2011

Hello yes I heard there was a lovely trainwreck here and...

THS posted:

if the planet were an infinite grab-bag of free energy, resources and invincible ecology maybe

we can always hope something else figures out how to use tools and be less stupid than us after humans die off. maybe jellyfish will be the next master race after the acidification takes its full course on the ocean! jellyfish arcologies all across the ocean would be pretty awesome

TEAYCHES
Jun 23, 2002

if the best future is fighting over the scraps of a used-up whore of a world then maybe "how its always been done" or "this is how humans are!!" is not a real good way of approaching the problems we face. theres no real precedent for 7 billion people on earth with the ability to ruin it for everyone - not even through nuclear war but just by going along with the status quo

TEAYCHES
Jun 23, 2002

Ignatius M. Meen posted:

we can always hope something else figures out how to use tools and be less stupid than us after humans die off. maybe jellyfish will be the next master race after the acidification takes its full course on the ocean! jellyfish arcologies all across the ocean would be pretty awesome

can the octopi survive ocean acidification? jellyfish should be the chattel slaves of the new underwater age

Fojar38
Sep 2, 2011


Sorry I meant to say I hope that the police use maximum force and kill or maim a bunch of innocent people, thus paving a way for a proletarian uprising and socialist utopia


also here's a stupid take
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Notmypants posted:

Side note: laughing at Germany aligning with Russia is a very American perspective. What's the difference between Russia and America right now? At least Russian corruption comes with cheap gas.

:laffo:

THS posted:

i think the united states should cut its military by 80% and use its massive resources and wealth to improve the wellbeing of itself and entire world instead of cynically hanging onto the empire. stop all the spying and high level games. start building a bunch of nuke reactors and invest heavily in renewable energy, disavow the old paradigms of national rivalry and silly geopolitical brinkmanship. sincerely apologize to and make amends with everyone we have wronged. we can build a better world imo

this would result instantly in like ten wars plus everyone would start building nukes

Ignatius M. Meen
May 26, 2011

Hello yes I heard there was a lovely trainwreck here and...

if the earth were a house, humans would be waiting until they actually saw a wall of flames engulfing their rooms before deciding that maybe jerking off instead of paying attention to that smell of smoke wasn't a good idea

Bishop
Aug 15, 2000

Fojar38 posted:

this would result instantly in like ten wars plus everyone would start building nukes
it would be one hell of a show though

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Jun 4, 2011

by LadyAmbien

Bishop posted:

it would be one hell of a show though

I think it would be like that time I left a clementine on my desk overnight, and it got swarmed with antss, and I had to use bug spray, and 'was left with a desk of dying ants

Ignatius M. Meen
May 26, 2011

Hello yes I heard there was a lovely trainwreck here and...

THS posted:

can the octopi survive ocean acidification? jellyfish should be the chattel slaves of the new underwater age

maybe, if they can find enough food or live on land full-time but iirc either a tiny fish or kelp or something is dying off so it's possible the octopi would starve first

TEAYCHES
Jun 23, 2002

EXTREME INSERTION posted:

I think it would be like that time I left a clementine on my desk overnight, and it got swarmed with antss, and I had to use bug spray, and 'was left with a desk of dying ants

so did you eat the clementine

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Jun 4, 2011

by LadyAmbien

THS posted:

so did you eat the clementine

No it was poisoned, like the earth will soon be :(

TEAYCHES
Jun 23, 2002

the clementine is the earth, the ants are the billions of people consuming it, and the bugspray is climate change

makes u think

Eugene V. Dubstep
Oct 4, 2013
Probation
Can't post for 8 years!

demonicon posted:

I am re evaluating Nato membership right now.

Unless your name is Angela, no one gives a poo poo.

the night dad
Oct 23, 2006

by XyloJW

Davincie posted:

dood aan de moffen, geef me mijn fiets terug hufters

negerdood

redshirt
Aug 11, 2007

Reporting for shovel mission Sir.
Get real. Germany and the US are best buds forever.

Mustang
Jun 18, 2006

“We don’t really know where this goes — and I’m not sure we really care.”

at the date posted:

Unless your name is Angela, no one gives a poo poo.

lmao there isn't anyone in Germany with any kind of power that would possibly even entertain the idea of leaving NATO.

Russia wouldn't be friends with Germany anyway because they have too many gays

Carol Pizzamom
Jul 13, 2006

a bear you feed is a bear and a steed
saw the op of this thread and was like 'i wonder how long til some dude comes in postin about hard truths of the Realpolitik sayin everyone spies on everyone' and was surprised to see a few posts go by first

Notmypants
Jan 3, 2014

Pants pants moose pants.

Carol Pizzamom posted:

saw the op of this thread and was like 'i wonder how long til some dude comes in postin about hard truths of the Realpolitik sayin everyone spies on everyone' and was surprised to see a few posts go by first

We had to get through the "I'm gay" and "Ban thread gas OP" posts.

Novo
May 13, 2003

Stercorem pro cerebro habes
Soiled Meat
aerial bombardment of cities used to be considered monstrous too, until everyone realized it is the best way to win wars
then came nukes; now that everyone has them their use is beyond reproach

the morality of surveillance of used to be more complicated too: protect our stuff and attack the other guy's
then came tcp/ip, now that all communications infrastructure is the same, pervasive surveillance of other people's societies is ok right

TEAYCHES
Jun 23, 2002

expectations of privacy in personal communications is so naive, novo. what's actually wrong with the equivalent of opening every single unit of postage in the world, scanning it, resealing it, and sending it on? were just holding onto it. for purposes. no guarantee anyone will actually read it. do you feel comfortable yet?

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Jun 4, 2011

by LadyAmbien

Carol Pizzamom posted:

saw the op of this thread and was like 'i wonder how long til some dude comes in postin about hard truths of the Realpolitik sayin everyone spies on everyone' and was surprised to see a few posts go by first

I didn't say it was good, that's just the situation atm

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Jun 4, 2011

by LadyAmbien
I guess we can form the GAS club (goons against spying)

Syd Midnight
Sep 23, 2005

To be fair, after WW2 it should be okay to spy on Germany for a century or so, just in case. It's fair that Germany be kept under surveillance by more responsible countries and also Russia, until the last Nazi lies dead

Syd Midnight
Sep 23, 2005

I mean when you win a world war you get to call the shots, better luck next time

Xae
Jan 19, 2005

The Brown Menace posted:

uhhhhhhhhhhhhh


given that most major german corporations are largely owned by mostly state-owned german banks, it is safe to assume that most german intelligence-gathering operations in the US and abroad are economic/corporate in nature, so not so much "scheisse, looks like zese yanks are up to no good again" and more "yo volkswagen watch out GM is about to file for this patent, we'll try and get some deets for you ASAP"
SAP is the front man for this.

Find me a company that has SAP running and hasn't had all its data sent to Germany to help reproduce a bug. Often times with out notifying the company until after all their data has been transmitted.

veilo
Jul 17, 2010

Never posts
I don't understand why Germany isn't just bending over like everyone else.

Didn't they hear that "every government is doing it" ?

texaholic
Sep 16, 2007

Well it's floodin' down in Texas
All of the telephone lines are down
I am pushing 30 years old and hope the apocalypse/WW3/climate change happens soon or not at all in my lifetime. Can't handle a mid life crisis, kids, mortgage, and the collapse of civilization at the same time. That poo poo better not pop off when I get ready to retire either. Needs to happen now or like 100 years from now.

Seth Pecksniff
May 27, 2004

can't believe shrek is fucking dead. rip to a real one.
considering you guys started two world wars i'm kind of ok with this as a precaution against you starting WW3

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Jun 4, 2011

by LadyAmbien

Ron Darling posted:

considering you guys started two world wars i'm kind of ok with this as a precaution against you starting WW3

I care more about the NSA spying on it's own civilians than other countries.

1gnoirents
Jun 28, 2014

hello :)
could there be a bigger "duh"

I mean do people NOT expect this? I wonder how they'd feel to know every one of these countries has spies in our country too. who cares

Drunkboxer
Jun 30, 2007
germans are so privacy obsessed I'm kinda glad we made them poo poo their pants. well done obama

Boner Zone
Jan 14, 2006

by Nyc_Tattoo
lol when Merkel got all pissy that her phone was being monitored when German intelligence was feeding German metadata to the NSA

does anyone in Germany actually give a flying gently caress that her phone was being monitored?

a creepy colon
Oct 28, 2004

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Boner Zone posted:

does anyone in Germany actually give a flying gently caress that her phone was being monitored?

no one cares anywhere

redshirt
Aug 11, 2007

Reporting for shovel mission Sir.

a creepy colon posted:

no one cares anywhere

I care. That's why I only speak on the phone in code.

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Fojar38
Sep 2, 2011


Sorry I meant to say I hope that the police use maximum force and kill or maim a bunch of innocent people, thus paving a way for a proletarian uprising and socialist utopia


also here's a stupid take
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veilo posted:

I don't understand why Germany isn't just bending over like everyone else.

Didn't they hear that "every government is doing it" ?

germany is bending over like everyone else and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future

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