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i wonder if hypothetical post-collapse civilizations could refine uranium with centrifuges driven by water wheels
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animist posted:i wonder if hypothetical post-collapse civilizations could refine uranium with centrifuges driven by water wheels Or perhaps a Conan the Barbarian style grinding wheel driven by thralls
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May 31, 2021 06:51
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this here's my uranium-refinin' ox
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May 31, 2021 06:52
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https://twitter.com/DeItaone/status/1399259927026278403 bullish
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May 31, 2021 09:00
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mandate to gently caress
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May 31, 2021 09:34
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Tiler Kiwi posted:mandate to gently caress
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May 31, 2021 09:42
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Why is China doing this now?
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May 31, 2021 10:26
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did they say which couple?
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May 31, 2021 10:36
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couples all over the country are drenched with sweat wondering if they are the unlucky couple to be granted three children
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May 31, 2021 10:58
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Armadillo Tank posted:Why is China doing this now? working age populstion in decline and increasing retirees taking up larger portion of pop; shrinking young (~10% <18) age cohort; birth rates in decline rather far than was needed or expected under increasing tech modern industrial economy which leads to birth rates to fall compared to more agrarianism. tale as old as time. basically they don’t want to be caught with a population that is 90% oldes in a few decades. should add they’ve also become a much larger player on the world stage with increasing domestic safety and ability to import so much as well, they don’t need to worry about most of the concerns that lead to the original 1 child policy being implemented really though they largely could just nix it and it’s vestigial Xaris has issued a correction as of 11:22 on May 31, 2021 |
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May 31, 2021 11:19
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Itt we are all rural chinese sorghum farmers busting in our wives with reckless abandon
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May 31, 2021 11:21
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Tiler Kiwi posted:mandate to gently caress They are going to start paying people more to have kids before too long. They are way behind on this, their demographics are a mess
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May 31, 2021 12:46
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Tiler Kiwi posted:mandate to gently caress mandate of seven minutes in heaven
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May 31, 2021 13:04
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I'm sorry, what? https://twitter.com/DeItaone/status/1399336785801531392?s=19
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May 31, 2021 13:16
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Guess Pig Fucker Dave (Cameron) gave Jim Justice a great pitch on why to personal guarantee Lex Greensill's scam finance company.
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May 31, 2021 13:18
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Twerk from Home posted:They are going to start paying people more to have kids before too long. They are way behind on this, their demographics are a mess  If anything their demographics seem to be slowly improving even through there are going to be some gaps. One thing that is also changing is that the ratio between male and female births is starting to close and look like most other industrial nations.
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May 31, 2021 13:21
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Rectal Death Adept posted:We hit peak posting already. Every joke now has to be squeezed through a quarter mile of fat idiot moderators for diminishing returns.
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May 31, 2021 13:26
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re: energy very small amount of optimism for https://cfs.energy/
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May 31, 2021 13:27
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animist posted:i wonder if hypothetical post-collapse civilizations could refine uranium with centrifuges driven by water wheels dont be silly the centrifuges would be powered by burning wood
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May 31, 2021 13:28
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Hahaha! It's in the WSJ too. That's incredible. Wonder if they'll have to sell the Greenbriar.
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May 31, 2021 13:42
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They’ve been trying to sell it for years. Justice’s big brain idea (from people who would know) was to get the Greenbrier a historical designation and then transfer ownership (and associated costs/liabilities) to the state of WV. I think this plan stretches back before he was elected governor and his political career might have hosed it Penisaurus Sex has issued a correction as of 13:59 on May 31, 2021 |
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May 31, 2021 13:46
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Ardennes posted:
*Looks at the demographics of "female surplus"* Guess China needs to invest in GILF porn studios 
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May 31, 2021 13:53
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Is surplus people who won't be able to get a partner? Assuming a 1 to 1 hetero scenario
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May 31, 2021 13:58
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animist posted:i wonder if hypothetical post-collapse civilizations could refine uranium with centrifuges driven by water wheels the problem with nuclear, other than the fact that it's completely unsuitable as a transport fuel which is the really dire thing about running out of oil, is that's it's gonna require a certain baseline level of complexity to be sustained. Assuming you want the plant to last longer than a human lifetime, at the very least, you are gonna need some way to create new nuclear engineers and technicians somehow. Even stripped down to some kind of rudimentary reactor worshipping priesthood, you need enough stability and resources to have a batch of people lay fallow for a decade or so to go from total illiteracy to a basic understanding of physics and radioactivity. In a collapse you will probably struggle to get even that. Like for the vast majority of human history most people were illiterate farmers with tiny elite being capable of reading and writing. Thats because you needed to have 80% of the population working at creating food so that you'd have enough of a surplus that your 0.5% priesthood wouldn't starve to death every winter.
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Edgar Allan Pwned posted:Is surplus people who won't be able to get a partner? Assuming a 1 to 1 hetero scenario yes
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Edgar Allan Pwned posted:Is surplus people who won't be able to get a partner? Assuming a 1 to 1 hetero scenario in the next decade chinas gonna need either a war or really make live theater more popular
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May 31, 2021 14:08
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Accretionist posted:Agh No, he's refusing to believe that goodness is possible, for he understands it not. He wants to kill to keep his lovely lifestyle, which is the fundamental thing that makes libs libs. Part of that lifestyle is the belief that killing is beneath them.
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May 31, 2021 14:09
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Big Hubris posted:No, he's refusing to believe that goodness is possible, for he understands it not. He wants to kill to keep his lovely lifestyle, which is the fundamental thing that makes libs libs. Part of that lifestyle is the belief that killing is beneath them. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7EgQXMV8nM
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Big Hubris posted:No, he's refusing to believe that goodness is possible, for he understands it not. He wants to kill to keep his lovely lifestyle, which is the fundamental thing that makes libs libs. Part of that lifestyle is the belief that killing is beneath them. I mean it doesn't even make sense because "the global south" or whatever the gently caress are busy extracting the world's resources for the benefit of the west, who actually get to consume that poo poo. The classic stat is that the US has 5% of the world's population but is burning 24% of the energy, mind boggling. The entire thing is like a pyramid with westerners as the hyper brahmin caste on top. If you got rid of the base of peasants that feed and clothe them, then the brahmin are either gonna rapidly die off or become new peasants in short order.
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May 31, 2021 14:21
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Ardennes posted:
not sure if it’s true or not, but it might be that rural families just didn’t officially register their first born if it was a girl, rather than the gap just being because family’s just chained up abortions until they got themselves a little emperor
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May 31, 2021 14:31
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Armadillo Tank posted:Why is China doing this now? War, probably.
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May 31, 2021 14:41
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Archduke Frantz Fanon posted:in the next decade chinas gonna need either a war or really make live theater more popular Peking City. 1919.
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May 31, 2021 14:44
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Digiwizzard posted:the problem with nuclear, other than the fact that it's completely unsuitable as a transport fuel which is the really dire thing about running out of oil, is that's it's gonna require a certain baseline level of complexity to be sustained. i mean idt every little podunk settlement would have their own plant but there were plenty of large complex societies pre-electricity. the Egyptians pulled off the pyramids, i bet some post-collapse empire could dig up some old books and build a small nuclear plant
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May 31, 2021 14:44
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if china basically built a big a chunk of its modern housing under the one child policy is there a dearth of units for larger households if they want to have more kids? lets reboom the building boom
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May 31, 2021 14:47
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Real hurthling! posted:if china basically built a big a chunk of its modern housing under the one child policy is there a dearth of units for larger households if they want to have more kids? bunk bed industry gonna get busy
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May 31, 2021 14:49
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Real hurthling! posted:if china basically built a big a chunk of its modern housing under the one child policy is there a dearth of units for larger households if they want to have more kids? they can probably easily reconfigure a lot of those empty apartments they have laying around to be 2 or three bedrooms easily enough imagine, having a housing surplus fukkin losers they are losing out on a lot of number
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May 31, 2021 15:02
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Antonymous posted:lol if you think the people scavenging for scrap will be driving to do it in 40 years The American psyche is so intertwined with personal automobile use that even our doomsday scenarios involve driving cars forever. The future is wandering the wasteland scavenging bicycle parts.
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May 31, 2021 15:03
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EvilJoven posted:The American psyche is so intertwined with personal automobile use that even our doomsday scenarios involve driving cars forever. ah the Turbo Kid Conjecture PFC will be happy to hear this news
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May 31, 2021 15:07
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So uhhh... anyone know why the stock market is closed? Did a huge event forced it to close that I somehow missed completely?
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NeonPunk posted:So uhhh... anyone know why the stock market is closed? Did a huge event forced it to close that I somehow missed completely? it’s Memorial Day
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