Well, technically they didn't even have time to intensify the forward batteries fire before Arvel Crynyd came in for a visit.

russia and europe will exhaust themselves

then china will "discover" an old map that "proves" all of siberia used to be chinese territory, like the bullshit about the filipino islands china is stealing, or the territory it is stealing from india, vietnam, etc... all chinese neighbors are victims of han imperialism

there are 10 chinese for every 1 russian. the chinese economy is soaring while russia is tanking. china needs resources badly. every single russian hinterland town has more chinese than russians already. russia's military simply won't keep up, but military won't even matter. china will take siberia the way the usa took texas from mexico: enough population shift, and it becomes a fait accompli

congratualtions putin: you degraded georgia and ukraine, your slavic brothers, and ignored the far east. russia is the most obvious territory for china to take, not the tiny bits in other directions. despite the historical hesitation from cold war era aggression between the two, siberia will become chinese in this century

all hail outer manchuria, qing glorious chinese state reclaimed from barbarian eluosi ren!

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I was already wondering what's going to replace those dreaded "killer games" as the boogeyman.

And it's not like it's new. Somehow I can even imagine some Mesolithic father looking with worry at his Neolithic son who keeps polishing his tools long after they have reached a "good enough" state. But not quite as far back, can you imagine that what we now consider "classic literature" was once thought to ruin, twist and wreck young minds? Tom Sawyer was such a mind wrecker. But people who read it grew up and they didn't turn out to be lazy idiots, so a new boogeyman was needed. And as time went by, various things got the blame. Radio, swing music, TV, beat music, rock music (interestingly it really used to be music a lot in the not too distant past), D&D, horror movies, computer games ... did I forget something important?

Now, what do they all have in common? One, and only one, thing: They were at the time when they were demonized new technologies, discoveries or developments that were gladly embraced by the young generation but poorly understood by their parents. As these young people grew up, this boogeyman could no longer be kept alive simply because those that do the demonizing now knew that what used to be demonized was not a problem at all. But no worries, new technologies, new trends, come and young people will pick them up so you can be scared of something your kids like and you don't understand, too!

It's never been the technology. It's always been the kids. It's not the phones that turn our little angels into antisocial monsters. They ARE antisocial monsters. Think back to your time at school. And if you can't think of any antisocial assholes, well... maybe a mirror would help.

"I'm scared. My kid is acting strange suddenly that he got into puberty and doesn't want to do anything with me. It has to be that damn ".$thing_I_know_jack_about_but_kid_uses_all_the_time.

I can't claim copyright of that statement. It's been in use far, far longer than I've been on this planet.

Duh. Have you ever met anyone who demonizes what he actually knows?

Someone else will have to do a Google Glass version of the dead parrot sketch.

world governments to USA in public: "we are outraged about the NSA!"

world governments to USA in private: "everything is coming along nicely"

world governments, we-hate-USA-edition, in public: "we are outraged about the NSA!"

world governments, we-hate-USA-edition, in private: "so how soon can we have NSA style abuses to add to our extensive portfolio of abuses?"

americans should complain loudly about the NSA

but the rest of the world, you should clean up your own fucking house, your government is feeding you manufactured NSA outrage as a distraction while it does the same

why do we have unions?

because there is no balance of power in the workplace without them, and workers will be impoverished without that balance

this is not a theoretical assertion on my point, this is american history: the gilded age and robber barons, the birth of the labor movement because the working class was being fucking shafted

look at jobs without unions benefits, and they pay shit, with shit benefits. that's what you want?

unions indeed introduce a whole new spectrum of abuses, that is true

but i assert to you that whole spectrum of abuses is smaller than the bullshit the plutocrats got away with a hundred years ago, and want to get away with again, because morons like you believe "right to work" propaganda and lies in your ignorance of american history. you want us to learn the painful labor lessons all over again

i never understood conservatives who argue against unions and universal healthcare. unless you are a rich asshole. otherwise, you're basically arguing for your own impoverishment, and are too stupid to understand that. plutocrats call you "useful fools." they buy media channels to keep you adequately outraged over moronic half lies and red herring topics. fed bullshit, kept in the dark, unleashed on the voting booths, outraged over simpleton depictions of complex topics, voting happily for those who work hard to make you poorer so a few of their rich friends can make yet more than they deserve, weakening the american economy overall

you made your argument well

yes, the american way of thinking seems to be to desire everyone be a well rounded scholar in a wide range of topics

as an american, this idealistic to an extreme

the usa regularly fails legions of young students. so we're nowhere near the grandiose goal you have pegged as desirable. but, in actuality, is highly improbable except for a tiny fraction of students. such that you're probably failing more students in worse ways than finland or china

perhaps the usa should learn from finland and china, and stop trying to turn everyone into a renaissance man, and teach a fucking skill. yes, some people can and should become great scholars. but others would benefit much greater if you taught them how to just fix a fucking car, how to install electrical wiring, or how an HVAC unit works

you refer to the notion of a flexible society. but a flexible nimble tiny subset has always been the norm, and always will be. the rest get set in their ways, always were set in their ways, and always will be set in their ways, and never had, have, or want to have, the ability to be more flexible

you refer to jobs being made redundant. i don't believe plumber, carpenter, or surveyor have gone out of style since the days of the roman empire, and i don't see robots mixing and hauling concrete at the work site more cheaply any time soon

a skill someone someone can use to fund stable secure lower middle to middle class lives, rather than being english majors asking "do you want fries with that?" seems like a much more laudable and practical goal than what you have outlined

maybe then the son or daughter of the ably and stably employed machinist, raised in a modest, secure household, can become a great poet

i'm sorry, i didn't read any of that

this is tedious and stupid

the actual fucking topic is a very simple concept to grasp

and i'm just not interested in now in changing the topic and sitting with you and patiently arguing about how awesome and totally cool it is that you stalk me online because of this moronic argument

socially retarded thread over

oh i'm sorry

this is a terribly complex and deep concept that requires extensive hand holding

the popularity of DICSS creates the impression that github is the domain of immature men and teenaged boys, indicating a toxic experience, throughout, for anyone who isn't immature or male

am i piercing the veil of this horribly complicated and thoroughly mystifying idea for you?

good luck! you can do it! you can get it someday, i believe in you!

You'll never get that past the 8th.

yes, in answer to your question, stalking is the next step in the continuum of aggressive asocial bullshit no one wants to deal with

the topic, if you would kindly read the fucking summary above us, is that DICSS creates a toxic experience for anyone who isn't immature or male

but thanks for that list of strawmen

How does this change the current situation?