As in people could stand on it all day.

And not just once in a while like it has more recently, but most of winter.

To be fair, I suspect it's yuan and not shekels funding them.

The fact that the entire movement refuses to say a damn thing about the largest source of CO2 in the world...is very telling, IMO.

Nah, if they're only concerned about the Western impact on climate, that means they'll commit industrial and military suicide allowing China to do whatever the fuck they want.

A lot of these people are calling for total de-industrialization.

Which means no more tanks. No more jets. No bullets. No warships.

It also means mass starvation for the poor.

There's no way to feed the number of people in cities in the west without an industrialized farming backbone and transporation system.

Point is, everything these climate wackos want for the west? Is exactly what China wants for the west, so that they can become the sole world superpower.

*Michael

Not shocking. Ohio schools are pretty shit, especially in the larger cities.

...what the fuck is wrong with Broward County?

>tfw they don't know the Brits imported a bunch of Indian workers to Jamaica.

Do you even British Empire, bro?

From what I've heard, even furries don't like it. It falls in the furry uncanny valley. Too animal for normal people, too human for furries, too creepy for everyone.

You poor bastard.

I salute your sacrifice.

I feel like the shit we're dumping in the oceans non-stop is a big more of an issue than carbon.

When I say we, of course, I mostly mean China, India, and Africa.

...is he implying every gay couple are cheating on each other?

Make Iran Persia Again.

Restore Zoroastrianism as the dominant religion while we're at it. That's a good old fashioned Indo-European faith.

He...kinda was.

The entire purpose of the Quds Force was to foster local terrorist cells.

Too bad their expert protest-breaker got turned into paste by an American drone strike.

Totally unconnected language and people, though. Farsi and the Persians/Iranians are more closely related to Europeans than to Sumerians, or Arabs for that matter.

I am a professional party pooper.

I'd guess the Xinjiang case may be a government functionary of some type? Even if it's closed off, a lot of Party flunkies undoubtedly heading there and back.

Aye, a massive portion of China's economy is centered around exporting finished goods. If travel is cut off, so is shipping.

Not to mention that's one of the places farming was invented. It was actually discovered at minimum three separate times.

Middle East, China, the Americas.

Possibly four or more, as farming in India may have begun independent of the Fertile Crescent.

And small scale slavery likely dates back to before goddamn language. If you don't think proto-humans took sex slaves when they killed the men of a different tribe/band/family, you're not paying attention to how humans operate.

in b4 UN declares nations have to take in millions of Chinese "disease refugees" who all happen to report back to China on a regular basis.

In b4 it falls apart with people inside it within a month.

Yeah. Not exactly the second coming of the Black Death or the Spanish Flu, but I expect it's gonna kill a fair few people, especially in the third world.

...where it's gonna have to compete with the *actual* Black Death.

Unless they get lucky, I expect South Africa among others to get absolutely fucked.

If this spreads into a population with a large number of AIDS infectees...

Honestly, there are plenty of countries it could already be in. Do you think some of the countries in Africa would even notice there was an outbreak until there's a few hundred dead?

You know, those countries that have a large number of Chinese nationals going in and out?

Kirk Douglas.

Aye, good run.

Anything shared with China or produced in China will be stolen by China.

...man. Just had someone in another Discord trying to downplay the situation in China. Saying it's just SARS all over again. I pointed out that in the span of a month, Novel Coronavirus has killed about as many people as SARS did in eight.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/finance/other/iphone-maker-foxconn-is-warning-workers-in-shenzhen-to-stay-home-as-it-diverts-production-to-face-masks-amid-coronavirus-outbreak/ar-BBZL9Ha

Seems to back up the Shenzhen bit.

Yeah, it's specifically the tech manufacturing and shipping hub for all of China.

Odds are 75% or more of your PC was either produced or shipped through Shenzhen at some point.

Same with your phone.

This will *ravage* China's economy.

It's already wrecking the used tech side of Ebay. A lot of that stuff is shipped through Shenzhen.

Likely to start impacting the price of phones, motherboards, graphics cards, and more soon.

Yeah. Even if the death toll doesn't get past the four digits, the impact on the world economy will be huge.

And I honestly expect five digits minimum once it starts really going in Africa.

Still nothing on the Spanish Flu, but it's gonna be the worst since then, I think.

I mean, Spanish Flu was a bit more than that. Had what, like a 15% mortality rate?

Yeah. As mentioned, I expect the biggest impact to be economic rather than in deaths.

Africa's fucked right now. Active Ebola and Bubonic Plague outbreaks, now this.

I theoretically don't mind some level of aid, personally, but it really needs to not, you know, go to the local governments.

We've seen that simply doesn't work and is throwing away the cash.

Either, honestly. I think it needs to be fully distributed by third parties.

Even on the local level there is too much corruption and feuding. Local governor keeping aid away from the people in certain villages because their tribe beat his tribe in a war 200 years ago.

Tribalism on that level is, I think, possibly the single biggest factor holding back a lot of the third world right now.

...Madagascar seems stable?

...on the other hand, not really Africa proper.

Fair.

Ethiopia, food supply issues aside, isn't that bad.

While true, that specific case up there, the Chinese/Japanese one, the Japanese ones are almost certainly influenced by the Chinese, given they were the dominant culture in the region for quite a long time.

Cocaine is a hell of a drug.

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Well, in regards to how Iran's handling it, "Allah will protect me" isn't exactly an uncommon train of thought in that region.

"I don't need a mask, I just need to pray."

To be fair, not isolated just to the middle east. Pretty sure you'd get the same reaction in some small towns in the deep south of the US.

Or if you're in California, "I just need to apply some essential oils."

Ayup. All that changes in the local variety of juju.

It's just the big problems happen when the local government pushes said juju.

...also, I don't know about you guys, but I expect it's already killing hundreds of people in Africa without it being properly documented.

Given the Chinese presence there, plus the lack of documentation and medicine...

Entire villages could vanish and no one would notice.

Oh, not saying it is or could, but just noting that you can lose whole villages in Africa and no one notices.

Whole villages will just up and move without telling anyone all the time, whole villages will be raided for slaves and loot and no one notices, etc.

So there could be hundreds of people dying outside the cities in Africa right now for all we know.

I basically never trust the death reports of any epidemic in Africa for that reason.

Most of those countries don't even know how many *towns* they have.

Aye.

Third world's fucked in general no matter what. Given what we know about it, it's not gonna go away any time soon. It'll just be passed back and forth across the third world over and over again.

They'll basically be stuck with it as a superflu at best.

I mean, White + Hispanic is most of the US population.

It's not even as bad as the flu, bro, don't worry about it. The Party says it's fine.

Well, in that case, at *best* it's nothing. At worst there's potential to spread it even after you've recovered.

Seems like standard practice in Russia. Any sort of public emergency? Shoot the animals.

Eh. National Socialists should be scorned and degraded just like all other varieties of Socialist. Would be nice if the asskickings and arrests were distributed a little more evenly, though. Odd how you never see Maoists getting arrested.

I mean, it's certainly easier to prevent the spread of disease when 90% of your population doesn't have any form of transportation and you can just execute the infected.

So there's potential for them to come out of this better than their neighbors, for sure.

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I mean, I get what it's saying. It's a single order of chips vs. a double. Looking at the prices, 1.90 is the price added in the with Chips line.