DPRK_Chopra [comrade/them]

The people are against war in the abstract, but seldom against a specific war they’re told is necessary.

I don’t know, Brad. I just think we’ve grown apart. Kissing you now just feels sort of… hollow.

Hell yeah, teosinte gang rise up (to a rather modest population size).

“Oh, hey guys. Have you heard about this awesome metal called aluminum? I’m so cool I stan a metal that makes up 8% of the weight of the Earth’s solid surface” - a fucking idiot

The americans I used to work with would always make a big performance out of leaving at the end of the day, but the Russians just pack up their shit and leave without a word.

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The rule of thumb I’ve heard is that you can knock around 20% off the US GDP for finance.

The graph here shows it pretty clearly: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)

Germany is going to be easy to surpass given how much they’ve kneecapped themselves. Japan will take a bit longer but it’s already very close.

You still get to hang out with those friends after college, but it will feel increasingly hollow and you won’t get as much out of it. Occasionally, you’ll hang with friends for a wedding or a long weekend or something and you can get up to hijinks and get that real side-splitting style laughter going, which is really refreshing and takes you back to the old days. Then everyone will be like, “we should do this more often, let’s get together”, but for whatever reason, you probably won’t.

Too much aging infrastructure to service. It would be a strain on their system.

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