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You remember that Borges story about the guy who sets out to rewrite Don Quixote word for word? I feel like this thread is like that, but for a conversation that nomadologist, vimothy and josef k had in 2008.

Well Africa has massive population growth, doesn't it? So even if the rate of poverty is going down, the number living in poverty will obviously rise if the total population is rising faster than the poverty rate is decreasing. And things like better nutrition and vaccination rates will reduce...

Bit rich for a dude called "Sarah" to be banging on about "gender ideology" if you ask me.

There are five-year-olds in this country who've never been washed in warm water.

Quality of life doesn't work like that, though, does it. Is everyone happier now they've got a smartphone, compared to 20 or 30 years ago? If anything they're just an extra source of anxiety.

In China, maybe. In the UK, not so much.

If you mean that global communism is inevitable by 2050 (or something like that), then I'm sure tons of communists in 1925 thought it was going to happen by 1950. And I agree with version that it all sounds very much like religious people predicting the coming of the Kingdom of God, or the...

Fucking hell, versh, he's not Nostradamus!

Yeah yeah, we know - just like liberal democracy is the worst form of tyranny ever invented, gabber-industrial is the only true chillout music, the French actually hate cheese, etc. etc.

And his perfectly smooth, egg-like face.

Not the first time today I've seen that comparison.

Missed opportunity for "Thaddam Hussein", if you ask me.

Is that going to be a challenge for you?

The gist of it in the headline, really.

Looks like the big efficiency drive is going great guns! https://www.ft.com/content/6d938875-d9c8-47b1-9116-eef577d2cb98

Poor reverendmedia. :(

I have no idea who either of these guys is, but the one on the right undeniably looks pretty cuntlike.