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posted by martyb on Tuesday April 09 2019, @02:55AM   Printer-friendly
from the for-how-long dept.

Bloomberg:

Western Europe’s biggest petroleum producer is falling out of love with oil.

To the dismay of the nation’s powerful oil industry and its worker unions, the opposition Labor Party over the weekend decided to withdraw its support for oil exploration offshore the sensitive Lofoten islands in Norway’s Arctic, creating a solid majority in parliament to keep the area off limits for drilling.

The dramatic shift by Norway’s biggest party is a significant blow to the support the oil industry has enjoyed, and could signal that the Scandinavian nation is coming closer to the end of an era that made it one of the world’s most affluent.

How will Norway pay for its social safety network without oil revenues?


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  • (Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 09 2019, @03:25AM (45 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 09 2019, @03:25AM (#826535)

    the perfect counter point to Venezuela

    Well, that's because Venezuela is full of *Mexicans*!

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  • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 09 2019, @03:35AM (40 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 09 2019, @03:35AM (#826538)

    The fundamentals for life are just easier to attain for people near the equator.

      Just look at how colorful fish are there vs in the North (indicating extra energy available to flaunt wealth). The equator is prime real estate. Culture and genetics are different as a result of the higher rate of competition.

    • (Score: 5, Funny) by c0lo on Tuesday April 09 2019, @03:41AM (1 child)

      by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday April 09 2019, @03:41AM (#826541) Journal

      Just look at how colorful fish are there vs in the North (indicating extra energy available to flaunt wealth).

      That's just a red herring.

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    • (Score: 2, Troll) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday April 09 2019, @05:14AM (37 children)

      by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Tuesday April 09 2019, @05:14AM (#826553) Journal

      Oooh, ooh, i know this one! You're gonna say next that all those hardass Nordics...'scuse me, "northern people" are genetically superior due to the environment they had to survive in, and way less effeminate and weak than those pansy-assed brown people^W^W southern types, right? And naturally have higher IQs and more ability to plan ahead and better work ethic, and are of course the master race and deserve to conquer the planet and impose White Culture (TM) on all the worthless heathens who aren't even smart enough to be grateful for the imposition of superiority from above as nature and God intended.

      Do I have your dogwhistling bullshit about right, or was there some other vile idiocy I missed out on?

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      • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 09 2019, @05:57AM (3 children)

        by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 09 2019, @05:57AM (#826567)

        South American commies spent their oil fortune on Chavez and his generals living lives of luxury while the people suffered. Norway Socialists spent their oil wealth preparing their country for a post-oil world by using the proceeds to invest in other areas. Alaska's dividend program was originally based around the Norway method of funding their government forever using a giant oil based trust fund.

        So South American dictators seem to act like the Grasshopper and Northern Europeans act like the Ant. Hookers and blow vs thinking ahead.

        • (Score: 5, Insightful) by RamiK on Tuesday April 09 2019, @06:58AM (2 children)

          by RamiK (1813) on Tuesday April 09 2019, @06:58AM (#826585)

          Actually the different South American nations had more than a few politicians who wanted to do exactly as Norway did and sensibly manage their means of production and natural resources. The US funded their corrupt opposition and assassinated them when failing that. And when even that didn't work the US created the drug cartels to excuse sending in troops to wage (recently declassified) wars to destabilize the regimes while pressuring other nations not to do business with them. All to force them to sign away their resources to American and British companies or at least put them on the market where shares can be bought by Americans.

          Happened in the Middle East. Happened in Africa. Almost happened in Asia but the Chinese saved/beat the US to it in Korea and Vietnam. Even happened in Europe.

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      • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 09 2019, @06:01AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 09 2019, @06:01AM (#826568)

        Noticing that certain races are wildly incompetent is RACISS!

        I virtue signal in public and declare myself a hero! Notice me people!

      • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 09 2019, @06:38AM (11 children)

        by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 09 2019, @06:38AM (#826579)

        Ooooo, evolution doesn't apply to people cos dat's raciss.

        For the last few thousand years those who live well north of the snow line died if they didn't prepare for winter.
        Not a minor evolutionary pressure like slightly lower survival rate or less kids, but flat out DEAD. If they were incapable of planning they DIED.
        And yet you somehow think that doesn't affect them, because saying they have better planning ability than those who didn't need to plan is soooo non-PC.

        • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday April 09 2019, @02:03PM (10 children)

          by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Tuesday April 09 2019, @02:03PM (#826739) Journal

          Evolution applies to people. But it applies one king hell mountain of a lot slower than culture, not that you have any. God DAMN are you stupid. And predictable. You are the bottom of the barrel, the absolute laziest sort of "thinker" it is possible to be.

          Look, shithead, the point of intelligence is that it allows us to use culture and other social and physical technology. With these tools, we can tell mother nature and her abusive fucking pimp of a boyfriend Malthus to fuck right the fuck off. Memes over genes. We can and indeed MUST control our surroundings with culture, intelligence, and technology in ways evolution alone would never allow us to.

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          • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 09 2019, @02:33PM (9 children)

            by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 09 2019, @02:33PM (#826768)

            Evolution applies to people. But it applies one king hell mountain of a lot slower than culture.

            Not when the driver of that evolution is the entire fucking family dying. I didn't say they were better than africans, they just had different drivers. Given the climate and wildlife in Africa, attempting to stockpile food and firewood would be wasted effort, and so stupid as to be an evolutionary negative.
            Not stockpiling food and firewood in Norway would have been fatal. That's a pretty fucking strong bias in favor of future planning on the part of the northerners.

            • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday April 09 2019, @06:44PM (8 children)

              by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Tuesday April 09 2019, @06:44PM (#826995) Journal

              Thanks for making my point for me! :) What you have described is culture, not evolution.

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              • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 10 2019, @03:21AM (7 children)

                by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 10 2019, @03:21AM (#827243)

                It is maybe a combination, but when everybody genetically incapable of planning for the future dies that is a strong genetic component. I think the problem is that you have accepted the tabula rasa hypothesis and assume that attributing anything to genetics is 'bad nazi science'. Separated twin studies have disproved tabula rasa. There are inheritable differences to minds and personalities. As soon as you have inheritable differences you have evolution. It is practically a tautology.

                It is not evil to think that some behaviors and traits may have a genetic component, and it is not evil to see that different environments will select for different traits. Applying judgements to individuals based on average genetics is evil, but determining general societal policy based on the average of that society is not.

                • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Wednesday April 10 2019, @04:59AM (6 children)

                  by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Wednesday April 10 2019, @04:59AM (#827290) Journal

                  Er, nope. Tabula rasa died 30+ years ago; the problem here is *you* have overcompensated far in the other direction and are attributing far more to evolution and genetics than can be reasonably so attributed. You're also forgetting epigenetics. Do some Googling (or Ducking around on the internet...) for things like "epigenetic effects of famine." These epigenetic effects bridge some, but not all, of the gap that a purely genetic approach misses. They act far faster than gross changes to DNA, as they are merely patterns of expression or silencing of individual genes or gene clusters via methylation or imprinting.

                  They still, however, don't get you where you want to go (i.e., to the local Klan meeting). Culture is a stronger force in the short term, and thank goodness for that, else we'd just be a bunch of rock-slinging apes with no fur and weirdly floaty breasts. I'll take technology over raw evolution any day.

                  Sorry, but you're not fooling me with this one here. You are, I notice, neatly avoiding specifying what "societal polic[ies]" you want enacted based on your understanding of evolutionary theory vis-a-vis the human race. Why is that? Would you care to expand, in great detail, on these ideas? :)

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                  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 10 2019, @11:59PM (5 children)

                    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 10 2019, @11:59PM (#827690)

                    The rules of evolution in a replicating system with inheritance of characteristics may be statistic, but they are so tautologically correct as to be on par with the laws of thermodynamics.
                    Your claim that it doesn't apply to the human mind is like saying "fire is the gaseous oxidation of decomposition products from heated material, except for that one fire over there which is liberating phlogiston".

                    • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Thursday April 11 2019, @05:41AM (4 children)

                      by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Thursday April 11 2019, @05:41AM (#827778) Journal

                      You don't read so good, do ya, boy? I never said we're exempt from evolution; I said epigenetics is faster than raw sequence change, and culture faster still as well as far more wide-reaching. In fact, culture can become a driver of evolution (Flynn effect, for example).

                      It sounds like you just want some sort of "see? the science proves it!" excuse for considering large chunks of the human race inferior, and therefore A-OK to commit genocide against.

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                      • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 12 2019, @11:47PM (3 children)

                        by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 12 2019, @11:47PM (#828793)

                        This post demonstrates such a lack of understanding of genetics and evolution that there is no point continuing. I suggest you slowly read and think about "The Selfish Gene" and then follow that up by reading "The Extended Phenotype". Both by Richard Dawkins and are an excellent laypersons introduction to how evolution really works.

                        • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Saturday April 13 2019, @05:46AM (2 children)

                          by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Saturday April 13 2019, @05:46AM (#828888) Journal

                          > Implying I haven't read these
                          > Implying that's germane to the point
                          > Implying implications

                          Do you just not understand English or what?

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                          • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 17 2019, @01:40AM (1 child)

                            by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 17 2019, @01:40AM (#830776)

                            You may have read them but you obviously didn't understand them. Particularly Extended Phenotype.

                            • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Wednesday April 17 2019, @05:55AM

                              by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Wednesday April 17 2019, @05:55AM (#830859) Journal

                              You're never gonna make evolutionary psychology or evolution in general a justification for racism, bro. It's a category error. I don't understand how so many supposedly smart, "rational" people keep falling for this trap. What we choose to do in how we treat others is not an evolutionary issue; we are intelligent beings with moral machinery (though I suspect yours is broken...missing mirror neurons maybe?). Social technology and intelligence are orders of magnitude faster than evolution and can affect things evolution can't, precisely *because* they are under intelligent control and not simply the end result of a quintillion quintillion interactions of molecules and environment.

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      • (Score: 0, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 09 2019, @02:08PM (19 children)

        by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 09 2019, @02:08PM (#826745)

        You're gonna say next that all those hardass Nordics...'scuse me, "northern people" are genetically superior due to the environment they had to survive in, and way less effeminate and weak than those pansy-assed brown people^W^W southern types, right? And naturally have higher IQs and more ability to plan ahead and better work ethic, and are of course the master race and deserve to conquer the planet and impose White Culture (TM) on all the worthless heathens who aren't even smart enough to be grateful for the imposition of superiority from above as nature and God intended.

        Well, yeah! And?

        I guess I should thank you for saving me the trouble...

        And, despite their very minority status, look at who rules the entire world. White European males, they own it all. There must be a reason for that.

        • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday April 09 2019, @06:47PM (18 children)

          by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Tuesday April 09 2019, @06:47PM (#826997) Journal

          For a long damn time it was China, and at the rate things are going it may very well be China again in a few decades. And East Asians have statistically higher IQs than Caucasians, with the notable exception of--you're gonna LOVE this one, Adolf!--Ashkenazi Jews!

          This line of argumentation you're running is going to bite you in the ass so hard your grandparents will feel it in Hell. Don't say I didn't warn you. Who lives by the sword, dies by it, and who lives by deliberate ignorance, will die ignorant.

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          • (Score: 0, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 09 2019, @09:34PM (17 children)

            by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 09 2019, @09:34PM (#827116)

            Goddamn! I love you! You are so cool!

            But maybe you never really noticed. China never came close to running the world. The whole global thing didn't even take off until the Europeans went on their *Three Hour Tour*... And you do remember the opium wars? Remember who won?? How funny that is. Little tiny Britain against big bad China, Africa, Middle east, North America, Oceania ... My god! They even beat off France and Spain!! And Germany before we showed up. Come to think of it, White Europeans IS incorrect! It should White Brits, and that empire still rules today, even over your USA! It shows no sign of diminishing, all their Masterpiece Political Theater notwithstanding...

            White people ruled wherever they went for a little over 500 years. And yeah, their fat laziness (and low birthrates) will bring them down a few notches. Probably got another 100 - 150 years... by then even the NHS won't be able to keep up with all the heart attacks. Their coronary bypass unit is quite the little factory..

            Life is brief. I would advise you to enjoy your stay. Making yourself miserable doesn't help anybody, least of all you.

            • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Wednesday April 10 2019, @01:08AM (16 children)

              by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Wednesday April 10 2019, @01:08AM (#827189) Journal

              Okay, so now you're saying it's all down to accidents of history. Which is it, troll-breath? I notice you also had no counterpoint to the proven superiority--hey, statistics say it, it has to be true!--of our East Asian and Ashkenazi overlords :)

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              • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 10 2019, @02:51AM (3 children)

                by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 10 2019, @02:51AM (#827228)

                There are a hell of a lot more aspects to a person than the IQ you seem focused on.
                I test out way above average on IQ (140 to 150 depending on test/caffeine/alertness/etc.), but I am often outmaneuvered by people who test lower, simply because I am not as driven, ambitious, ruthless or duplicitous. I get interested in solving technical problems, and forget to play the politics.

                • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Wednesday April 10 2019, @03:13AM (2 children)

                  by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Wednesday April 10 2019, @03:13AM (#827237) Journal

                  Hey, *I'm* not the one fixated on IQ, it's our "scientific" racist friend(s?) up above who seem to have a permanent woodie for it. Mine is, like yours, in the 140-150 range, though unlike you I have the ability to play politics; I kind of have to, women live and die by social networks unfortunately.

                  IQ tends to be the fetish or totem the "scientific" racist guys, and they are almost always guys, get hooked on. They seem to have forgotten that there are multiple dimensions to intelligence. I most certainly do not have the equivalent of a 140-150 IQ in music due to severe hearing loss, and am just average athletically, for example.

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                  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 10 2019, @03:30AM (1 child)

                    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 10 2019, @03:30AM (#827250)

                    It is not so much an inability as a disinclination. I don't like playing politics. The few times I have gotten pissed off enough to pay attention and get down and dirty with the assholes, I generally get what I want, and also get left alone afterwards for a considerable time. I feel dirty when I do that though.

                    • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Wednesday April 10 2019, @05:27AM

                      by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Wednesday April 10 2019, @05:27AM (#827302) Journal

                      And yet you don't feel dirty for suggesting that large swathes of the human race are lost causes, essentially brute beasts, with all the genocidal policy that implies? Your priorities are fucked. Take a long, hard look in the mirror before you call someone else a beast...

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              • (Score: 0, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 10 2019, @06:23AM (11 children)

                by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 10 2019, @06:23AM (#827318)

                Which is it, troll-breath?

                :-) You're cute!

                I notice you also had no counterpoint to the proven superiority--hey, statistics say it, it has to be true!--of our East Asian

                Well let's see... Who won World War II?

                and Ashkenazi overlords

                Israel, and the whole map of the Middle East (and most of Africa) is a British creation. Sustained by American muscle... can't survive on their own. Same goes for the two bit dictators everywhere south of the Rio Grande. The Americans didn't want the Jews over there either. They wanted to give former slaves a homeland also, somewhere far away from them. So it makes sense, no accidents...

                Now then, I never said one word about IQ or "accidents" or anything else. I said, *Who rules the world?* But you just keep going off on your little rants trying to impress.. who? I wouldn't know, but you show high ambitions for something. Hope you're not running for office with that mouth!

                • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Wednesday April 10 2019, @07:54AM (10 children)

                  by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Wednesday April 10 2019, @07:54AM (#827349) Journal

                  So we've suddenly moved from "people rule due to genetic superiority" to "people rule" then? Thanks for flushing your entire argument down the shitter. If you go that route, we're speaking of nothing but accidents of history. What will you say when China takes over the world? Will you then acknowledge them as superior simply because they rule you? Fool.

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                  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 10 2019, @10:06PM

                    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 10 2019, @10:06PM (#827639)

                    Bah, this is stupid! You can't read!

                    Still love ya :-)

                  • (Score: 0, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 10 2019, @11:11PM (8 children)

                    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 10 2019, @11:11PM (#827672)

                    What the hell... I'll spell it out for ya one more time, babe.

                    Physical and mental superiority has enabled the White(specially British) Man to conquer every place they ever stepped into, that includes China, Africa, Middle East, India, Europe (still occupied by the Americans) and your east Asian friends, Japan (also still occupied), the arctic and antarctic, and the moon! (Who the fuck wants Korea?). This is a White Man's World, La perfide Albion...

                    What is this "accident" bullshit you're pushing?

                    • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Thursday April 11 2019, @05:57AM (7 children)

                      by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Thursday April 11 2019, @05:57AM (#827784) Journal

                      And who says this will last? It was not always, and will likely not always be. Hope you're brushing up on your Mandarin, bigmouth...we're gonna need it inside of 20 years. I'm thanking my lucky stars I spent childhood surrounded by Chinese-speakers (and writers) and have picked a bunch of it up early.

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                      • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 11 2019, @06:24AM (6 children)

                        by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 11 2019, @06:24AM (#827789)

                        And who says this will last?

                        Some guy named Isaac Newton, I believe? You know, inertia? But really, you are so silly. If we really lose it that fast, we can thank your democrats for that. They made Trump president. And though you deny it all day long, people like you are only making it easier for him with your repulsive bullshit and phony "investigations" (goddamn circus show! Looks like he's turning that around on yer ass! Way to go!). You should be looking for somebody to run against him instead of demanding party conformity and subservience. You should consider how you got yourselves into this mess, but you won't. You will always find somebody else to blame. That's just how you roll. That's why Trump won. And he's steamrollin' right over you people, no Mueller report, no taxes, "acting" cabinet members, it just goes on and on. And look at you! The tact you are taking is so very wrong, only benefits your antagonists. Very very sad...

                        • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Thursday April 11 2019, @06:29AM (5 children)

                          by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Thursday April 11 2019, @06:29AM (#827790) Journal

                          You're rambling, AC. Gibbering, more like. There are laws against public masturbation and you are flouting them.

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                          • (Score: 0, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 11 2019, @03:26PM (4 children)

                            by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 11 2019, @03:26PM (#828008)

                            Oh my! Such projection! Say what you want, babe. At least you admit that the White Man rules the world when you asked how long it will last, which had nothing to do with what I said, by the way. Your attempts at diversion are a miserable failure. But please, keep trying, it's fun to watch. It's better than TeeVee.

                            • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Thursday April 11 2019, @03:58PM (3 children)

                              by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Thursday April 11 2019, @03:58PM (#828050) Journal

                              Why is it so important to you who rules? What good is that going to do you, even if you are a "White Man" (wtf caps?) when you're dead? You may find it actually does you negative amounts of good, depending on how you interacted with others vis-a-vis your supposed rulership...

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                              • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 11 2019, @07:20PM (2 children)

                                by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 11 2019, @07:20PM (#828196)

                                Why is it so important to you who rules?

                                Contrary to what you like to believe, it isn't. I'm just laughing at your bullshit for not acknowledging why they rule.

                                wtf caps?

                                :-) Heh, I was wondering how long it would you to gripe about that. That was the reason for doing it that way. You are such a nice soft target for distraction. So easy to throw you off the trail..

                                And when I'm dead, I won't care what happens to any man, no matter what color.

                                You know, All your preachy shit is very religious. You don't fool anyone. You are as superstitious as anyone around.

                                • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Friday April 12 2019, @06:00AM (1 child)

                                  by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Friday April 12 2019, @06:00AM (#828507) Journal

                                  I'm definitely not an atheist, if that's what you mean, but this is purely about natural laws. Karma itself is one of those laws; take it out of its Dharmic-religious milieu and just think of it as the moral version of Newton's third law.

                                  You also aren't "just laughing." You are as serious as an Ebola outbreak and about as useful to civilized society. I know full well why whites rule for the moment, and most of it is accidents of history. It's also a rather small slice of history, if you get your head out of this weird Eurocentric worldview and study, for example, the Indians and the Chinese. Even most of what you think of as "western civilization" has its roots way the hell back in Mesopotamia, or Persia and Iraq to us moderns. Study Sanscrit and what we've been able to reconstruct of proto-Indo-European, too.

                                  There is so much to learn, so much to study. How can you possibly be content with such a tiny, constricted worldview and its cheap pleasures? Does temporal, temporary power truly mean that much to you, especially power you have zero part of?

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                                  • (Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 12 2019, @09:35PM

                                    by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 12 2019, @09:35PM (#828746)

                                    How is it an accident? That's the silliest shit I've ever heard (well, maybe not from you). If it's an accident, the car is still crashing in very slow motion.

                                    You are as serious as an Ebola outbreak and about as useful to civilized society.

                                    As I said, you can't read then. This is one of your major malfunctions... Your silly biases completely rearrange the letters written down to suit. It can't be more obvious. You just spill rote bullshit. I should expect better, but I don't anymore. Since anger is off the table, I can only express disappointment, and some gratitude in my short time left. Oh, and on that, good luck finding any link at all between one life and the next. I can assure you it's a total crap shoot, another day another universe.... But for shits and giggles, why don't you tell us all about your past lives. I would seriously love to hear it! If you're really tuned it, you should be able to tell us about your next one or two. And furthermore, your whole morality shtick is complete based on superstition. You're just trying ride the coattails of the name. But it's the same old shit in another costume. So please, save yourself the trouble. I ain't buyin' no snake oil.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 09 2019, @08:01AM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 09 2019, @08:01AM (#826598)

    And Norway is filling up with muslims
    Whats your point

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 09 2019, @08:10AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 09 2019, @08:10AM (#826607)

      lern 2 rite

    • (Score: 4, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 09 2019, @10:15AM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 09 2019, @10:15AM (#826643)

      You keep saying that every country mentioned on SN gets "filled" with muslims. If that's true I assume the countries that they come from are going to be empty pretty soon. Can't you just move there?

      • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 09 2019, @01:34PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 09 2019, @01:34PM (#826709)

        I think that is the plan. Trick all the people living near the equator into moving away with a fake global warming scare, then move in when the places they moved to get covered in a mile of ice.