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  • Yes, the ozone hole is healing, we have less lead in the environment coming from leaded fuel, cars in general have become more fuel efficient, there are plenty of things that are way better now, than 30 years ago.

    There is great music being made here in 2025, though the general music taste has stagnated for a long time.

    Medical procedures have absolutely got better, as has tech in general, in 1995 we used CRT monitors with our computers, we used ball mice that constantly needed to be cleaned.

    This is just some of the things that have improved.





  • Ah, the old question about what to do about North Korea, it occupies the minds of many, there are some answers, many lead to more questions, and so on.

    The stakes are increadibly high, so we have to tread very carefully.

    Let’s bring up a few key facts.

    1. NK is a totalitarian state with a huge personality cult surrounding the Kim family.
    2. NK is supported by both China and Russia, they both have a highly vested interest in keeping the status quo.
    3. NK is located within artillery range of SK’s capital city, Seoul.
    4. NK’s society is vastly different from all of it’s neighbours, even the language used in NK is noticably different from the language spoken in SK.
    5. NK has nuclear weapons.
    6. NK does not have a problem ignoring the normal rules of diplomacy.

    Now, you ask what other countries can do to help the people of NK, that is a hugely complicated question, which in general is mostly answered with an answer no one really wants to hear:

    Support the current regime

    For any proper aid to get into NK you need the support of the regime, and they will take the credit for the aid.

    I saw a documentary of a film crew following a team of surgeons travelling to NK to help people who had lost their sight, it was a simple operation, preformed and funded by foreign organizations, the regime had only allowed the team access.

    The operation took maybe a few min per patient, they replaced a lens in the eyes of the patient, and as soon as the patient was done, they rushed to the portraits of the leaders of NK, got on their knees and thanked them deeply for their graciousness of restoring their eyesight.

    This is the kind of society NK is, everything is tied to the leader.

    This is the starting point, and you have 26 million people to deal with…


    Ok, say that a world power decide that they have had enough with the Kim family and this is worth going to war over.

    What can we expect?

    Regardless of what countries are involved, Seoul WILL be bombarded.

    So now the attacker is hated both in NK and SK as well as probably a lot of other countries.


    NK will use their nukes, and possibly other WMD they have.

    Then comes China…

    China loves NK as a buffer against the west, so they would and have deployed the PLA to save NK.













  • Simple, they have more to loose than what they stand to gain.

    There are almost certainly several high profile democrats on the list, they don’t want to expose themselves so they are blocking the release.

    But ok, let’s assume that the list has zero democrats on it, that doesn’t matter at this point, since it will be extremely difficult to find someone who the public can actually trust to give them real unbiased data.

    The republicans knows that they can just lie and say that anyone in the democrats is on the list and just about everyone of their supporters will believe them