In a weird we we kind of love him, don't we.

BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:Takeaways from this post: ‘assume’; ‘probably’; ‘imagine’; ‘might’. Your use of hard facts is underwhelming.

Oddly enough, the mentor for my Bachelor thesis told me almost the same thing. I think that there are very few things that aren't opinions, but that there is a huge difference between an educated opinion and uneducated opinion. And I think the academia is trying to create the illusion of objectivity by using a sciency style.

BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:And, not for nothing, your comment about North Korea could be used in a logic class, in the unit ‘How To Avoid False Equivalence’.

I think the burden of proof here is on you. You are claiming that plastics recycling plants catching fire is rare. I point you to anecdotal evidence suggesting it is not rare (the fact that Drava International in Brijest caught fire three times in the last 10 years: in 2015, in 2016 and now). You dismiss that with no evidence at all. Sorry, you are not being scienctific here. Anecdotal evidence has more weight than a claim with no evidence at all.

(October 8, 2023 at 3:18 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: Actually, yeah.....  I mean, laying aside how whoever follows un is going to be part of that class, if it were just unbiased probabilities about a completely representative sample of north koreans.  Sure.  In fact, it's hard to imagine anyone at random doing it worse.  The bad in uns execution wasn't accidental, he did that shit on purpose, it takes effort to fuck it up in this way.  The next guy might not be any good at that, or even be interested...you know, hypothetical next guy who would never be in power, ofc.

(I assume you're talking about them starving or being oppressed, but then...it's never safe to assume anything cogent with you now is it?)

And how do we actually know that North Koreans are starving and being oppressed? If things in North Korea were really as bad as the western media are making us believe, why don't North Koreans overthrow their government?

We know that north koreans are starving because the dragons don't even bother to hunt there anymore.

(October 9, 2023 at 9:50 am)The Grand Nudger Wrote: We know that north koreans are starving because the dragons don't even bother to hunt there anymore.

How do you know whether there are dragons there or not? Foreigners are not allowed to leave the capital city Pyongyang to investigate that.

Couldn't help myself, had to let it hang - but for people who might actually be interested in the answer (or more generally how to answer such vapid questions)...goes like this.

NK lacks sufficient arable land or long enough growing seasons to support itself -and- is wholly reliant on imported inputs to squeeze out what little it can. Additionally, the last great famine (cause by precisely these two factors) reduced the number and health of the current working age cohort right when they were needed and at just about the same time as the worst harvests in decades were recorded. The government fails to adequately address this, prioritizing defense spending and clannish grift. So there's just no universe in which the pariah state with it's mad king can avoid starvation. They're dealing with the limits of land and labor and the regime exacerbates this problem with policies and positions that have caused a downward spiral of economic isolation which has never will never and can never facilitate a solution.

Since you're committed to your idiotic routine...I know there aren't any dragons in nk because the nkians would have eaten them all by now, if there were.

(October 9, 2023 at 10:31 am)The Grand Nudger Wrote: Couldn't help myself, had to let it hang - but for people who might actually be interested in the answer (or more generally how to answer such vapid questions)...goes like this.

NK lacks sufficient arable land or long enough growing seasons to support itself -and- is wholly reliant on imported inputs to squeeze out what little it can.  Additionally, the last great famine (cause by precisely these two factors) reduced the number and health of the current working age cohort right when they were needed and at just about the same time as the worst harvests in decades were recorded.  The government fails to adequately address this, prioritizing defense spending and clannish grift.  So there's just no universe in which the pariah state with it's mad king can avoid starvation.  They're dealing with the limits of land and labor and the regime exacerbates this problem with policies and positions that have caused a downward spiral of economic isolation which has never will never and can never facilitate a solution.

Since you're committed to your idiotic routine...I know there aren't any dragons in nk because the nkians would have eaten them all by now, if there were.

Bold mine

There was a knock at the door. But unless I look first, how will I know if the knock is the result of a human fist or a dragon talon?

(October 9, 2023 at 10:53 am)Foxaèr Wrote: There was a knock at the door. But unless I look first, how will I know if the knock is the result of a human fist or a dragon talon?

Land shark.

(October 8, 2023 at 4:17 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: In a weird we we kind of love him, don't we.

Not loving him would be like kicking a puppy.

Boru