Three children per year? Man, I wish we could generate any outrage at all over the orders of magnitude greater problem here. My life would be so much betterâŚ
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Let me guess whoâs angling for a modern-day East India CompanyâŚ
RE: Erik Prince: Unleashed Imperialism and Colonialism in Africa
I just heard from some folks that were down in Africa recently and the main complaint was there was nothing to eat except for Chinese take-out.
Now If thatâs not enough reason to colonize Africa I donât know what is. /XLs
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Point being that the Chinese have made SERIOUS inroads into Africa. No kidding.
Asking people how they think a website can possibly sell the things they do at the prices they do usually creates massive confusion. The ignorance about production costs is excusable, but the callous disregard for the workers because they are âover thereâ is amazing. Explain that the price is the result of slave labor and the response is usually âwell, itâs cheaper and I want it!â These are not the jobs we want returning to America. We shouldnât be so sanguine about them existing in China either.
Thereâs also VC money, weird stuff about how Chinese farmers sell their produce, timers in toilets, stuff about apps selling payday loans, imports and gifts, using fake names at office, malware etc. I think they talk about slavery for 5-10 minutes in the end of the second episode.
Well shitâ
Drax: UK power station still burning rare forest wood
Itâs the 21st century and weâre burning trees to generate electricity?
If youâre doing forestry, you will end up with lots of wood thatâs unsuited for paper and pulp production, or for timber. And those paper mills and sawmills produce a lot of bark, sawdust, and similar scrap wood. The best way to handle those is to burn them for electricity production and/or district heating.
Nope. Mills have learned how to use every scrap of the tree that arrives on site. Particle board, oxboard, pellets for home heating and barbecues. Even the bark gets shredded and sold for mulch and trails.
