[EnergyUnlimited]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Cog', 'W')hen someone mentions the use of the military on US soil, it clues me in that they fantasize about the military killing conservatives and Republicans. It also tells me they think we defeated the Taliban in our 18 years over there.

I know the common thought by leftists is all the gun owners are going to line up in a big row to be strafed by planes and mowed down like wheat. Insurgencies don't work that way.

[Newfie]

Here ya go, Fox News has a story to list out possible doom scenarios.

https://www.foxnews.com/science/the-nex ... ill-us-all

[asg70]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Newfie', 'H')ere ya go, Fox News has a story to list out possible doom scenarios.

https://www.foxnews.com/science/the-nex ... ill-us-all

[Newfie]

EU,

I recently read the bio of a mafia man. Apparently their is a movie out about him called “The Irishman.” The book is titled “I hear you paint houses.” Some deride the book, but I’m not so sure.

It describes life within the Mafia. And it strikes me that the Mafia was acting as an alternative government with their own sets of laws and moralities. It’s main problem was not that it was wrong, but that it was in competition with the dental government.

My thought is that these shadow governments crop up where the main government does not provide the primary services. These services include food and shelter but also basic law and order and a morality to guide your life by.

For a long time I have believed that the resurgence of gangs in American cities is because the local governments have failed the population, is not responsive to their needs for law and order and justice, along with basic food and housing. And some of these guys are pretty tough.

I can see a situation where these gangs rise up in some cities, but I don’t foresee them coalescing into a national force.

[Newfie]

ASG,

If you follow Fox they actually have quite a few stories on climate change. It’s starting to effect the markets and investing but also navigation and the AG industry.

Business managers are paying attention even if they are not vocal.

[GHung]

Yet here you all are again, day after day in fact, discussing doom.

[Outcast_Searcher]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('asg70', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Newfie', 'H')ere ya go, Fox News has a story to list out possible doom scenarios.

https://www.foxnews.com/science/the-nex ... ill-us-all

[EnergyUnlimited]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Newfie', 'E')U,

I recently read the bio of a mafia man. Apparently their is a movie out about him called “The Irishman.” The book is titled “I hear you paint houses.” Some deride the book, but I’m not so sure.

It describes life within the Mafia. And it strikes me that the Mafia was acting as an alternative government with their own sets of laws and moralities. It’s main problem was not that it was wrong, but that it was in competition with the dental government.

My thought is that these shadow governments crop up where the main government does not provide the primary services. These services include food and shelter but also basic law and order and a morality to guide your life by.

For a long time I have believed that the resurgence of gangs in American cities is because the local governments have failed the population, is not responsive to their needs for law and order and justice, along with basic food and housing. And some of these guys are pretty tough.

I can see a situation where these gangs rise up in some cities, but I don’t foresee them coalescing into a national force.

[shortonoil]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'Y')et here you all are again, day after day in fact, discussing doom.

[evilgenius]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('EnergyUnlimited', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Newfie', 'E')U,

I recently read the bio of a mafia man. Apparently their is a movie out about him called “The Irishman.” The book is titled “I hear you paint houses.” Some deride the book, but I’m not so sure.

It describes life within the Mafia. And it strikes me that the Mafia was acting as an alternative government with their own sets of laws and moralities. It’s main problem was not that it was wrong, but that it was in competition with the dental government.

My thought is that these shadow governments crop up where the main government does not provide the primary services. These services include food and shelter but also basic law and order and a morality to guide your life by.

For a long time I have believed that the resurgence of gangs in American cities is because the local governments have failed the population, is not responsive to their needs for law and order and justice, along with basic food and housing. And some of these guys are pretty tough.

I can see a situation where these gangs rise up in some cities, but I don’t foresee them coalescing into a national force.

[jedrider]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('EnergyUnlimited', 'Y')es, 10 years ago we were talking about vibrant sexy doom and now it is all the same and the same old boring doom which always come but never quite.
This doom is coming so slow that most of us doomers will die well before it got a chance to materialize.
California was burning and there was blackouts - boring
Australia is burning now - boring as well.
Stock market is 5 or 10% down within last month - boring
Tanada will report that just now one additional ppm of CO2 have been recorded in air - boring
He will also mention about those additional 5ppb of methane - boring too.
Dohboi will bring a news of some warming record again beaten by 0.01*C - boring (ech, if only it was 2 or 5*C, not a measly 0.01*C but no, it must be boring 0.01*C).
There is also a societal collapse - 75 000 have died of drug overdose last year and 1000000 is now homeless US wide - so boring.
What about 10 000 000 being homeless and half of them dying every month with numbers of homeless growing still - that would be something.
Now we have new lethal virus - one Chinese and one Vietnamese peasant have died - yawn...
Doom is a really boring thing... yawn...

[EdwinSm]

If you are finding the Peak Oil Doom has become boring, you could spend time looking at the WuHan Coronavirus. It is still early days, so there can be lots of discussion about R0 rates (2.5 - 3+), or population penetration rates, Case Fatality rates (over all, initial estimates at 14-14%, and by age group - it seems to be hitting older people).

Or you could discuss whether China is deliberately covering up, or if it is just a result of their dysfunctional system where it is not safe for one's career to pass on bad news to one's superior.

Or if your entertainment runs to conspiracy theories, there is the fact that China's top bio-lab is located in Wuhan.

Plenty to keep you from being bored while waiting for this doom to spread around the world.

[Tanada]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('jedrider', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('EnergyUnlimited', 'Y')es, 10 years ago we were talking about vibrant sexy doom and now it is all the same and the same old boring doom which always come but never quite.
This doom is coming so slow that most of us doomers will die well before it got a chance to materialize.
California was burning and there was blackouts - boring
Australia is burning now - boring as well.
Stock market is 5 or 10% down within last month - boring
Tanada will report that just now one additional ppm of CO2 have been recorded in air - boring
He will also mention about those additional 5ppb of methane - boring too.
Dohboi will bring a news of some warming record again beaten by 0.01*C - boring (ech, if only it was 2 or 5*C, not a measly 0.01*C but no, it must be boring 0.01*C).
There is also a societal collapse - 75 000 have died of drug overdose last year and 1000000 is now homeless US wide - so boring.
What about 10 000 000 being homeless and half of them dying every month with numbers of homeless growing still - that would be something.
Now we have new lethal virus - one Chinese and one Vietnamese peasant have died - yawn...
Doom is a really boring thing... yawn...

[evilgenius]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('evilgenius', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('EnergyUnlimited', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Newfie', 'E')U,

I recently read the bio of a mafia man. Apparently their is a movie out about him called “The Irishman.” The book is titled “I hear you paint houses.” Some deride the book, but I’m not so sure.

It describes life within the Mafia. And it strikes me that the Mafia was acting as an alternative government with their own sets of laws and moralities. It’s main problem was not that it was wrong, but that it was in competition with the dental government.

My thought is that these shadow governments crop up where the main government does not provide the primary services. These services include food and shelter but also basic law and order and a morality to guide your life by.

For a long time I have believed that the resurgence of gangs in American cities is because the local governments have failed the population, is not responsive to their needs for law and order and justice, along with basic food and housing. And some of these guys are pretty tough.

I can see a situation where these gangs rise up in some cities, but I don’t foresee them coalescing into a national force.