The World is Fucked

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  • mort_13

    • "Designed in California. Assembled in Vietnam."grafician
    • I love the New Zealand honey from Sainsbury’s. But we don’t really need to import honey from the exact opposite side of the world - just because we canIanbolton
    • This says more about shipping cost than anything else.shapesalad
    • The tweet is true but also you can make a dent by buying whole pears instead of this plastic cup of juice, you idiotnb
    • lets hope he paid with bitcoin ... one transaction = co2 amount of 1000 intercontinental flights... so groovy ..neverscared
    • At first I read it as "grown in Argentina, PICKED in Thailand". LOL.Krassy
    • https://www.youtube.…shapesalad
    • He should figure out where it was printed, the inks used on the label - come from chemicals where? The plastic is from? Oil from?shapesalad
    • Welcome to the global 2000's. Sadly won't last forever, too much reliance on safe ocean passage using oil guzzling ships.shapesalad
    • Global shipping logistics are insanely efficient though. Would just be nice if they moved over to sustainable power sources, and then we can all be guilt-free.Nairn
    • I wonder how this bizarre combination came about. Is it about cutting costs? Or providing unnatural availability of the fruit all year round?mort_
    • Or just complete lack of joined up thinking?mort_
    • Clearly the environment wasn’t even a consideration.mort_
    • All of the above.

      Money doesn't think, it just does.
      Nairn
    • It's actually, i think - and, somewhat perversely - a sign of incredibly joined-up thinking. A main reason we have slightly empty shelves here in the UK...Nairn
    • ...is because we have an incredibly efficient logistics system - world-leading, in fact - that leads to low prices and.. when shit hits the fan, implosion.Nairn
    • Clearly there's a business case for taking Argentinian-grown seconds and processing them elsewhere, to sell elsewhere still.. and then, profit. At all levels.Nairn
    • It's not like this shit's new. South West Spain was a centre-point for producing garum, etc, which was then shipped Eastward to ancient Rome.Nairn
    • Difference then is that the carbon impact was basically the cost of decimating trees to make ships.Nairn
    • Actually, the cost too of chopping wood to cook clay amphorae. Hence why the mediterranean is a deforested soon to be desert. Yaay.Nairn
    • corporations outsmarted humans... only they ingored their enviromental desastrous impact of their reckless programm and now its going to burn us down...neverscared
    • Most American fish are caught off the coast of America, shipped and processed in China and then resent back to the U.S. – Greed is good!utopian
    • All you boys marveling at your own assumption that this is the result of brilliant logistics... lol. It’s because the shitty leftover pears are used in these cupsnb
    • and whales are run over by the big cargo ships. cargo ships dump their shit into the open oceanhotroddy
    • I doubt pears are being flown anywhere. Only bluefin Tuna gets that treatmenthotroddy
    • I suppose there are only so many pears argentines can eat before they go bad, a few they could ship to neighbouring countries to enjoy but the vast majoriy_niko
    • ...Need to be preserved or juiced but why not set up shop in Argentina instead of shipping shiploads to Thailand?_niko
    • @nb, perhaps that's why I said 'seconds', LOL!!!!Nairn
    • Perhaps if you weren't so caught up in your self-importance you'd actually read what other people write, LOL!!!! You pillock.Nairn
    • At the end of the day, the vast majority of people in UK just shops and consume foods with little to no thought.shapesalad
    • Hence you see so many fatties, and products like this are made and sell.shapesalad
    • Where as I always do two things when I pick up an item in a supermarket - check ingredients, check origin.shapesalad
    • If ingredients contain sugar or other shit, I put it back. If origin is eg, green veg grown in kenya, herbs from morocco - I put it back. If veg from UK, ok.shapesalad
    • But I see everyone else mindlessly fill their trollies with junk, processed shit, sugary shit, with no care to the providence.shapesalad
    • And then they wonder why their ass needs a sign saying 'Wide Load'...shapesalad
    • I don't know. Maybe schools need to teach nutrition and impact of globalised food production, dangers of processed shit...shapesalad
    • https://reason.com/2…utopian
    • LOL @ Freedumb Fightin' Muricans.utopian
    • This has been going on for 20+ years in the UK. eg M&S flying asparagus to N Africa to be tied up, packed, and back again...MrT
    • Scottish rasperries supplied a supermarket chain but not available in the store next to field they're grown in.MrT
    • It is about logistics, but the metrics/targets they're based on are fucked. I don't buy fresh anything at supermarkets and haven't for two decades. Smug prick.MrT
    • It's called Capitalism...ask Captain America!utopian
    • I don't watch Marvel either!MrT
  • Continuity10

    War. Climate change-related extreme weather. Possible food insecurity coming. Unrest where people thought there wouldn't be any. Economy tanking. Politics tanking.

    We're not at all okay. Are we?

    • Nope.Nairn
    • Who or what can reverse this downward trajectory?Fax_Benson
    • COVID2, DIE HARDER.Nairn
    • Everyone from scientists to top military strategists have been warning about water conflict for a few decades now. Nobody listened.garbage
    • We need to be finding uses for huge amounts of salt/briny water, STAT.Nairn
    • We should be concentrating salt masses and storing them for near-future modification of salt-transition oceanic thermoclines.Nairn
    • MonkeyPox Fever!utopian
    • The next 150 years or so is gonna fucking suck, that's for sure. Ultimate, technology fucked us, technology will save us.jagara
    • Bitcoin will save us allimbecile
    • About the same ever few decades...cold war, world hunger, ebola, etc. Let's just pray we don't have a WWIII. We can survive the rest (I think).formed
    • elect more 80 year old billionaire dudes should do the trick.inteliboy
    • USA will be largely ok. Argentina ok. Europe dead. Middle East a mess. China collapsed. Africa usual mess.shapesalad
    • if u cant afford on a seat on elons rocket to mars u are fu**ed..neverscared
    • Find godmilfhunter
    • @shapesalad why would the USA be fine and Europe a mess? And why are you randomly pointing out Argentina?milfhunter
    • Everything will be ok. iPhone 14 Pro is coming later this year.NBQ00
    • shape thinks Europe will be dead because there will be too many immigints wearing powerful deoderant, trainers, and listening to pop music.face_melter
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  • Gardener17

    • This speaks to me.
      I wish I had more than one upvote to give.
      Continuity
    • anti-alzheimerneverscared
    • When my bed is vertical like that, I'm having trouble sleeping.jagara
    • ++YakuZoku
    • When my window is in the floor, I'm having trouble sleeping too.jagara
    • 4? Try 40.CyBrainX
  • HAL90016

    "You're being targeted by disinformation networks that are vastly more effective than you realize. And they're making you more hateful and depressed."

    https://www.reddit.com/r/GenZ/co…

    "TL;DR: You know that Russia and other governments try to manipulate people online. But you almost certainly don't know just how effectively orchestrated influence networks are using social media platforms to make you -- individually-- angry, depressed, and hateful toward each other. Those networks' goal is simple: to cause Americans and other Westerners -- especially young ones -- to give up on social cohesion and to give up on learning the truth, so that Western countries lack the will to stand up to authoritarians and extremists."

    --

    Yes. And I think Western countries have already lost precious time to counter this, are they even doing something against it? Seems like no. Now add AI in the mix : we're fucked big time.

    • Facebook has done that for years too, throw China in the mix, defo fun times ahead.PhanLo
    • Mr Orwell wrote:
      "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past."
      Morning_star
    • Those who think feelings trump truth are a cancer.Morning_star
    • Easy fix.. stay the fuck off social media and live life in the real world!dee-dubs
    • The only _real_ enemy to the Western world is Islam, China, and Russia. Not dudes in skirts.crazyprick
    • The problem is too deep into our society and culture, you and me can stay away, we will both suffer the consequences anywayHAL9001
    • This has been going on for at least ten years already. We’re way past the “doing anything” to stop it stage. We need to bring society back from itnb
    • The Cambridge Analytica scandal was more than ten years ago, for examplenb
    • A young adult graduating from college this year has only ever lived in this reality. They know nothing different. They’re depressed and they don’t know why.nb
    • world war 3 and a couple of civil wars in it.... the decades ahead overflowing with morbid spectacle... its coming ... hooraayyneverscared
    • who will be to blame ?neverscared
    • There's a war going on. A war without bombs or guns. And we're all involved in it, everyday we're under attack.HAL9001
    • What's the opposite of a newsflash? Because this is seriously old news. I think the firebomb attack on a Russian botfarm was 12 years ago?garbage
    • 4chan used to be a liberal site, and it was overrun by Russian psyops. If you couldn't know this forever ago, you're the duped.garbage
    • Bennn, I'm curious, are you getting a lot of anti-Canada Quebec separatist feeds and content? We don't see any of it in Ontario, just wondering_niko
    • Russia took 100% credit for Brexit. And the failed Catalonia referendum, wondering where else they're trying to destabilize_niko
    • this is a prime example: https://en.wikipedia…_niko
    • Fuck Black Lives Mattercrazyprick
    • @niko, i see a ton of anti-canada stuff on Reddit everyday. Quebec bashing also. But mostly post about how bad Canada has turned, like this is the worst placeHAL9001
    • I read Canada was worse than North Korea today, LOL. But people say shit like that.PhanLo
    • lol must have been from Pierre Poilievre_niko
    • the planet has to be burned down sooner or later.. so better get on with it now...neverscared
    • r/canada is one of the most famously compromised subreddits. This is just.. old news. Russia has entire buildings of troll farms, has had them for years.garbage
    • China has the 50 Cent Army. They've had hired internet trolls for 20 years. 50 cents per propaganda comment. Floors and floors of them.garbage
    • You can see the effects playout here on QBN. So many communists and nazis advocating for their own enslavement, being racistHayoth
    • You would think people that worked in marketing would know how to spot propaganda and understand the tricks used by the media and algosHayoth
    • If any of this is breaking news to anybody even a decade ago, you're the sucker they're looking for.garbage
    • we are all slaves.... but theres only one spartacus...neverscared
    • only the rockets dont care if u are a slave, they just efficiently blow you into gazillion of pieces...neverscared
    • Shut up, fagcrazyprick
    • Easy bait. You'll note that crazyprick has never answered the age question. He's at the trolling level of fart noises.garbage
    • They're playing the long game, they're after our kids.YakuZoku
    • I think it's too simplistic to say Russia and China are manipulating everyone. Russia is very active on certain things like the war in Ukraine and pushingyuekit
    • conspiracies theories, while CCP bots mostly go around defending China. But they aren't the only ones doing it...American political parties and people promotingyuekit
    • specific causes like anti-vax are very active in this too. And a lot of the hate and division just happens organically...it doesn't require a foreign governmentyuekit
    • It's not simplistic, they've both been after sculpting a soft power for 20 years. Russia is a little more quiet.garbage
    • China is much more brute force on whatever headline is damaging to the CCP.garbage
    • But my point was this is the most "DUH" article ever, and that if this is an eye-opener to anybody, they're decades behind the curb.garbage
    • Yuri bezmenov was saying it in 1984.ApeRobot
    • its gonna be a bombastic bomb exuberance decade ahead... no suprise zuck and thiel are building their luxury bunkers...neverscared
    • Garbage, you cunt faggot, you just can't ignore my posts because you're a retarded bitch. Fuck your questions, pussy. Eat a dick with AIDS on the tip.crazyprick
    • Aperobot is right. You find the YouTube videos. Hal, you had me at "You're being targeted by..." (didn't need to read the rest)cherub
    • I just see your posts because your juvenile insults clog my feed, and it takes a few seconds to trigger you. It's hilarious.garbage
    • Bot or child? No idea. Definitely not a man.garbage
    • How's your dogcrazyprick
    • Still kickin'. How's your crippling loneliness?garbage
    • Good, thank you.crazyprick
    • OK the stuff about how the top Facebook groups on certain topics seem to be controlled by Russian propagandists was surprising.yuekit
    • @yue https://www.technolo…garbage
    • That's a good summation of what's been going on for years, and what likely tipped the scales for Trump.garbage
    • Yeah that's what I was reading. I think it needs to be studied in more detail though. You can say these troll networks are "reaching" millions of people, but toyuekit
    • what extent are they strongly influencing peoples' views as described in the original post?yuekit
  • zaq12

  • Nairn14

  • AQUTE3

    • adam smith busts a nutPhanLo
    • someone who's english language is their 2nd language is better than biden and kamala combinedhotroddy
    • AI was used to translate Javier Milei's speech from Spanish to English and read in his voice.PhanLo
    • So does QBN like him or hate him?NBQ00
    • hotroddy strikes again.palimpsest
    • don't know much about him. looks like a lunatic is all.pango
    • pure bam. plans to sell off everything to free market ghouls who will strip the country and leave. like a speedrun version of Ukraine.face_melter
    • attributes exponential growth in GDP to free market then summarises 'after the industrial revolution it was clear there was a 15 times explosion in GDP' arrrgghkingsteven
    • he got bitch-slapped by China - planned to currency match the two countries, then went off on a tear about tEh GomMuNiSTs, China said 'fuck you, Felicia'.face_melter
    • I think QBN folk probably applaud him since they believe Musk should be our savior, a hero.palimpsest
    • "El capitalista, el empresario exitoso es un benefactor social. Que lejos de apropiarse la riqueza ajena contribuye al bienestar general...palimpsest
    • ... En definitiva un empresario exitoso es un heroe."palimpsest
    • https://www.qbn.com/…palimpsest
    • what a dumbass... his way out of office will be hardcore idiotic to watch with exorbitant failure he will produce.... so much dumb..neverscared
    • He’s going to ruin Argentina, no wait...Chimp
    • The inevitable result when you double down on socialists for last 30 years.hotroddy
    • Suppose it’s just like everyone hating Trump, but a populist, narcissistic butt cheek will make radical changes in the world. Do we want change that badly?Ianbolton
    • This guy is not quite like Trump. Eccentric yes but not as much as a cunt. Doesn't mean I agree with everything he says.NBQ00
    • Supergrass Trump.MrT
    • hotroddy - it's 'whose'.BuddhaHat
    • touche or is it touchéhotroddy
  • Nairn3

    wtf. "Ringleader of global monkey torture network, 'The Torture King', is charged"

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world…

    • If only we knew his political affiliation(s)...ideaist
    • 'ran several chat groups for monkey torture enthusiasts from around the world' as you doPhanLo
    • WTFpalimpsest
    • AwfulContinuity
    • netflix series incomingface_melter
    • wtf???Nutter
    • It's the fact that there's a ring and that they have a leader.palimpsest
    • And you just know that similar shit exists but it's humans, not monkeys, getting fucked.Nairn
    • So you're saying there's a job opening?BK
    • lots of room for expansion in the ape-killing game.face_melter
    • monkey torture network....pango
    • and again humans are the worst on this rotting planetmilfhunter
    • No we're not. We invented Teflon.
      Humanity is Nature's sharp end of the wedge
      Nairn
    • I’m confused. He really doesn’t seem the sort, does he?Ianbolton
  • PhanLo4

  • palimpsest4


    The power of billions of nuclear bombs did not kill the dinosaurs.

    Major extinction events:
    1. Ordovician-Silurian Extinction:
    Estimated Loss: Roughly 85% of marine species.
    2. Late Devonian Extinction:
    Estimated Loss: Around 70% of marine species.
    3. End-Permian Extinction (The Great Dying):
    Estimated Loss: About 96% of marine species and 70% of terrestrial vertebrate species.
    4. Triassic-Jurassic Extinction:
    Estimated Loss: Around 70% of terrestrial and marine species.
    5. Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-Pg) Extinction:
    Estimated Loss: About 75% of all species.

    It is not the end of THE world, it's the end of A world.

    • As a particularly self-involved species, the end of us IS the end of the world. To us, at least. I'm sure the birds will continue dinosauring around...Nairn
    • I think even us as a species will be able to continue although in a limited sense. My main beef being that it's an ethical issue more than a preservationist onepalimpsest
    • Given the system we accept to live in I find it hard to believe that we even do care about humans.palimpsest
    • I didn't realize that Mushmouth Lex Fridman was still doing the Joe Rogan yellow journalism thing?utopian
    • sorry wrong post.utopian
    • @utopian
      Go back to the Trump thread, chief.
      palimpsest
    • False Flagutopian
    • It was the clowns.
      https://youtu.be/NUb…
      garbage
    • Also don't click that link if you haven't watched Bigtop Burger. Go do that first.garbage
    • 5000 years ago, Jesus said, nah, when Noah built the Arc and that is that!hydro74
    • nice doomsday animation.sted
    • < Cool info thanksgrafician
    • only my world matter! and it is THE world! we're the centre of existence!pango
    • "inserts image of Jesus riding a dinosaur with an ak-47"maikel
  • PhanLo1

    • This has always been true. It’s an empty statementGnash
    • Still need us for the moment though.PhanLo
    • Yeah, it's not spilling the beans. What a silly title. Harari and others have been going on about overpopulation for maybe 20 years.garbage
    • If you're really interested, look up Malthusianism. In the late 1800s, humans peaked at about a billion. The Industrial Revolution has had time to fuel..garbage
    • ..a generation or two of humanity, and then about a century to 8 billion, give or take.garbage
    • It's a stupid title because it's not new, but he's also not wrong. But what are we gonna do? Undo lives?garbage
    • People die of natural causes every daynb
    • no one needs joe big toe planet apes guy rogan ...neverscared
    • World population is already projected to shrink by the end of the century. Western generations are getting smaller. Africa the only projected future growth.ETM
    • Yuval... The genious!!

      Then... It would not have been bad if your mother had aborted you, idiot. What a waste os sperma and effort!
      OBBTKN
    • then why is Muskface telling everyone to keep shaggin???Projectile
    • Good. Most of the people not needed are the old money rich, politicians and authors, let’s kill them first :)_niko
    • apparently 20bi is this planet cap population, we are way offfeel
    • we just don't need a vast majority of the population *to workdoesnotexist
    • Maybe not needed, but are they wanted?robthelad
  • hydro745


  • mort_5

    Don't cook chicken in NyQuil, FDA warns after TikTok challenge

    https://www.reuters.com/business…

    • why not just eliminate the challengers? easy win for everyoneAQUTE
    • and who the fuck wants a skinless chicken breast anyway? might as well use quorn.
      tasteless protein is tasteless
      hans_glib
    • Counterpoint: You can't dry-brine chicken with the skin on.garbage
    • But also I want to work for one of the troll farms that comes up with these idea. My dream job was to write for a soap opera, and those days have passed.garbage
    • It's just gone from "what's the dumbest shit we can get people to watch" to "what's the dumbest shit we can get people to do".garbage
    • This is China, purely remotely engaged in making the US unproductive. And it works.stewart
    • It's amazing that TikTok hasn't been banned yet, like China has banned Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and many, many more.stewart
    • Why is this a challenge?drgs
    • Because it says so on the tin.garbage
    • If you need telling not to do this, you should probably do it.MrT
    • 1. not a challenge. 2. it's two years old. 3. media sensationalized the FDA consumer updateimbecile
  • neverscared8

  • neverscared5

    • bring on the H O N K !PhanLo
    • geniushans_glib
    • Send In The Clowns!utopian
    • the anti-swiftiesneverscared
    • Why are they anti Swift? She’s a living arian Barbie doll stereotype fucking a corn fed white football player, straight out of great America.monospaced
    • She challenges no stereotypes whatsoever.monospaced
    • Cold War Steve!5timuli
    • well sounds lunatic and plain wrong to me that an arian barbie doll stands up for the LGBTQ community and diversity... coz u know the nazis didn´t fancy that...neverscared
    • i guess u missed that interview where she went anti-trump... u have to try to keep up ...neverscared
    • if the dems are as much as snob like mono that hey can´t include white female artist and sportsman and start acting like they are not worthy ... trump surelelyneverscared
    • deserves another term....neverscared
    • Wow you really took that and ran with it. Yes, I missed everything she said because I don’t give a shit. Don’t put words in my mouth. Yuck.monospaced
    • I never said we can’t have people like her or they aren’t worthy. Holy shit what is wrong with you?monospaced
    • You clearly missed the satire that my comments were so deeply drenched in that I’m shocked you missed it. It’s stained your clothes.monospaced
    • ok boomer ... great joke...neverscared
    • i was also only kidding ... far out that u ran with... lets hope your are not too shocked its bad for the heart...neverscared
  • Ramanisky24

  • rzu-rzu4

    the Earth is, basically, a "prison planet", isn't it?

    • No, it's a house with really bad weather outside, we're trying to find a friendly neighbor and make a coat which can protect us on from that weathersted
    • yespango
    • 'every home a prison'PhanLo
    • imprisoned in gravityneverscared
    • It’s a “pleasure planet”futurefood
    • your body is a prison as well. You should release your spirit from the flesh to really be free.milfhunter
    • more like a rock floating in spaceutopian
  • Bennn2

    And you know where all this is going? STRAIGHT TO THE OCEANS :D :D :D :D :D ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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    • Stop using plastic nownb
    • How’s your stock investing stuff going?monospaced
    • What you’re seeing there is corruption and gov providing zero infrastructure for the populationinteliboy
    • @mono Not good these days as the market totally dumped. But iam a long investor and believe in my picks, no stressBennn
    • we humans are the worst. We deserve a death planet.milfhunter
    • Dumb cucks should be buttfucked with a cactusbabydick
    • Every time I go spearfishing I was come back with more garbage than fishGuyFawkes
    • cry me a riverutopian
    • Seen this happen in the Phillipines. Villagers leaving all their trash on the beach..Brabo_Brabo
    • It';s gone by morning so what do they care.Brabo_Brabo
  • utopian2

    Sixth mass extinction: 23 more species declared extinct

    The list includes eleven species of birds, eight species of freshwater mussels, two fish, a bat, and a plant from the mint family.

    Twenty-two animals and one plant were formally declared extinct by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The group joins the list of 650 plants and animals in the U.S. thought to be lost to extinction. Scientists warn that these are just some of the many species falling victim to a human-caused mass extinction event.

    https://bigthink.com/life/sixth-…

    • 18 new species around the world that have been recently described by scientists in 2021sted
    • 8,700,000 species currently on the planet. Tragic as it is, 23 is not 'Mass'.Morning_star
    • ^and yet ONE species fucks up the party for the rest of those MILLIONS of other speciesgrafician
    • Not quite true, invasive species (Rats, mice etc) are the trigger for up to 60% of recent extinctions. E.g red squirrels vs grey squirrels.Morning_star
    • Mint grows pretty easily... probably could have saved that one.BK
    • I will not missed that bloody red woodpecker.utopian
    • crypto mining brings them back...neverscared
    • I wanna hear about the new species.Nairn
    • We should put more money into creating new species.
      Problem solved.
      palimpsest
    • Or get scientists into splitting species in the taxonomy. Like printing money. We decide what a species is anyway.palimpsest
    • Give us solutions.palimpsest
    • they could just be hiding really well.shapesalad
    • 503 new species were described in 2020Morning_star
    • That's the spirit!palimpsest
    • We should be irradiating wildlife to introduce new variants. Let's speed this shit up a little.Nairn
  • yuekit4

    New study finds that people living in primitive conditions in the jungle are the same or slightly happier than people in wealthy advanced countries.

    https://www.theguardian.com/life…

    The study by the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (ICTA-UAB), found that people in the 19 isolated communities reported an average “life satisfaction score” of 6.8 out of 10 “even though most of the sites have estimated annual monetary incomes of less than US$1,000 (£800) per person”.

    This is roughly the same as the 6.7 average life satisfaction score for all countries in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).

    Galbraith, a researcher at ICTA-UAB and McGill University in Montreal, said four of the small communities reported average happiness scores of more than 8, which is higher than that found in Finland, the highest-rated country in OECD research, with an average of 7.9.

    • All that work for nothing...yuekit
    • nooo shitscruffics
    • if we're gonna be unhappy, might as well be unhappy with style.pango
    • depression is a privilegehotroddy
    • ^ wrongpango
    • If 'primitive conditions' mean your hunting for your next meal you don't have time to be depressed.hotroddy
    • ^ wrongpango
    • https://phys.org/new…Gnash
    • they sure are not as dumb as hotdoddy...neverscared
    • violence and depression are two different things. Pre Colombian amazon tribes didn't see killing as something immoral.hotroddy
    • Neverscared, imagine urself in a violent scenario where survival is imperative, and any depression induced by my comments will pass as quickly as pang o's fartshotroddy
    • "You'll own nothing, and be happy"yuekit
    • ^ wrong @hotknobby. yup they're different things. and not mutually exclusive.pango