BalpeenHammer

u/BalpeenHammer@lemmy.nz
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It's the fact that so many people live in remote areas that's going to fuck us. Right now about 20% of the world's oil production capacity has been destroyed. Before this war is over that number will might be 40%. It will take at least three years (more like five) to rebuild all those wells and refineries and storage facilities.

The Storm hasn't hit us yet. It will and it will suck and the rural people will suffer the most.

Terms like "good guys" and "bad guys" are not helpful at all. Why not take a more direct approach. Who has harmed you more. Who has harmed your family or your country more? Who is more likely to target you personally and perhaps arrest you or kidnap you etc?

It's important to be specific when talking about these things. "good guy" can mean anything but honestly I don't see how any definition of good guy can be applied to the US government. That country hasn't had more then years without a declared war in the more then 200 years of it's existence. The world's biggest merchant of theft, death, destruction and oppression.

This year I promised not to give anybody gifts and not to accept gifts from anybody. I told everybody about it months before Christmas.

I kept that promise.

We need to keep stats on every demographic and figure out whether or not natives or immigrants commit more crimes and more violent crimes. If it turns out that NZ born people commit more crimes and more heinous crimes then we should take severe action against NZ born people and invite more immigrants right away.

We can't just cut people slack because they were born in NZ instead of being born elsewhere.

I once heard Marc Cuban say the best investment an ordinary person can make is to buy things in bulk when they are on sale. Say you normally buy detergent one bottle at a time. If you catch it on sale at 20% off and then stock up for the year you are going to get a 20% return on your investment which you'll never achieve in the stock market.

Made a lot of sense to me. I stocked up on butter when it was 4 dollars. I filled a couple of shelves in my freezer. I just got done with that batch and saved a ton of money.