The Indian rice export ban, the war in Ukraine and El Niño are combining to create a “doom loop” for the world’s poorest people, as staple food prices soar.

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    1 year ago

    Yes, but im just a very positive thinker today!

    (is irony dead? Does everything need the /s? Are people so insane they think someone would writing that in a serious note…)

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      1 year ago

      Honestly? Yeah, I thought you were serious, because I’ve seen that attitude expressed before. Generally it’s more “this hazy, unspecified population can be sacrificed to help me deal with the existential dread that me and my world are walking off a cliff” than “dear me I so DO delight in death”, but it makes my teeth ache.

      Thank you for clarifying, and I’m sorry for jumping on you.

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        1 year ago

        For real? (serious) a nuclear war might be beneficial because mostly citys of big polluters will be taken out, starvation always hits those that already basically don’t pollute. So that argument would make 0 sense regardless…

        And i don’t think a nuclear war is exactly what we want… There are better ways than to suicide on species level…

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      1 year ago

      From the rest of your comment history? Yes, it’s entirely believable. It’s more surprising that you’re walking it back, really.