IRC log for #sporewiki on 20150313

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00:06.23Knight_AlienThis is Destiny at it's purest. http://i3.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/837/717/ec3.jpg
00:06.52The_Randomnesslol
00:09.35Knight_AlienLittle does Bungie realize, a good game sells more since it is bought even years after it is made.
00:10.05Knight_AlienBut overhyped Mlg 1v1 me games of pwng sell for like a month.
00:17.19MonetYou know you've fuked up when Angry Joe slips into Spanish inflections.
00:17.45TekDroidO.o
00:18.39Knight_AlienDat Joe was in da Spanish Inquisition. He soon went to texas and followed their moto; Shootin deer and drinkin beer.
00:31.07Cyrannianbai
00:51.53PandaMechanicusoh god Too Human
00:51.56PandaMechanicusthat game was awful
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01:09.47DrodoEmpire"Apparently this wasp is the size of a goose so you're fucked."
01:11.33TekDroidI love how I'm learning more relevant stuff in the 2-3 hours a week of this club than all my classes this term. XD
01:12.43DrodoEmpirehur
01:13.41Wormy_http://imgur.com/gallery/8yULscM
01:14.11Wormy_and all that debt
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01:14.23DrodoEmpire"Move my minions! MOVE!"
01:15.39Tek0516My homework is to program an altimeter. :o
01:19.28Wormy_http://imgur.com/gallery/pvXSk
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01:21.41OfficerJackalHello.
01:22.00Wormy_Tek0516's room after first year http://imgur.com/gallery/KeBdqc8
01:23.04Tek0516Hello OfficerJackal
01:24.54Wormy_http://imgur.com/gallery/iZV3d
01:31.30DrodoEmpirehttp://i.imgur.com/u6JYK5n.jpg
01:31.39DrodoEmpireToo young to own a car.
01:31.41DrodoEmpire:P
01:32.05DrodoEmpireLet alone a Lamborghini, for Christ's sake.
01:35.22Wormy_lol
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01:53.12AnonyTestI wonder if he whined that his parents got him a car for his fifteenth Birthday.
01:58.27Wormy_Deary me
01:59.41Wormy_I don';t know what the laws are in his country but he could probably drive it off-road and get it muddy lol
02:00.02DrodoEmpireYeah peo-
02:00.04DrodoEmpire3:
02:00.40DrodoEmpireHey AnonyTest, I don't recognize your name. New to the wiki? Alternate name?
02:03.50AnonyTestCame up yesterday.
02:03.56DrodoEmpireAh, nice.
02:03.57AnonyTestI've lurked for a while.
02:04.00DrodoEmpireWelcome to the wiki!
02:04.08AnonyTestThank you.
02:04.42DrodoEmpireThings tend to get quiet at this hour. :P
02:07.56AnonyTestWhat do you think the optimal number of legs is?
02:08.18DrodoEmpirePardon?
02:08.51AnonyTestThe optimal number of legs for a space faring species, practically speaking.
02:08.59DrodoEmpireOh, right.
02:09.47DrodoEmpireThere is no optimal number. :P Every species is different, and unless it has been spacefaring for millions or billions of years, it would evolve to be optimised for the task.
02:09.54DrodoEmpire*it would not
02:10.20DrodoEmpireKeep in mind that even modern humans aren't hardwired or even very well optimised to live in agrarian societies, despite how efficient they are
02:11.04DrodoEmpireBasically, its up to you. What type of planet are they from? That would determine body shape
02:11.20DrodoEmpireWhat part of the ecosystem they filled, etc.
02:11.30DrodoEmpireBefore they were spacefaring
02:11.39AnonyTestGood answer.
02:12.03DrodoEmpireThanks..? :P Where you asking as a question, or to quiz me?
02:12.13DrodoEmpireI don't mean to be rude, but
02:12.50AnonyTestI was wondering what your opinion was and if you knew of any advantages X number of legs had that I wasn't aware of.
02:12.52AnonyTestIs all.
02:13.08DrodoEmpireAh
02:22.04DrodoEmpiretest
02:28.38OfficerJackalDrodoEmpire: Belated loud and clear! :D
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03:48.37PandaMechanicusAnonyTest: less for endurance, more for speed
03:49.35PandaMechanicusthere is also a proportional gain in grip and stability as the number of legs increases
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04:02.32AnonyTestTest.
04:03.06AnonyTestI've always been a fan of hexapedal, since it's the lowest number of legs that can provide proper stability while in movement.
04:03.37PandaMechanicushumanity would disagree with you there
04:03.47PandaMechanicusslugs would too
04:03.49PandaMechanicus:P
04:04.05AnonyTestBipedal creatures have to actively balance, though.
04:04.08AnonyTestSlugs don't have legs.
04:04.54AnonyTestIf you're hexapedal then you have three legs on the ground when you're walking.
04:05.00AnonyTestThe front left leg, back left leg, and middle right leg.
04:05.02AnonyTestAnd vice versa.
04:05.13AnonyTestSo you're positioning yourself on a triangle, which is stable in three dimensions.
04:05.24AnonyTestMeaning you don't have to exert much energy keeping your balance, just adjust your legs a bit.
04:54.12TekDroid~tesr
04:54.12infobotfrom memory, tesr is Things everyone should read:  http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html   http://www.reciprocality.org/Reciprocality/r0/    Ask me about guidelines.
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12:41.10odellImagine wahhabism combined with Jevoah's Witnesses.
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12:42.45Wormy_hi
12:43.40odellHai
12:44.02odellI said this merely a minute ago. Imagine wahhabism combined with Jevoah's Witnesses.
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12:48.43Wormy_Ebola genome, meme replicated http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nuccore/KM233090.1
12:48.46Wormy_hi
12:50.00OluapWorkerHi
12:51.05odellWormy_: Interesting.
12:51.18odellHi
12:51.57Wormy_Even the smallpox genome can be easily downloaded by anyone.
12:53.26Wormy_Even though nearly all the viral material is gone, there is something quite abstract and spooky how the virus could easily be ressurected merely because its information has been stored into a new medium
12:57.26odellThere's a special 3D-writer like machine for chemistry. Where it can automatically create rare medicinal molecules from scratch. http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/health/a14528/the-chemistry-3d-printer-can-craft-rare-medicinal-molecules-from-scratch/
12:57.57odellImagine a DNA-printer.
13:00.38Wormy_TheyI think they are close to existing
13:06.02odellwe are close to the age where we can birth out cheese monsters out of bacteria cultures.
13:06.39odellUnrealistic way to say, but you get the point.
13:51.52odellAndromeda has got a plenty of unfinished pages I see.
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13:58.47JepardiHi
14:02.10odellHey
14:04.30odellEhehe. I guess that I can imply that my galaxy is actually more far than it's in real-life.
14:05.13odellBecause what we at it, is the trace lighting that've traveled for teens of millions of light years.
14:05.42Comrade_VinnyHey!
14:05.55odellIt can manage to drift away with another 20 Mly before the emitted light reaches us.
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14:53.41ImperiosHi
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15:53.56ImperiosTekDroid: http://i.4cdn.org/pol/1426261760468.png Show this to Angrybirds when he comes
16:23.35ImperiosGod, /pol/ is hilarious
16:23.39ImperiosThey're so stupid it's amusing
16:41.42ImperiosThey were all "white power brrr" so I asked them to define "white"
16:41.55ImperiosThey gave me several definitions
16:42.02ImperiosOne could include David ben Gurion
16:42.08ImperiosThe other could include Ayatollah Khomeini
16:42.14ImperiosThe third one could include Nelson Mandela
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16:59.57HachimanHai
17:00.23OluapWorker~cuddle Hachiman
17:00.23infobotACTION grabs Hachiman and cuddles until Hachiman begs for mercy
17:00.30Hachiman<3
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17:06.48ImperiosHi Hachiman
17:07.54ImperiosHachiman: http://krautchan.net/files/1426256480002.jpg I think we need to relive 1945 a few more times hur
17:09.23HachimanAye
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17:31.18ImperiosHachiman: So I went to 4chan's /pol/ and saw all these white suprematist fellows
17:31.30ImperiosI asked them to define the term "white"
17:32.01Imperios...An hour has passed and they still cannot give one
17:32.32OluapWorkerHow about you go write fiction instead of spending your time in that sea of piss
17:33.00Imperioshttp://gizmodo.com/nypd-caught-editing-wikipedia-articles-on-police-brutal-1691267182 Heh
17:33.28HachimanOh wow
17:38.12odellImperios: /pol/acks
17:40.19Imperioshttp://krautchan.net/files/1426264014001.jpg
17:42.30odellHe looks like has got downs
17:42.33odell*slience*
17:43.04ImperiosThe Kremlin is preparing a major announcement, journalists are asked not to depart for the weekend http://vlasti.net/news/213426
17:43.09ImperiosHoly shit
17:44.42odellIt's kinda funny that /int/ has a similar behaviour to /pol/ but more politically correct.
17:45.28ImperiosFunny thing is that the Russian /pol/ is actually very pro-Europe/pro-USA/liberal/anti-nationalist whatever
17:45.42ImperiosExcept they're as stupid at being liberal as 4chan /pol/acks are at being nationalist
17:47.05odellWell. /pol/ happens to be full of people who are just the opposite of their own country's people.
17:47.48ImperiosYou see, our /pol/'s perception of "liberalism" is "Putin is Hitler, Russia is terrible, USA conquer us pl0x"
17:48.00ImperiosOh and "Hail Obama"
17:50.00odellImperios: зиг хайыль Obama
17:51.30odellFor non-russians. It's "sieg heil Obama" *another slience*
17:52.34Tek0516Our cafeteria has hot chocolate that isn't scalding water with a hint of chocolate . :D
17:53.37odellI prefer heated milk with cocao powder and suger.
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17:54.21Wormy_hi
17:54.26odellHey
17:54.48Tek0516I'm just glad to have hot chocolate that actually contains chocolate. XD
17:54.49Tek0516Hello
17:54.50Comrade_VinnyBEst hot chocolates are mostly made of a mix of white chocolate and coco powder :)
17:55.49Wormy_got that
17:56.19Wormy_I prefer proper drinking cocolate to any instant though
17:57.10odellMy usual chocolate drink just milk mixed with suger-cocao.
17:58.05Comrade_VinnyYah
17:58.07odellfunny that cocao is toxic to most of the mammals.
17:58.16Tek0516lol
17:58.19Comrade_VinnyA good amount of sugar is required. Especially with the powder
17:58.43odellWhile it isn't toxic for us.
17:59.26odellAh oh. Cocao is toxic due to it's Theobromine contents.
17:59.43odellhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theobromine
18:00.37Wormy_It is toxic to us is extremely large amounts (but that goes for anything lol)
18:01.07Wormy_You'd be sick before you poisoned yourself with chocolate
18:03.43odellAnd you'll eventually vomit it out too.
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18:06.32Wormy_I wonder what other relatives of cacao taste like
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18:09.47Wormy_Theobroma bicolour https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yJtpCujug4
18:10.10odellThe fact of teeth can be asymmertric in detail makes me nervous about mine.
18:11.49Wormy_http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cupua%C3%A7u#Fruit
18:12.41Imperioshttp://krautchan.net/files/1426270175001.jpg Putin v3
18:14.10odellImperios: You just reminded me of an other gif of a RT video containing the russian federal service chasing a man with two buckets over his own head.
18:21.35Tek0516odell: So far 96% of the 3217 reviews of Skylines have been positive. XD
18:21.53odellIt is.
18:26.32Tek0516Oh right, tomorrow is Pi day.
18:28.00Wormy_dayumn nature http://imgur.com/gallery/WcFP9oJ
18:29.10odellTek0516: Make sure you've baked a pie to celebrate the day.
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18:39.08odellTekDroid Imperios: http://i.imgur.com/3ONQYr1.jpg
18:41.30odellhttp://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/map_projections.png
18:43.35odellWormy_: http://i.imgur.com/gIT4XaT.webm
18:47.04Wormy_Plate Carre ftw
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18:54.36Wormy_TekDroid, odell:  You should watch this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pi_%28film%29
18:54.39Wormy_Hi
18:56.55odellWormy_: A horror movie... about trying to finding the exact Pi number?
18:57.00odellHey Monet.
18:57.17MonetHello
18:57.32Wormy_It isn't horror, its surrealist though
18:57.52odellI expected "Life of Pi"
18:59.02Wormy_The film is about Pi, but the mathematician / programmer finds a number, in which these Wall Street white collar criminals go after him, and some Jews who think he knows the true name of their god.
18:59.45Wormy_He suffers continuous hallucinations and cluster headaches and is paranoid
19:00.25odellSounds indeed a surreal satire film.
19:01.10Wormy_Its fascinating though, it plays with both mathematics and mysticism
19:01.34Wormy_I'll show you some scenes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShdmErv5jvs
19:02.16odellMonet: I didn't think this one through. http://i.imgur.com/9QtmoAq.jpg
19:02.59Monetfail
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19:05.12Wormy_Odell:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFmWhwyA0NU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3FvtMSUeLk  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yv6L4DunPDE
19:08.24odellI don't really understand it hur
19:09.17Wormy_Its not one of those films to take in lightly
19:10.31Wormy_Another theme is the Golden Ratio and spirals
19:19.02odellWormy_: Reminds me of the british movie of a student who stumble across an other man whose wife just got killed.
19:19.34odellThe man told the student a story about his former mathematican colleuge.
19:27.05Wormy_Not heard of this, carry on
19:29.19odellThe mathematican tried to find and break a specific number. All of his attempts failed. His anger and insanity escalated until he lobotomized himself with a nailgun.
19:30.04MonetShit...
19:30.52Wormy_Odell:  Well that happens in Pi, except with a drill
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19:54.07CyrannianEllo
19:55.14OluapWorker~kick Cyrannian
19:55.14infobotACTION kicks Cyrannian
19:55.25OluapWorkermaek phaedric orde paeg grrrr
19:55.33OluapWorkerorder even
19:55.34Cyrannianfuk u
19:56.12Cyrannianhttp://spore.wikia.com/wiki/Fiction:Tyr%C3%B3mairon#Appearances - c dis
19:56.21OluapWorkertis the return of nagging
19:57.21OluapWorkerI c that, and you're a dum-dum because Anteddy didn't appear in Mar-Júun's Strike
19:57.38OluapWorkerYou're confusing it with the other Mar-Júun story
19:59.00CyrannianOh yes Silencing Apollo
19:59.19OluapWorkerMar-Júun - tried dat          got pecked by giant chick
20:00.37CyrannianWe might remake that story at some point since I have yet to figure out how Chaneonix  fits into the Oikoumene since I started Apotheosis
20:00.54OluapWorkerI was actually gonna ask if he was still around
20:02.04CyrannianPerhaps I'll start thinking of adding him into the new chapter of Apotheosis, showing his opposition to Anteddy's schemes
20:02.09OluapWorkerChaneonix was the Oikoumene who created the Dvotties and later became their god. He follows no one but the collective will of Dvottiekind
20:05.04CyrannianIt's weird that Chaneonix being disguised as Tigarlu in order to watch over Apollo actually makes a bit of sense :P
20:05.38OluapWorkerNo wonder Tigarlu is close to Gorf, they're both godlike beings
20:06.06Cyrannianaye, both must find ways to fight against Mr. Bigglesworth, Anteddy's true master
20:07.45OluapWorkerOopsie daisy, that's the final battle of the war spoiled
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20:12.24odellпривет
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20:13.14odellHello
20:13.15DrodoEmpireHey everyone
20:14.53Monethello
20:18.49Imperioshttps://2ch.hk/po/src/8213354/14262341896871.jpg
20:19.37DrodoEmpirelol
20:19.48Imperioshttp://i.4cdn.org/pol/1426276054290.jpg
20:20.13DrodoEmpirelol
20:21.12odellImperios: Mine looks more like a child's crayon drawing.
20:22.47odellThat iran one.
20:23.51odellAnd my friend sent this back to me. http://i0.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/874/930/7e7.jpg
20:25.19MonetImperios: http://spore.wikia.com/wiki/User:Monet47/The_Fictionsverse_And_it%27s_Reflection_On_Reality
20:25.27MonetI recal lyou said you wanted to see this
20:26.46ImperiosWait
20:26.52ImperiosThat's something old
20:27.47MonetYea it was a blog before they al lgot deleted
20:29.16MonetI wondered about adding to it though
20:39.20Cyrannianhttp://spore.wikia.com/wiki/Captain:Guolivian#Trivia - Some original plans for the GCW
20:41.12OluapWorkerGuolivian - emperor pls no
20:42.15Hachimanhttps://fbcdn-sphotos-h-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xpf1/v/t1.0-9/10991374_325039081020077_957575980967398282_n.jpg?oh=23518ba6ae38062b9b4c7c5cd4cc3965&oe=55841037&__gda__=1433748214_8dbf2646f2bce80b4839cbcd7e10cfe0
20:43.26Wormy_Wow, I wonder if that would be useful in space.
20:43.27ImperiosI ship Guo and Tyro <3
20:43.50OluapWorkerI read that as "Guo and Tyraz" for a second
20:44.39ImperiosIovera - WHAAAAAAAAAT
20:44.39HachimanTyraz - ooh guolivian-tan~
20:44.42Wormy_Watching this Dead or Alive documentary makes me glad I can walk in the English countryside without fear of bears, wolves or big cats.
20:45.06CyrannianGuolivian was an invited guest at the wedding night festivities if you know what I mean
20:45.08Wormy_I'm kind of glad they are extinct here
20:45.34Wormy_I have actually seen an escaped Lynx
20:45.50Wormy_But I guess some of you will be thinking "not that story again"
20:51.01Hachimanhttps://scontent.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpf1/v/t1.0-9/10997998_468035130010490_4841678004112681208_n.jpg?oh=8a6fcdd19ee3e8a8cc4bcb7d599d7802&oe=55791F05
20:52.25OluapWorkerolol
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21:19.51odellпривет снова
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21:23.57ImperiosOkay remind me not to go to /pol/ ever again
21:24.35ImperiosFor some reason I felt a sudden need to be racist and arrogant while there
21:25.08Tek0516O.o
21:25.09HachimanThat's /pol/ for you
21:25.40Wormy_Resist those corruption memes
21:26.24ImperiosNo seriously an hour there and I was spouting Mein Kampf-level shit
21:27.09ImperiosOr at least trying to prove that Koreans are more attractive or something
21:27.22Wormy_You have sold your soul
21:27.29Wormy_Oh
21:27.31ImperiosShit this is something Satanic
21:27.37odellImperios: сделаь зто ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
21:27.53ImperiosAnd I though Russian /pol/ was stupid
21:27.57Wormy_Well that's probably more instinctive
21:28.52odellGotta admit it, I look pretty silly with my broken russian.
21:32.30Wormy_Tbh I avoid the backends of the internet
21:33.32Wormy_It makes me angry, and I don't want them in my browser history or to get virus's
21:36.12ImperiosI really love how they're all Putin fanboys
21:36.18ImperiosPUTIN PROTECTS DA WHITE PEOPLE
21:37.41Wormy_Imperios:  How much of it is bigotry or just really dark humour?
21:37.57ImperiosNot sure
21:38.08ImperiosRussian /pol/ guys are usually trolls
21:38.17ImperiosThese guys however, they're genuine zealots
21:40.47Wormy_<PROTECTED>
21:41.03ImperiosSpeaking of which
21:41.25Wormy_I find it too cheesey
21:41.26HachimanI can't watch it either purely because I feel Comic Relief is trash
21:42.01ImperiosHachiman: So I found a blog that shows various quotes from Stormfront and Tumblr with names of ethnicities, races and sexualities erased
21:42.19HachimanWait what
21:42.20Wormy_And I also feel its there to make the middle class feel good about themselves .  Sure its a good cause but if people in the West *really* cared we could contribute a lot more daily to put food in the mouths of everyone
21:42.20ImperiosAnd then makes its viewers try to guess where did the quote come from
21:43.00ImperiosAs you can guess, it is rather difficult hur
21:43.00Imperioshttp://www.reddit.com/r/StormfrontorSJW/
21:43.03ImperiosThere
21:43.13Hachiman"SJW"
21:43.14HachimanNope
21:43.48HachimanComic Relief is a scheme because a majority of the donations ends up as free money for the government without having to employ a justification such as tax and what money that does go to places like Africa is put towards doing more harm than good
21:43.57ImperiosHachiman: The point of the blog is
21:44.07ImperiosWhen you remove certain words
21:44.19ImperiosNeo-Nazi and SJW rhetoric becomes indistinguishable
21:45.11Wormy_Hachi:  That's disgusting, like most things in the media.  A scam.  If you really want to help the world you need to get off your arse imo
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21:46.04Wormy_Anarchist farming ftw
21:46.18HachimanI feel Africa cannot be helped
21:47.03HachimanThey are not educated enough to know where they are going wrong other than their lack of resources; the many villages and tribes do not believe they are causing their own problems via overpopulation
21:47.29Wormy_It cannot be because of the level of corruption and poor distribution of wealth.  There is a lot of wealth in Africa but it goes to multinational corporation and corrupt governments
21:47.42HachimanWe have been donating money, time, and resources to that damned continent for decades and we have yet to hear any significant word of it getting any better
21:48.07Wormy_The African continent has a great deal of resources but it is distributed very badly
21:49.11HachimanWe should stop wasting time and stop beating Africa's dead horse and focus on our own problems
21:49.29OfficerJackalHachiman: Really, the only reason our aid mones does no good there, is that the governments in Africa are corrupt as fuck and drain all the money, or it get's lost due to rebel activity/cultural problems, and etc.
21:49.49Wormy_As I said its better to use or join charity organisations to aid countries in this situation
21:50.04HachimanWhy aid Africa if it will not get any better
21:50.21OfficerJackalIt will get better, it will just take time.
21:50.24OfficerJackalA long time.
21:50.28HachimanWe have given it enough time
21:50.42HachimanIt has not gotten better at all from when we first started
21:50.54HachimanAnd we started decades ago
21:50.55Wormy_I think its okay to aid people on a humanitarian basis
21:51.10Wormy_Rather than in the pockets of corrupt governments or corporations
21:51.36HachimanPut the damned money towards where it counts like the UK's medical or educational system
21:51.49HachimanBecause those are going down the shitter as of recent
21:52.11Wormy_Actually, no, you have it all wrong.  A lot of our money is wasted of shit we don't need
21:52.23OfficerJackalThe reason it's like this still is because country lines were poorly drawn, with numerous tribal/different cultures in countries that didn't really mix together, and it lead to numerous civil wars. Another thing, is that the governments there were always corrupt or unstable, full of greedy people and overthrown by greedy people, hungry for power in a cycle.
21:52.34OfficerJackalTbh, for money to be effective there, they do kind of have to fix their own problems.
21:52.34odellSo I found this. http://spore.wikia.com/wiki/Fiction:S.K.U.T.H.E.R.
21:52.44OfficerJackalLike, corrupt government, unstable government, and etc.
21:53.07Wormy_Like a gross amount on national defense or the banks.  In fact a fraction of the money in the West that goes into military spending could put food into the mouths of all people in poverty
21:53.31Wormy_Like I said, its a problem we have caused and refuse to do any shit about
21:54.06Wormy_Thats why I don't like Comic Relief, its to make us feel better but in reality makes a pinprick of a difference to the situation
21:54.18HachimanExactly
21:54.23HachimanComic Relief is a waste of time
21:54.43HachimanI would rather put my money towards NASA funding
21:55.10odellIf it was just possible.
21:55.27DrodoEmpireAfrica shouldn't be getting foreign aid. Trade and economic competition should be stimulated there and it will grow naturally, and more sustainably.
21:55.39DrodoEmpireEasier said than done, of course. But that's what needs to happen
21:56.03HachimanEither it sorts itself out or it wrecks itself into further calamity
21:56.04OfficerJackalYeah, they need to get alot of problems out of the way first through that stifles economic trade and competition to invigorate their economies.
21:56.14HachimanEither way we should not waste our money by throwing pointless aid at it
21:56.26Wormy_I'd rather society actually cared about things that mattered.  More money to research antibiotics and geoengineering, money money for education and healthcare, nuclear fusion, space travel and indeed
21:56.34ImpyDroidHachiman: Only proper aid would be making it self-sufficient
21:56.39OfficerJackalLike the problems I listed before, and other things, like gross economic mismanagement, AKA places like Zimbabwe and shit, among other things.
21:56.44DrodoEmpireGive foreign aid for too long, they become dependent on it anf corrupt governments waste the money anyway
21:56.49DrodoEmpireOfficerJackal: Exactly
21:56.50Wormy_and indeed humanitarian efforts
21:56.53DrodoEmpire^
21:57.05ImpyDroidInvesting in agriculture and education there, cultural development
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21:57.23HachimanLike I do not wish to sound like that sort of person but the only way we can possibly help Africa is by using foreign aid to eliminate the corrupt African governments
21:57.34DrodoEmpireCutting aid *entirely* and leaving it to its own devices would be unwise. Stimulating trade, assisting in disasters and investing in Africa is the way to go
21:57.35The_RandomnessHello everyone
21:57.53ImpyDroidProblem is eliminating corrupt governments is impossible
21:57.54OfficerJackalOne place which is a good example of an African country doing good, is Botswana I think, they have vast diamond reserves there and they manage it correctly, bringing $$$ to their economy.
21:57.58ImpyDroidLook at Russia or Ukraine
21:58.08ImpyDroidOne corrupt governmenr leaves, another rises
21:58.14DrodoEmpireHachiman: How do you propose going about that? Last time the US tried that the Middle East happened. :P
21:58.14Wormy_The difficulty in the 20th century though was that Western governments tried to "uplift" the world but all it created was unpredictable chaos
21:58.33HachimanWell then at least have Africa ran by people who know what they are doing
21:58.36HachimanAfrican or not
21:59.11OfficerJackalHachiman: No, we should not intervine directly like that at all, they need to short out their own problems. Otherwise, we could end up with numerous Iraq scenarios in different forms, systems we set up just crumbling because it wasn't exactly made and fitted for the people/culture.
21:59.17DrodoEmpire^
21:59.37HachimanBut the culture there is evidently harms itself
21:59.49DrodoEmpireIts not a cultural problem
21:59.53DrodoEmpireIts a leadership problem
22:00.15OfficerJackalIn some cases it is a cultural problems, in some countries there cultural groups that aren't really fond of eachother are mixed together.
22:00.19OfficerJackalLike the Rwanda fiasco.
22:00.46Tek0516I believe at least one issue with Africa arose from the fairly random borders the Scramble for Africa made.
22:01.00Wormy_As I said, the African people are not to blame for the problems there, I think ultimately capitalism is though
22:01.01DrodoEmpireAfrica had and does have competent leaders and rich countries; Its not a matter of "inferior" or "dangerous" cultures. Its a matter that many current African leaders are more interested in keeping power than helping the coutnry
22:01.02Wormy_I agree
22:01.09ImpyDroidHachiman: Develop education and empower the intelligentsia
22:01.28DrodoEmpireWormy: How so? I blame 19th century colonialism. Nothing economic happens in africa right now
22:01.42DrodoEmpireExcept for the richer and more prosperous countries
22:01.52Wormy_DrodoEmpire:  I mean the terrible distribution of wealth in said countries
22:01.52HachimanMankind can be putting their money into more efficient and proactive causes such as the ones Wormy mentioned and if Africa cannot get its act together and follow suite then it gets left in the dust
22:01.56DrodoEmpireWhere, surprise surprise, capitalism abounds
22:02.01OfficerJackalLike Botswana, South Africa, Ghana, Nambia and Tansania to a lesser extant.
22:02.04HachimanPeople who do not wish to be part of Africa's problem can leave Africa
22:02.11DrodoEmpireWormy: That's wealth inequality. Not "capitalism"
22:02.20ImpyDroidThat is what could work, making African srates more mrritocratic
22:02.22OfficerJackalBenin has a democratic government that is alright, but it's pretty poor.
22:02.38DrodoEmpireWealth inequality happens everywhere under every system and its not caused by economic exploitation for most of africa
22:02.50DrodoEmpireIts caused by constant war and a lack of infrastucture
22:02.59Tek0516^
22:03.03ImpyDroidHachiman: >leave Africa That is one of the main problems Africa faces
22:03.04OfficerJackalYeah, basically. ^
22:03.08Wormy_Yeah and do you not realise the amount of investment corporations and Western powers have with countries in Africa?
22:03.10OfficerJackalTo Drodo's comment. XD
22:03.11ImpyDroidSmart people leave it
22:04.15Wormy_Colonialism has been a huge fac tor though, yes
22:04.17ImpyDroidBecause they cannot recieve education there
22:04.19DrodoEmpireWormy: If you're referring to foreign aid, that isn't capitalism. That's foreign aid.
22:04.23ImpyDroidObviously
22:04.24DrodoEmpire:P
22:04.41ImpyDroidAlso Hachiman you may be generalising things too much; African countries are all different
22:04.47DrodoEmpire^
22:04.51Wormy_No, not foreign aid
22:05.04ImpyDroidSome are truly destitute but South Africa or Nigeria are actually half-decenr
22:05.06ImpyDroid*decent
22:05.28Wormy_Anyway this delves into the subject of colonialism.  How Belgium thought it was doing right caused a massive war on the Congo http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Watched_Over_by_Machines_of_Loving_Grace_(TV_series)#The_Monkey_In_The_Machine_and_the_Machine_in_the_Monkey
22:05.44HachimanAlso direct Western intevention has not always been negative
22:05.45Tek0516You can't implement 21st century systems with the infrastructure behind that, with the effects of colonialism having vastly different and mixed results.
22:06.05DrodoEmpireHachi: Its always been negative in the past 200 years. :P
22:06.13HachimanNot meaning to sound like a weaboo but look at how intervention from the West assisted Japan
22:06.34DrodoEmpire...Only after the deaths of many in the bloody civil war and crackdown of the Samurai elite. :P
22:06.50HachimanYes but a unified and thriving economic power came out of it
22:06.51ImpyDroidNot exactly true
22:06.56ImpyDroidIt developed itself
22:07.16Tek0516The process of rapid modernization gets messy rapidly.
22:07.31DrodoEmpireJapan was an outstanding example of people who learnt fast, anyhow. China, meanwhile, was fucked over for all of the 19th and most of the 20th century in its disasterous moderization attempts
22:07.54Tek0516Indeed.
22:07.58DrodoEmpireWormy: People are starting to invest and its starting to help. Again, the reason why the average African person is very poor is not because they only get a cent a day working in a sweatshop, its because of the constant terrorism/civil war and lack of basic necessities.
22:08.09Tek0516^^
22:08.16Wormy_I think some Western ideas have indeed contributed to the world in terms of democracy and science, etc.  But western intervention has never really worked very much politically or ethnically.
22:08.17OfficerJackalYep6.
22:08.24OfficerJackalTo drodo's comment again. XD
22:08.31DrodoEmpireI agree Wormy.
22:09.28Wormy_You misunderstand what I meant by investment, but it might have been the wrong word
22:09.37odellWestern has great ideas and science. But shit politics and ethnics. The Eastern is the opposite ego of the western.
22:09.45Tek0516Yeah, that kind of change is difficult to externally enforce on a nation.
22:09.57Hachiman>Implying Eastern politics are any better than European ones
22:10.05Wormy_Rather, much of the money is drained away
22:10.18Wormy_Hachi:  China owned the US's economy in the 90s
22:10.20DrodoEmpireYeah, becaue of corrupt governments making themselves rich
22:10.42Tek0516That's true, you need money staying in to develop.
22:10.53Wormy_And have western powers done much about it, no.
22:11.00DrodoEmpireYou could blame exploitive business practices for the poverty in southeast asia and india, but not in Africa, and its bad to blame "capitalism" as if its one, monolithic thing. Blame the companies' shitty practices that could happen under almost any economic syste,
22:11.03DrodoEmpire*system
22:11.16Wormy_Because lets be honest, power has gone from our government to capitalists.
22:11.31Wormy_I blame the system as a whole
22:11.40ImpyDroid...that feel when you realise you live in another world
22:11.53DrodoEmpireNot a good idea, for the reasons I have stated. :P
22:11.56HachimanHow do you mean?
22:12.53DrodoEmpireAs for corporations getting more political power? Yeah that's concerning to me too. Though, Canada does have ways of curbing corporate influence, which is good.
22:12.53ImpyDroidRussia is different, the problems we face are very different, as is our opinion towards rhem
22:12.59ImpyDroidALL HAIL PUTIN
22:13.15Wormy_Nobody is really to blame though, I don't think there is anybody in control or knows what to do about the breaks in the system
22:13.17ImpyDroidWe have lots of corruption problems too
22:13.19HachimanWhy can the West not just support the South African government in dismantling African warlords and nationalist groups rather than sponsoring African warlords and nationalist groups
22:13.31Wormy_Its become very unpredictable
22:13.44ImpyDroidI wouldn't let you take over our corrupt government though
22:13.54Tek0516Corporations are definitely more powerful than before but I'd say the extent varies by nation.
22:14.09DrodoEmpire...Because giving a somewhat-corrupt country lots of money to invade and "liberate" other countries is a terrible idea that can only end badly?
22:14.17Tek0516^^
22:14.22OfficerJackalWait, you mean South Africa invading other countries?
22:14.42ImpyDroidSimply enough because another Western-backed corrupt government would emerge soon like in Ukraine
22:14.43DrodoEmpireNo, Hachi wants other countries to give South Africa money to destroy warlords and rebel groups.
22:14.57ImpyDroidPutin is at least predictable
22:15.00Wormy_I gagree with Drodo here
22:15.12DrodoEmpireLook at what happened in the middle east, when the USA tried to eliminate terrorism there. It caused even worse problems
22:15.17Tek0516Try to dismantle them and you get a civil war.
22:15.27Wormy_Hachi:  You should watch Bitter Lake or the Power of Nightmares
22:15.27HachimanThey already HAVE civil wars
22:15.28DrodoEmpireThere's a quote I heard somewhere that fits perfectly, actually
22:15.50DrodoEmpire"For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, straightforward, and wrong."
22:15.56Tek0516*civil war with lots of guerilla warfare that makes it long and costly for the aggressors
22:16.05DrodoEmpireAnd what good would even *more* war do, Hachi?
22:16.06Wormy_http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitter_Lake_%28film%29  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Power_of_Nightmares
22:16.27ImpyDroidNobody likes foreign forces intervening, it would cause an even greater wave of unrest
22:16.31DrodoEmpire^
22:17.01ImpyDroidYou can only annex a place if you can assure the population's compliance and it is hard to earn
22:17.15ImpyDroidYou know how much money we are investing in Crimea right now?
22:17.31DrodoEmpireToo much and its hurting your country, unfortunately.
22:17.41ImpyDroidMilitary intervention is not that easy
22:17.49HachimanDespite the corruption that goes on within South Africa, it is much more desirable than the other, smaller and more petty competitors that keep the country from being unified
22:18.00Wormy_Western intervention has a poor track record of causing ethnic divide, corrupt phoney democracies, and so on
22:18.15Tek0516^^
22:18.18HachimanIt at least sustains itself and keeps up with the modern world
22:18.25ImpyDroidNope
22:18.30DrodoEmpireHachi, its not "much more desirable" as it would only further destablize Africa, including South Africa.
22:18.32ImpyDroidYou intervene in Iraq
22:18.36ImpyDroidISIS emerges
22:20.01ImpyDroidI am Russian, so trust me: dismantling the old order always results in more chaos
22:20.02DrodoEmpireWe have plenty of historical examples and can certainly guess from the current political situation that these plans are really, really bad ideas. Problems like this need to be handled with extreme care and solutions must be gradually implemented.
22:20.12DrodoEmpire^ (to Impy)
22:20.19Wormy_Also look at the Arab Spring, while it was started by people wanting more Western liberty and using social media to organise change, in many countries like Egypt or Libya it hasn't worked.  And although Western powers want to intervene with Iraq to defeat ISIS they know that means collaboration with Assad in Syria
22:20.35ImpyDroidYou can unify it, but it would require meticulous planning and above all, relying on local sources of power
22:21.12ImpyDroidThat is how you took India and how we are taking Eastern Ukraine
22:21.24HachimanMore time waste
22:21.27Hachimanwasted even
22:21.54DrodoEmpireI wouldn't call a carefully-implemented plan that actually *has* a chance of success wasted time.
22:22.20DrodoEmpireI would call a bombastic invasion of rebel-infested countries a waste of time, and a costly one at that.
22:22.23DrodoEmpire:P
22:22.33ImpyDroidHachiman: Which is still preferrable over complete chaos
22:22.47HachimanAnd why would that be when it would be getting rid of the rebels, warlords and nationalist groups
22:23.00DrodoEmpireThe US learned this the hard way, and it, along with the rest of the world is still dealing with the consequences.
22:23.06ImpyDroidBecause when you do another rebel group would arrive
22:23.17DrodoEmpireHachi: You're simply emptying the food chain for more competitors.
22:23.28ImpyDroidLike in Iraq, you toppled another dictator, then ISIS swarmed in
22:23.30DrodoEmpireMore, more extreme rebels would rise to take their place.
22:23.31DrodoEmpire^
22:23.34ImpyDroidYa
22:24.01DrodoEmpireBy invading like that or doing other direct intervention in africa, you're rubbing salt into the wound, not mending it
22:24.14Tek0516And those resistance groups are difficult to purge. Just look at Iraq and Afghanistan.
22:24.19DrodoEmpire^
22:24.30HachimanAnd this is why we may as well just stop funding Africa
22:24.48Wormy_Also the US and UK often find themselves having to work with or arming certain rebel groups
22:24.53DrodoEmpire...Because of unrelated rebel groups? :P
22:25.00ImpyDroid...And this is when we get even larger hordes of refugees at our borders
22:25.01HachimanIt will not see its problems fixed by the 2100s
22:25.11Wormy_And such weapons can go into the hands of future militants
22:25.13ImpyDroidOkay, you
22:25.38ImpyDroidWe have other things to do like international conquest
22:25.43Wormy_Its not a simple good vs bad story our politicians tried to tell us a decade ago
22:25.54HachimanThe rest of the world will have moved on technologically, socially, culturally, etc and Africa would still be in the same mess it has been in since the 1900s
22:26.21ImpyDroidAgain, not all of it, Africa has some rather fast developing regions
22:26.29ImpyDroidIn West and South Africa especially
22:26.34DrodoEmpireHachi, you're just a pessimist. Your solutions are heavy-handed and impossible, and your inability or unwillingness to see the facts of the matter is getting bothersome
22:26.38Tek0516The problems can be fixed but it takes more than military action to fix it. It takes massive social and political reform.
22:27.02DrodoEmpireReforms, economic stimulation, all of these things are needed to actually rebuild Africa.
22:27.09Tek0516Absolutely.
22:27.11HachimanBut the Africans cannot politically and socially reform themselves otherwise they would have done it by now
22:27.17DrodoEmpireAfrica was for many centuries one of the richest places on the planet
22:27.23CyrannianKeep things civil.
22:27.35Wormy_Thats edging on racism
22:27.39DrodoEmpire^
22:28.03odellIt kinda makes me want to blame on the British Empire to be honest.
22:28.04ImpyDroidDrodoEmpire: Vivat for Mali and Axum
22:28.10DrodoEmpire^
22:28.34DrodoEmpireBlaming the people is a bad idea, Hachi. That's like saying the Native Americans are inferior to the Europeans because they didn't have all of the same stuff Europeans did.
22:29.03HachimanHow was I implying that
22:29.08DrodoEmpireIts because of incompetant leadership, not an inherent deficiency with Africans as a *people*.
22:29.23HachimanI was not implying the Africans as a people were like that
22:29.25DrodoEmpire"themselves". Implying *them* as a group.
22:29.26HachimanYou misunderstood me
22:30.44Wormy_I certainly think you can compare cultural ideas and work out which culture has better ones.  But thats not a ethnic or human thing, that's a matter of knowledge.  And as I said, Africa does have great wealth of resources, but the problems are most certainly political and imo, how the economies of the biggest nations treat it
22:31.04Wormy_So you cannot blame Africa
22:31.09Wormy_*African people
22:31.17HachimanI wasn't blaming the African people
22:31.24HachimanWhat I said admittedly came out wrong in hindsight
22:31.29Wormy_I think they are held by a rock and a hard place
22:32.24HachimanWhat I was implying was that if the African leaders were willing to socially and culturally reform without Western intervention, which they evidently are *not*, then such significant changes should have happened by now
22:32.58Wormy_Aye well I agree its corrupt politics
22:32.58DrodoEmpireEarlier leaders used to be very competent. This generation of them however tend to be more interested in holding onto their own power
22:33.08DrodoEmpireWhoever said that can't change?
22:33.29ImpyDroidDepends on the region, again
22:33.33HachimanEh I would not say that earlier generations of leaders were competent
22:33.38HachimanLook at the Samurai warlords
22:34.21HachimanYes a fair number of them decided to hand in their authority for the Meiji Restoration to provide greater prosperity to the country but many of them were interested in holding their own power which is why so much bloodshed happened
22:34.43HachimanThey had to be forcibly removed for the greater benefit of the country as a whole
22:34.49Wormy_I agree on that one
22:36.05ImpyDroidConsolidation of rule, that happens, yes
22:37.13Wormy_What worries me though
22:37.41Wormy_I mean when you look at Egypt, its people ended up right in a new military state
22:37.46HachimanAnd it took Western influence - both European and American - to bring Japan into the era of modern society so I cannot see why the same logic can't be applied to the African states considering that those countries that are causing problems are much less resourceful and technologically up-to-date as the Western-influenced parts of Africa
22:38.09ImpyDroidAbout change, developing education is fitting
22:38.17ImpyDroid*can help
22:38.43DrodoEmpireHachi: Its because Japan is an outstanding example. You're not seeing all of the hundreds of failed attempts at modernization throughout history
22:39.06ImpyDroidHachiman: Japan had older history of civilisation, it had human resources to modernise to begin with
22:39.19ImpyDroidDitto with Korea, or Southeast Asia
22:39.20DrodoEmpireLike China, or the Sepoy revolt which was a simple rearmament within an already-advanced country.
22:39.23ImpyDroid*had an older
22:39.25Wormy_Germany as well, after WWII became more liberal
22:39.37Wormy_There are some examples yes
22:40.04Wormy_Also the Enlightenment ideas have changed the world in a way its never experienced
22:40.05ImpyDroidYou cannot explain everything by "Western influence", that is rather chauvinistic of you
22:40.19DrodoEmpireWell, actually Korea, China, etc. all had a very hard time modernizing. I believe Korea didn't remove the composite bow as a standard miltiary weapon until the 1890's.
22:40.52Wormy_Wasn't South Korea pooer than North Korea for a time
22:40.56ImpyDroidAye
22:41.02ImpyDroidWe invested in it a lot
22:41.15HachimanWas it not Russia that led to the Korean civil disputes and the state that North Korea has become
22:42.06Wormy_I'm not sure on the history but it was caused by a divide of capitalism and communism
22:42.22HachimanWell no Korea has practically had civil disputes long before America and Russia touched if I remember
22:42.28Wormy_Pro-Soviet ommunists in the North
22:42.29ImpyDroidHachiman: Nope, the rapid fall of NK began AFTER the Soviet Union fell
22:42.30HachimanBut you know what I mean
22:42.54Wormy_Pro-US in the South
22:42.59ImpyDroidAnd... well it was both sides of the Cold War
22:43.12ImpyDroidActually SK even had dictatorships and stuff
22:43.23Wormy_^
22:43.31Wormy_And military coups
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22:44.18Tek0516Hello
22:44.19Wormy_I trying to remember everything from that Plethrons video on the history of the Korean peninsula, so I'm not sure
22:45.09The_RandomnessHey Monet
22:45.14MonetHello
22:45.37HachimanAs much as I would *love* for Africa to socially reform and advance itself without the requirement of Western intervention, I honestly cannot seeing happening considering how much *good* the Western powers have done for it
22:46.02odellHey Monet.
22:46.02HachimanWait I just contradicted myself
22:46.03HachimanFuck
22:46.19Tek0516Western powers have done some good but also quite a lot of exploitation.
22:46.23MonetI hear there are some nice places in Africa.
22:46.31HachimanLooks like not even the West can save Africa hur
22:46.50DrodoEmpireYeah, because the west "saved" the Indians, and the native americans...
22:46.55MonetWe fuked it up good lol
22:47.06ImpyDroidHow about we just let it develop for itself and help it
22:47.09ImpyDroid...Us
22:47.12DrodoEmpire^
22:47.13ImpyDroid...Why do I say us
22:47.18HachimanNow I never said that the elimination of the Native Americans was a good thing
22:47.19DrodoEmpireMake it economically viable
22:47.30MonetImpyDroid: Because we all know you're secretly European
22:47.52ImpyDroidYeah I am a Western Europe fanboy sort of
22:48.11HachimanWhat the West did was outright invasion and colonial occupation, very different from modernisation attempts
22:48.17HachimanWhich was wrong
22:48.22Wormy_Anyway, this has diverged a long way from my original point.  If you want to help peopl;e in Africa join a humanitarian charity or go out and actually do something.  I don't trust Comic Relief or the West can help (or actually cares enough) to really change much
22:48.23DrodoEmpireYeah, and ruthlessly exterminating, enslaving, and exploiting the native peoples of a given area has been the story of Europe between 1500 and early 1900's, Hachi. They've done far more harm than good
22:48.27Tek0516As we've said though, you can't just go in and change a nation. You need the population to be willing to accept it, the creation of a reasonably stable and viable economy, political leaders willing and able to guide the country through it...
22:48.36ImpyDroidBut seriously Russia is not exactly "Western"
22:49.04DrodoEmpireHachi: Even modernization is exploitive. I can't even *comprehend* how much money firearms and ship manufacturers must've made off of Japan in the 1800's.
22:49.06Tek0516Russia is its own special subcategory of Western. XD
22:49.09DrodoEmpire^
22:49.28HachimanI believe that the African peoples are all willing to accept a cease to the bloodshed
22:49.52HachimanBecause what sort of people would want that
22:50.12Wormy_I think the modernisation of Africa is probably behind a lot of the wealth divide, which is probably what I was trying to say earlier
22:50.16Tek0516Well in every conflict the peoples want peace. To them it's a matter of whose peace though.
22:50.18HachimanA continuation of the bloodshed I mean, what sort of people would want to support that
22:50.45MonetA lot of the money sent to Africa is mainly used by the local governments to keep their country afloat and resolve civil war rather than improve the quality of a country
22:50.54ImpyDroidTek0516: The "FUCK THE WEST WE HATE YOU DECADENT GAY IMPERIALIST FAGETS" category hur
22:50.59Tek0516The government wants the removal of the warlords, the warlords want the removal of thr government...
22:51.15Tek0516*replacement
22:51.33MonetTek0516: The government see the warlords as barbaric or ruthless, the warlords see the local government as ineffective.
22:51.43MonetIt's not exactly an easy road to peace
22:51.45HachimanYes because we can trust warlords to bring an entire continent into modern living
22:51.52DrodoEmpireNot saying that/
22:51.58HachimanIt's not like they're *warlords* or anything like that
22:52.04DrodoEmpireWhen did we support the warlords? Where did we say that Hachi?
22:52.40Tek0516What the factions in these civil wars want for peace is usually mutually exclusive.
22:52.57Wormy_Even if people tried to rise up and instill democracy, even then it might not work, like we have seen in the Middle East
22:53.13Wormy_Its a rock and a hard place.  Corrupt government or civil unrest
22:53.27DrodoEmpire^
22:53.42DrodoEmpireIts a hard problem, and it doesn't have any *one* solutio.
22:53.45DrodoEmpire*solution
22:53.45Wormy_And Western governments don't know what to do about it imo and tell us fairy tales about hgood vs. evil
22:53.50DrodoEmpireIt needs time.
22:53.56DrodoEmpireThat's all that can be said
22:54.23Tek0516A weak democracy is the perfect target for internal conflict and furure dictators.
22:54.48HachimanThink about this; would you rather the American/United Kingdom/Canadian/whatever government, due to its corruption, be disposed of and instead live in a continent with its regional influence split between warlords and independence groups
22:55.04ImpyDroidHachiman: Not the entire continent is ruled by warlords, you generalise
22:55.41HachimanThe obvious answer is *no* so why on Earth would the African civilian population be any different
22:55.50ImpyDroidNot all of Africa is Somali, the more advanced countries could become the foundation for future renovations
22:56.21HachimanA government that *works* is better than *no* government
22:56.49Tek0516Those working with the warlords benefit from it, and hold all the local power. They want to keep those benefits and the majority of the population can't afford to rise up.
22:57.01MonetUnfortunately in these war-torn areas what choice do these civilians have?
22:57.29HachimanWhich is why we should lend support to modernised nations such as South Africa to dispose of the warlords for them
22:57.52ImpyDroidCould work, but again, with planning
22:58.02MonetHow amicably connected is most of Africa?
22:58.20ImpyDroidYou cannot just sweep Africa with bombs
22:59.01MonetThe first actions against ISIS was bomb them fro mjets. Has it worked? Not really...
22:59.29Wormy_You'd find yoursewlf inevitably arming rebel groups who might eventually use thosae weapons against you
23:00.21Wormy_Or simply destabilising power so that the factions you don't want to benefit, actually benefit
23:00.34MonetPart of me wonders how much the governemnt of say South Africa cares how torn apart Somalia is.
23:00.41Wormy_Look at how wary the UK is with the matter of Syria
23:00.47Tek0516The people won't acceot foreign rule so they take a local faction and install it. From there It's all luck they don't turn on you.
23:01.09DrodoEmpireBy sending South Africa on a campaign across Africa like their Alexander and his armies will only anger many countries and destablize the entire continent, pushing it farther away from prosperity, not closer.
23:01.15DrodoEmpire*they're
23:02.05MonetEven approaching SA in a friendly manner will be seen as imperialism
23:02.11Tek0516Poor countries going to war rarely helps their own economies
23:02.12Wormy_It would also cause political ripp;les across the world.  How might China react, or Russia, in the face of the West forcefully modernising Africa and instilling its own proxy powers?
23:02.21DrodoEmpire^
23:02.25DrodoEmpireTek: Yeah
23:02.40HachimanThen Russia or China should have done something about it
23:02.43DrodoEmpireFor obvious reasons. :P
23:02.49HachimanInstead of sitting on sidelines
23:02.49DrodoEmpireHachi: Not how politics work.
23:02.50Wormy_Especially China, considering its strong business in Affrica
23:03.01MonetUsing Africa as a giant chess board to westernise it....yeah....
23:03.23MonetI predict only tears.
23:03.24Tek0516Monet: Europe tried that a century ago.
23:03.38DrodoEmpireIt isn't a game of risk where its "finders-keepers". Its real people, its real consequences with all of the goals and motives that go along with them.
23:03.47ImpyDroidLook we would if you weren't trying to get so close to us
23:04.19ImpyDroidNow we're more concerned with going yandere over Ukraine
23:04.35DrodoEmpireLook at how the world reacted when Russia moved into Crimea. Putting any sort of political concern or anything like that aside, the west especially wasn't impressed.
23:04.43Tek0516All the propaganda of the Scramble for Africa was about bringing "civilization" to it (among various similar racist versions)
23:04.47DrodoEmpire^
23:05.01Tek0516And look at what we got.
23:05.43MonetTrying again "because we know what to do now" won't really be an improvement.
23:05.53Wormy_The best thing we as the West can do is actually spend more on humanitarian efforts, build more economic ties maybe, and hope its ideas spread to the development of nations in Africa, and that development has to be their own.  It does have the resources to.
23:06.22HachimanAlright, maybe forceful intervention from the West - or any other political group with a hand in Africa - is not the solution to Africa's plight but everything else outside nations have attempted with Africa thus far has not worked
23:06.52Wormy_But sustaining the way it is now or using military enforcment just won't work.  It doesn't work, its tried and tested and I think Europe and US are very wary now]
23:06.54DrodoEmpireI'd say only spend what is necessary for humanitarian aid and focus primarily on investing in African commerce and encouraging it.
23:06.55Tek0516It's because you need that internal desire and ability to change.
23:06.56HachimanThere is only so much humanitarian aid and money we can send to Africa and we have spent much of it already
23:07.12Wormy_There really isn't
23:07.25Wormy_A fraction of militaryu spending could feed the world
23:07.26DrodoEmpireThat way, sustainable economic growth may happen and Africa can again be one of the most wealthy places in the world
23:07.49Tek0516A lot of that humanitarian aid is just to help people, not solve the underlying conditions.
23:08.05Tek0516*help the immediate needs of people
23:08.06MonetRegarding Russia or China acting on Africa, I swear there was a program a year or two ago that mentioned China was exporting it's population to help develop African businesses in exchange for business with China.
23:08.16HachimanSolving the underlying conditions would benefit people more significantly
23:08.26Wormy_But that I think works better than trying to change the political structure, which doesn;t work so well as discussed.
23:08.37DrodoEmpire(And yes, Africa was once spectacularly wealthy. With the Malian, Songhai, Zulu, and Egyptian civilizations, among many others)
23:09.20Wormy_It also has a great deal of mineral resources
23:09.32DrodoEmpire^
23:09.38Tek0516"Feed this dying child!" attracts a lot more funding than "develop a commercial industry to fix this country!"
23:10.04DrodoEmpire^
23:10.18MonetWe live in a culture of instantaneosu gratification
23:10.27DrodoEmpireMonet: Definitely
23:10.40HachimanYes, feed this dying child so it can die later on because the bigger and more significant problems were not solved
23:10.55HachimanPeople need to understand that sacrifices *must* be made for any great change to occur
23:11.02MonetHachiman: There's a similar public issue witrh the giant panda
23:11.06Tek0516People are shortsighted though.
23:11.16HachimanExactly
23:11.32Wormy_This is where I don't like Comic Relief.  As soon as its over people forget and feel good
23:12.01HachimanIf that child survives and grows to maturity it is likely that the fate it will meet will be with one of the many regiments and guerilla groups that dominated uncivil Africa
23:12.05MonetA lot of ecologists are admitting that the Panda is beyond saving but the WWf keeps sending money to China because otherwise peopel will get really really mad at the WWF for letting the cute pandas (which are also the WWF's mascot) die out.
23:12.09Hachimandominate even
23:12.12DrodoEmpireOn an unrelated note, when any of you feel hungry, do you also feel the need to piss? Or am I the only one? :P
23:12.30HachimanHm
23:12.34DrodoEmpireI've been curious. Dunno why.
23:12.41HachimanOnly when I have a craving for dry food
23:12.51DrodoEmpireAh,
23:13.05ImpyDroidHoly shit Hachi you have some imperial ambitions
23:13.23ImpyDroidI for one welcome our lagomorphic overlords
23:13.33DrodoEmpireFor me, its only when I'm hungry enough that that "knot" starts developing in your belly, you know?
23:13.39DrodoEmpireYou start to feel it. :P
23:13.40HachimanImpyDroid: How do you mean?
23:13.55ImpyDroidThis entire discussion
23:13.56DrodoEmpireSpeaking  of which, BRB
23:14.09HachimanDrodoEmpire: Yeah I know what you mean, I also tend to need a piss whenever I get thirsty too annoyingly
23:14.22MonetHow many ideas are ignored in parliaments and in Congress because the politicians who see it are unlikely to be serving i nthe term that it actually starts having an effect?
23:14.55Wormy_I haven't noticed any need for a piss when hungry, but that might be because I always need a piss due to drinking tea every hour
23:18.24HachimanImpyDroid: I would hardly consider myself an imperialist
23:19.15Wormy_I have been an imaperialist
23:19.32Wormy_<PROTECTED>
23:19.41HachimanI am of the philosophy of teaching a man to fish rather than catching a fish for him and I hate seeing people needlessly get hurt and die because people cannot put aside their differences or because it benefits them
23:19.53DrodoEmpireBack
23:19.58DrodoEmpireHachiman: Ah
23:19.58Wormy_But my left-wingness wins out afterwards
23:20.31HachimanViolence *can* end violence depending on who the victims are
23:21.58HachimanRemove certain people to spare a greater number if a compromise cannot be reached, that sort of thing
23:22.37Tek0516Removing people tends to make the remainder of that group more angry though.
23:23.46MonetThese warlords do indeed have supporters. Kill one and what likelihood is there that none of them wil ldecide "I will continue my leader's legacy!"
23:25.24Wormy_Civilians unfortunately get in the way
23:25.39Wormy_Those drone strikes have struck civilian homes too
23:26.09Wormy_Now that can generate a lot of unrest abd mistrust
23:30.42Wormy_Anyone, I don't want to come off as anti-western
23:30.46Wormy_*an yway
23:32.08MonetI wouldn't say that was anti-western
23:32.15MonetJust a truth of war
23:32.29Wormy_I'm pro-Western on many things
23:34.16Wormy_And also, I think what we are talking about involves a very unpredictable problem from which there isn't much certainty in solutions one can come up with
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23:37.20MonetHello
23:37.27Tek0516Hello
23:37.56Wormy_hi
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23:50.21HachimanHai Panda
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23:52.00PandaMechanicushai all
23:52.23PandaMechanicustackle-hugs Hachi through a throng of Asari dancers
23:52.45HachimanYou could hurt somebody like that tho
23:53.08PandaMechanicusI suppose, but it's fun while you do it

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