Well, that’s maddening.

Weirdly specific question, OP.

I kind of feel like anything gets grosser as it ages. IIRC urine also start to break down and have more ammonia, which has a smell.

So will this actually help anything, Or will Bardella just pick up where she left off?

Yeah, it’s happening because it’s what the voters want.

It’s every voice just as loud at once. We’re more geared for living in a bubble.

That being said, the Liberals dropped the ball on playing any politics with the carbon tax. The cheques should have come only in paper, and in a pretty envelope covered in windmills. People are too dumb to actually pay attention to how the policy works on their own, apparently.

Yep. I still really hope that will come together.

The Greens? The Bloc?

And yes, the Liberals.

They’re closer to the NDP than to the Conservatives, by my estimation and by CBC vote compass.

I’m not sure Baltimore gets great reviews either, to be fair.

That feeling when you survive the apocalypse only to get stung by a platypus and regret it.

I’d expect them to stay out of it at this point, actually. They want to expand into the pacific, and the US and East Asian democracies want to stop them. Meanwhile, Australia also has affinities with now-distinct Europe, isn’t directly in the way of any of that, and depends heavily on China for trade.

And, even if it did become involved, dealing with a Chinese occupation isn’t going to be as hard as a nuclear winter or the total breakdown of modern civilisation.

I did split the question in two.

I said 15 months or less to hyperinflation somewhere yesterday. In that case, they could theoretically start conscription and grind Ukraine down that way, or start selling big ticket things like territory in exchange for help, but political capacity to enforce that is a serious question.

They are not in NATO, actually. That requires proximity to the Atlantic. They’re Western though, that’s true. Being in a city could be a bit of a risk.

In South America or southern Africa you’re going to deal with waves of people trying to expand in from the north. No way of life escapes that unscathed. Not to mention, the projections for food scarcity on other continents aren’t nearly as rosy, if there’s soot in the upper atmosphere, maybe because of the higher population to start with.

And then there’s poverty as a whole separate dimension of things. Here or in Australia I’m pretty sure the capacity to build things like generators will continue. In the third world there’s absolutely no guarantee.

Or just literally any of the giant pile of dictators that were overthrown.

Lol, it’s on my socials so it’s real.

Two can play that game. Not to mention I’m not even British.

Where would you move to ride out a potential WWIII?

Australia. There really is no better place in the event of nuclear war. It’s a continent-island, meaning easy to defend, it grows and can build just about anything, and being in the southern hemisphere it should be safe from nuclear winter.

Specifically, a rural property somewhere agricultural. Maybe Queensland or Tasmania.

If you could move anywhere to minimize the impact on you of the worldwide rise of fascism…

That’s almost a different question, though. Whichever European country is the most securely democratic. There’s lots of non-war ways fascism can suck aggressively.

Yes. Back when analysts used to talk about a war with Russia pre-2022, something you heard pretty often was “they’re not as advanced, but they have so much stockpiled armour”.

This is like America running out of guns or Canada running out of syrup.

Nah, adjust for Russian standards in what “poor technical condition” even means. It’s not going to Ukraine if it can’t drive off the base.

the industry is not covering combat losses

Since it’s not clear from the headline, that’s the restoration industry. We’re not even talking about the production of new tanks (which was never that impressive at any point in the full-scale war).