andrewducker | Interesting Links for 18-03-2022

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Oh yes. You see people talking about a self-sustaining society on Mars, and they clearly haven't thought about how many tens of millions of people you need in order to have a society that can, for instance, produce its own computer processors.

Everybody knows that science and fabrication are just a bunch of handwaving that occurs behind closed doors.

The nanobots will do it for us!

Nobody seems to connect the war with planting season and how impossible that's going to be with a war going on -- of course, the effect won't be felt until harvest, but before then, most of the rats will have been eaten.

We're stocking up on flour, rice, and oatmeal right now out of fear of the winter.

I'm seeing a fair bit about how it's going to cause chaos. But mostly in pretty niche places.

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