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  • If there's a civil war in the US, then the country will just tear itself apart. The global economy will completely collapse and society as we know it will come to an end. Maybe Russia and China will be able to re-build from the ashes since they try to be independent from the US, but China is completely dependant on US the US purchasing their exports, and Russia is largely dependent on imports from Europe. I think by the time they can rebuild they'll be 100% fucked by climate change.

    The only method of survival is a stable US while the economy decentralizes into the rest of the world. Anything else is an extinction level event. It didn't have to be this way, but the US allowed billionaires to hoard all that wealth instead of the investing it in public goods like technology and transportation and now we have to pay the price.

    Have you read Wheel of Time? The plot in that fictional story is that these patterns of societal booms and busts are cyclical. Humanity rebuilds into the second age which collapses in a different way, and humanity rebuilds again and again and again, over and over, forever. The idea is that humanity can tell every possible story this way. I think we're at the end of this age but people don't know it yet. Whether or not we'll be lucky enough to get a second age of humanity is anyone's guess; I believe in reincarnation, so hopefully, but probably not.

  • The billionaire class has made it so that you can't be an activist and live a normal life. If you're struggling to feed yourself and your kids working two full time jobs, when are you going to find time to protest? And are you willing to do so at the expense of your kids going hungry? Most people are not, I think.

  • OK and? A difference of just 2 psi means that a bowl with diameter 4 in. (complete guess) is being held in place with ((4π)=12.562)= 25 lbs of force distributed evenly across the surface of the plate.

    A bigger bowl or greater suction changes these numbers dramatically. 2 psi on a 6 in. bowl is held in place with 37 lbs of force. 4 psi on a 6 in. bowl is held in place with 75 lbs of force.

    Sure its "limited" in that there can only be a 14.7 pressure difference, but that doesn't mean anything in terms of "this is really hard to undo".

    And if there's oil or food or something sealing the gap between bowl and plate preventing the pressure from equalizing... fugheddaboudit.