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[Chattox]

Oh shit.

Sheeeit.

[NobodyPro]

Not only is the picture broken, it redirects me when I use Firefox.

[Felius]

Also, check this out.

That -NK telling their people that the whole world is undergoing a serious food shortage, and not just them- is pretty amusing. We don't have any food shortages. We keep giving them food, and we have an obesity problem that a lot of starving villagers would kill to have.

Actually, half of the world has food shortages because the other half hoards it and isn't willing to share for free

Please don't oversimplify a ridiculously complex issue. Even if you are joking, it perpetuates a very bad way of thinking that not only blame hunger on rich countries being eeeviiilllll, but actually hinders the creation of long term solutions for the problem, instead merely creating incentives for palliative measures that can even damage the local food production.

[scrdest]

Also, check this out.

That -NK telling their people that the whole world is undergoing a serious food shortage, and not just them- is pretty amusing. We don't have any food shortages. We keep giving them food, and we have an obesity problem that a lot of starving villagers would kill to have.

Actually, half of the world has food shortages because the other half hoards it and isn't willing to share for free

Please don't oversimplify a ridiculously complex issue. Even if you are joking, it perpetuates a very bad way of thinking that not only blame hunger on rich countries being eeeviiilllll, but actually hinders the creation of long term solutions for the problem, instead merely creating incentives for palliative measures that can even damage the local food production.

Also: how do you imagine "sharing it for free" exactly? Let's suppose half of the world did indeed hoard food but suddenly had a change of mind. So, you have a lot of food in place X and a place Y which is pretty damn far away and, usually, has a hot climate.

So, you need to transport it somehow. Trucks are out, they took way too long and cannot cross the seas. Planes would be fast, so the food would not spoil, but the cargo space is limited. So we're left with the ships. This is just transporting it to the place with food shortages.

So you have to rent/buy a cargo ship, or several ones in fact. You need to fuel it with petrol, which costs money. You need to power the cooling systems, unless you want to dump a shitload of spoiled food on some country. Electricity costs money too. And you have to man it.

And then you have to unload it, transport it by land and figure out a method to distribute it to everyone. All of this needs to be repeated.

But let's suppose we manage to get a couple of truckloads of food to the J. Random Peasant. And then a warlord/government official/neighbors from the other village come and seize the food by force.

So, you are spending so much money and resources that burning the cash would be more cost-effective and you still fail to feed the starving regions in the long run. See?

[Loud Whispers]

Move derail here or here.

[FearfulJesuit]

Meanwhile, Dear Leader Jr. inspects plans for what appear to be (photo 3) a giant water park with pyramids.

[Ameablable]

Not gonna lie. But that water park looks pretty fricken awesome. I dont care how oppressive it is

[MagmaMcFry]

Not gonna lie. But that water park looks pretty fricken awesome. I dont care how oppressive it is

Who cares if nobody's ever going to visit, because they have neither ticket money nor vacation days to spare.

[RedWarrior0]

I'd totally buy the plans and straight up give them to my city and say "BUILD THIS".

If I had the money.

[Pnx]

Not gonna lie. But that water park looks pretty fricken awesome. I dont care how oppressive it is

Who cares if nobody's ever going to visit, because they have neither ticket money nor vacation days to spare.

Well NK has a big interest in trying to get foreign capital, one of the ways they've been trying to do this is by trying to make themselves a tourist haven for the wealthy... Hence why they made that really not very good cruise ship a while back, why they've had a big interest in refurbishing those big hotels that never went anywhere, and why they're apparently interested in building a water park.

I don't really see them as being a big tourist destination for most people any time soon, but it might be something they consider worthwhile if they get more money out of it than they do through other means.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

The Dubai strategy didn't even work for Dubai, much less a place that is starting at poor instead of rich.

[Max White]

Fuck they still haven't attacked! What do we do?
Build a theme park! Those filthy capitalist dogs will surly strike out of envy!

[Sirus]

Fuck they still haven't attacked! What do we do?
Build a theme park! Those filthy capitalist dogs will surly strike out of envy!

* Sirus sends the Great Leader a link to Orlando, Florida.

[Sensei]

Meanwhile, Dear Leader Jr. inspects plans for what appear to be (photo 3) a giant water park with pyramids.

The article covers it with a little more detail than just the photo.

The next leg of his inspection was the Munsu Wading Pool under construction... He stressed that deep attention should be paid to the construction of the wading pool conducive to providing school youth and children and other people with good sporting and entertainment conditions.

Breaking news: Instead of merely detaining photographers who take pictures of sick, emaciated Best Korean children, Kim will counter them with pictures of happy children. Internal sources confirmed that they have kept a full dozen children well-fed for the purpose of the upcoming photo shoot, a stunning national effort.

[Devling]

The plan was dubbed the "Starving plan". It called for the starvation of 6 million North Korean citizens to feed the 12 children.