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[martinuzz]

Gills, most likely

[Loud Whispers]

Yes. If we survive the mass extinction we’re causing, I wonder what adaptations we’ll evolve?

The last trillionaire will find out how to avoid tax by using shell accounts to move extinction credits around to maximise returns to the last four shareholders

[Grim Portent]

Yes. If we survive the mass extinction we’re causing, I wonder what adaptations we’ll evolve?

Probably no evolved adaptations, humans are more likely to use technology to overcome problems or just move to new locations.

As weather patterns change and extreme weather events occur more often in various places we might see a push to build new cities in places that are relatively unaffected, or to develop better technology for resisting extreme weather given that the former would be extremely expensive and time consuming. Stronger and taller flood barriers, stormproofed buildings, more robust power, gas and water distribution systems, roads and railways designed to prevent flooding from stopping travel.

Though the kind of buildings that can survive a major weather event are often unpleasant to look at and inconvenient to live in, so we might stick with the cheap and replaceable buildings with the associated loss of life.

[scriver]

Yes. If we survive the mass extinction we’re causing, I wonder what adaptations we’ll evolve?

The last trillionaire will find out how to avoid tax by using shell accounts to move extinction credits around to maximise returns to the last four shareholders

We need to Marximise returns

[dragdeler]

Yes evolve gills please or I'll be forced to grow bigger elbows. I'm somewhat kidding but ey your mayors kicked us out of the coffees because people were crying over parking space in the INNER CITY, yet in the summer I can't throw a stone in nature withouth hitting a kaaskoop, nor can I buy a bread without listening to geriatric "wa'z'deeze". Fucking hell everybody is coming here on top of the hill aren't they? I should be buying construction territory, that or one day I'll do a "this is sparta" chassé kick while yelling "drugs overload".

Though the kind of buildings that can survive a major weather event are often unpleasant to look at and inconvenient to live in, so we might stick with the cheap and replaceable buildings with the associated loss of life.

 

[martinuzz]

Yes. If we survive the mass extinction we’re causing, I wonder what adaptations we’ll evolve?

The last trillionaire will find out how to avoid tax by using shell accounts to move extinction credits around to maximise returns to the last four shareholders

Hey, War, Famine, Pestilence and Death need to pay their bills too somehow.

[martinuzz]

Yes evolve gills please or I'll be forced to grow bigger elbows. I'm somewhat kidding but ey your mayors kicked us out of the coffees because people were crying over parking space in the INNER CITY, yet in the summer I can't throw a stone in nature withouth hitting a kaaskoop, nor can I buy a bread without listening to geriatric "wa'z'deeze".

I'll never forgive my mayor for closing down "de Bakkerij" (pub/coffeeshop). I miss all the Belgian visitors.

[Loud Whispers]

Hey, War, Famine, Pestilence and Death need to pay their bills too somehow.

Looks like Sloth and Avarice figured out a way they could get their jobs done without lifting a finger

[TD1]

In Medieval estates satire once the said sins were identified, the gleaming monuments of Church and Faith would be revealed in opposition.

Alas that we had to wake from our juvenile optimism.

[DrudeFiegler]

In lieu of a dot, I offer my most sincere contrafibularities to my Fellow Europeans, and to those living in the rest of the universe but reading this thread.

[voliol]

In lieu of a dot, I offer my most sincere contrafibularities to my Fellow Europeans, and to those living in the rest of the universe but reading this thread.

Regarding the floods, or is just a fancy PTW?

[Naturegirl1999]

A dot? Why specify the lack of a .? I must’ve missed something

[DrudeFiegler]

Regarding the floods, or is just a fancy PTW?

Fancy PTW.

[martinuzz]

Two left wing Belgian coalition parties (Ecolo and Parti Socialiste) have threatened to leave the government, thus collapsing it, if the Secretary of State responisble for the matter does not grant a pardon to the 400 illegal immigrants that have been on hunger strike against the strict asylum regime for 61 days now. Some of them are in critical condition, especially those that also stopped drinking water since last friday.

The State Secretary does not budge. "We will not breach the coalition government agreements".

"If one of them dies, we will resign and blow up the government within an hour", say Ecolo and Parti Socialiste.

https://www.volkskrant.nl/nieuws-achtergrond/hongerstaking-illegale-migranten-splijt-belgische-politiek-en-brengt-regering-aan-het-wankelen~bbbb8e2e/

[Iduno]

Two left wing Belgian coalition parties (Ecolo and Parti Socialiste) have threatened to leave the government, thus collapsing it, if the Secretary of State responisble for the matter does not grant a pardon to the 400 illegal immigrants that have been on hunger strike against the strict asylum regime for 61 days now. Some of them are in critical condition, especially those that also stopped drinking water since last friday.

The State Secretary does not budge. "We will not breach the coalition government agreements".

"If one of them dies, we will resign and blow up the government within an hour", say Ecolo and Parti Socialiste.

https://www.volkskrant.nl/nieuws-achtergrond/hongerstaking-illegale-migranten-splijt-belgische-politiek-en-brengt-regering-aan-het-wankelen~bbbb8e2e/

So what happened with that?