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Bald Brah
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I think a lot of these globe trotting commie climate activists are sponsored by the Chinese to wreck western Industries.
ShakyJake
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Seananigans
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Yeah soylent amber lol
Im glad I was right and they addressed the food problem, even though it is just a hand wave magic powder. like I said I hadn't even considered cannibalism at first but, makes sense.
They'd still run out of food of course and all starve to death, but clearly they arent going for realism. Like wolves scavenging graves at week 1? There's still an entire city worth of cats and dogs they'd have been eating, not to mention all live stock/domesticated animals that can't survive in the wild. Maybe they are foreshadowing that the food situation is actually more dire than even I suggested. And evacuating the city of all personnel but still having an functioning energy grid? These are minor squabbles of course and not nearly as huge a plot holes as the food problem.
Clearly they have a specific goal in mind. Maybe it is just re-propogating the signal and there is no longer term goal, maybe it's something else
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You hippy faggots who think food comes from the grocery store are delusional as fuck and that's a hill I'll gladly die on.
Internet retards can never admit when they are wrong so just keep doubling down and I was bored so I dont mind schooling them. Sorry I was traveling for the holidays or I would of shit all over these posts earlier.
Few facts:
1) Living in the west and seeing EBT Americans on electric scooters raiding the local Walmart might leave you believing we produce an excess over abundance of food, as a species. We do not. As a species, on the macro level, our ability to produce food and our population totals are in exact equilibrium. Every breakthrough that increases crop yield or every mutant chicken breed we make that's cancer releases nonstop growth hormone allowing us to go from egg to slaughtering for meat at 6 weeks (despite the bird still being pre-pubescent junvenile), everything we do to increase food output results in population increases, more mouths to feed. Any decrease in food production directly and unequivocally results in famine and starvation by the same ratio as the reduction.
2) animal, animal by products, and derivatives are 20-25% of global calories, that kills 25% of the population off the rip.
3) pesticides, insecticides, fungicides, etc are responsible for about 50% of crop yields globally so cut remaining food available in half (37.5%)
4) some of you retards dont seem to understand what pesticides are. Hint the root of the word gives it away. You seem to think they are like Off! Mosquito repellent, like it keeps bugs away from plants, like the smell or the chemical makes plants taste bad so bugs avoid them?
Wrong. It is actually like raid, insect killer. They are poison, designed to kill insects, larva, their eggs, etc. It is sprayed onto the bugs that are eating the plants specifically to kill the bugs. Your argument that the hive could use pesticides because its not "intentionally killing", rofl. That's like arguing that you could walk into a crowded theater and spray machine gun fire into the crowd but as long a you had your eyes closed its not "intentionally killing" because you are just spraying, its not your fault people are in there watching a movie.
5) 50-60% of fertilizer used world wide is animal based (live stock manure and bird/bat feces, etc) so that's gone now too (let's round to 50%, so we're now at ~18% total food production).
6) large scale mechanized farm equipment kills millions of wild animals, and avoiding those animals means hand farming/gathering, further reducing efficiency and giving up arable land over to bunnies and rats and snakes etc.
The obvious and undeniable conclusion is the hive mind as presented in this show following these rules would lead to the immediate collapse of the global food chain and kill off virtually the entirety of the human race.
i believe the showrunner isnt retarded thus he understands this plot hole, and the latest episode seems to confirm and address it.
Im not about to google the calorie content of a human cadaver, dont want to be on that watch list or have the algorithm think that im into that shit. It's a bit of a hand wave but turning all edible biomass including human corpses into a powder for consumption is a handwave ill accept.
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SeanDoe1z1
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im honestly not going to rewatch, but the radio shit was amatuer bands. he either has experience in vince's world or was quickly able to pick it up. the age / setup puts it more in line with a hobbyist already.
it was close enough to assume he was trying to communicate with any other human out there. this is basically the default that humans go back to in emergency situations when trying to communicate. HF waves. You do not need a lot of power to communicate across the world.
this individual would 100% fully understand the hivemind can listen to him. i believe the scene was to indicate to him, a non english speaker, there is another human out there trying to communicate with him.
he probably sees her as infected (not tranmissible)/trick/whatever.
SeanDoe1z1
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some projects i cannot tell if i am at a oil plant or a food plant if i am not playing close enough attention.
scary thought. i was somewhere a month ago trying to fix a hamstrung project and i'm use to "turnover" projects for oil and gas.
nope. processed a chemical for something we all eat.
SeanDoe1z1
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yeah faraday cages ruin that entire transmission concept entirely, although it was clearly the source vector propagation...or at least the recipe for it.
i fully believe this hivemind has killed and can. they talk about having to deal with the military early on.
Khane
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They showed how they deal with the military.
They kiss them.
This show pays almost no attention whatsoever to the origin of the hivemind. Carol is trying to investigate the hivemind itself and that's a major plotline but the "where did this come from and how did it get into that lab rat" is not even on the radar of what the show is trying to convey. Which is kind of odd.