I know, it's like, crazy man.

dudes, there's not enough rice!

There would be if that chick wouldn't stick her feet in all of it.

pass the grain please

If one looks at the data, one can see the average person is much better off as measured by both health and wealth than the average person a hundred or two hundred years ago. There are very few countries in the world that are worse off now than they were then. The animated graphs on gapminder.org illustrate a lot of this data brilliantly.

That being said, I still feel the well off citizens of our world should do a lot more than they currently do to help the poor countries. There really is no excuse for this other than apathy. As wealth builds in poor countries, birth rates plummet. The impact of epidemics and pandemics are greatly reduced. The people in the developing country became able to afford to purchase more goods, thus benefiting the world's economy.   

 Someday I would like to see an explanation why birth rates plummet as wealth increases. Is it just access to brith control? Seems like that should be pretty cheap.

Also, the Gapminder TED talk mentioned how birth rates fall when child mortality decreases. Is this actually a calculation parents make when having children, and if so, why do they seem to overcompensate for the infant mortality rate by having a greater number than the minimum required for stable population relative to countries with lower infant mortality rates?

Anyway, his talk gave a more optimistic picture of population growth in low income areas then I had in mind. I considered it to be comparatively good news.

this thread needs more vommit.  it has a lot already, but more would really make it awesome.

well, you could alway say there are lots of healthy breasts around, why not feed those starving childrens then.   

such a great point!

The glass is not half-full nor half-empty.

Become a realist:

YOU GUYS ARE JUST USING THE WRONG size GLASS!

Baking My Favorite Cake ©                     

One day, when baking a Devil's Food cake the called for six spoonful of allspice,

I took the allspice can from the spice rack and opened it. I extracted a measuring spoon of the contents. I held it over the bowl before pouring it into the other ingredients.

Something wasn't quite right, so I looked closely. The spoon contained nothing but the dry skeletons of tiny beetles! Investigation of the rest of the half-can of Allspice showed the whole thing to be nothing but beetle skeletons, right down to the bottom.

Months or years before, some beetles had gotten into the can, started eating and reproducing. With no natural enemies present, they multiplied into several generations, all happily supplied with a surfeit of food.

Eventually, there was only a thin layer of allspice in the bottom of the can; a layer of eating, breeding beetles; and a thick layer of dead beetles. The eating beetle thought they were in the best of worlds, as they could not yet see the bottom of the can, and all they had to do was live it up and celebrate!

Soon though, there were only a few grains of allspice left. Seeing the bottom of the can finally, there was nothing left to do but eat them all. Then, soon hungry, they started to eat their offspring, or the remnants of their ancestor, or both. Before long, as if by alchemy, the cans original allspice contents had been transmuted into beetle skeletons.

Life as they knew it ended and life in that little world was reduced to merely a few microbes, encapsulated against the lack of moisture. If moisture and other right conditions had appeared, they could have started again a one-billion-year evolution toward an intelligent being, a Man-II.

Intelligent Man-1

Intelligent Man-1 is busy cutting down his essential rain forests at the rate of 5000 acres a day, cutting down the supply of oxygen. Man is using up the supply of natural resources all over the world. How soon will our descendants see the bottom of the Allspice can?

I didn't finish making the chocolate cake! I hope you understand that this is just a metaphor for the current situation that is happening to Earth. I know that after man is gone the Earth will return itself to the best state that it ever was. It has been doing that to itself for millions and millions of years. It will do it again but man won’t be around.

By the way, do you know what "All Spice" is, and what taste it adds to whatever you’re making, you probably have one in your pantry, and never used it. Google it!

 Cee Lo Green is not pond scum!

He is the glue that makes the scum stick to the bottom of the pond.

Imagine that.

Many of you are suggesting that redistribution of food is the solution.Remember the problem with that is unless they are forced to work,they won't want to work because they can get food from others and the food they make will not be usable by them and will be given to the community,etc..It's not as good an idea as it may seem.

On the contrary, People don't have to be forced to work. Behavioral economics has demonstrated that most people actually like to work. Of course, there are always some exceptions.

However, IMO our society has been fostering a sense of entitlement in the last few decades.

something wrong with this thread xapper8850 ?

any guesses on who xrapper used to be?  he sure is trying his little heart out.

speaking of distributing food.  this might solve a problem or two

who was xrapper used to be flags ?

i don't know but he's too much of a copycat to be OG.  i think we should talk more about the free cheese.

i found this is pic of xrapper at the last LA porn convention.  google is awesome.